If you've seen book reviews in newspapers or magazines, you'll have noticed two main types: longer, full length discussions and much shorter summary pieces. The first gives you the core of a book, the second general information on content and quality. This site provides both; you can find the long reviews here, while the short reviews are listed below.
A Companion to Modern European History edited by Martin PughA Military Atlas of the First World War by Arthur Banks
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire edited by Halil Inalcik and Donald Quataert
Citizens by Simon Schama
Eighteenth Century Europe by Jeremy Black
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
Florence: A Portrait by Michael Levey
Henry V The Rebirth of Chivalry by Malcolm Mercer
Medieval Combat by Hans Talhoffer and Mark Rector
Napoleon - A Biography by Frank McLynn
Passchendaele and the Battles of Ypres by Marix-Evans
Racism in Europe 1870 - 2000 by Neil MacMaster
Redcoat Officer 1740 - 1815 by Stuart Reid
Remembering D-Day - Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes by Martin Bowman
Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras by Terence Grocott
Society and Economy in Germany, 1300 - 1600 by Tom Scott
Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor
Stalingrad: The Infernal Cauldron by Stephen Walsh
The Ancien Régime in Europe by E. N. Williams
The Crimean War by John Sweetman
The Dark Valley - A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
The First World War by Gerard de Groot
The French Revolutionary Wars by Gregory Fremont Barnes
The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours
The Invention of Peace by Michael Howard
The Longman Handbook of Modern British History by Chris Cook and John Stevenson
The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens by Mike Ashley
The Napoleonic Wars 1805 - 1807 by Todd Fisher
The Napoleonic Wars 1808 - 1812 by Todd Fisher
The Russian Century: A History of the Last Hundred Years by Brian Moynahan
The Seven Years War by Daniel Marston
Three Whys Of The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
Unholy War by David I. Kertzer (This feature includes an interview with Professor Kertzer.)
Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500 - 1800 by Julius Ruff
Voices from the Great War by Peter Vansittart
Warfare in the Nineteenth Century by David Gates
Waterloo 1815 by Geoffrey Wootten
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