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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories 1)
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The concept of this ambitious fantasy historical works neatly: substitute “magic” for “freedom,” and the French Revolution and the Abolition movement in England ...Read Review
The Spartans
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This is a very engaging critique of the ancient Spartans. It can be characterised as trying to show that much of what we ...Read Review
Acts of Faith: Part 1 of The Inquisition Trilogy
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Portugal, 16th century. Aristides is a seminary student when he first meets Maria Lopes. Maria’s father, Diego, is a wealthy merchant from ...Read Review
The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
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The life of Lady Grange (born Rachel Chiesley in 1679), whose husband was James Erskine, Lord Grange and Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, was ...Read Review
Not My Father’s House: A Novel of Old New Mexico
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Teenage bride Suzanna Locke is a city girl, if you can call Taos, New Mexico in the early 1800s a city. Now she’...Read Review
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
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Catherine Fletcher opens up the ‘Pandora’s Box’ of 16th-century Italy. This era is known most obviously for the flowering of individual artistic ...Read Review
The Berlin Airlift: The World’s Largest Ever Air Supply Operation (Images of Aviation)
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This book is worth having for the illustrations alone. The 1940’s were the golden age for black and white photojournalism and The Berlin ...Read Review
The People’s Army in the Spanish Civil War: A Military History of the Republic and International Brigades 1936-1939
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The Spanish Civil War spilled a great deal of blood at the time and still spills great quantities of ink, which is surprising ...Read Review
The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History
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The influenza pandemic of 1918, which killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, dwarfed the catastrophe of the First World War – except that it did ...Read Review
The Day the Sun Fell
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On August 6, 1945, fourteen-year-old Bun Hashizume started her day in Hiroshima under a serene, blue sky. She walked along the road on her way ...Read Review
