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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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The Francisca

Paul Bernardi

Paul Bernardi, author of the Rebellion trilogy explores the history of the francisca throwing axe and its role in his ongoing series.

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LBJ’s Flawed Plan

Goeffrey Wawro

The American strategy in Vietnam was destined to failure from the start, so argues the author of a new military history of the war.

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The Essex Rebellion: Who Tells the Story?

Karen Haden

The 1601 Essex Rebellion through different eyes.

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The Jacobite Uprising and the Battle of Preston, 1715

Nicola Cornick

The ’15 began in the wake of the Georgian assumption of the English throne as the Old Pretender saw an opportunity to claim back the throne taken from his father by William of Orange.

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The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World

Caroline Alexander

Allied pilots flew treacherous flights over the Himalayas to provide supplies to Chang Kai Shek’s army, and the author of a new book describes the mission.

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Historical Heroes: Matthew Flinders

Michael Barritt

Conscious of following in the footsteps of his own heroes, Flinders, the cartographer of Australia, illustrates all the questions surrounding the definition of a historical hero.

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Trojan Barbie – Review

Lily Lowe

Warning: Many Barbies were harmed in the making of this production.

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A Rare Old Time

Richard Foreman

A Review of Seven Drunken Nights: The Story of the Dubliners.

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Review: A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here

Zoe Brunskill

Not just a performance, but a declaration by Josie Dale-Jones.

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