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Writes narrative history that reaches a general audience without abandoning the archive, including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Jerusalem: The Biography, and The Romanovs: 1613-1918. His 2022 book The World: A Family History of Humanity extended that approach to a global scale, tracing history through the connected stories of families rather than nations.