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…
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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…
Autobiographies and memoirs can be a bit of a minefield. Even if you weed out those written by ‘celebrities’ not yet old enough to hold…