Nonfiction
A History of the Medicines We Take: From Ancient Times to Present Day
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Medicines and herbal remedies often figure in historical novels, but usually the description is tantalisingly vague, collections of unspecified herbs that happen to ...Read Review
The Pope’s Army: The Papacy in Diplomacy and War
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‘How many divisions has the Pope?’ joked Stalin at the Yalta conference. By then the idea of the papacy as a military power ...Read Review
Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, Shipwrecks and Britain, 1854-2007
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Breaking Seas, Broken Ships is the successor volume to Britain and the Ocean Road, which covered the period from the 13th century to ...Read Review
Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction
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Who still reads Georgette Heyer? Who are her best loved heroes and heroines? Why do so many describe reading Heyer as a guilty ...Read Review
The Man in the Iron Mask: The True Story of Europe’s Most Famous Prisoner
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In 1669, French soldiers arrested Eustache d’Auger. He was jailed without formal charges or trial, not uncommon for those who displeased the all-powerful ...Read Review
The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
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Dag Hammarskjöld, second Secretary-General of the United Nations, boards the DC-6B aircraft known as Albertina in Leopoldville, Congo, on the evening ...Read Review
Daughters of the Resistance
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This is an impressive work of research that follows the narrative of women fighters in the Jewish resistance. The author presents her findings ...Read Review
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England
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Marc Morris’s new book is ambitious in scope, sweeping through six centuries of Anglo-Saxon history. It starts by talking about two of ...Read Review
Visitors’ Historic Britain: Northumberland: Romans to Victorians
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Northumberland is part of the Pen & Sword Visitors’ Historic Britain series, all useful and interesting books, each giving a concise account of ...Read Review
Surviving Katyn: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
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This is a comprehensive account of the events leading up to, and the aftermath of the notorious massacre of Polish military officers in 1940, ...Read Review