Two new Lawrence James books to Weidenfeld
7 Jan 2013

Lawrence James has followed his editor Alan Samson from Little Brown to Weidenfeld for two separately contracted titles:

Churchill and the British Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist , looking at how Winston Churchill’s view of Empire changed over the course of his political career , will be published in July.

Divide, Conquer and Rule: The European Powers and Africa, 1840-1970 will embrace the imperial experience of Africa between the early conquests of France in Algeria and Britain in South Africa to the independence movements of the mid-twentieth century and will be published in 2015.