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Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt
by Richard Gott

John MacKenzie is not convinced by a survey of the British empire’s crimes

The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day
by Nick Lloyd

Jad Adams considers the complex origins of Britain’s worst atrocity in India

Arnhem: The Battle for Survival
by John Nichol and Tony Rennell

David Stafford is impressed with an account of Operation Market Garden, a bold attempt to outflank the Germans in 1944

Heinrich Himmler: A Life
by Peter Longerich

Roger Moorhouse commends a scholarly biography of Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust

Ten Popes Who Shook the World
by Eamon Duffy

Jonathan Wright savours a breezy rundown of some of the most influential bishops of Rome

Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II
by Juan Pujol Garcia and Nigel West

Michael S Goodman reads a memoir of an exceptional spy

The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
by Stephen Greenblatt

Robert Black is disappointed by the arguments advanced in a new analysis of the origins of the Renaissance

A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East
by James Barr

Ben Fortna commends a readable history of Anglo-French rivalry in the Middle East that had lasting consequences

Democratic Enlightenment
by Jonathan Israel

Justin Champion follows the ideological battles of the Enlightenment

The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
by James Walvin

Madge Dresser applauds an insightful study of a slave ship atrocity and its aftermath