Book Review: The Templars
/The Knights Templar have been captured on stage, page, and screen countless times; a new book separates history from legend.
Read MoreBook Review: The Unfinished Palazzo
/A small portion of the life of one famous Venetian palace is told through the lives of three remarkable women who ruled it in the 20th century.
Read MoreBook Review: Out of China
/The roots of new Chinese nationalism extend back through well over a century of foreign meddling, as a comprehensive new history shows.
Read MoreBook Review: The Cold War
/A massive new study looks at the Cold War as a world war, touching - and often toppling - governments far from Washington or Moscow.
Read MoreBook Review: The Witch
/Paganism scholar Ronald Hutton's fascinating new book delves into the long history of the witch in human societies.
Read MoreBook Review: The Republic For Which It Stands
/America in the sordid wilderness years between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century is the focus of the newest volume in the mighty Oxford History of the United States.
Read MoreBook Review: The Riviera at War
/An impressive new history details the many sides of the fighting that came to the French Riviera during the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: Midnight in the Pacific
/A key turning-point in the Battle of the Pacific gets a richly anecdotal new history.
Read MoreBook Review: Their Backs Against the Sea
/A ferocious and largely forgotten island battle marked a key point in the Pacific theater of the Second World War. A new book tells the story of the Battle of Saipan.
Read MoreBook Review: The Treaty of Versailles
/A new short treatment of the pivotal Treaty of Versailles by one of the greatest working historians of the First World War.
Read MoreBook Review: In the Highest Degree Tragic
/The doomed valor of the small, scrappy US Asiatic Fleet in the Pacific Theater, often overlooked in WWII histories, now gets an elaborate new chronicle.
Read MoreThe World in Her Image
/Bestselling author of Tudor historical fiction Philippa Gregory takes up the familiar tragedy of Lady Jane Grey - and her forgotten but equally compelling sisters - in her new book, as A Year with the Tudors II continues.
Read MoreBook Review: The Allies Strike Back
/A vivid new history recounts the resurgence of the Allies against the Germany war machine during the highest pitch of the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: Blood Royal
/A sharp new history recounts the pitch-and-tumble fortunes of York and Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses
Read MoreBook Review: Heretics & Believers
/A big, wonderfully readable new history of the sixteenth-century religious upheaval that transformed English life
Read MoreBook Review: The Best Land Under Heaven
/A thorough and searching new book explores not only the tragic fate of the Donner Party but the dreams that motivated them in the first place.
Read MoreThe Most Happy
/As she did with Katherine of Aragon, Alison Weir gives Anne Boleyn the saintly treatment in her new novel. But does Anne, like Katherine, deserve it?
Read MoreBook Review: The Malmedy Massacre
/One of the most shocking incidents of the Battle of the Bulge was the slaughter of a group of US prisoners by the SS at Malmedy. A gripping new book tells the story of the massacre and its tangled aftermath
Read MoreBook Review: Protestants
/A invigorating new history looks at the tumultuous 500-year history of Protestantism
Read MoreLèse-Majesté
/"A Year with the Tudors II" continues with a comprehensive new biography of King Henry VIII's fifth wife, the flighty teenager Catherine Howard.
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