Book Review: A Land of Aching Hearts
/When the chaos of the First World War swept over the Middle East, it disrupted patterns of life that had been steady for centuries - and left conflicts that roil still today
Read MoreBook Review: Married to the Viscount
/She's convinced they're married; he's adamant they're not. Let the Regency games begin!
Read MoreBook Review: The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane
/What an unruly, monstrous house cat hath joined together, let no man put asunder!
Read MoreBook Review: To Save a Viscount
/England's newest viscount has an assassin's target pinned to his new title, and the spies who accidentally put it there now have a nobleman to protect
Read MoreBook Review: Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination
/It's well known that Hitler looked to Mussolini's success in Italy as a model for his own fascism, but a fascinating new book details the lesser-known fact that Hitler had another model as well - an earlier and more exotic one.
Read MoreBook Review: Fear City
/F. Paul Wilson's supremely capable action-hero, "Repairman" Jack, wasn't always the kneecap-crushing arm-breaking, bad guy-defenestrating paragon his legions of fans know and love; once upon a time, he was a kneecap-crushing, arm-breaking, bad guy-defenestrating neophyte with a dream. "Fear City" takes us back to 1993.
Read MoreBook Review: The Good War
/The war in Afghanistan began promisingly - and then dragged on, fell apart, and limped to a quasi-ending. A lively new book narrates the story
Read MoreBook Review: Ardor
/Intellectual polymath Roberto Calasso's latest translated work is an exploration of the ancient hymns and verses of the Vedas
Read MoreBook Review: Chain of Events
/In this thriller, two specialists discover an unbelievable revelation written into the genetic code of all living things
Read MoreBook Review: Chief Executive to Chief Justice
/William Howard Taft was the only man to be both President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and a new book tells the story of the overlooked years in between
Read MoreBook Review: America's Pastor
/For half a century, preacher Billy Graham was an unofficial spiritual advisor to presidents and rock stars; a new biography attempts to assess his impact on mainstream American religious thought
Read MoreBook Review: WWII - A Chronicle of Soldiering
/Fifty years ago, the author of "From Here to Eternity" wrote a vivid, impressionistic account of the Second World War, and that fascinating book now enjoys a new edition
Read MoreBook Review: Captive Paradise
/James Haley's new history takes up the oft-told story of the Hawaiian Islands
Read MoreBook Review: Fire and Movement
/The British Expeditionary Force in the First World War has accrued a great many legends over the last century; Peter Hart's new account aims to delete the mythology - and still preserve the heroism
Read MoreBook Review: Bee Time
/An enjoyable new book draws some unexpected parallels between human society and the world of bees
Read MoreBook Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
/The bestselling author of the "Kingkiller Chronicles" turns in a short novella devoted to one of his fan-favorite characters
Read MoreBook Review: Eugene O'Neill - A Life in Four Acts
/A punchy and intensely readable new biography of America's greatest playwright
Read MoreBook Review: Rebellion
/Veteran popularizer Peter Ackroyd gives his readers a rattling good yarn of kings, decapitations, interregnums, frivolities, and depositions
Read MoreBook Review: The Marquis
/The boyish hero of the American Revolution who became a more problematic and complicated figure in the political upheavals of his native France, the celebrated Marquis de Lafayette gets a sparkling new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Imprudent King
/He ruled an empire on which, it was famously said, the sun never set - and he did all the paperwork himself! It's a new life of King Philip II of Spain
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