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Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
The Cavalier Historian
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Robert Hardwick has been hired to help develop an English Civil War-period themed attraction at Marston Manor. While paging through a family Bible ...Read Review
Envoy of Jerusalem: Balian d’Ibelin and the Third Crusade (Balian d’Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem)
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This is the third in Schrader’s biographical trilogy about Balian d’Ibelin and the death-throes of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. Previously ...Read Review
The Earth Is Weeping
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This is surely the definitive work on the Indian Wars in the American West (i.e. west of the Mississippi) from the end ...Read Review
My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
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Illuminating first-hand letters and diaries, including some newly discovered, enable the author to credibly deliver another historical non-fiction masterpiece. This book focuses on ...Read Review
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard
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The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard is a faithful translation of the diary kept by Ivan Chistyakov, a Russian gulag prison guard ...Read Review
England’s Cathedrals
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As a companion piece to his successful England’s Thousand Best Churches, the author has produced a guide to the cathedrals of England: 42 ...Read Review
1924: The Year that Made Hitler
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While most books about Hitler focus on WWII, Range’s book focuses primarily on a single, pivotal year. This year could have been ...Read Review
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
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This is an erudite and well-written account of how, during and after the mostly German-committed atrocities in Europe in World War Two, the ...Read Review
So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot
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Margaret Douglas was Henry VIII’s niece. At age fifteen, he invited her to his Christmas court. She became a lady in waiting ...Read Review
What the Raven Brings
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Second in the Ravenmaster trilogy, this novel continues on from These Dark Wings, the story of Anna and Timothy, residents of the Tower ...Read Review