Cassino '44 by James Holland
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A new history of the battle for Rome during WWII
Read MoreVietnam: A Military History by Geoffrey Wawro
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A contentious new history of the Vietnam War
Read MoreA Day in September by Stephen Budiansky
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Stephen Budiansky's new book about the Battle of Antietam and its long aftermath
Read MoreThe Strategists by Phillips Payson O'Brien
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A new history of how the leaders of the Second World War conducted their strategies
Read MoreA Nasty Little War by Anna Reid
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A wonderfully lively history of the West’s attempt to defeat the Bolshevik Revolution
Read MoreAgincourt: Battle of the Scarred King by Michael Livingston
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A new history scrutinizes the typical histories of the Battle of Agincourt.
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Land of War by William Nester
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A new history covers thousands of years of European history.
Read MoreTo Start A War by Robert Draper
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A veteran journalist’s account of the White House lead-up to war in Iraq.
Read MoreThe Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze
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A satisfyingly plump new history paints a broad picture of an entire world embroiled in wars caused by a revolution and an egomaniac.
Read MoreUpheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
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Can 30 pages be enough to do more than skim the surface of any of these epic events?
Read MoreRevolutionary by Robert L. O'Connell
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Readers will need to assess the balance between an insightful overview of the birth of the United States alongside the usual starry-eyed heroic poem about Washington himself.
Read MoreThe Calculus of Violence by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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An examination of the agonizing debates about the meaning of a just war in the Civil War era.
Read MoreNapoleon: A Life by Adam Zamoyski
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Eloquent and accomplished historian Adam Zamoyski does little to debunk the Bonaparte myth.
Read MoreSons of Freedom by Geoffrey Wawro
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A methodical and utterly convincing account of the role of America played in the outcome of World War I.
Read MoreThe Death of Hitler by Jean-Christophe Brisard & Lana Parshina
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Access to previously unseen Soviet archives and cutting-edge forensics reveals a dramatic new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker.
Read MoreIndianapolis by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic
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This book is the most emphatic statement of Charles McVay's case ever made.
Read MoreThe Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell
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The author explores how the Habsburgs succeeded by developing strategies using only the limited tools at their disposal.
Read MorePandora's Box: A History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard
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A deeply detailed panoramic of how fundamentally the war changed the world.
Read MoreNapoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810 by Michael Broers
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Based on Napoleon's correspondence, this is the second of a three volume life of Napoleon that moves through many well-known landmarks of these five years.
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