Edward James
The People’s Army in the Spanish Civil War: A Military History of the Republic and International Brigades 1936-1939
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The Spanish Civil War spilled a great deal of blood at the time and still spills great quantities of ink, which is surprising ...Read Review
The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History
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The influenza pandemic of 1918, which killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, dwarfed the catastrophe of the First World War – except that it did ...Read Review
People Like Us
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At one level this is a timeless story of star-crossed lovers. A young couple defy the conventions of the adult world and are ...Read Review
A Crown in Time
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Time travellers abound in historical fiction for children and young adults but appear less often in HF for more mature readers. Most authors ...Read Review
Mortmain Hall
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Martin Edwards describes his book as a homage to the Golden Age of English detective fiction, which flourished in the inter-war years and ...Read Review
I’m Staying Here
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Translations often give us insights into times and places we seldom encounter in our native literature. I’m Staying Here (Resto Qui) is ...Read Review
Requiem for a Knave
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This is a dark Gothic tale set in late Mediaeval England, structured as a pilgrimage from a village in Derbyshire to the shrine ...Read Review
Stephen and Matilda’s Civil War: Cousins of Anarchy
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How anarchic was the Anarchy, the long and confused series of civil wars that followed the death of Henry I of England and ...Read Review
1920: A Year of Global Turmoil
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2020 is the 100th anniversary of – of what? 1920 is not a memorable date. David Charlwood describes the year as ‘both world-changing and uneventful’. We ...Read Review
The Girl I Left Behind
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A great deal has been written about the Resistance movements in Europe in WW2, except for one country, Germany. We know about the ...Read Review