‘Provocative, snappy, a rare book … fasten your seatbelts’ Peter Frankopan, Daily Telegraph
‘Immensely stimulating, absorbing, illuminating … sends ideas blazing all over the place … one of the best popular historians of our time’ David Goodhart, Prospect
‘Powerful, fast-paced … a pull-yourself-together warning to the present by way of arresting historical precedent’ Andrew Anthony, Guardian
‘Captivating and compelling’ Jonathan A. Knee, The New York Times