The Best of Times, The Worst of Times - by Michael Burleigh (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Fully revised and updated for paperback - a gripping tour d'horizon of the state of today's world from one of Britain's leading award-winning historians.

Review Quotes

"[A] trenchant and galloping account of the opening years of the century . . . ruthlessly impolite." --Irish Examiner

"A history of the modern world, set out clearly, with trenchant scholarship and wit." --Daily Telegraph Books of the Year

"A robust and unsentimental guide to global power politics." --Times

"Bracing . . . refreshingly pessimistic." --Observer

"Brilliant, fact-packed, judicious and above all debunking . . . The Best of Times, the Worst ofTimes will not leave its readers cheered, but they will at least be superbly informed about the dramas to come." --Daily Telegraph

"Burleigh has always had an eye for compelling hard detail." --Sunday Times

"In this wide-ranging book Michael Burleigh demonstrates a mastery of global affairs that would put most experts in any one of his chosen chapter headings to shame . . . quite brilliant." --Mail on Sunday

"Incisive and compelling. His style is always trenchant and sometimes blistering." --Literary Review

"Swashbuckling . . . a breakneck geopolitical gallop across the globe in the hands of a historian and commentator at the peak of his powers." --Evening Standard

About the Author

Michael Burleigh is a prize-winning author, and a commentator on global affairs who also runs a political risk advisory service. He is the author of Faraway Places, Small Wars, and The Third Reich: A New History, the latter for which he won the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2012 he won the Nonino International Prize for his life's work.