Making History - The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

''A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous'' Daily Telegraph
''Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself'' The Spectator
''Grave and witty, suave yet pointed . . . full of energy'' Hilary Mantel
''An enthralling investigation . . . consistently entertaining'' The Times
''Epic . . . whatever Cohen writes about he writes about with brio'' New Yorker

Who writes the past? And how do the biases of storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - influence our ideas about history today?

Epic, authoritative and entertaining, Making History delves into the lives of those who have charted human history - professional historians, witnesses, novelists, journalists and propagandists - to discover the agendas that informed their world views, and which in so many ways have informed ours. From the origins of history-writing through to television and the digital age, M