Book Review: Bonaparte, 1769-1802
/A gigantic new biography chronicles the rise-to-power of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read MoreBook Review: Hitler's Shadow Empire
/In 1936 Nazi Germany poured money and manpower into backing General Franco in the Spanish Civil War; a new history powerfully re-interprets that fraught relationship
Read MoreBook Review: Ministers at War
/A new book tells the story of the War Cabinet Winston Churchill assembled to fight the Second 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: King John and the Road to Magna Carta
/800 years ago, King John "Lackland" sealed Magna Carta and unwittingly laid the foundation for some of Western law; a new book takes a fresh look at this much-maligned figure
Read MoreBook Review: The Baltic
/For more than a thousand years, the sprawling area of the Baltic has played host to history, art, and fitful commerce - a new history tells the story.
Read MoreBook Review: Washington's Circle
/A fantastic new book tells the story of President Washington and the extraordinary team he assembled to form the new nation's first administration
Read MoreBook Review: Galileo's Telescope
/One little spyglass - only four fingers long - changed the world; a sparkling new book tells the story of Galileo's "recounting of the stars"
Read MoreBook Review: Ravensbruck
/In 1939 the Nazis established their only concentration camp specifically for women; a comprehensive new book tells the history of Ravensbruck
Read MoreBook Review: The Big Trial
/From Lizzie Borden to O. J. Simpson, big public show-trials have fascinated the American people. In his new book, renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman tries to dissect why that is.
Read MoreBook Review: Young Eliot
/A lavishly-detailed new biography shows us Thomas Stearns Eliot in his slightly fussy, slightly feckless pre-fame years
Read MoreBook Review: The Fortunes of Francis Barber
/One of the only two people at the deathbed of Samuel Johnson was a young ex-slave to whom Johnson was, in his testy way, devoted. A new book finally gives Francis Barber the biography he's always deserved
Read MoreBook Review: Plato's Wayward Path
/Plato might be Western philosophy's first great writer, but a new book argues we've mostly been reading him wrong.
Read MoreBook Review: What Stands in a Storm
/A new book details the terrible destruction caused by a record-breaking series of tornadoes that struck the American South in 2011
Read MoreBook Review: Akhenaten & The Origins of Monotheism
/The rebel pharaoh who instituted a radical new monotheism gets a highly-detailed and revisionist investigation
Read MoreBook Review: Hissing Cousins
/The daughter of the first President Roosevelt and the wife of the second President Roosevelt had a long and sometimes cross-purposed relationship. A new book dishes the old dirt.
Read MoreBook Review: I Hate Myselfie
/Wildly popular YouTube phenomenon Shane Dawson now has a BOOK!
Read MoreBook Review: Goldeneye
/Ian Fleming bought a run-down villa in Jamaica and used it as the workshop - and backdrop - for his world-famous James Bond novels. A new book takes us inside the world of Goldeneye
Read MoreBook Review: Rust
/Every day, all around us, everything solid is inexorably corroding into powder. A game new book takes readers inside the surprisingly fascinating world of rust
Read MoreBook Review: A Great and Terrible King
/He established Parliament, hammered the Scots, expelled the Jews, and inspired centuries of biographers - England's King Edward I gets a lively new biography
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