A masterly exploration of the strange twists and turns of history, The World That Never Was is a true story of dreamers, schemers, anarchists and secret agents of the late nineteenth century.
Born in 1969, Alex Butterworth is an historian, writer and dramatist whose first book Pompeii- The Living City won the Longmans-History Today New Generation Book of the Year. He lives in Oxford.
Exhilarating...almost any paragraph packs more action than an
entire Dan Brown novel
*Financial Times*
Butterworth has created an impressive work which will captivate
those unfamiliar with anarchist history and teach even specialists
much that they did not know before
*Independent*
Compelling and insightful... The World That Never Was is a
compelling narrative history both of a generation of demonised and
battered - but optimistic - revolutionaries...and of the political
police forces ranged against them
*Guardian*
A rich and passionate account of the world's first international
terrorist campaign... Brilliant... A thrilling and important
book
*Sunday Times*
One of the most absorbing depictions of the dark underside of
radical politics in many years...a riveting account, teeming with
intrigue and adventure and packed with the most astonishing
characters
*New Statesman*
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