Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

1688: A Global History

By John E. Wills - Published 2001

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Nonfiction

The year 1688 is chiefly remembered by students of British and European history as the time of the Glorious Revolution. Wills, a historian at ...Read Review

Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events that Shaped the Modern South

By Curtis Wilkie - Published 2001

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Nonfiction

The history of the American South in the modern Civil Rights era is a fascinating example of America’s enduring racial tension amid ...Read Review

They Call Me Agnes

By Fred W. Voget (assisted by Mary K. Mee) - Published 2001

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Nonfiction

Crow family life and culture and the changes wrought by the 20th century and reservation life are described in the words of Crow ...Read Review

The Dorothy Dunnett Companion

By Elspeth Morrison - Published 2001 (c1994)

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Nonfiction

This is a marvelous compendium of the facts and quotations that lace Dorothy Dunnett’s novels. For those unfamiliar with Dunnett, she is ...Read Review

Madame de Pompadour

By Nancy Mitford - Published 2001

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Nonfiction

As a child, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson went to a fortuneteller who told her that one day she would reign over the heart of a ...Read Review

Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism

By Ann F. Howey - Published 2001

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Nonfiction

In this work, Howey’s mission is to “[examine] the intersection of popular fiction and feminism, using popular rewritings of the Arthurian legend ...Read Review

Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women

By Alfred Allan Lewis - Published 2000

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Nonfiction

What do Bessy Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Morgan, and Anne Vanderbilt have in common? After reading this group biography, I’m still ...Read Review

The Arthurian Companion (2nd ed.)

By Phyllis Ann Karr - Published 2001

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Nonfiction

Originally published in 1983 as a 100-page hardcover, The King Arthur Companion evolved to become an authoritative source for casual readers of Arthurian romances. ...Read Review

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma

By George MacDonald Fraser - Published 2001

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Nonfiction

A down and dirty book that doesn’t skimp on the detail. Here are the war memories of George Macdonald Fraser, which include ...Read Review

Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets: A History of Technology

By Donald Cardwell - Published 1994Published 2001

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Nonfiction

As the tide seeps in, it moves the beach a grain of sand at a time. So, until very recently, it has been ...Read Review