The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
A powerful novel that melds an intimate cross-cultural love story with the political tensions of modern Tibet.
Robert Poley returns amid the intrigue surrounding Mary, Queen of Scots’s captivity in another of Peter Tonkin's depiction of plots and political tension in Elizabethan England.
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A study of the fall of Berlin revealing how rivalries, ideology, and personal testimonies defined the chaotic end of the Nazi regime.
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A coming-of-age novel, set in the backdrop of the Vietnam War, that provides a poignant exploration of identity, memory and what it truly means to belong.
Antonia Senior's latest book draws from newly declassified files, making for a gripping read about the Soviet spy ring that changed history. Mickey Mayhew reviews Antony Beevor's latest book, a concise, myth-dispelling account of Rasputin's life from adolescence to assassination. Michael Mccomb A wide-ranging account of how innovation, economic conditions and ambition transformed early railways into a global revolution that reshaped the modern world. Trevor James In 1943 Allied reconnaissance identified a major military development site on the Baltic coast, and so began a complex and hazardous smuggling mission of supersonic weaponry. Gautam Hazarika A moving and beautifully crafted blend of wartime memoir, transforming one soldier’s forgotten journal into an extraordinary journey across the British Empire and back home again. Grace Brown Watching the Detectives is an exciting and engaging anthology that combines crime writing, psychological suspense and science fiction. Trevor James A skilfully researched look into the turbulence of the 12th-century Middle East and the complexity of factors affecting the Crusades. An ambitious and engaging study of two of the medieval world’s most mythologised organisations. A nuanced and globe-spanning examination of how Protestantism’s often chaotic missionary efforts helped shape the early modern world. British history is traced through 25 iconic buildings – from Maiden Castle to 30 St Mary Axe – in this blend of architectural perusal and cultural insight.
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Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire, by Antonia Senior
Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs, by Antony Beevor
The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850, by David Gwyn
Stealing Hitler’s Rocket: The Incredible Mission to Smuggle a V-2 Rocket Out of Nazi-Occupied Europe to Britain, by Guy Walters
Empire’s Witness: A Soldier’s Secret War Diary 1942-5, by Philip James Day
Watching the Detectives: An Aspects of Crime Short Story Collection
The Crusader Storm, by Nicholas Morton
Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood, by Steve Tibble
The World’s Reformation: How Protestantism Became a Global Religion, by Alec Ryrie
Building Britannia: A History of Britain in 25 Buildings, by Steven Parissien
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