Book Review: The End of Tsarist Russia
/A powerful new book by one of our best historians examines from new sources the torturous path Russia took to the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: Secret Warriors
/Beyond the battles and trenches of the First World War, a dozen less glamorous but no less vital fights were being waged - in laboratories and darkrooms and publishing offices. A vibrant new book tells the story of the other World War I
Read MoreBook Review: Ring of Steel
/An exemplary new history tells the story of the First World War from the viewpoints of the aggressors
Read MoreBook Review: The Great War for Peace
/Did the cataclysmic First World War actually have a hidden peace-dividend? Did it change the vocabulary of rapprochement forever? A vigorous new study makes a daring case
Read MoreBook Review: A Mad Catastrophe
/A gripping account of the final days of the inept, tottering Austro-Hungarian empire - and the military apocalypse it helped to usher in
Read MoreBook Review: Verdun
/A prickly-smart new analysis contends that we too easily simplify the great World War I battle of Verdun
Read MoreBook Review: Catastrophe 1914
/A master military historian joins the crowd writing about the outbreak of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: July 1914
/A gripping new book examines just what happened in the crucial interval between the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the outbreak of general hostilities - and reaches some unusual conclusions.
Read MoreNew in Paperback: Bloody Red Baron
/In the sequel to Kim Newman's great "Anno Dracula," the evil Count wages war - the First World War, to be exact - with the living!
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.
Read MoreGrandpapa England
/In The King's Speech, King George V is depicted as a fanatical tyrant; but his legacy is one of dignified flexibility in the face of revolutionary changes, and his temperament may have helped save the monarchy
Read MoreA provocative and fascinating new book challenges what we think we know about the causes and nature of the First World War.
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