French Post-Impressionist painter Henri Rousseau died in Paris, aged 66. Although best-known for his jungle paintings, he never left France and the nearest he seems to have got to a jungle was the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Peter Jones reads an engaging depiction of Ancient Greece in the 4th century BC
Anne Curry looks at a book on one of the key battles of the 14th century
Evan Mawdsley looks at a highly readable account of the Second World War
Christopher Storrs looks at a wide-ranging historical survey of relations between nations
Malcolm Crook looks at a notorious miscarriage of justice that rocked France in the 1890s
Arne Westad has difficulties with a personal account of one man, and one nation, as they endured the Cold War
Denis Judd on an introduction to Islamic history
Konrad Hirschler on a new look at a great historical travel writer
Tina Picton Phillipps enjoys an account of a 19th-century mystery set in Britain and Australia