A fresh look at the Romanovs in captivity reveals the Tsarina Alexandra's courage, flaws and steel during the Russian Revolution.
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Escaping the Grip of Eastern European Communism
A first-hand account of an 11-year-old fleeing communist Czechoslovakia, the years that followed in the West and the price of pursuing freedom.
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Α Maritime Epic, by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
When an Arctic convoy was ordered to scatter in July 1942, disaster appeared inescapable, but a combination of nerve, improvisation and camouflage saw crisis averted.
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Tunisgrad: Victory in Africa, By Saul David
The author examines the Allied victory in Tunisia in May 1943, showing how coordinated land, air, and armoured operations led to the capture of Tunis and the decisive defeat of Axis forces in North Africa.
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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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Unionism & The Treaty
Ulster leader James Craig thought he had beaten Lloyd George during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
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CHF 2025: Day 3
The WiFi, phone reception and fresh beer pleases our Editor at Large
CHF 2025: Day 2
The clouds came and went, and the day finished in beer-drenched sunshine.
Reflections on Day One of Chalke Hist Fest
Zebedee Baker-Smith
Our new Books Editor reflects on his first visit to Chalke
Mary, Queen of Letters
Jade Scott
A new book examines Mary Stuart’s encrypted documents and here the author writes about letters and their use by Mary during captivity.
Ghosts of the English Civil War
Charles J. Esdaile
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms have percolated into ghost stories, as the author of an innovative new book argues.
War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World
Bestselling author and award-winning film-maker Phil Craig explains why he felt compelled to tackle the historical forces at play in his new globe-crossing examination of the final year of World War Two.
Cicero: The Name of Eloquence
Josiah Osgood
It is in the law courts where we can find much of the great oratory of Cicero, as the author of a new biography shows.
Who Will Rescue Us?
Laura Hobson Faure
The story of the Jewish children who fled to France and America during the Holocaust
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