Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale vegan photographed so vividly you can

photographed so vividly you can almost smell the freshly chopped parsley

Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant

of time spent in a Benedictine monastery high above the Pacific

colonialism was recognised as being inextricably linked to exploitation and outdated labels like 'savage' were inconceivable when so-called 'civilised' man had wreaked such devastation across two world wars

but with Edward's abdication

Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale vegan photographed so vividly you can'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Splendid a jewel among histories, taking a single episode from the penultimate year of the Great War, illuminating a continent, a revolution and a series of psychologies in a moment of cataclysm and doing it with wit, judgment and an eye for telling detail' David Aaronovitch, The TimesBy