A Very Ordinary Person
/When his brother the king abdicated, shy Prince Bertie suddenly became king - and he was just settling in when the World War II threw his kingdom into chaos. 'A Year with the Windsors' continues.
Read More‘Some fights are bigger than others’
/Brothers take opposing sides in World War One, in a gripping biography that reveals the history and politics of America's role in the conflict.
Read MoreThe Golden Touch
/A new biography explores the life of the erratic and headstrong 'forgotten' Founding Father who bankrolled a revolution and guided a new republic.
Read MoreFolk and Fields Suffice
/When the tottering Roman Empire abandoned its far-flung outpost of Britain, the natives were forced to fend for themselves. The results were one part "Lord of the Flies" and one part "Camelot."
Read MoreA Prison Spotlight
/Former political radical Susan Rosenberg received the longest sentence ever given for the charge of possessing explosives. Her new memoir revisits her prison experience.
Read MoreA Very Narrow Area
/A pivotal part of the Second World War was fought not on land or sea but under the waves - and a new history attributes heroism to both sides.
Read MoreA Brief for the Defense
/If you're hoping for a heartfelt mea culpa from an architect of two disastrous wars, this isn't it. Donald Rumsfeld's memoir is shallow at best, cynically self-serving at worst.
Read MoreA Novelist in Tahrir Square
/It's fitting that Ahdaf Soueif is narrating this exciting new chapter in Egypt's history: for decades she has offered her readers richer, more complicated stories of the Middle East than the commonplace ones of submission and extremism.
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 MoreThe Neocon Mask Removed
/The ideology Irving Kristol helped found is inexorably tied to Bush administration, but a posthumous collection of essays reveals different and bracingly diverse origins
Read MoreA False Quarrel
/The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems depressingly intractable, an impasse without end. A new book offers a hypothetical solution, but is it foolish idealism, unworkable pragmatism - or a desperately innovative kind of hope?
Read MoreSquid Pro Quo
/Matt Taibbi is the foremost political-writing muckraker of his generation, matching an acerbic wit with a pressure-cooked prose style. But is there substance behind the bluster?
Read MoreHistory Without the Moon
/Her reign was epic in length and social impact, but it very nearly didn't happen at all. She ruled through two generations of her people, and she left the British monarchy very different from how she found it. She is Queen Victoria, and our Year with the Windsors starts as it must: with her.
Read MoreThere Can Only Be One
/The United States' first Civil War, Alan Taylor claims, was fought in 1812. Ivan Lett assesses the revisionist argument.
Read MoreThe Beginning of the End, the Battle at the End, and the End
/In 1941 Hitler had everything: all of Europe had fallen to his stormtroopers, and he could dispose of lone, defiant England at his leisure. Then he made a Napoleonic gamble: he invaded his one-time ally, Russia. Three new books deal with the Napoleonic results of that gamble.
Read MoreSimple Man
/No American president in a generation has so polarized the country as George W. Bush, and his new book will almost certainly polarize its readers. Is it defiant agitprop or heartfelt memoir?
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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