A & C Black
One Day in Oradour
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On 10th June 1944, the inhabitants of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane were massacred by a company of Waffen-SS soldiers in retaliation for Resistance ...Read Review
Bring Out the Banners
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Set in the Edwardian period shortly before the outbreak of WW1, the story deals with a different struggle, the fight for women’s ...Read Review
Victorian Tales: The Sea Monsters
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
1838. History is about to be made. Two steam ships will cross the Atlantic for the very first time. One is the Great Western, ...Read Review
Victorian Tales: Terror on the Train
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Staplehurst, England, 1865. A piece of railway track over the River Beult at Staplehurst needs replacing. Once the express train has passed, the old ...Read Review
Put Out the Light
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1940. The Sheffield steel factories are working flat out for the war effort. So far they haven’t been bombed but there are a ...Read Review
Final Victory
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Re-issued as a paperback is a title in A & C Black’s series Flashbacks (originally published in 2000), a welcome addition to the ...Read Review
Terry Deary’s Viking Tales: The Battle of the Viking Woman
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Children/Young AdultShort Stories
A well-written tale, as one would expect from Terry Deary, from his series Terry Deary’s Viking Tales. This story takes place in ...Read Review
Spartacus
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Children/Young AdultNonfiction
One of a newly published series of non-fiction for primary age children called Lives in Action, this title tells the story of Sparticus, ...Read Review
Henry Vlll
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Another title in the series Lives in Action, Henry VIII begins with Henry’s brother, Arthur, set to inherit the crown from his ...Read Review
