HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)
Children in Care, 1834-1929: The Lives of Destitute, Orphaned and Deserted Children
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I wish I had had this book when I was lecturing on social policy. Not that it replaces any of the standard textbooks, ...Read Review
Minsha’s Night on Ellis Island (At the Heels of History)
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When Leila’s family decides to immigrate to America from Syria, her family must leave her beloved terrier, Minsha, behind—but Minsha has ...Read Review
The Children’s Blizzard
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The Children’s Blizzard is the story of the Blizzard of 1888, which swept across the Great Plains with no warning and killed hundreds ...Read Review
Of Sword and Shadow
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In 1397, in the Greek city of Thebes, a nameless slave is employed by her master in a variety of schemes ranging from stealing ...Read Review
A Beautiful Spy
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Set in London in the years before the Second World War, A Beautiful Spy is the story of Minnie Gray, a typist who ...Read Review
Fortress of Fury
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AD 647. Anglo Saxon Britain. Penda of Mercia has travelled north with his allies. Beobrand, leader of men, warrior, brave and feared by his ...Read Review
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France
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In 2000, Patrick Marnham published a biography of Jean Moulin, General de Gaulle’s delegated leader of the French Resistance in World War Two. ...Read Review
Victory for the Bluebird Girls
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Gosport, Hampshire, 1944. This is the fourth novel about the all-girl singing trio The Bluebird Girls, first described in a novel by that title. ...Read Review
Under the Mistletoe
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This World War Two story about 15-year-old runaway orphans joining the NAAFI was for me too far-fetched, too pat, with way too many ...Read Review
A Portrait of Loyalty (The Codebreakers)
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1918: Zivon Marin, a skilled cryptographer, flees Russia and the Bolsheviks who have murdered his fiancée. A train wreck separates him from his ...Read Review
