Praise for Small Wars, Faraway Places 'Superb, scholarly, insightful and often witty . . . magnificent'
Literary Review 'Terrific . . . Burleigh writes with a keen eye for self-righteousness, hypocrisy and unintended consequences. He is quite brilliant at puncturing the vanities of history's great and good'
Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard'A brilliant, complex and contradictory story, replete with character and incident, pungent and pithy and refreshingly free of preaching . . . the author delights in the detail, the small moment illustrating a large truth'
Ben Macintyre, The Times