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Beyond The Edge of Light: History behind the Fiction

Beyond The Edge of Light: History behind the Fiction

Melding family history with real wartime figures and events, the author outlines the inspirations at play behind his Second World War love story, ranging from the ruined palaces of East Prussia, Bletchley Park, developments in RADAR and a paratrooper raid on Fort Ében-Émael.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton
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Beyond The Edge of Light: History behind the Fiction

Beyond The Edge of Light: History behind the Fiction

Melding family history with real wartime figures and events, the author outlines the inspirations at play behind his Second World War love story, ranging from the ruined palaces of East Prussia, Bletchley Park, developments in RADAR and a paratrooper raid on Fort Ében-Émael.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton
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Sir Gruffydd Donne: Knight of Kidwelly

Sir Gruffydd Donne: Knight of Kidwelly

The novelist traces one man's journey from the shadow of his grandfather’s support for Owain Glyndwr to a career fighting for Henry V and Henry VI, and explores a Welsh family whose fortunes hinged on some of the defining conflicts of medieval Britain.
John Pitts
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Rethinking Communism’s History

Rethinking Communism’s History

Karl Marx was never the original architect of the communist tradition, which traces deeper roots from French revolutionary thought and the utopian ideals of Babeuf and Blanqui.
Paul Mason
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‘Specimens of Snobbery’: Cricket and the Hypocrisy of the Victorian Imagination

Brendan Cooper

The psychology and morals of an era can be unearthed from the cricket's plotlines and characters.

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The Other Conquest: England’s Forgotten King

Paul Bernardi

Fifty years prior to the Norman Conquest, England was conquered by the Danes.

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Elizabeth Linley, 1754-1792

Thomas Messel

The story singer and the beacon of the Whig party.

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The History behind The Bratinsky Affair

Jim Loughran

Exile and loss permeate Ireland’s history and its people’s relationship with Europe, themes to which the author anchors his debut novel.

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Historical Heroes: Chiune Sugihara

Deborah Swift

A display of moral courage and a story of orders defied saw a Japanese diplomat save thousands of live in the Second World War.

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The Five Armies That Made Europe

Barney White-Spunner

As national defence rises up the agendas of Western governments, the author spans two millennia and provides examples of fundamental military reform that shaped history.

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Strictly Murder

Strictly Murder – Review

Richard Foreman

Brian Clemens' murder mystery makes for an exhilarating spectacle.

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The Forever War

Robert Lyman

The Korean War is a ‘forgotten’ conflict, but one with brutal and present-day consequences 75 years after it began.

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When a Single British Colony Ruled over a Quarter of Humanity

Sam Dalrymple

Vast swathes of Asia, spanning from the Red Sea to Burma, constituted the crown jewel of British imperialism before five separate partitions in fifty years saw the map redrawn.

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Poet on a Volcano

Peter Stothard

A modern account of the life of Horace unmasks the man behind his famed lines.

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