1963 acts as a pivot in the author’s new novel, one which brings into focus the strain between the previous decade’s conservatism and the approach of both female freedom and societal change, all against the backdrop of wintry weather.
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The Overlooked History of the Vietnam War
Drawing on a childhood spent in 1960s Bangkok, a new novel blends fictional characters and plot with authentic people, places and experiences to recreate life for American families based in Thailand during the conflict.
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The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
A persuasive shift of focus onto the victims, one that reveals the human cost of Kim Philby’s leaking of operations behind the Iron Curtain, distinguishes a new examination of the Cambridge Five.
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Our Man in Hawaii
A Japanese spy in Hawaii: how his meticulous gathering of intelligence almost gave away the plans to attack Pearl Harbour.
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A Rocket in the Marshes
In 1944, the Polish resistance managed to recover parts of Hitler’s secret V-2 rockets and passed vital intelligence to Britain, the operation becoming one of the most remarkable, yet overlooked, intelligence successes of the war.
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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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The “Ghost” Match: An Extract
In a surreal, chilling moment, the Chilean national football team played alone in Santiago’s Estadio Nacional after the Soviet Union refused to compete in a stadium that the Pinochet regime had turned into a site of imprisonment, torture and death.
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The Woman Who Built Denmark’s SOE Wireless Network
Kate Vigurs
The story of Edith Bonnesen, the Danish resistance operative who repeatedly escaped danger during the Nazi occupation, is told in English for the first time.
The Complex Character of Empress Matilda
Elisabeth van Houts
While her determination was sometimes mistaken for arrogance, Matilda’s resilience and political judgement ended up securing the English crown for her son, Henry II, and laid the foundations for the Plantagenet dynasty.
The Forgotten Campaign to Conquer Egypt
Thomas Smith
The overlooked Fifth Crusade and the capture of Damietta show how an ambitious Christian invasion came close to reshaping the medieval Middle East.
Archduke at The Royal Court Theatre – Review
Raj Joseph retells the story of Sarajevo in the summer of 1914 and the outbreak of war in a new drama directed by Lyndsey Turner
How England Began
Nicholas Higham
How Britain broke away from the Roman world is as essential to understanding the rise of the English language and a national identity as Germanic migration, subsequent conflict with native Britons and conversion to Christianity.
Monarchs Anonymous at The Other Palace Theatre
A review of the historical comedy show which forces famous historical figures into a group therapy session.
Prisoners of the Rising Sun: Life in Wartime Shanghai
Life as a foreign national or a prisoner of war inside the Japanese internment camps required resilience and courage, and sits at the core of the author’s latest novel.
Caesar’s Gaulish King: The Double Lives of Commius the Atrebatan
Ferdinand Addis
The stirring career of a one-time trusted ally, sometimes determined enemy, of Caesar reveals the complexities of loyalty and political manoeuvring in operation behind Rome’s invasions of Britain and Gaul.
Sex, Psychoanalysis, and the Big Freeze of 1963
1963 acts as a pivot in the author’s new novel, one which brings into focus the strain between the previous decade’s conservatism and the approach of both female freedom and societal change, all against the backdrop of wintry weather.
The Overlooked History of the Vietnam War
Daria Sommers
Drawing on a childhood spent in 1960s Bangkok, a new novel blends fictional characters and plot with authentic people, places and experiences to recreate life for American families based in Thailand during the conflict.
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