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Pogroms, Revolutions and War

Pogroms, Revolutions and War

Russian Jews forged new lives in China before the upheavals of the Second World War and civil war prompted another migration, the author narrating how they ultimately found refuge and rebuilt their communities in Australia.
Garrie Boldsmith
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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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De Gaulle: Liberté – Review

Angèle Fontaine

A love letter to France, and probably its salvation

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The House of Glücksburg: Charles III’s Paternal Ancestry

Edward Hilary Davis

Tracing the King's paternal line back, the historian outlines the dynastic marriages, successions and political decisions behind the complicated family names of the British monarchy.

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From Ireland to the Caribbean: Indentured Servitude in the 17th Century

Carina McNally

The author of Mithim explores how Cromwellian conquest, forced migration and indentured servitude shaped the world of her novel, weaving together a story of survival, displacement and uncomfortable moral choices.

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Pogroms, Revolutions and War

Garrie Boldsmith

Russian Jews forged new lives in China before the upheavals of the Second World War and civil war prompted another migration, the author narrating how they ultimately found refuge and rebuilt their communities in Australia.

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England’s Forgotten Exotic Spice

T.L. Mogford

Through a university pal, archival research and a visit to the Essex town of Saffron Walden, the author traces how English saffron became a lucrative crop and prized medicinal commodity before its mysterious decline, and inspired his new novel.

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Robert Poley: ‘Genius of the Underworld’

Peter Tonkin

The Elizabethan spy and double agent emerges from the shadows of history in the author's recent series that reimagine his involvement in the Babington Plot, Essex’s rebellion and the mysterious death of Christopher Marlowe.

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Historical Lincolnshire: Roman Soldiers, Pilgrims and Radical Religious Ideas

Karen Haden

Inspired by a trip to the county, the author sketches out Lincolnshire’s rich Roman, medieval and religious history, tracing the county’s independent Puritan tradition from the Reformation to the Pilgrims who founded Boston, Massachusetts.

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De Gaulle: Résistance – Review

Angèle Fontaine

No army, no money, no mandate...

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Marshal Books

Marshal Books

A new, major independent publisher. Accepting Submissions. It's Time For A New Chapter...

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Lieutenant Colonel Brian Franks: Remarkable, Heroic but Largely Unknown

Tim Spicer

In his new biography, An Axe and Four Balloons, the author introduces the man who saved the SAS

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