For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Tim Blanning

From the February 2019 Issue

Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Elector

Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich

By Christopher Clark

From the November 2017 Issue

Listen Closely

The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart

By Mitchell Cohen

From the July 2016 Issue

Composing His Thoughts

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s ‘Ring of the Nibelung’

By Roger Scruton

From the September 2014 Issue

Viennese Whirl

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph – A Biography

By Jan Swafford

From the October 2011 Issue

Clash of the Titans

Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries

By Peter Conrad

From the July 2011 Issue

Teutonic Troubles

A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

By Christopher B Krebs

From the February 2011 Issue

‘I have beaten them all! All!’

Bismarck: A Life

By Jonathan Steinberg

From the November 2010 Issue

Going Deutsch

The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century

By Peter Watson

From the April 2010 Issue

Monuments To Glory

Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750–1850

By Holger Hoock

From the November 2009 Issue

High Notes

The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera

By Daniel Snowman

From the August 2014 Issue

Downhill after Goethe

Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present

By Michael H Kater

From the March 2014 Issue

What Now, Little Man?

Napoleon: Volume 1 – Soldier of Destiny, 1769–1805

By Michael Broers

From the March 2013 Issue

Patriot Frames

The Nation Made Real: Art and National Identity in Western Europe, 1600–1850

By Anthony D Smith