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Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
Les Parisiennes
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The struggles and accomplishments of women in Paris under the Nazi occupation during WWII have often been overlooked in history, and their contributions ...Read Review
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
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The author examines that extraordinary century, the twentieth, which really did bear little relation to any that had preceded it. Now that we ...Read Review
John Aubrey: My Own Life
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At a time when the notion of Englishness is very much under scrutiny, John Aubrey is considered to be an epitome of the ...Read Review
Shakespeare in Swahililand: In Search of a Global Poet
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This is a scholarly study of the influence of Shakespeare in eastern Africa, from the 19th century to the present. The author takes ...Read Review
Blood and Fears: How America’s Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War
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Most of us are, to varying degrees, aware of the appalling loss of life sustained by the men of Bomber Command and the ...Read Review
India Conquered
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Wilson sets out to debunk the myth of the British Raj, from the first outposts of the East India Company in the 17th ...Read Review
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
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A song poet is a person who sings the stories of the Hmong people, a vocal tapestry of sorts of the family line, ...Read Review
Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters’ Eyes
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This well-researched and elegantly written art-historical study, which examines the role painting played in promoting the ideals of the American Revolution to contemporary ...Read Review
Operation Agreement: Jewish Commandos and the Raid on Tobruk
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In this thoroughly researched work, Sadler tells the heroic and little-known World War II story of Operation Agreement, an Allied offensive in North ...Read Review
Tank Action
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This is the personal story of an armoured troop commander’s war, 1944 to 1945. David Render was a 19-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst ...Read Review