The Last Empire

Description: With its spellbinding narrative and strikingly fresh perspective, The Last Empire is the essential account of one of the most important watershed periods in world history, and is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to make sense of international politics today.

Notes: Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a leading authority on Eastern Europe, whose books include Lost Kingdom, The Gates of Europe, The Last Empire and Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy. At the time of the Chernobyl explosion he lived behind the Iron Curtain less than 500 kilometres downstream of the damaged reactor. Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction in 2018.

Publisher: Oneworld was founded in 1986 by husband and wife team Juliet Mabey and Novin Doostdar as an independent publishing house focusing on stimulating non-fiction. Now publishing over 100 books a year, Oneworld has retained its founding commitment to the old-fashioned principles of great writing, editorial excellence, high production values, and marketing flair, to produce books that are read by the intellectually curious all over the world.

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