Book Review: The Second World Wars
/Veteran military historian Victor Davis Hanson writes a broad-scale history of the Second World War.
Read MoreBook Review: Stalin - Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
/Stephen Kotkin's groundbreaking multi-volume biography of Stalin continues with the uneasy alliance between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
Read MoreBook Review: Hell from the Heavens
/In April of 1945, the destroyer USS Laffey was bombarded by wave after wave of kamikaze fighters - and yet survived. A gripping new book tells the story of a ship that refused to die
Read MoreBook Review: Hitler's Shadow Empire
/In 1936 Nazi Germany poured money and manpower into backing General Franco in the Spanish Civil War; a new history powerfully re-interprets that fraught relationship
Read MoreBook Review: Japan 1941
/A vivid look at the culture and politics that led to Japan's ill-fated attack on Pearl Harbor
Read MoreBook Review: 1940
/A spirited new account of the divisive American presidential election race that was held amidst the growing clamor of European war
Read MoreBook Review: Perilous Moon
/In the night sky over Occupied France, two young men met in combat - this remarkable book tells their stories.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Bloodlands
/A stark and powerful account of the killing regimes of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia - and of the blood-soaked stretch of middle Europe where those regimes did their work.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Storm of War
/A new one-volume history of the Second World War ends with the big question: could the bad guys have won?
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 MoreThe Prince of Now and Then
/He lost his famous mother when he was a boy, became a teen idol, had a storybook wedding, and he's second in line to be King of England. The monarchy Prince William inherits will be like nothing his predecessors have experienced - if it exists at all. "A Year with the Windsors" concludes.
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