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Review Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts review – a ‘marvellously readable’, if partial, biography
What sort of Napoleon does our generation want? This is a fast-paced account, written from inside the imperial entourage. By Mark Mazower -
Two-wheeled transport has come a long way over the last two centuries. Take a pictorial spin through the bicycle’s journey from the wood and iron era to the age of carbon fibre
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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Review Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor review – Germany’s past is indeed another country
A detailed analysis of Germany’s history goes a long way to understanding its people and its turbulent politics, writes Antony Beevor -
An account of the Flood significantly different from that told in the Bible should have resonances with modern audiences, writes Nick Fraser
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Michael Pye’s argument that the North Sea, not the Roman Empire, has been at the heart of Europe’s greatest recent advances is persuasive and eloquent, writes Anthony Sattin
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Anzac and Gallipoli are the novelist's terrain as much as the historian's