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 MoreFrom the Archives: Embossed Coins
/Elie Wiesel once claimed “a novel about Treblinka is either not a novel or not about Treblinka.” How does Steve Sem-Sandberg grapple with representing the unrepresentable in his sweeping chronicle of the Łódź ghetto, The Emperor of Lies? A review from our archives.
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 MoreBook Review: Dance of the Furies
/A provocative and fascinating new book challenges what we think we know about the causes and nature of the First World War.
Read MoreLast Days of the Rough Rider
/Theodore Roosevelt left office younger than any American president before him, and renowned biographer Edmund Morris concludes his TR trilogy with a look at the Colonel's post-power days.
Read MoreA Day Such as This
/The Battle of the Somme has become a watch-word for useless slaughter over worthless ground, but a new book contends that the Somme was actually a victory for the good guys--a ghastly, horrifying victory, but a victory just the same.
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