20th Century
The Sound of Building Coffins
In 1891 New Orleans, a black preacher named Noonday Morningstar, with the help of his son Typhus, saves the infant…
To Play the Fox: A Novel of Fighter Pilots in World War Two
The fighter pilots in question are an urbane Englishman, a licentious American, and a cynical German. We follow their wayward…
Winston’s War: A Novel of Deception
Following upon the success of Never Surrender, this is another of Michael Dobbs’s previously published novels centering on pivotal moments…
In a Gilded Cage
Molly Murphy joins her unconventional neighbors Sid and Gus, as well as other Vassar graduates, at a march for women’s…
A Trace of Smoke
Trolling for a story at Berlin’s Hall of the Unnamed Dead, crime reporter Hannah Vogel is shocked to find a…
The Other Half of Life
Everyone tells fifteen-year-old Thomas Werkmann that he’s finally escaping Nazi Germany on the MS St. Francis, bound for Cuba, but…
Backtracked
In Backtracked the author makes use of the popularity of time travel in fiction to drive home lessons for everyone…
Blown Away
Midway along the Florida Keys lies the island village of Islamorada. The original community was present in the early 1900s,…
Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant
I first came across Archibald, Lord Wavell (1883-1950), through his popular poetry anthology Other Men’s Flowers. I knew little of…
Leningrad: State of Siege
The city that was Leningrad for seventy years is St Petersburg again, and trades mainly on its imperial past. But…
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