Author Article by Theodore Rabb: Tracing the depiction of war, from heroes in Assyria to misery in Guernica
How have artists across the millennia depicted warfare? Theodore K Rabb’s wide-ranging book The Artist and the Warrior: Military…
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Author Article By Evan Mawdsley: Countdown To Global War, Part Two – 5 November 1941
In the second in our three-part series Countdown to Global War, Evan Mawdsley, author of December 1941 discusses…
Author Article by Evan Mawdsley: Countdown to Global War, Part One – 18 October 1941
December 1941 by historian Evan Mawdsley is an account of twelve days when interlinked events—including the Battle of…
Competition: 5 copies of our new Illustrated Edition of ‘A Little History of the World’ to give away on Twitter!
To celebrate the publication of E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition we will be giving away…
New illustrated edition of Gombrich’s classic ‘A Little History of the World’ is published today!
E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World has become a cult classic since it was published…
Jeffrey Herf’s ‘Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World’ has won the Sybil Halpern Milton Prize
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf has won the 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton prize, awarded by…
Portrait of a Monster: New book from Yale explores the life and death of ‘Hitler’s Hangman’ Reinhard Heydrich
Hitler’s Hangman (published this month) is the chilling full biography of Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’. One of…
Author Article by John France: Writing Military History
Perilous Glory is a major new history encompassing warfare around the world from 3100 B.C. to the Gulf…
From Athens to Afghanistan: ‘Perilous Glory’ by John France questions the notion of a Western way of war
Last month Yale published a major new military history book that has already been praised as a ‘work…
Author article by Frank Ledwidge: Why British military operations lack strategy, leadership and ‘moral courage’
Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan is an explosive new book by former military intelligence…
Bookshop of the Month: Picture Book, a haven for local history books
In a new segment beginning today, we will be looking at independent bookshops from around the country, focusing…
Updated edition of Tarek Osman’s prescient ‘Egypt on the Brink’ charts the fall of Hosni Mubarak
Back in November 2010 Yale published the aptly-titled Egypt on the Brink by Tarek Osman, a lively account…
Windows on the War: New exhibition and accompanying book showcases Soviet propaganda from WWII
Yesterday saw the opening of Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945 at the Art…
The Future of History: Books by the eminent historian John Lukacs
Students of history will know John Lukacs, after all he has written more than thirty books on the…
Beyond Sudan: Insightful books on African Politics
As South Sudan gains its independence, we look at a number of Yale books on African politics, including Sudan:…