Book Review: The First Victory
/The tough and bitter East Africa campaign of 1941 receives a comprehensive new history.
Read MoreBook Review: The Vanquished
/A thought-provoking new history shines a spotlight on the long and brutal aftermath of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: Fifty English Steeples
/That familiar glory of medieval English architecture -the church spire - is the subject of a stunning new book.
Read MoreBook Review: Egyptomania
/A new book chronicles the world's enduring fascination with Ancient Egypt
Read MoreHis Majesty, the Not Excessively Cowardly
/He's forever linked in history with his punning nickname, but a new biography shows there was more to Æthelred than being "Unready"
Read MoreBook Review: Britain's War, 1937-1941: Into Battle
/A lively new history of the years England fought alone against the might of Nazi Germany
Read MoreBook Review: Northmen
/A gripping new history tells the broader story of the Viking Era
Read MoreNo Further Arrests Have Been Made
/The serial killer who stalked the streets of London in 1888 and became immortal under the name Jack the Ripper is the subject of a sumptuous new collection of fact and fiction.
Read MoreBook Review: Lusitania - The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
/Just over a century ago, the luxury liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat with great loss of life, a disaster that, as a new book explains, re-shaped the world.
Read MoreBook Review: Selling Hitler
/A brilliant new study anatomizes the mechanisms of Nazi propaganda
Read MoreBook Review: Deepwater Horizon
/The explosion, fire, sinking, and oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon back in 2010 gets a definitive scholarly analysis.
Read MoreBook Review: August 1914
/Before the famous epic battles of the First World War, there were lesser-known but equally ferocious clashes that are often lost in the larger narrative. A short, powerful book seeks to redress that imbalance.
Read MoreBook Review: Marked for Death
/A gritty and gripping new history tells the story of the dawn of aerial warfare.
Read MoreBook Review: The Story of Egypt
/A new book tells the history of ancient Egypt, from the mists of pre-history to the familiar tale of Cleopatra
Read MoreBook Review: Hitler's Compromises
/A brilliant new book explores the alternatives to brute force the Nazi regime often employed to get its way
Read MoreBook Review: Hitler's Soldiers
/A big new history of the German Army during World War II takes a complex and multifaceted look at the men who fought for the Reich
Read MoreBook Review: Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment
/Long before Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, Russian thinkers and writers were haltingly, passionately fashioning their own peculiar brand of Enlightment
Read MoreBook Review: Toward Democracy
/The long and constantly-unfinished process of democracy is given a sprawling examination in James Kloppenberg's new book.
Read MoreBook Review: The Bitter Taste of Victory
/Lara Feigel's new book delves into the landscape of the apocalypse: Germany in the immediate wake of Allied victory.
Read MoreBook Review: Anatomy of Malice
/A gripping new book looks at a quartet of the worst Nazi war criminals to stand trial.
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