A World Afire: Empires at War, 1911-1923

Size, or How You Rule It? Determining History’s Greatest Empire

Not Without Meaning or Purpose: Hew Strachan’s The First World War

Greater than Its Parts: The Prospect of Global History

War on all the World: Starz’s Black Sails

Churchill Begins: Candice Millard’s Hero of the Empire

A Persistent Fiction: Myths of British Martial Prowess and Their Appeal

Byzantium Ascendant: Peter Frankopan’s The First Crusade

A Valiant Effort: Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004)