WW2
Kiyo’s Story: A Memoir
“Last year, my winning essay, ‘What America Means to Me,’ placed in our school’s finals. This year I am branded…
T4: A Novel
The title refers to the Nazi plan, hatched at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin, to eliminate the disabled in the name…
Without Conscience
This is the second of Davies’ mysteries set in 1942 London featuring the one-eyed mustered-out-of-service detective Johnny Hawke. The reader…
The Interrogator
We all know that the British managed to break the German ‘Enigma’ code during World War II, but what of…
Palace Circle
Editors' choice
It’s been a long time since I was as caught up in a novel as I was in Palace Circle.…
Germania
Germany, 1945: the final days of the Third Reich. As the Allies close in, the upper echelons of the Nazi…
The Piano Teacher
Claire and Martin Pendleton arrive in Hong Kong: Martin to work in “water,” and Claire to teach piano to Locket,…
Cardigan Bay
Cardigan Bay is both an old-fashioned romance and an espionage thriller. When I say “old fashioned,” I mean that the…
The Archivist’s Story
Moscow 1939. Pavel Dubrov, a young archivist is given the final works by the author Isaac Babel to destroy. The…
1942
Robert Conroy has established himself as a leading writer of “what if” historical fiction in his 1901, 1862, and 1945…
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