HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
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In The Enemy at the Gate, Andrew Wheatcroft sets out the political background to the 1683 siege of Vienna in clear detail. There had ...Read Review
The Hidden Oasis
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The Hidden Oasis brings together a group of priests who hide a mysterious object in the desert in the year 2152 BC. Bedouin tribesmen, ...Read Review
The Inheritance of Rome
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A distinguished professor of medieval history at Oxford and author of the award-winning Framing the Middle Ages, Chris Wickham presents a comprehensive and ...Read Review
A Winding Road
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The circumstances surrounding a masterpiece’s creation – witness Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring – is fertile ground for fiction writers. In A ...Read Review
Up West
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Pip Granger’s first novel, Not All Tarts Are Apple, won the first Harry Bowling Award. It was the story of a young ...Read Review
Anson’s Way
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In this reprint geared towards ages 9-12 from Newbery Honor author Gary D. Schmidt, Anson Staplyton, a drummer with the Staffordshire Fencibles, is ...Read Review
The Scourging Angel
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The author has written a comprehensive study of the Great Death (as it was called at the time – The Black Death was a 19...Read Review
A Faraway Island
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During the early years of World War II, 500 Jewish children were allowed entry into Sweden, expecting it to be a temporary stop ...Read Review
Hunting Eichmann
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This is a fascinating account of the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires by Israeli agents, an event that made headlines ...Read Review
The Journal of Hélène Berr
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Hélène Berr was born into a prosperous Franco-Jewish family in Paris in 1921. At the time of the Nazi occupation, she was ...Read Review
