Robert Fabbri’s fictional account of the life of Vespasian has got better and better through the series. This is the sixth volume and covers the…
This book enthralled and frustrated me in equal measure. In the preface, Peter Frankopan describes how his interest in history was born, and how he…
I was aware that there were a few individuals involved in the liberation of some of South America from Spanish rule – Thomas Cochrane…
Until a couple of years ago, I had never read a novel set in the American West. Although I have seen numerous films of the…
This is a wonderful little book. Written by Marcus Sidonius Falx (as told to Jerry Toner), it takes us one step at a time through the process of…
We are now so accustomed to being asked to review everything we buy online that we don’t think twice before selecting a rating and clicking…
Most people interested in the history of the Second World War are aware that many women in the Soviet Union took up arms against the…
For me, S J A Turney is one of the best historical fiction writers around at the moment. As anyone interested in fiction set in…
Ancient Egypt is a place shrouded in myth, mystery and misunderstanding, much of it seemingly deliberately inspired by the people themselves. In other words, it…
From a British point of view, events in the Middle East and North Africa during the Second World War were at least as important as…