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The SpyMasters Book Prize – Longlist Announced
At SpyMasters, we love spy books. We love to read espionage books, as well as champion the genre and its authors. And so it is with great pleasure that we announce the inaugural SpyMasters Book Prize.
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW
AoH Book Club: Gautam Hazarika on The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II
In conversation with Phil Craig on the Aspects of History podcast, the historian addresses the experiences of Indian POWs across Southeast Asia, from the difficult choice of joining the Indian National Army to escapes, captivity, the impact on families and the ways their stories have been remembered.
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How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons, by Nicholas Higham
How England Began work steers away from one-dimensional approaches, focussing on exploiting multiple sources of information, without necessarily giving one more priority or credence over another. What we are left with is a detailed, yet accessible analysis of the years from the late 4th century to the 6th century.
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Greg Lewis
Greg Lewis is a writer with a keen interest in resistance, evasion, and escape. An investigative journalist and documentary producer, his focus is on ‘ordinary’ people who have extraordinary stories. His most recent book, The Nazi Ghost Train, uncovered a little-known act of humanity and defiance from WW2 and became a Sunday Times bestseller.
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Sugar Plum
Set during the Second World War, the story combines historical details about the challenges of putting on ballet performances in London during the war, with a fictional tale where magic and reality intermingle during a production of Casse Noisette.
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Issue 28 Out Now
The Tragedy of Korea
Robert Lyman on the Korean War
Tessa Dunlop on Monuments to the Fallen
Max Hastings on D-Day: Sword Beach
Gretchen Friemann on the Anglo-Irish Treaty
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