Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation... he writes with splendid panache (The Times)
One of the world's leading historians (Hamish McRae Independent)
Civilization is another masterpiece... a pulsing energy suffuses his account [and] fascinating facts burst like fireworks on every page (Dominic Lawson Sunday Times)
This is sharp. It feels urgent. Ferguson, with a properly financially literate mind, twists his knife with great literary brio (Andrew Marr Financial Times)
