The Face of Trauma: HBO’s Wartorn 1861-2010

Lesser than the Sum of its Parts: Dominic Lieven’s In the Shadow of the Gods

Pell-Mell Towards the Abyss: David Nichols’ Eisenhower 1956

Monsters of War: Julius Avery’s Overlord

No Good Options: When History Fails to Bring Clarity

New from the Old: Paul Quigley’s Shifting Grounds

August 1963: A Fateful Anniversary in the Vietnam War

Cycles of Justification: George Rable’s God’s Almost Chosen Peoples

Book Club: Empire of Guns, by Priya Satia