Archive of previous editions

by Gijs van Wulfen Breaking Innovation Barriers  by Gijs van Wulfen offers a refreshingly practical and highly readable guide to inspiring and sustaining innovation even in the most change-resistant organisations. Van Wulfen doesn’t glamorise innovation. Instead, he exposes the real, and often frustrating, obstacles that prevent good ideas from reaching execution, and then equips the reader with a structured methodology to overcome them. At the heart of the book is the FORTH

by Alexei Navalny Do you truly believe in your own principles? Do you really know how far you would go to fight for what you believe in?  Are you someone who would challenge corruption, tyranny and autocracy? Would you stand against a dictator who had the ways and means to have you assassinated, imprisoned, or just disappear? If like me, you have no idea, ‘Patriot’ might be the book for you. Learning about Alexei Navalny and his patriotism to his country was utterly humbling

James Holland One of the most interesting things I have noticed from a constant stream of Ukrainian FPV drone videos on the “For you” section of my social media feeds is that eastern Ukraine appears incredibly flat. The trench warfare surrounding Bakmut may have represented the horrors of technological attritional warfare, but at least everyone was fighting on the same contour lines, and the terrain was neutral. In Cassino ’44 James Holland shows the fighting surrounding Mont

by General David Petraeus General David Petraeus, the former CIA Director and Afghanistan and Iraq veteran, combines with historian Andrew Roberts to discuss the changing dynamics in waging war over the past 80 years. Each chapter provides an accessible, broad-brush telling of conflicts since the Second World War, providing their context, key events and outcomes – a fine read for those interested in the wavetops of contemporary military history. Robert’s historical pieces are

How Nazi Konigsberg became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton In “German Blood, Slavic Soil”, Eaton seeks to explore the transformation of the city of Konigsberg, a Prussian outpost of the edges of Nazi Germany to Kaliningrad*, the westernmost city of the Soviet Union, during a period of massive upheaval at the end of the Second World War. To do this, she looks back 700 years to the founding of the city and examines how the ebb and flow of the regional powers impacted on its

by Dennis Abbott Dennis Abbott’s Operation Telic and the Liberation of Iraq  is an anecdote-packed daily diary of his 2003 tour as a British Army reserve media officer. As a journalist in uniform, he provides an insider–outsider perspective on southern Iraq’s post‐invasion media operations. His narrative underscores the tensions of serving two masters – commanders and a demanding press. It offers rare detail on civil–military relations and public affairs. The account vividly

How Washington started the new Cold War with Russia and the catastrophe in Ukraine by Scott Horton Provoked  by Scott Horton is a thought-provoking and fact-driven interpretation of the lead up to the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. Written from the perspective that the United States of America, and how its proxy ‘empire’ – NATO, has spent the last 40 years provoking Russia (and former USSR) into invading a sovereign neighbouring nation. Provoked  takes the int

The rise and fall of the British Telecoms industry by John Polden This book was pleasantly surprising, far from a traditional linear review of the telecommunications market through time; Signal Failure takes a novel approach. Reviewing the disruption of new technologies entering the markets in various countries, most notably UK, US, Netherlands, Germany, and others rather than a traditional linier timeline. The very nature of telecommunications results in an interconnected ma

By Lawrence Freedman. I was excited to review Command by Lawrence Freedman as there are two things I really like about Penguin...