An account of Henry Labouchère that contrasts his unconventional career with the self-interest and hypocrisy he shared with his Victorian contemporaries.
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Naming the Dead: Inspiration from a Family Bible
17th-century hardship, personal family loss, and a record of the names of the dead becomes a way for Karen Haden's protagonist to process grief and preserve memory.
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Drinking, Typing and Gossiping: US Foreign Correspondents in Europe between the Wars
A portrait of the hard-drinking, ambitious American correspondents who chronicled Europe’s slide toward war in the interwar years.
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The Last Knight of Christendom; the First Man of the Modern World
A Venetian military engineer, who trained in the new science of war, risked exile, ruin and death to defend Rhodes against Suleiman the Magnificent, embodies Europe in transition.
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Émigré, Photographer, Secret Agent: An Extraordinary Life
A communist activist and Soviet agent, the Austrian-born Edith Tudor-Hart helped drive modernist photography and set in motion Britain’s most notorious spy ring.
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What is the Blood Price?
The novelist's latest is a departure from the Norman invasion, but what's the story behind it?
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Alexander the Great in the Dock
Classics for All’s latest 'moot trial' brought history’s greatest commander to the Supreme Court.
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Hadrian’s Wall: Strategic Masterpiece or Monumental Folly?
Was Hadrian's Wall built to keep out barbarians, or rather to demonstrate the power of Rome?
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Has 2026 Changed the World of Assassination?
A timely inquiry proposes that assassination today remains a fixture of statecraft as recent targeted killings continue to pervade the geopolitical sphere but rarely deliver clear strategic success.
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Holand Press: Writing a New Chapter
Holand Press
Books matter. Readers matter. Writers matter. As such, there is always a demand for new stories and new authors. Holand Press has been founded to help meet that demand.
Napoleon’s Brush With ‘Black Spartacus’
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Napoleon Bonaparte and Toussaint Louverture, the great Haitian freedom fighter, were initially allies. Sudhir Hazareesingh, who has written a celebrated biography of Louverture, describes how the two men’s relationship subsequently soured.
FDR & Stalin: The Strategists
Phillips Payson O’Brien
A new book on the Second World War has re-appraised the allied leaders as strategists. Its author here examines President Franklin Roosevelt and Premier Josef Stalin.
How Far is Modern Russia a Prisoner of its Past?
Mark Galeotti
The author of a new book on Russia’s military past provides the historical echoes that we’ve seen played out on the battlefields of Ukraine.
The Lopez Case
The thriller writer of the Tudor era delves into the mysterious case of Roderigo Lopez.
Wally Hammond
Christopher Sandford
Christopher Sandford
The author of a new book on the Victory series of 1945 profiles one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
Mayne the SAS & the VC That Never Was
Damien Lewis’ latest book delves into the actions of the SAS in France and Paddy Mayne’s bravery.
Pride’s Purge
Alice Hunt
Pride's Purge laid in place the stepping stones that ended with the scaffold and the execution of Charles I.
The Other Norman Conquest
The 'Norman Conquest' expands far beyond England throughout the 11th century.
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