<i>At a glance</i>

Sultans and Mosques
The Early Muslim Architecture of Bangladesh
Perween Hasan
I.B.Taurus
For students of history, this ought to be an immensely satisfying book. Perween Hasan takes readers on a comprehensive journey through an important component of Bangladesh's historical traditions. Her search has been of a broad structure, as the text so clearly reveals. The price of the book is something readers might find difficult to meet.
Witness to Surrender
Siddiq Salik
Oxford University Press
In this season of remembrance, it is good to go back to some old books. Salik's happens to be one work where the 1971 war is observed from a particular angle. He was media spokesman for the Pakistan military in occupied Bangladesh until the surrender and the transfer of Pakistan's soldiers to POW camps in India. Salik died with Ziaul Huq in 1988. His book lives on.
Who's Buried Where In England
Douglas Greenwood
Constable & Robinson Ltd.
This is an interesting book on the greatest figures, across the board, in English history. The point of course is one of where these figures, having died down the centuries, lie buried. The many archbishops of Canterbury, royalty, politicians, poets, knights and soldiers, et al, dot the land. With each entry of a burial place, the writer offers a welcome biographical sketch. A sense of history is what this book inspires.
Auschwitz
The Nazis & The Final Solution
Laurence Rees
BBC Books
Rees has gone to great lengths to conduct his inquiry into the methods Hitler and his accomplices employed to rid Germany and the countries it occupied of their Jewish populations. It was Auschwitz, in Poland, that was to become known, along with Dachau and Buchenwald, as the symbol of Nazi ferocity. Rees talks to former Nazis and is stunned by the lack of contrition in them.