The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? It’s much harder getting into the motivations and mindsets of pre-Enlightenment people, and often requires a higher level of theology than I have. The Enlightenment was the first period in history that the...
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What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I write mainly about Russia, the Caucasus and the Middle East. My mother's family were refugees fleeing the pogroms of Romanov Russia, especially Lithuania, Poland and Odessa, and so I was always...
‘There has been,’ wrote a recent biographer of the Duke, ‘no more successful English soldier than the 1st Duke of Marlborough. During the War of the Spanish Succession, he won all his battles, and triumphed at every siege. Moreover, Marlborough was simultaneously in...
