The Divorce of Henry VIII by Catherine Fletcher
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A thorough - and thoroughly captivating - in-depth look at the divorce that sundered a nation and re-made a church.
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The Third Reich at War by Richard Evans
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The magnificent concluding volume in Richard Evans’ great WWII trilogy
Read MoreInigo Jones: The Architect of Kings by Vaughan Hart
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A lavishly-illustrated study of the great architect.
Read MoreLife and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche
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The great historian’s study of the rise of Nazism among ordinary Germans.
Read MoreBook Review: Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich
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When Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz became Nazi Germany’s Head of State on April 30, 1945, named by Hitler in his will as his successor, many of his fellow Germans and most of his Allied enemies would have asked the same simple question Barry Turner asks in his even-handed and understated new book, Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich.
Read MoreProud boy: Henry VIII’s Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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Biographers and armchair physicians for centuries have clambered over the wreckage of Henry VIII’s body and sought to know the cause of it. In his final years, the King had grown so fat he could scarcely move himself – he had to be trundled around his various residences by a series of winches and pulleys, aided by the heaving of many courtiers. Partly this was due to unchecked gluttony and lifelong carousing
Read MoreWhen you see me, you know me: Henry VIII: Court, Church, and Conflict by David Loades
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More than any other British monarch, he tends to make his biographers hate him. The ones who can resist must either be pitied for their blindness or cherished for their judgement.
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