RaveThe Evening Standard (UK)\"Through history we have had great guides to understanding science from Anaximander, to Einstein and Bohr – moving through Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Darwin on the way. It is like the conversations between Dante and his guides through the Divine Comedy – a work he infuses with new magic. Now we are moving beyond Einstein’s equations on cosmology and physics into a new unknown. We must be certain about uncertainty and explore the new. I would give this book to anyone, young and old, interested in thinking, science and literature. His reflections on how Shakespeare and Dante considered first and last things are a joy. His book is a work of literature itself.\
Guy Cuthbertson
RaveThe Evening Standard[A] brilliant portrayal of Britain on the day that peace broke out ... [Cuthbertson] weaves a wonderful tapestry of the mood and events across the country, drawing on a wide range of local and regional newspapers. It is accessible history at its best.
Max Hastings
PositiveEvening Standard\"We have here not so much a portmanteau account of the campaigns in Vietnam... but a veritable Victorian steamer trunk, crammed with the facts and figures, of dead and maimed, villages wrecked and atrocities committed, and tonnage of ordnance discharged. It surely will be the last word on the tactical and military chronicle of the war, the main reference book for schools and universities for future generations ... Wider aspects of Vietnam and why it still has such impact are hardly explored at all. The culture of books, movies and journalism is largely skipped over, which is a pity. The legacy in science, from post traumatic stress disorder, which Vietnam veterans brought to the attention of the world, to the use of Agent Orange defoliant is almost brushed aside.\
