The Bodley Head
England in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing
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This is the third in a history of London from the 18th century to the 20th by Jerry White, professor of London History ...Read Review
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
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The long title of Katherine Frank’s book harkens back to a 17th-century fashion. The book’s subject is rooted in that century ...Read Review
For Honour and Fame
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The subtitle is Chivalry in England, 1066-1500, but this book deals with the reality, not the romantic image of colourful knights trailing favours ...Read Review
Visions of England
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This is a short, but cogently argued book, almost a monograph, which asks the question of just what is England and what are ...Read Review
Bloodlands
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The bloodlands are defined by the author as that part of central Europe – Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states – which suffered grievously ...Read Review
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
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Until I read this book, the allied operations in Burma were but a postscript to the American island-hopping war in the Pacific. When ...Read Review
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital 1939-45
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This is an absorbing account of what life was like for the ordinary Berliner during the six years of the Second World War ...Read Review
The Scourging Angel
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The author has written a comprehensive study of the Great Death (as it was called at the time – The Black Death was a 19...Read Review