The five-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of the Reformation in 2017 brought in its train a predictable flood of books and documentaries, from the popular to the commemorative to the scholarly. The author of this contribution is, by his own admission, neither a specialist historian nor a theologian; he is, nevertheless, a Lutheran pastor of almost five decades’ standing, and he brings a lifetime of personal, spiritual and practice-based involvement with Lutheranism to bear in this survey of the denomination's history and its later life in Britain. For the non-specialist, the gentle scholarship and the clear, historiographically uncontroversial, consideration of Martin Luther's ministry and theology and the Church's early development, supplemented by helpful reading guides at the end of each chapter, make for a straightforward outline of the history of the Lutheran Reformation. Meanwhile, many a specialist, immersed in the detail of sixteenth-century historical research, might find illuminating sections in the second half of the book, as it reviews Lutheranism and its legacy in Britain and Ireland, telling the story of the faith's progress through the nineteenth century and the two world wars to the present day, including discussions of the activities of Lutheran immigrant communities from Germany, the Nordic countries, Central Europe, Africa and Asia, again with short bibliographies at the end of each chapter. In bringing these varied strands together in a single work, Long provides a perspective on historical Lutheranism and its modern experience in Britain that is interesting and that serves as a useful resource for the specialist and the interested general reader alike.