HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
Don’t Talk to Me About the War
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It is 1940. Thirteen-year-old Tommy would like to enjoy just being a kid. He is more interested in listening to Brooklyn Dodgers games on ...Read Review
On Rough Seas
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It’s 1940, and Alex Curtis is fourteen. He works at his parents’ hotel in Dover, England, but his heart already belongs to the ...Read Review
La Petite Four
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Lady Emily Southwell, Miss Priscilla Tate and the Misses Ariadne and Daphne Cordebas have been inseparable friends at the Barnsley School for Young ...Read Review
Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s Guide to the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945
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This is the latest paperback edition of a book originally published in 1992, and which neatly combines both guidebook and military history. Professor Holmes ...Read Review
Troy: Fall of Kings
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A merciless war of attrition has reduced golden Troy to a city of starvation and scavengers. While Hektor, greatest of heroes, and Helikaon ...Read Review
Pilgrim: The Greatest Crusade
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In 1212, crusaders march to the Holy Land in order to wrest it back from the Saracens, who are now in control of all ...Read Review
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
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On a stormy night in 1626 in the Scottish town of Banff, the local apothecary’s assistant collapses in the street. Next morning he ...Read Review
Sarah’s Key
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Paris, 1942: ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski locks her four-year-old brother in a secret cupboard to keep him safe when the French police come to arrest ...Read Review
The Courtesan’s Secret
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The “secret” of Claudia Dain’s latest Regency is that it is laugh-out-loud funny. Lady Louisa Kirkland’s bid to retrieve her pearl ...Read Review
The Mesmerist’s Apprentice
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Sarah Tanner is the mysterious owner of the Dining and Coffee Rooms on the corner of Liquorpond Street and Leather Lane. Who she ...Read Review
