It is the summer of 1889, and the royal family is in crisis. It is well known in polite society, in the drawing rooms of the ...

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ALAN WARREN is the author of the critically acclaimed Singapore 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat. He has been a fellow of the State Library of Victoria and has lectured in history at Monash University.

JESSICA WEST and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp are freelance translators with a shared love of history; A History of the World With the Women Put Back In is the third book they’ve co-translated from German.