Book Review: The Treaty of Versailles
/A new short treatment of the pivotal Treaty of Versailles by one of the greatest working historians of the First World War.
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/At the outbreak of the First World War, American writers flocked to Europe and headed for the Western Front in order to find their Muse - and to make some quick cash. A new book follows a handful of these earliest chroniclers
Read MoreBook Review: The Fall of the Ottomans
/The Ottoman Empire joined the fighting of the First World War deeply misunderstood by both sides; a charismatic new book seeks to clarify the story of that odd meeting of East and West
Read MoreBook Review: A Land of Aching Hearts
/When the chaos of the First World War swept over the Middle East, it disrupted patterns of life that had been steady for centuries - and left conflicts that roil still today
Read MoreBook Review: Fire and Movement
/The British Expeditionary Force in the First World War has accrued a great many legends over the last century; Peter Hart's new account aims to delete the mythology - and still preserve the heroism
Read MoreBook Review: The Unsubstantial Air
/Even before America entered the First World War, daring young Americans were taking to the skies over France, and during the war some of their exploits became legendary; a gripping new history tells the story of America's first air war.
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: No Man's Land
/The First World War provided the dark inspiration for an entire generation of great writing, and a big new anthology assembles a stunning variety of that work, from the familiar to the obscure
Read MoreBook Review: War of Attrition
/One of the foremost historians of the First World War offers a comprehensive and brutal overview of the conflict that gave birth to the modern world
Read MoreBook Review: Hundred Days
/The vivid story of the months when the long, slogging stalemate of the First World War exploded into violence
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 MoreBook Review: The Making of the First World War
/A new history of World War I looks at twelve fragile moments, twelve turning points when small factors determined very large outcomes
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost History of 1914
/A new look at the outbreak of World War I reminds readers of the individual people involved - and presents some intriguing might-have-beens.
Read MoreTime Wounds All Heels
/In Alan Hollinghurst's new novel The Stranger's Child the renown of a minor English poet balloons and distorts in each succeeding decade after his death
Read MoreA 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 MoreSophistication and Recklessness: Patrick Leigh Fermor
/With Patrick Leigh Fermor's death, the world lost a gracious host, a tireless traveller, and one of the best prose stylists of the 20th century. We pause to appreciate him.
Read MoreEdward the Last
/When he was Prince of Wales, he was the nation's darling, but when Edward VIII came to the throne, he became the greatest threat the monarchy had ever faced.
Read MoreThat Indescribable Something
/She was married to two kings, reigned during the advent of trench warfare and the suppression of suffragettes, and stayed all her life a delightful dinner guest; A Year With the Windsors continues with the fascinating and fastidious Queen Mary.
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