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The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy
by Tim Pat Coogan

Cormac Ó Gráda considers an opinionated take on the causes of Ireland's Great Famine

 
by Helen Bynum

Carsten Timmermann recommends a global history of tuberculosis

World War Two: A Short History
by Norman Stone

Ashley Jackson commends a masterful - and concise - account of the horrific sprawl of the Second World War

Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages
by Guy Halsall

Ryan Lavelle praises a lively deconstruction of Arthurian legend and the myths surrounding post-Roman Britain

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
by Richard Davenport-Hines

Francis Beckett is enthralled by a study of the Profumo Affair – and what it says about England of the 1960

Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present
by Brendan Simms

Tim Blanning considers a sweeping narrative that puts Germany at the heart of centuries of European history

Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem  and the Modernisation  of the Monarchy
by Paul Thomas Murphy

Kate Williams on a look at the effects of attempts to assassinate Victoria

 
The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
by Marci Shore

David Priestland commends an impressive journey through the aftermath of communism in eastern Europe

Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages
by Guy Halsall

Ryan Lavelle praises a lively deconstruction of Arthurian legend and the myths surrounding post-Roman Britain

 
Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
by Michael Haag

Helen Nicholson explores an unusual, but contentious, account of the effect that the crusades had on the Middle East