Military
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
Until I read this book, the allied operations in Burma were but a postscript to the American island-hopping war in…
The Battle of Britain
James Holland has chosen May 1939 as the start of the Battle of Britain for this excellent study of a…
Medic
The Royal Army Medical Corp has as their motto ‘In Arduis Fideles’; John Nicol and Tony Rennell show in Medic…
The Admiral’s Game
This is the fifth in the series of novels about John Pearce, a naval officer by default rather than proper…
Wildflowers of Terezin
In Denmark in 1943, Pastor Steffen Peterson, riding his cherished bicycle to visit a parishioner, instead ends up in the…
The Burning Land
In The Burning Land, the fifth book of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Tales saga, our hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg is back…
The Half-Slave
This novel, set in 476 AD, depicts the fighting for control between the warring Germanic Saxons and Franks as they…
The Shangani Patrol
The year is 1889 and having recently returned from Khartoum, Simon Fonthill and his faithful sidekick 352 Jenkins are in…
The Burning Land
In The Burning Land, the fifth book of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Tales saga, our hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg is back…
Sons of Thunder
This is the second book of the Raven series, and it follows on closely from the first adventure. Raven and…
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