Douglas Kemp
If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
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This is an exceptionally detailed history of the only concentration camp established under the Nazi regime solely for female prisoners. Ravensbrück, which ...Read Review
Exposure
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London 1960. Simon Callington is a relatively junior civil servant, working in naval intelligence. He has a German-born Jewish wife, Lily, who was brought ...Read Review
The Longest Night
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The only fatal nuclear accident in the United States occurred in Idaho Falls in 1961. With the nuclear clock ticking in the background, The ...Read Review
Tightrope
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April 1945, and Marian Sutro, a young woman with English-French parentage, has returned to her parents’ home in Oxford after working for the Special ...Read Review
Wheels of Terror
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The author, who died in 2012, was born in Denmark but served in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. In his visceral and ...Read Review
The Witches: Salem, 1692
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This is a very detailed and erudite account of the infamous witchcraft frenzy which afflicted the small village of Salem, Massachusetts and then ...Read Review
Digging Up Milton
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London in the hot summer of 1790, and Elizabeth Grant has the unlikely occupation of being both wife to a rather put-upon and older ...Read Review
Field Service
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Captain James Reid is in charge of work for the construction and occupation of a war cemetery at Morlancourt, a small village in ...Read Review
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
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The beginning of the novel is somewhat ominously familiar: a perfect English setting in the early years of the 20th century, which is ...Read Review
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me
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This is both a charming and very well-written group biography, as well as a fresh examination of those eccentric, privileged and wealthy characters ...Read Review
