Alan Fisk
New Stars for Old
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Being an astronomy buff, I was fascinated by this collection of fictional scenes and letters, giving glimpses of the history of astronomy through ...Read Review
Uncle Bill
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In 2011 the National Army Museum in London held an online poll to nominate Britain’s greatest general. The result was a tie between ...Read Review
Churchill and Empire
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This book traces the development of Sir Winston Churchill’s attitudes to the British Empire, starting with how those attitudes were formed in ...Read Review
Nightmare Range
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Sergeant George Sueño and his partner Sergeant Ernie Bascom, American military policemen in South Korea in the early 1970s, have appeared in ...Read Review
Brief Lives that Live Forever
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This Russian author writes in French and has been translated into English (are you still with me?). A middle-aged Russian looks back on ...Read Review
The Mussolini Canal
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Many dictators from Nero to Napoleon had set out to drain the Italy’s malarial Pontine Marshes, but it was Mussolini who finally ...Read Review
Blockade Runner
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Shipping clerk Tom Wells impresses his employers in 1861 London so much that they entrust him with the administration of their blockade-running trade to ...Read Review
Clash of Empires: The Red Sea
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This is a sequel to Clash of Empires: The Great Siege, which I have not read and the HNR did not review (because ...Read Review
Money and the Middle Ages
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This is a scholarly, yet brief and readable, study of the development and use of money in the High Middle Ages. Some areas ...Read Review
Poseidon’s Spear
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Distraught over the death of his wife, Aristemnos — bronzesmith, warrior, and survivor of the battle of Marathon — flings himself off a cliff to ...Read Review
