Despite predictions to the contrary, America's superpower status remains uncontested.
Two recent histories of Nazi Germany shore up the dyke against the rising flood of "Germany as victim" revisionism.
A "new history" of the Third Reich fails to understand the true nature of the regime.
Davies has written a work worthy of the remarkable continent with which he deals; a continent that is now struggling to redefine and reunify itself, and whose cultures have been released once again to meet and mingle.
Russian nationalism is the most important but least understood force to have emerged from the shadows following the collapse of the Soviet Union.