Simon Heffer

Revolution was in the air

Richard J. Evans’s The Pursuit of Power is a masterly — if Marxist — study of Europe from 1815 to 1914 that raises as many questions as it answers

  • The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914

    Richard J. Evans

    Allen Lane, pp. 752

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