HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
The Midwife of St. Petersburg
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This story takes place amidst the turmoil of 1914 Czarist Russia. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Serbia has recently been assassinated, and war is imminent. ...Read Review
A Stranger in Burracombe
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This sugary saga, set in a Devon village, opens in February 1952 with the arrival of a young woman, Jennifer Tucker, who it later ...Read Review
The Rebels
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The Rebels tells the story of a group of young men on the eve of their graduation from a boy’s academy. Unfortunately, ...Read Review
A False Mirror
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Ninth in Todd’s series featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge, a Scotland Yard inspector and shell-shocked veteran of the Great War, this outing finds ...Read Review
Journey to the Alamo
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Seventh-grade teacher Mr. Barrington proffers a trunk full of historical artifacts to help Hannah Taylor write a report on Texas history. The trunk ...Read Review
I Am the Great Horse
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This is the story of Alexander the Great as told by his warhorse, Bucephalus. It is also the story of Bucephalus’s devoted ...Read Review
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
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Orientalism has become a problematic scholarly discipline since Edward Said published his Orientalism in 1978. According to Irwin, Said accused Orientalists of imperialism, colonialism ...Read Review
Spartacus: Film and History
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Martin Winkler is the editor of 11 essays on various aspects of the making of the 1960 film of Spartacus. Also included are the source ...Read Review
The Sempster’s Tale
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This is the latest in Margaret Frazer’s Dame Frevisse mystery series and is set in London during the reign of Henry VI. ...Read Review
Too Great a Lady
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Elyot (the pseudonym used by actress-novelist Leslie Carroll for her historical novels) presents a sweeping, emotionally intense portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton, half ...Read Review