HNR Issue 61 (August 2012)
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
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Madeleine Albright has written a book that mixes family memoir with Czech/European history, heavy on the history. Albright’s father, Josef Korbel, ...Read Review
Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima
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The black sands of Iwo Jima were witness to the largest battle ever fought by the US Marines. 30,000 Marines took part, and Chuck ...Read Review
The Trip to Jerusalem
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In Elizabethan London, theatre is booming. But then come rumours of plague, and Lord Westfield’s Men theatre company must seek new audiences ...Read Review
Isabel’s Wedding
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The three Fratton children have experienced a number of setbacks in their young lives, and what should be a spot of joy – the ...Read Review
Jezebel
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In 1930s Paris, beautiful socialite Gladys Eysenach is accused of murdering her 20-year-old lover. The story begins with Eysenach’s trial and then ...Read Review
The Mongoliad: Book One
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In an alternate 13th century, the Mongol Horde has advanced into Europe, and the great Khagan, the Khan of Khans, has challenged the ...Read Review
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers
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This is the second part of a two-part history of a nation which began as a British colony. Keneally is a writer of ...Read Review
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked the Nation
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This highly readable, absorbing work of social history focuses on one small White House dinner party and its aftermath. In 1901, the president of ...Read Review
The Leopard Sword
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Marcus Valerius Aquila returns in this the fourth of the Empire series. Continuing to use the pseudonym of Marcus Tribulus Corvus, centurion of ...Read Review
Mistress of Mourning
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It’s a daunting challenge: how to create a historical novel that accurately depicts a distant era without letting facts and details overwhelm ...Read Review
