HNR Issue 73 (August 2015)
Introducing the Ancient Greeks
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Plato described his fellow-Greeks as living “like frogs or ants around the pond.” To the newcomer, they can seem bafflingly hard to grasp, ...Read Review
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy and the End of the Edwardian Age
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In May of 1915, World War I raged in Europe. The German Ambassador to the U.S. put a warning in a New York ...Read Review
Death Ex Machina
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Gary Corby has delivered another delightful mystery set in Classical Greece. He combines intriguing historical details with a dry sense of humor. Nicolaos ...Read Review
Wars of the Roses: Margaret of Anjou
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Conn Iggulden has written a spellbinding novel about England’s York and Lancaster families. Theirs is a war fueled by the fact that ...Read Review
A Want of Kindness
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Joanne Limburg considers that Queen Anne has been neglected by novelists in comparison with other English and British monarchs (Anne was the first ...Read Review
The Exchange of Princesses
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French historian Chantal Thomas returns to fiction in The Exchange of Princesses, a sensitive and tragic novel about two child marriages. The author’...Read Review
The Surfacing
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Lieutenant Morgan is at the edge of the known world in 1850, with plenty of worries on his mind. His captain is driving their ...Read Review
Inspector of the Dead: Thomas de Quincy Mysteries, Book 2
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This novel opens in 1855 in London, on the heels of its prequel, Murder as a Fine Art. De Quincy, his daughter Emily, and ...Read Review
Secessia
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In 1862, New Orleans was under Union government, but its population was largely sympathetic to the Confederacy. Benjamin Butler, in charge of the city, ...Read Review
Death at Dovecote Hatch
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The English town of Dovecote Hatch is still recovering from one troubling murder when another resident, the affluent Kenneth Tennyson, takes a violent ...Read Review