Ego Check: Pekka Hamalainen’s Indigenous Continent

Good Business, Murder: John Landis’s Burke and Hare

Shocked into Reality: The Tet Offensive and the Specter of Victory in Vietnam

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

American State of Nature: Jefferson Cowie’s Freedom’s Dominion

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

Echoes of Superstition: Questions of Legitimacy and Regime Change Through the Ages

Austere Beauty: FX’s Shogun

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