HNR Issue 56 (May 2011)
Reprobates
There is a large body of writing about the English Civil War, the events leading up to it and the…
Bloodlands
The bloodlands are defined by the author as that part of central Europe – Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic…
Two Unknown
Ian Markham is a successful GP, living with his wife and bringing up twins, Jessica and David, the children of…
Falling In Love With English Boys
Seventeen-year-old Cat Vernon is stuck in London all summer with her mother, who is doing research on an obscure writer…
Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War
The relatively small number of British poets who have come to epitomise the experience of the Great War continues to…
All Different Kinds of Free
Editors' choice
“Bad things happen on Wednesdays” is what Margaret Morgan’s mother always said. Margaret, a free woman of color living in…
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt
It’s a good bet—anyone who knows anything about American history has heard of the slave revolts led by John Brown…
The Midnight Zoo
In an unnamed East European country, during World War II, two young Roma brothers wander through a devastated landscape, looking…
Murder for Greenhorns
In 1870,Wyoming lawman Sam Taggart is killed by a long-range rifle while his two traveling companions look on. Texas cowboy…
Treblinka
The Holocaust changed our language. The word ‘holocaust’ itself has had, since 1945, no other meaning than that which conjures…
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