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The Foreign Field
Editors' choice
This is the 31st installment in Harrod-Eagles’ Morland Dynasty series, which traces 500 years of British history from the point…
Broken Music
In the golden summer of 1914, Lady Sybil Foley plans a dinner party. Her husband, “self-made man” Alfred, has provided…
Gifts of War
During the Christmas truce along the front in 1914, British infantry officer Hal Montgomery emerges from the trenches to meet…
The Wise Woman’s Tale
During the Great War, life in London was thought not as safe as the countryside. But as Kate Barnes…
Hellie Jondoe
This young adult novel begins in New York City in 1918 and travels west to a ranch outside Pendleton, Oregon.…
Death on the Ice
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As every British schoolchild used to know, Captain Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition to win the South Pole for…
Give Me Tomorrow
Elizabeth Lord writes warm and dependable sagas about the lives of women in the early 20th century. This one, first…
Sunnyside
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Gold’s panoramic novel of World War I and early Hollywood opens with a mass delusion: film actor Charlie Chaplin is…
The Carpenter’s Children
As a writer/reader I find sagas irritating. I want to delve more deeply into the main character’s personality and motives,…
Testament of Youth
What more can one say about this classic autobiography? It is one of those books that absolutely everyone should read;…
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