John Murray
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire
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Rideal, editor of “The History Vault,” calls 1666 the most devastating year in English history. The restored monarchy was at war with the Dutch ...Read Review
Motherland
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1978 is not long ago, but the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is already history, so I have accepted this as an historical novel. ...Read Review
Flood of Fire
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The adjective which springs most readily to mind on reading this book is ‘vast’ – or perhaps I should spell it V – A – S – ...Read Review
Lillian on Life
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Lillian is a single woman who lives most of her life dating different men. This is the story of how she values each ...Read Review
How to Ruin a Queen
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How could a beautiful Austrian princess become Queen of France only to be satirized, scorned, slandered and slain by the cruel blade of ...Read Review
Roosevelt’s Beast
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1914. Teddy Roosevelt is a Bull Moose without a cause. Defeated for re-election, he redirects his boundless energy into an expedition to chart the ...Read Review
The Broken Road
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Devotees of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s books about his 1933-34 walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople waited for decades for a ...Read Review
The King’s Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds
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The King’s Grave is a history-making book which I had trouble putting down. The final hours of Richard III, England’s last ...Read Review
Holy War: A Warrior’s Greatest Battle
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As the name implies, Holy War is an action-packed Crusader novel, the third book in Jack Hight’s Saladin Trilogy. The story begins ...Read Review
When Britain Burned the White House
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There has been such a flurry of books, articles, radio and TV programmes and festival events about the War of 1812 that it surely ...Read Review
