HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
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
The Contemporary British Historical Novel: Representation, Nation, Empire
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This ‘first full-length study of a genre that has had increasing critical attention and popular appeal at the turn of the twenty-first ...Read Review
Elizabeth’s Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen
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Elizabeth I knew well the challenges facing her as a woman in a man’s world, yet her genius lay in the ...Read Review
The Secret Wife of Louis XlV: Francoise d’Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon
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When Françoise d’Aubigné was born in a French prison cell to a disgraced criminal and the warden’s daughter, no ...Read Review
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
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In The Sisters Who Would Be Queen, de Lisle tells the story of Lady Jane Grey and her lesser-known sisters, Katherine and ...Read Review
Dracula the Un-Dead
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First Review Classics do not happen overnight. Time is their standard, and in the case of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, time has proven ...Read Review
The Storm in the Barn
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This graphic novel, aimed at ages 10 and up, uses a dash of fantasy to make the 1930s come alive for young readers. ...Read Review
The Midnight Guardian
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This first volume in The Millennial Series tells the story of Brigit, a fierce Saxon-era vampire with serious anger management issues, who is ...Read Review
