Book Review: The Riviera at War
/An impressive new history details the many sides of the fighting that came to the French Riviera during the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: Their Backs Against the Sea
/A ferocious and largely forgotten island battle marked a key point in the Pacific theater of the Second World War. A new book tells the story of the Battle of Saipan.
Read MoreBook Review: Hirohito's War
/A massive new history details the war in the Pacific Theater during WWII
Read MoreBook Review: Snow and Steel
/The bloodiest American encounter of the Second World War took place in a vast and icebound forest; a sprawling new history tells the story of the Battle of the Bulge
Read MoreBook Review: The Bombers and the Bombed
/Even in its truncated US edition, Richard Overy's great new history of aerial bombing during WWII has much to offer its readers
Read MoreBook Review: The Guns at Last Light
/A historian's great trilogy about U.S. forces at war on WWII's Western front at last comes to its finish
Read MoreBook Review: The Girls of Atomic City
/At the heigh of the Second World War, they traveled to a custom-made town in the middle of nowhere and worked jobs they didn't understand and were forbidden to question - and a year later, the U.S. had a working atom bomb. They were the girls of Atomic City, and their story finally gets told.
Read MoreBook Review: All the Light There Was
/In this historical novel, the Armenian community of Paris negotiates the arrival of the Nazis - and a young girl navigates her first romance
Read MoreBook Review: World War Two
/The military crucible of the 20th Century gets a new hardcover history that can be read in one hour and fifteen minutes.
Read MoreBook Review: The Taste of War
/A new book looks at the foremost weapon in war's arsenal: food.
Read MoreWhat the Duchess of Argyll's Maid told Dicky Pigg-Wilcott's Valet at Ascot in '08!
/Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was a cherished and beloved fixture of the British royal family for almost a century (and would certainly have stolen the show at her daughter's Diamond Jubilee, had she lived to see it) - but a new book claims the Queen Mum was just an ordinary human being - and not always a very nice one
Read MoreBook Review: Enterprise
/a lean and pugnacious new history of the second-greatest fighting ship in United States history!
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
/One of the greatest works of 20th century - and of all time - gets a handsome paperback reprint as it turns 50.
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