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Farming, Fighting and Family: A Memoir of the Second World War
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Based on the diaries and letters of Pamela Street, a young woman coming of age in the late 1930s, this chronicle of the ...Read Review
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott’s Marvel
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Captain Robert Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole has been analyzed from many points of view, and some of his fellow ...Read Review
The Palace and the Bunker: Royal Resistance to Hitler
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The Palace and the Bunker is more ideological tract than history. Frank Millard, armed with a PhD in history from the University of ...Read Review
Nazi Princess: Hitler, Lord Rothermere, and Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe
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Who knew? Once called by President Roosevelt “more dangerous than 10,000 men,” a part-Jewish Austrian princess – well-known seductress and Mata Hari type figure – was ...Read Review
In the Footsteps of William Wallace in Scotland and Northern England
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A work of genuine and solid scholarship, Young and Stead’s In the Footsteps of William Wallace compensates for its dry prose with ...Read Review
Any Survivors?
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The narrator is a refugee in London in 1939. Turfed out of his lodgings and finding himself homeless with five pennies in his pocket ...Read Review
Any Survivors?
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The narrator is a refugee in London in 1939. Turfed out of his lodgings and finding himself homeless with five pennies in his pocket ...Read Review
The Lute Player
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I first read this recently reissued novel over twenty years ago. A sweeping saga about Richard the Lionhearted and the Third Crusade, it ...Read Review
Here Was a Man: A Novel of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth l
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Here Was a Man, by bestselling author Norah Lofts, has been reissued, and like all of Lofts’s works, is carefully crafted ...Read Review
The King’s Pleasure
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Originally published in 1969, Norah Lofts’s novel about the life of Katherine of Aragon is being reissued again for the end of 2008. Having ...Read Review
