Edward James
The Lost Daughter
The idea that at least one of the children of Tsar Nicholas II might have survived the murder of the…
Tynemouth & Wallsend at War 1939-45; From Normandy to Auschwitz; In Hitler’s Shadow: Post-War Germany and the Girls of the BDM; Escaping Has Ceased to Be a Sport: A Soldier’s Memoir of Captivity and Escape in Italy and Germany
These four books published together by Pen & Sword explore different aspects of WW2, using original documents. Two of them…
Smile of the Wolf
Editors' choice
Tim Leach’s previous novel, The Last King of Lydia, was set in an opulent, sunlit Mediterranean city-state in classical antiquity.…
The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts: A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks
On 24 September 1851, 14-year old Sarah Watts was brutally murdered at a farmhouse near Frome in Somerset while her…
The Key
1956 may not seem like history to many of our readers, but happily the big Victorian lunatic asylums which were…
The Life & Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler
This not a book of mediaeval history. It begins with a brief account of what is known about Wat Tyler,…
Legends of Persia | Son of the Moon
These two books are sequels to The Road to Alexander, reviewed in the November 2017 issue of Historical Novels Review.…
Régina Diana: Seductress, Singer, Spy
The death of Mata Hari before a firing squad in Paris in 1917 is one of the most famous events…
The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys: Society’s First Sex Offender
Samuel Pepys was a high-ranking, hard-working civil servant, music lover, bibliophile, theatre goer and persistent sex offender, ranging from extreme…
Walking Wounded
This is a shocking book, and I hope you will read it and be suitably shocked. It is set in…
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