Book Review: Bonaparte, 1769-1802
/A gigantic new biography chronicles the rise-to-power of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read MoreUnmaking L'empereur
/The 2nd Light Battalion King's Division played a pivotal role at the Battle of Waterloo, as a slim new history by Brendan Simms demonstrates. Matt Ray reviews the book in his Open Letters debut.
Read MorePointez, Pointez!
/Hugely talented biographer Andrew Roberts has written a big biography of Napoleon Bonaparte - but when it comes to such a well-known figure, are readers in danger of fatigue de bataille?
Read MoreThe Shape of Things to Come
/All of European history - and beyond - plays out in new and fascinating variations of guns, germs, and steel in Paradox Interactive's new version of its popular video game Europa Universalis
Read MoreBook Review: Wellington's Wars
/A new - and sometimes unforgiving - military history of the Iron Duke!
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Napoleon
/Arcade Publishing re-issues Frank McLynn's merrily magnificent biography of that pestiferous little Corsican!
Read MoreByronic Interludes
/The larger-than-life exploits of Lord Byron drew an erratic and daunting trajectory through the lives of those nearest him. A trilogy of novels attempts to go where so many biographies have gone before.
Read MoreThe Zither and the Worm
/French trailblazer Raymond Roussel created teeming and fertile worlds from a secret process of wordplay. Two of his most spectacular works are coming back into print after a long, undeserved absence.
Read MoreOne Common Reader
/Virginia Woolf imagined the Almighty seeing us coming towards Paradise, books in hand: "We have nothing to give them, they have loved reading." But does reading always bring salvation?
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