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Maritime Nation, N.A.M. Rodger Interview

Maritime Nation, N.A.M. Rodger Interview

N.A.M. Rodger’s The Safeguard of the Sea was published in 1997 and covered nearly 1,000 years of naval history. His second, The Command of the Ocean, came out seven years later, and now, with The Price of Victory, we have the final part. He met with our editor recently to discuss.
N.A.M. Rodger

Maritime Nation, N.A.M. Rodger Interview   For N.A.M. Rodger the third book in his epic trilogy, The Price of Victory, is the culmination of a lifetime’s work. He has charted Britain’s naval history – not a history of the navy, there is a difference, from 660AD...

Holand Press

Holand Press

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Sharpe Books

Holand Books Click on any of the books covers below to either buy or get more information on AmazonFrom the Publisher Books matter. Readers matter. Writers matter. As such, there is always a demand for new stories and new authors. Holand Press has been founded to help...

Napoleon’s Brush With ‘Black Spartacus’

Napoleon’s Brush With ‘Black Spartacus’

Napoleon Bonaparte and Toussaint Louverture, the great Haitian freedom fighter, were initially allies. Sudhir Hazareesingh, who has written a celebrated biography of Louverture, describes how the two men’s relationship subsequently soured.
Sudhir Hazareesingh

Napoleon’s Brush With ‘Black Spartacus’ The Haitian revolution was one of the defining episodes in modern global history. It began in 1791 with a mass uprising of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue, France’s richest and most profitable colony. Drawing upon local...

Phil Craig

Phil Craig

The bestselling historian discusses his history, influences and his latest book.

What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I was a 60s child and brought up on Airfix models, the Air Training Corps and Victor comics, so the Second World War obsessed me, especially the Battle of Britain. When I was about 40 the BBC asked me to...

Mark Galeotti on Forged in War

Mark Galeotti on Forged in War

Political analyst and author Mark Galeotti discusses Russia's military history, from Crimea to Ukraine.
Mark Galeotti

Mark, many congratulations on the new book. There is a lot of myth surrounding Russia’s history, not least from Vladimir Putin. How much of its military past is in the average Russian’s consciousness? More, honestly, than we might anticipate from a Western standpoint....

Books of 2024 From Aspects of History

Books of 2024 From Aspects of History

Our authors and contributors recommend books they've enjoyed this year

Books of 2023 from Aspects of HistoryAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyIt’s been a great year for fiction and non-fiction, but these books are my first amongst equals. Every Spy a Traitor by Alex Gerlis follows Agent Archie, a Russian mole in MI6 across...

Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview

Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview

Alice Loxton is history’s social media phenomenon. Now she’s written a book about eighteen figures throughout British history and their lives at that age, and she met with our editor recently.
Alice Loxton

Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview   Alice, I wondered what were you doing when you were when you were 18? I probably had a pretty conventional 18 year old life, I think, in that I was just completing my A-levels and was looking to university. I was very...

The Admiral’s Eyes

The Admiral’s Eyes

The front-line Hydrographic Pathfinders of the Royal Navy were a vital unit.

The Admiral’s Eyes The little pocket notebook is easily missed amongst the Nelson manuscripts in the British Library. In it the admiral noted every alteration of course, with the depth-sounding taken as the Victory came onto a fresh tack, leading the Mediterranean...

The Congress of Terror

The Congress of Terror

The rise of the People’s Will and their deadly plot against Tsar Alexander II.
R.N.Morris

In 1879 a group of eleven young people descended on the quiet Russian spa town of Lipetsk, over 700 miles south of St Petersburg. The ten men and one woman stood out from the geriatric invalids who comprised the resort’s usual visitors, thanks to their youth, physical...

Fairfax of Virginia, by Hugh Fairfax

Fairfax of Virginia, by Hugh Fairfax

Artist Hugh Fairfax researched his family history and discovered a cornucopia of fascinating figures.
Oliver Webb-Carter

In 1732 Thomas Fairfax, the sixth Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was reading the Gentleman’s Magazine obituary of the agent to his lands in Virginia, Robert Carter. To his astonishment he discovered Carter was worth, in those days, £10,000 and so Fairfax immediately began...