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A Short History Of TruthHow did we find ourselves in a "post truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A SHORT HISTORY OF TRUTH sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex history of truth and falsehood. It identifies ten types of supposed truth and explains how easily each can become the midwife of falsehood. There is no species of truth that we can rely on unquestioningly, but that does not mean the truth can never be established.

This vivid new translation

Seeking a Pulitzer Prize

They were 'the last great band of the sixties

and complex

compelling

Germany’s Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s

The wrath of God lies sleeping

no longer young but still irresistible to every man she meets – lives a life of hedonism in Lagos

' recorded in Abbey Road Studios in September 1962

John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations – and which in turn have shaped our own

You will find straight up funk bombs such as Lennie Hibbert's mind-blowing 'Go For Yourself' (sounding like The Meters meets James Brown

Both eclipsed and influenced by television

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