Edward James
The Death of the Fronsac
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It is difficult to classify this book. It is certainly a war story: the central character is a Polish soldier, Maurycy Szczucki, and ...Read Review
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors
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The Templars gives you what it says on the cover: a narrative history of the Knights Templar, and it is detailed, scholarly, lengthy ...Read Review
The Scarlet Lady
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The Scarlet Lady is a conspiracy novel with a difference. As is common with conspiracy novels, the main protagonist, Letizia Cantarini, is an ...Read Review
Another Woman’s Husband
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Is there a secret connection between the death of Princess Diana in the Paris car crash in 1997 and Wallis Simpson and the Abdication ...Read Review
Ernesto
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Ernesto is a thinly disguised memoir in which the Italian poet Umberto Saba describes a few months in his adolescence when he first ...Read Review
Rebellion in the Reign of Charles II
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There was no rebellion in England in the reign of Charles II and only minor revolts in Scotland and Ireland. Plots and conspiracies ...Read Review
The Life and Death of Sherlock Holmes
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This is not a Sherlock Holmes pastiche nor a fictional biography of the fictional detective. This is a non-fiction book about Sherlock Holmes ...Read Review
The Charge of the Light Brigade: Voices from the Past
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The charge of the Light Brigade in October 1854 must be the most famous cavalry skirmish in history. Thousands like it are long forgotten. ...Read Review
The French Art of War
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This is a long book translated from the French, with a forbidding title by an author who is prodigal with words. Don’t ...Read Review
The Lost Book of the Holy Grail
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Dan Brown meets Anthony Trollope! Once again a middle-aged academic searches for the Holy Grail, helped by a younger female assistant (less cerebral, ...Read Review
