Books by Paul Kenyon

A history of modern Romania, a country whose fate it has been to experience some of the most disastrous dictatorships of the last century. This is also a personal discovery of an extraordinary country.

A vivid, heartbreaking portrait of the fate that so many African countries suffered after independence.

Eighty miles off the Libyan coast water is leaking rapidly into the bottom of a dilapidated wooden boat. Twenty-seven men, crammed in side-by-side, desperately attempt to bail it out, but the boat is sinking. In the distance one of their number spots a ship and, forcing the last moments of life from the engine, they move towards it.