Best of Frienemies: Adrian Goldsworthy’s Rome and Persia

A Human Connection? James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg

Dark Déjà Vu: Harald Jähner’s Vertigo

Private Fictions: Steven Knight’s House of Guinness

Lonely at the Top: Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome

Vibing with Ed: Netflix’s Sunday Best

Justice, or Vengeance? Gary Bass’s Judgment at Tokyo

Grand Spectacle: Roland Emmerich’s Midway

Everything in its Proper Context: Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World