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
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From the November 2017 Issue
Listen Closely
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart
By Mitchell Cohen
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From the July 2016 Issue
Composing His Thoughts
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s ‘Ring of the Nibelung’
By Roger Scruton
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From the September 2014 Issue
Viennese Whirl
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph – A Biography
By Jan Swafford
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From the October 2011 Issue
Clash of the Titans
Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
By Peter Conrad
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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
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From the February 2011 Issue
‘I have beaten them all! All!’
Bismarck: A Life
By Jonathan Steinberg
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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
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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
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From the November 2009 Issue
High Notes
The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera
By Daniel Snowman
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From the August 2014 Issue
Downhill after Goethe
Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present
By Michael H Kater
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From the March 2014 Issue
What Now, Little Man?
Napoleon: Volume 1 – Soldier of Destiny, 1769–1805
By Michael Broers
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From the March 2013 Issue
Patriot Frames
The Nation Made Real: Art and National Identity in Western Europe, 1600–1850
By Anthony D Smith
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