Reviews
Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
Not My Father’s House: A Novel of Old New Mexico
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Teenage bride Suzanna Locke is a city girl, if you can call Taos, New Mexico in the early 1800s a city. Now she’...Read Review
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
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Catherine Fletcher opens up the ‘Pandora’s Box’ of 16th-century Italy. This era is known most obviously for the flowering of individual artistic ...Read Review
The Berlin Airlift: The World’s Largest Ever Air Supply Operation (Images of Aviation)
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This book is worth having for the illustrations alone. The 1940’s were the golden age for black and white photojournalism and The Berlin ...Read Review
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
The Day the Sun Fell
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On August 6, 1945, fourteen-year-old Bun Hashizume started her day in Hiroshima under a serene, blue sky. She walked along the road on her way ...Read Review
A Most Wicked Conspiracy: The Last Great Swindle of the Gilded Age
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In 1898, flakes of gold can be found in creeks and meadows and atop bedrock across wide swaths of northwest Alaska, leading to a ...Read Review
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
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The luscious cover and tag-line give the impression that this is going to be an exciting popular-history read that will reveal to us ...Read Review
The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World’s Most Glamorous Ship
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This non-fiction account opens with the post-WWII Italian Line proudly constructing and outfitting its most luxurious passenger ship, the Andrea Doria. Three years ...Read Review
The Eye of Ra
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During a hike in the Colorado mountains, John and Sarah find a cave with a strange marking carved inside. When Sarah traces its ...Read Review