Book Review: Beyond Greek
/A provocative new book re-examines the startling power and, yes, originality of Roman literature
Read MoreBook Review: "Forward, My Brave Boys!"
/A richly-detailed new history traces one Confederate volunteer infantry through the course of the Civil War
Read MoreBook Review: The Day the Renaissance Was Saved
/According to one historian, the battle commemorated in a lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci was the little-known birth-moment of the Renaissance
Read MoreBook Review: The Iran-Iraq War
/The brutal 1980s war between Iran and Iraq gets a definitive new history
Read MoreBook Review: Battling the Gods
/The open, even evangelical atheism of the 21st century might be new, but as a sparkling-good new book demonstrates, atheism itself is as old as belief
Read MoreBook Review: The English and Their History
/A huge - and hugely enjoyable - new book details the long history of the English people
Read MoreBook Review: London Fog
/For centuries, "pea-soup" fog was synonymous with the city of London; a lively new book tells its story.
Read MoreBook Review: City on a Grid
/The in-depth story of how it came to be that the Bronx is up and the Battery's down - the grid system of Manhattan!
Read MoreBook Review: The Work of the Dead
/A fascinating new history details the changing job description of the dead-and-buried over the centuries
Read MoreGenerals in Dark and Snow
/Late in 1944, the defeated Nazis staked everything on one last throw of the dice, a massive assault on the Allied forces in Belgium. Antony Beevor's latest book tells the famous story of the Battle of the Bulge.
Read MoreBook Review: Magna Carta
/A slim and intensely good new history of King John and the creation of the Great Charter
Read MoreBook Review: Part of Our Lives
/A wonderful new book details the raucous past - and the complicated, vibrant present - of the public library in the United States
Read MoreBook Review: After Hitler
/A forensic and often quite moving new history of the last, desperate days of the Third Reich
Read MoreBook Review: The German War
/A new book brings to life the experiences of ordinary Germans during the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: The Rise of Germany
/An ambitious new work of history charts the rise to victory of Nazi Germany - and deflates a few treasured myths along the way
Read MoreBook Review: The Year of Lear
/A new book looks at one tumultuous year in the life of William Shakespeare
Read MoreBook Review: Washington
/The venerable sub-genre of the Washington, DC history gets a substantial new update
Read MoreBook Review: Gallipoli
/The new entry in Oxford University Press' "Great Battles" series focuses on the long and potent afterlife of the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: A Strange Business
/James Hamilton's fascinating new book looks behind the glorious paintings of the Victorian era at the men who designed the frames, discovered the paint pigments, and heated the galleries
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