*The Amazon Wars

So it seems that historians are not only duking it out in the usual way, making their acid jibes and sneers in academic journals, but furtively, secretly, using alternate identities in Amazon.

Orlando Figes, a leading figure among British historians, attacked a fellow historian on Amazon by making vicious comments under an assumed name. At first, Figes totally denied that he had any connection with the comments. Then he said, "the wife did it." And finally he admitted to being the real...