Book Review: Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich
/A new book looks at the little-known figure of Hitler's chosen successor
Read MoreBook Review: The First Nazi
/How much of the evil of Adolf Hitler can be traced to an infamous general of the First World War?
Read MoreBook Review: Valiant Ambition
/The infamous treachery of Benedict Arnold gets a vigorous and richly detailed new retelling by the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea.
Read MoreTo be immortalized by Shakespeare is often also to be caricatured by him; a sumptuous new biography of King Henry IV admirably brings its royal subject out of the Bard's shadow.
Read MoreBook Review: The Habsburg Empire: A New History
/A new history takes a thought-provokingly centralist look at the oft-chronicled Habsburg Empire
Read MoreBook Review: History and Presence
/An invigorating new study of the real presence of the divine in the mundane workings of organized religion
Read MoreBook Review: The Empire That Would Not Die
/Abandoned by the West and battered by the Islamic caliphate, the eastern Roman Empire shrank and withdrew but did not fall - a new history asks why
Read MoreBook Review: The Fever of 1721
/When smallpox struck the city of Boston in 1721, battle lines were drawn over how to deal with it - and strange alliances formed
Read MoreBook Review: Tales from the Long Twelfth Century
/At the center of a lively, personality-driven new book about the twelfth century is the contentious family of King Henry II
Read MoreBook Review: Everyday Renaissances
/An eye-opening new history sheds light on the book-lovers and book-collectors of Renaissance Venice
Read MoreBook Review: The Brazen Age
/A boisterous new history of New York City and America in the wake of the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: The King's Bed
/A lively new book gives readers a mistress-by-mistress recounting of the reign of Charles II
Read MoreBook Review: Battle of the Atlantic
/Atlantic shipping was the lifeline of Great Britain during the Second World War, and the Nazis knew it just as well as the Allies did. A thrilling new book recounts the sprawling, war-long Battle of the Atlantic
Read MoreBook Review: Strange Gods
/Throughout human history, people have found reasons to change their religions - Susan Jacoby's brilliant new book examines the phenomenon of adopting strange gods
Read MoreBook Review: Apostle
/An author spends years traveling to the various final resting places of the Apostles - and comes back with an unsettlingly insightful new look at the early history of Christianity
Read MoreBook Review: The Annotated Lincoln
/A big, gorgeous new anthology presents a virtual life of Abraham Lincoln as seen through his writings
Read MoreBook Review: Groundless
/Rumors and dark stories flew along the rutted dirt roads of colonial America, bearing tales that had virtually no basis in reality. A new book uses rumor to understand the rumormongers.
Read MoreBook Review: The Butcher's Trail
/In the wake of the strife and collapse of Slobodan Mlosevic's Yugoslavia, a large group of war criminals had to be hunted down and delivered for trial. A riveting new book tells the story.
Read MoreBook Review: Justifying Genocide
/A powerful new book looks at the ideological connections between the Armenian Genocide and the Nazi death-camps that followed twenty years later
Read MoreBook Review: George Washington's Journey
/In his first term as president, George Washington packed up and went on long, rattling tours of the new United States, to see the people and let them see him. A new book follows along.
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