Book Review: Phantom Terror
/In his new book, historian Adam Zamoyski paints a picture of a Europe convulsed with fear of upheavals like the French Revolution and the tyranny of Bonaparte - and willing to do anything to prevent them
Read MoreBook Review: Citizen Emperor
/A big new volume studies Napoleon Bonaparte from the peak of his power to the last days of his final exile
Read MoreBook Review: Global Crisis
/The 17th century found itself caught between widespread social upheaval and natural catastrophes unprecedented in human history - an absorbing new history looks at the entire world four centuries ago ... and of course glances at our own
Read MoreBook Review: Europe
/That long-standing hotbed of world history, Europe, gets a big new dissection by one of our most engaging historians
Read MoreBook Review: Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment
/The greatest enemy of freedom is ... democracy? Come get to know Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson, ladies and gentlemen!
Read MoreBook Review: Europe Before Rome
/A profusely illustrated you-are-there look at the excavations into European prehistory
Read MoreBook Review: Furies
/The Italian Renaissance of Michelangelo and Raphael was built by - and traumatized by - the constant tramping of hired armies. A provocative new study looks at the birth-price of the modern era
Read MoreBook Review: The Making of the First World War
/A new history of World War I looks at twelve fragile moments, twelve turning points when small factors determined very large outcomes
Read MoreNew in Paperback: Cry Havoc
/Dramatized in the pages of this brilliant book, the Nazi state's embracing of accelerated war-production set a dark pattern for the entire world
Read MoreBook Review: The Caliph's Splendor
/One of our best popular historians sheds light on the caliphate of Harun al-Rashid, where learning and culture flourished at a time when the West was mired in filth and chaos.
Read MoreBook Review: Venice - History of the Floating City
/A new social history of Venice takes readers well beyond the myth and delves into the lives of the people - princes, merchants, women, immigrants - who brought the city to life
Read MoreBook Review: Conquest
/For thirty hard-fought years, the King of England was also the King of France - new in US bookstores is a thrilling account of those years
Read MoreBook Review: The Second World War
/A magisterial new one-volume history of the Second World War
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Atlantic and Its Enemies
/A big, pugnacious account of the post-WWII world
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Berlin at War
/An exceptionally powerful history of Berlin's rise and fall during the course of World War Two
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost History of 1914
/A new look at the outbreak of World War I reminds readers of the individual people involved - and presents some intriguing might-have-beens.
Read MoreBook Review: Kiev 1941
/In Hitler's great gamble of attacking the Soviet Union in 1941, the legendary victories at Kiev weren't so glorious as standard histories would have us believe - so says a new book on the subject
Read MoreBook Review: Catherine the Great
/She nearly doubled the size of the Russian empire, she debated with philosophers, she endowed the first women's college in Russia, and she was a beloved mother to her people for 34 years - and she had a steady stream of lovers through it all. She was Catherine the Great.
Read MoreBook Review: Venice Disputed
/A beautifully illustrated examination of one Venetian nobleman's life-long wrangling with the experts over the public face of the Queen of the Adriatic.
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Vikings
/The Greenland settlements founded by the infamous Erik the Red lasted for centuries - and then failed. A new history tackles an old mystery
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