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First let’s deal with the elelphant in the room. Nicholas Crane’s Latitude will inevitably draw comparison with Dava Sobel’s surprise runaway...
Latitude, by Nicholas Crane
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Book Reviews
Sword of Bone, by Anthony Rhodes
Part of the IWM Wartime Classics, this novel is a masterpiece of satire and pathos.
The Imperial War Museum (IWM) has been publishing their Wartime Classics, novels written by veterans of the Second World War and based on their...
Operation Pedestal, by Max Hastings
This latest from the master of military history focusses on the epic convoy from Gibraltar to Malta in 1942.
Operation Pedestal, by Max Hastings. Review by Robert Lyman. Just when you thought that nothing more could ever be said of a subject, especially the...
Protector, by Conn Iggulden
The sequel to Gates of Athens, set during the Graeco-Persian Wars
When starting any historical fiction, I always wonder where it stacks up when compared with Sharpe, Patrick O’Brian, Hornblower and Flashman. It's...
Oliver Webb-Carter Part of the IWM Wartime Classics, this novel is a masterpiece of satire and pathos. This latest from the master of military history focusses on the epic convoy from Gibraltar to Malta in 1942. Oliver Webb-Carter The sequel to Gates of Athens, set during the Graeco-Persian Wars Rupert Hague-Holmes A re-appraisal of Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War Two. Amy Thomas 455AD and the Romans leave Britain to become a land of violence. Justin Doherty A new history of Germany from Bismarck to Armistice Day.
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Sword of Bone, by Anthony Rhodes
Operation Pedestal, by Max Hastings
Protector, by Conn Iggulden
Alan Brooke: Churchill’s Right Hand Critic, by Andrew Sangster
Land of Fire, by Derek Birks
Blood and Iron, by Katja Hoyer
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Ring in the New
Our authors highlight some of the books they are looking forward to reading in 2021.