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New Stars for Old

By Marc Read - Published 2013

Genres:

Short Stories

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

By Russell Miller - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Lawrence James - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Martin Limon - Published 2013

Genres:

Military

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

By Andrei Makine - By Geoffrey Strachan (trans.) - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

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

By Antonio Pennachi - By Judith Landry (trans.) - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

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

By David Kent-Lemon - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureNautical

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

Money and the Middle Ages

By Jacques Le Goff - By Jean Birrell (trans.) - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Christian Cameron - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

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

Clash of Empires: The Red Sea

By William Napier - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

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