The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
The Accursed Tower is Roger Crowley’s fifth book and brings the same page-turning narrative style as his earlier works. Having previously covered Christian and Muslim competition around the Mediterranean (Constantinople: The Last Great Siege 1453, Empires of the Sea,...
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...
