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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
by Michael Korda

Denis Judd enjoys a biography of the desert warrior

The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc and Yolande of Aragon
by Nancy Goldstone

Desmond Seward enjoys a new life of Joan of Arc, but fears it has little new to say

The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee
by Glyn Parry

Anna Whitelock meets an enigmatic Tudor man of many talents

The Plantation of Ulster: The British Colonisation of the North of Ireland in th
by Jonathan Bardon

Christopher Whatley on the grim results of Ulster’s colonisation

Burma 1942: The Road from Rangoon to Mandalay
by Alan Warren

Ashley Jackson welcomes an ‘old school’ military history of the Japanese conquest of Burma in the Second World War

The Romans Who Shaped Britain
by Sam Moorhead and David Stuttard

Miles Russell enjoys a vibrant introduction to some of Roman Britain’s key personalities

Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War
by Giles Whittell

Michael S Goodman on a riveting tale of Cold War espionage

Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Ralph V Turner

Nicholas Vincent reads a judicious biography of an intriguing medieval queen

Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves
by Sheldon Garon

Frank Trentmann on the changing history of thrift across the globe

Holocaust
by Peter Longerich

Roger Moorhouse on an important, scholarly account of the Nazi genocide