A-Z of reviews tagged with History

A People’s History of American Empire, by Howard Zinn, Paul Buhle & Mike Konopacki
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
An Edible History of Humanity, by Tom Standage
Reviewed by:
Guest Reviewer
Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-49, by Jim Baggott
Reviewed by:
Sam Collett
Austerity Britain: Smoke in the Valley (Tales of a New Jerusalem 2), by David Kynaston
Reviewed by:
Sam Collett
Churchill’s Wizards, by Nicholas Rankin
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
D-Day: The Battle For Normandy, by Anthony Beevor
Reviewed by:
Simon Parker
Fire and Steam: How The Railways Transformed Britain, by Christian Wolmar
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco
Reviewed by:
Erin Britton
Fusiliers, by Mark Urban
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, by Mark Mozower
Reviewed by:
Sam Collett
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey, by James Attlee
Reviewed by:
Sam Collett
Madresfield: One house, one family, one thousand years, by Jane Mulvagh
Reviewed by:
Sam Collett
Newton and the Counterfeiter, by Thomas Levenson
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
Our Longest Days: A People’s History of the Second World War, edited by Sandra Koa Wing
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
Soldiers of the Queen, by Stephen Manning
Reviewed by:
Guest Reviewer
Strange Days Indeed, by Francis Wheen, and When The Lights Went Out, by Andy Beckett
Reviewed by:
Simon Parker
Tank Men, by Robert Kershaw
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
The American Future, by Simon Schama
Reviewed by:
Sam Collett
The Ascent of Money, by Niall Ferguson
Reviewed by:
Ben Parker
The Bloody White Baron, by James Palmer
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
The Boer War, by Thomas Pakenham
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain, by Ian Jack
Reviewed by:
Jennie Blake
The Dangerous Book of Heroes by Conn & David Iggulden
Reviewed by:
Guest Reviewer
The Duff Cooper Diaries, edited by John Julius Norwich
Reviewed by:
Simon Parker
The English Civil Wars, by Blair Worden
Reviewed by:
Simon Parker
The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire and Invasion, by Paddy Docherty
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
The Secret Life of Words, by Henry Hitchings
Reviewed by:
Ben Parker
The Secret Symbol: The Original Masonic Documents Behind Dan Brown’s New Bestseller, by Peter Blackstock
Reviewed by:
Sam Collett
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, by Kate Summerscale
Reviewed by:
Sam Collett
The Untold History of the Potato, by John Reader
Reviewed by:
Sam Collett
The Victorians, by Jeremy Paxman
Reviewed by:
Jennie Blake
The White War, by Mark Thompson
Reviewed by:
Simon Parker
The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism, by Anthony Read
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
We Saw Spain Die, by Paul Preston
Reviewed by:
Simon Parker
Will America Change?, by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies
Reviewed by:
Simon Appleby
Wounds of Honour (Empire), by Anthony Riches
Reviewed by:
Guest Reviewer