Getting with the Times: Philip Stern’s The Company-State

Historian as Detective: Eric Cline’s 1177 B.C.

Driving the Back Roads: Tribal Partnership and Problematic Memorialization in Backwoods Alabama

The Best Kind of Revision: Alan Alport’s Britain at Bay

Inconvenient Suits: Foreign in a Domestic Sense

Tragedy of Errors: John Gooch’s The Italian Army and the First World War

Big Strategy: Ian Morris’s Geography is Destiny

Life at the Top: Toby Wilkinson’s The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

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