HNR Issue 42 (November 2007)
Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another
It took a global cataclysm to put Winston Churchill on the same side of the table as Joseph Stalin, and…
The Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of the First English Colony in the New World
Released to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Jamestown’s founding, The Sea Venture provides an informative and dramatic account of…
The House The Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste and Power in Twentieth-Century America
Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller Sr. became rich through hard work, simple living and vigorous acquisition of failing companies…
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Sometime in the late 10th century, a woman journeyed far into the West, beyond the known horizon. She settled for…
The Capetians: Kings of France 987-1328
This is a lively, highly readable history of France’s transformation from a cluster of warring clans to a unified nation.…
The Muscovy Chain
Can the modern genre of the detective story be transposed to cultural settings where there is no police force, no…
Mademoiselle Boleyn
Robin Maxwell returns to the subject of her debut (The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn) in this colorful and imaginative…
The Witch’s Trinity
Editors' choice
Mailman’s second historical novel, set in the small German town of Tierkinddorf between 1507 and 1510, explores the horror of…
The King’s Pleasure
Originally published in 1969, this reissued novel by one of the grande dames of 20th-century historical fiction tells the familiar…
The Concubine
The popularity of historical fiction about historical women in general and Boleyn women in particular has resulted in the republication…
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