Historian Alex Butterworth’s first book, Pompeii: A History, won a Longmans History Today award. His second, The World That Never Was (Bodley Head, £25), follows the history of anarchists and the secret police who trailed them, from the 1871 Paris Commune to 1905 Russia.
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