A review of The Plot Against Pepys by James Long and Ben Long. A review of Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling. Revolutionary Minds: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison participated in a small "revolution" against British weather-monitoring practices. A review of Land of Lincoln by Andrew Ferguson. A review of Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans by Jean Pfaelzer. A review of The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World, 1776-1914 by Gavin Weightman.
A review of The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare by David A Bell. From The Moscow Times, a review of King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War by Catrine Clay. A review of World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone. A review of Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West by Scott Martelle. Sacco & Vanzetti Today: History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism, and more and more on Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson.
Was Lenin as bad as Stalin and Hitler? A review of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately (and more). A review of Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Yes, a lot of people died, but ...: Stalin has undergone a number of transformations of his historical image in Russia. A review of Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by Lesley Chamberlain. A review of The Himmler Brothers by Katrin Himmler. A review of Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Gotz Aly. A review of After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by Giles MacDonogh. A review of Churchill's Cigar by Stephen McGinty.
