Christopher Dyer has doubts about an ambitious analysis of medieval life
Rod Edmond welcomes a new history of the people of the Pacific and hopes it will challenge outmoded stereotypes
Jeremy Black reads a well-researched and beautifully illustrated narrative of architectural vandalism
Giles MacDonogh tackles a lengthy survey of German intellectual achievements that highlights a cultural rebirth
Dominic Sandbrook reviews a ferocious attack on the postwar generation
Andrew Lambert finds that a charming ramble through the Atlantic’s past fails to live up to its promise
Sarah Foot praises an accessible study of Britain’s early Christians
Anne Curry looks at a fascinating study of medieval heraldic display
Adrian Bingham applauds the latest volume in a mammoth history of postwar Britain, this time focusing on the turbulent early 1970s
Stephen Conway on an engaging short discussion of one of America’s potent symbols of liberty