Book Review: India at War
/When the Second World War erupted, the British Empire expected all its client states to do their duty for the Crown; but in India, as a sharp new book details, that duty was deeply complicated
Read MoreBook Review: The Conquering Tide
/The fierce, epic height of WWII's Pacific War is the subject of Ian Toll's gripping new volume
Read MoreBook Review: A Little History of the United States
/The latest volume in Yale University Press's series of short histories is a quick yet authoritative overview of United States history
Read MoreBook Review: Bosworth 1485
/A taut new history of Richard III and the battle in which he lost everything - and the new Tudor dynasty gained everything
Read MoreBook Review: The Spirit of '74
/Long before the famous date of the Declaration, Boston was breaking the King's Peace and warning other towns and colonies to do likewise - a lively new book tells the story
Read MoreBook Review: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
/They slit throats; the bombed churches; they were none too mentally stable - and these were the GOOD guys
Read MoreBook Review: Renishaw Hall
/The great home of generations of the Sitwell family, Renishaw Hall, is the subject of Desmond Seward's latest book
Read MoreBook Review: Word by Word
/A new book assembles and studies the scattered writings of American slaves
Read MoreBook Review: Black Earth
/A harrowing and contentious new assessment of the Nazi war on the Jews of Europe.
Read More“I am eager to play chess – I have mastered nine skills”
/At the beginning of the 19th century, a small trove of elaboratedly carved chess pieces was uncovered on a remote beach - a lively new book traces the history and strange charisma of the Lewis chessmen.
Read MoreBook Review: Agents of Empire
/In the continents-spanning 16th-century clash between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a crucial role was played by Albania - and by two families at the heart of events
Read MoreBook Review: Death in Florence
/At the end of the 14th century, Lorenzo de' Medici and the friar Savonarola began a series of clashes in palace and pulpit that would end up altering the course of the city's history. A lively new book tells the story.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Salvaged Pages
/A new edition of this collection of Holocaust diaries by young people captures the voices and the worries of the Nazis' most innocent victims
Read MoreBook Review: The End of Tsarist Russia
/A powerful new book by one of our best historians examines from new sources the torturous path Russia took to the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: Under Another Sky
/Part history, part travel guide, part novel - a wonderful new book takes readers on a tour of Roman Britain
Read MoreBook Review: The President and the Apprentice
/The settled opinion of historians has always been that President Eisenhower personally hated his vice president, Richard Nixon; a vigorous, unmissable new book tries to set that record straight
Read MoreBook Review: Hirohito's War
/A massive new history details the war in the Pacific Theater during WWII
Read MoreBook Review: The Real Lives of Roman Britain
/Archeological research has uncovered more than ever about the ordinary men and women who lived in Britain during the centuries of Roman occupation. A lively new book assesses what we know
Read MorePainful to Nice Feelings
/He sailed around Cape Horn and wrote a classic about it, and he fought for the downtrodden in Boston courts for thirty years - he was Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and he's the subject of a thought-provoking new biography.
Read MoreBook Review: The Eagle in Splendour
/"How a Court LOOKS," remarked a courtier to one of England's more successful modern-day monarchs, "is at least as important as how a Court WORKS." A re-issued study from Philip Mansel looks at form and function in the court of Napoleon Bonaparte
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