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Kevin Passmore
The construction of the Maginot Line fortifications forced the Nazis to invade France through Belgium, but the plight of their defenders evokes confusion, endurance, and divided loyalties.
A study of ‘Pug’ Ismay, February's Book Club pick, reveals that, while his public persona and memoirs were models of discretion and diplomacy, his private letters and papers expose sharp judgments of his peers.
Vilified by Shakespeare, the ‘She-Wolf of France’ has often been cast without examination of the burdens and crises that punctuated her married life.
As the final volume in the Rebellion series is released, Paul Bernardi explores the devastation inflicted on northern England and the enduring debate it triggers.
As her new Publius Ovidius mystery is published, Fiona Forsyth looks at one of the shadowy background figures in Ovid’s life, Livia Drusilla.
Alwyn Turner
A study of of John Reith, the driven and divisive founder who shaped British public-service broadcasting.
Jasmine Guama
A portrait of 1936 East London as ordinary lives collide with the rise of fascism.
Richard Vinen
The two Allied leaders were not just makers of history but performers, selective of their actions and words during wartime and as empires fell.
Delhi – City of Spies explores Cold War intrigue in 1950s India, where espionage, power politics and an unsolved murder collide in the capital..
Alistair Moffat
From the mythic to the unhesitatingly heroic, this opening extract from a history of Glasgow examines what exactly forged the city’s strong sense of self.
