Edward James
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
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Rome has been sacked more than seven times in its long history. The seven ‘sackings’ chosen by Matthew Kneale for this book include ...Read Review
Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
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Although Death March Escape is a true-life story, it is structured like many historical novels in two time streams. The ‘historic’ stream concerns ...Read Review
The Unbeliever
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The Unbeliever is fictionalised history rather than historical fiction. It is based closely on the real-life story of a Bulgarian diplomat who was ...Read Review
The Battle for England
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I remember when I was a schoolboy reading a passage from Churchill’s war memoirs in which he half-regretted that Hitler had never ...Read Review
Night Flight to Paris
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David Gilman is best known as the author of the Master of War series, following the blood-drenched adventures of an English mercenary soldier ...Read Review
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Breakout of WWI
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Most of us have heard of the Great Escape of WW2, when 76 POWs tunnelled their way out of Stalag Luft 111 in 1943. WW1 also ...Read Review
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch
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The Ocean Monarch was a large, well-found American emigrant ship which had carried hundreds of migrants from Liverpool to Boston. She sank on 24 ...Read Review
The Red Ribbon: An Irregular Spy Thriller (Irregular 2)
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The Red Ribbon is the sequel to The Irregular, which saw Capt. Vernon Kell setting up Britain’s miniscule Secret Service in 1908. By 1910 ...Read Review
Britain and Victory in the Great War
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This book is essential reading for anybody researching into or writing about WW1 and will be rewarding for all other readers. It is ...Read Review
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
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These four books published together by Pen & Sword explore different aspects of WW2, using original documents. Two of them are personal memoirs. ...Read Review