As well as being a rare military historian who can also write gracefully, John Keegan has a distinguished capacity for peering behind the conventional view of events.

The Godfather of Alternative Comedy

My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

A moving vignette about [the war's] tragic price for one family

A moving testament to the bravery and sacrifice of one British family

A splendid and absorbing book

The sort of book that will have social historians salivating

A strangely liberating and liberated catalogue of everyday grumbles, both great and small

His story deserves not just revival but reflection ... Karski's electrifying words still speak only too eloquently for themselves

The searing experiences of Berliners are brought to life through often deeply morally compromised personal stories

Moorhouse has a deep knowledge of wartime Germany...he has a nice eye for social detail

Moorhouse has written an extraordinarily detailed account of ordinary life in Berlin during the Second World War

There's a pounding quietness to Moorhouse's description of life in Berlin

A well-researched, fluently-written and utterly absorbing account of what life (and, so very often) death was like for ordinary Germans in the capital of Hitler's Reich during the Second World War. The Berliners' capacity for suffering, for sacrifice, for self-delusion, but also astonishingly for love - and even on occasion humour - is superbly evoked by Moorhouse's cornucopia of new information

Berlin at War is a well-researched and beautifully composed account, vividly recreating those years of Nazi arrogance, oppression, and corruption, that ended in such terrible destruction and civilian suffering

Wonderful ... an amazing panoramic view ... I've rarely read anything like it

A masterful account of lost and stolen lives

Awesome ... one of the most unforgettable books I have ever read. I defy anyone to read it without weeping at its human suffering, cruelty and courage ... in this book these righteous heroes have their rightful memorial

Sheds new light on history that we thought we knew... meticulously detailed and very readable

The miracle is that there isn’t a dull page. As it moves towards its deadly climax, the story hangs together as tightly as a thriller. Into the Silence is as monumental as the mountain that soars above it; small wonder that it won the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction … Once you start wandering the snowy passes with Mallory and the lads, you won’t want to come down again. There can be no better way, surely, to spend a week in winter

He sees the climbers as haunted dreamers, harrowed by their desperate experiences in the First World War, living amid romantic dreams of Imperial grandeur and the elemental, sublime grandeur of the mountain

This is the awesomely researched story of Mallory, Irvine and the early Everest expeditions. It puts their efforts and motivations into the context of Empire and the first world war in a way I don’t think previous books have ever managed

A vivid depiction of a monumental story…Wade Davis’ passion for the book shines through and I can only hope that his next book doesn’t take as long to write as I will certainly be reading it