Book Review: For God and Kaiser
/"Austria," quipped Talleyrand, "has the tiresome habit of always being beaten" - but Richard Bassett's vigorous new history of the Imperial Austrian Army begs to differ!
Read MoreBook Review: Braddock's Defeat
/A French army and a British army stumble upon each other in the wilderness of the New World, and their conflict changes the nature of the world's biggest war
Read MoreBook Review: Rome's Revolution
/The epic change in ancient Rome from a Republic to an Empire hinged on one man: Julius Caesar. A new history tells the familiar story.
Read MoreBook Review: Sicily
/Veteran historian John Julius Norwich attempts to cram over 800 years of Sicilian history into 300 pages - and because he's John Julius Norwich, he very nearly succeeds
Read MoreBook Review: Last to Die
/Military historian Stephen Harding tells the poignant story of the last soldier killed in World War II
Read MoreBook Review: The American Revolution
/Just in time for America's Independence Day, the Library of America presents its newest production: a two-volume collection of some of the pamphlets that so inflamed the colonial population in the decade leading up to the Revolution
Read MoreBook Review: The Duke's Assassin
/A brutal assassination in 1537 changed the course of Florentine history, and eleven years later, the assassin was himself murdered. Case closed? A fascinating new book thinks not!
Read MoreBook Review: How Britain Saved the West
/For a key interval in 1940, Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany at its peak - and that familiar story of determination and ultimate victory is the subject of Robin Prior's new book
Read MoreBook Review: Nixon's Nuclear Specter
/At the height of the Vietnam War, President Nixon engaged in an incredibly risky game of nuclear brinksmanship - a richly-researched new book tells the story
Read MoreBook Review: Yanks in the RAF
/While America was still technically neutral in Great Britain's fight against Germany, a handful of American flyers traveled to England and volunteered to fly in the RAF - a fascinating new book tells their story
Read MoreBook Review: First Over There
/On a chilly day in late May, 1918, American troops went into battle in the World War I for the first time - a gripping new history tells the story
Read MoreIn Paperback: Vesuvius
/Now in paperback: a fascinating history of mankind's interactions with the most famous volcano in the world
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Gallipoli
/The mad debacle of the Dardanelles campaign is now 100 years in the past, and to mark the anniversary, a classic account is reprinted
Read MoreBook Review: Fracture
/In the wake of the First World War, unimaginable energies were unleashed upon the societies of the Western world. A fascinating new book attempts to assess the results.
Read MoreBook Review: Whirlwind
/John Ferling, great historian of 18th century America, here tells the story of the American Revolution itself, in typically riveting fashion
Read MoreBook Review: Cursed Victory
/A noted Israeli scholar and 'refusnik' writes a reserved and thorough history of the occupied territories
Read MoreBook Review: The Constitution - An Introduction
/The US Constitution - the oldest in the world - gets a comprehensive new biography
Read More'I'm the Top Goddess – How Could I Fail to Make Trouble?'
/Renowned classicist and historian Peter Green has at last produced a translation of the Iliad - and it comes with its own Greek Chorus. Steve Donoghue investigates.
Read MoreBook Review: Infamy
/In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States summarily imprisoned thousands of its Japanese citizens for the duration of the war. Richard Reeves' passionate new book tells the story
Read MoreBook Review: In These Times
/Jenny Uglow's new book goes into lively detail about how ordinary people in Britain experienced the cataclysmic events of the wars of the Napoleonic era
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