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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 Pugh
A history of Warfare by John Keegan
A Military Atlas of the First World War by Arthur Banks
Adolf Hitler: A Portrait by Michael Fitzgerald
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire edited by Halil Inalcik and Donald Quataert
Barbarians by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira
Citizens by Simon Schama
Eighteenth Century Europe by Jeremy Black
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
Florence: A Portrait by Michael Levey
Henry V by Keith Dockray
Henry V The Rebirth of Chivalry by Malcolm Mercer
In The Name Of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
Medieval Combat by Hans Talhoffer and Mark Rector
Napoleon - A Biography by Frank McLynn
Nicholas II, Emperor of all the Russias by Dominic Lieven
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 European Reformation by Euan Cameron
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
The First World War by Gerard de Groot
The First World War Peace Settlements 1919 - 1925 by Erik Goldstein
The French Revolutionary Wars by Gregory Fremont Barnes
The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book by Digby Smith
The Gunpowder Plot by Alan Haynes
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 Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle
The Routledge Atlas of Russian History by Martin Gilbert
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.)
Uniforms of Waterloo by Haythornthwaite, Cassin-Scott and Chappell
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
Waterloo: The Hundred Days by David Chandler

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