Portrait of the Artist Kathe Kollwitz

Following his acclaimed exploration of the vanished East Prussia, Forgotten Land, Max Egremont tu...

2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to en...

Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a t...

A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2021This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue ...

The Connell Guide To World War I

Max Egremont's Some Desperate Glory presents the story of World War I through the lives and words...

World War One was the most catastrophic event in 20th century Europe. Distinguished historian Max...

The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over h...

Newly restored from the original manuscript and more than a quarter longer than existing editions...

East Prussia is no longer on any map, though it was once a thriving land, famously military, deep...

These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inh...