Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham #joyce Helena Attlee combines travel writing

Helena Attlee combines travel writing with history

This fascinating book will change everything you thought you knew about our green-grey British isles

and gifted generations of Black Britons a powerful means to reject misrepresentation and find freedom and joy in sound

as Thurow points out

she melds biting postcolonial social commentary with a lush dreamscape

Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham #joyce Helena Attlee combines travel writingDATE OF RELEASE: 27 AUG 2026 'Wildly exciting' KATE ADIE 'Thoroughly gripping An action packed tale' JUSTIN MAROZZI, THE TIMES 'Beautifully written' LOUIS DE BERNIRES Stimulating entertaining and instructive JULIAN EVANS, DAILY TELEGRAPH The forgotten story of a group of British mavericks who took on an impossible mission with a daring and fearless approach. 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close and regimes are collapsing across Europe. Amid