Book Review: Rise to Greatness
/"It was the year in which the Civil War became a cataclysm, the federal government became a colossus, and the Confederacy came nearest to winning its independence ..."
Read MoreBook Review: Legions of Rome
/A comprehensive - and visually stunning - overview of the mighty Roman legions and the world they helped to shape.
Read MoreBook Review: Terrible Swift Sword
/An engaging - perhaps a touch too engaging - new biography of fourth four-star general in U.S. history: Phil Sheridan
Read MoreBook Review: Fatal Colours
/A lively new account of the bloodbath of Towton, one of the key battles of the Wars of the Roses
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 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: Wellington's Wars
/A new - and sometimes unforgiving - military history of the Iron Duke!
Read MoreBook Review: The Weight of Vengeance
/A fine and fact-filled new account of the War of 1812
Read MoreBook Review: Elusive Victories
/A stunning and insightful new book about the ways modern American presidents go to war, stay at war, and exit war.
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Full Measure
/A sharp new work seeks to get at the gory reality behind the Hollywood images of warfare.
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: Enterprise
/a lean and pugnacious new history of the second-greatest fighting ship in United States history!
Read MoreBook Review: The Frontiers of Imperial Rome
/The frontiers of ancient Rome - the limits by which it defined both itself and its enemies - stretched from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Irish Sea. In this muscular new study, those frontiers take center stage.
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
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