Henry W. Nevinson and the drafting of history -- Finding Arcadia: Greece, war and work -- Into Africa: the South African war -- Exposing slavery: Angloa and 'the islands of Hell' -- The battle for freedom: Russia, revolution and empire -- The romantic rebel: suffrage, sex and family -- The Indian spirit -- From the Balkans to world war -- From our own correspondent: Gallipoli and the Western front -- A corresponding cause: Ireland -- Old and new worlds.

He bravely exposed the persistence of slavery in Angola, unrest in India and conflict in Ireland, his vivid and exquisite prose shocking and enlightening British readers. He cultivated controversy with his brave stance on issues like women's suffrage and the self-determination of small nations such as Georgia. His first wife, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, was a suffragette and writer, their son the celebrated artist C.R. W. Nevinson. In the 1920s Henry Nevinson accompanied Ramsay MacDonald on the first visit of a British Prime Minister to an American President. His perspectives, whether on the Middle East, the Balkans, Russia or the United States, illuminate many of the conflicts which resonate in today's uncertain world.