Book Review: The War of 1812
/A fiery new history seeks to reclaim the lost honor of both Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans
Read MoreBook Review: Fire and Movement
/The British Expeditionary Force in the First World War has accrued a great many legends over the last century; Peter Hart's new account aims to delete the mythology - and still preserve the heroism
Read MoreBook Review: Ring of Steel
/An exemplary new history tells the story of the First World War from the viewpoints of the aggressors
Read MoreBook Review: Band of Giants
/We all know the names of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams, but a terrifically engaging new book reminds us that the American Revolution's supporting cast was no less fascinating
Read MoreBook Review: The Great War for Peace
/Did the cataclysmic First World War actually have a hidden peace-dividend? Did it change the vocabulary of rapprochement forever? A vigorous new study makes a daring case
Read MoreBook Review: Hundred Days
/The vivid story of the months when the long, slogging stalemate of the First World War exploded into violence
Read MoreBook Review: Verdun
/A prickly-smart new analysis contends that we too easily simplify the great World War I battle of Verdun
Read MoreBook Review: Fatal Rivalry
/While Henry VIII was away fighting the French, his kingdom was invaded from the north by James of Scotland. It was defended by thousands of brave soldiers, a handful of ambitious courtiers - and one remarkable woman.
Read MoreBook Review: Armor and Blood
/The Battle of Kursk was one of the most epic confrontations in the history of warfare - a vivid new history calls it the turning point of the entire Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: Long, Obstinate, and Bloody
/A crucial turning-point battle in the American Revolution is given an extensively detailed and tradition-challenging new history
Read MoreBook Review: Nelson - The Sword of Albion
/A monumental deck-clearing two-volume biography of Admiral Horatio Nelson reaches its thundering conclusion
Read MoreBook Review: Gettysburg - The Last Invasion
/In a magnificent new history, the cataclysmic turning-point battle of the American Civil War is studied in meticulous detail
Read MoreIn Paperback: The Long Road to Antietam
/The bloodiest day in United States history is the subject of Richard Slotkin's riveting book, now out in paperback
Read MoreBook Review: The Guns at Last Light
/A historian's great trilogy about U.S. forces at war on WWII's Western front at last comes to its finish
Read MoreBook Review: July 1914
/A gripping new book examines just what happened in the crucial interval between the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the outbreak of general hostilities - and reaches some unusual conclusions.
Read MoreBook Review: Furies
/The Italian Renaissance of Michelangelo and Raphael was built by - and traumatized by - the constant tramping of hired armies. A provocative new study looks at the birth-price of the modern era
Read MoreBook Review: Engineers of Victory
/A new history of the Second World War focuses on the mid-level thinkers and technicians whose innovations made the grand strategies work
Read MoreBook Review: The Making of the First World War
/A new history of World War I looks at twelve fragile moments, twelve turning points when small factors determined very large outcomes
Read MoreBook Review: World War Two
/The military crucible of the 20th Century gets a new hardcover history that can be read in one hour and fifteen minutes.
Read MoreBook Review: Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron
/In a rip-snorting new blood-and-swash history of the War of 1812, the men and their fighting ships take center stage
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