The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Leanda de Lisle’s biography of Henrietta Maria has burnt through the mist of four hundred years of propaganda. It pitches Henrietta at her own level. She is brought down from pious pedestals and raised up from the mire in which her reputation has often lain. With this...
The Vietnam War: The My Lai Massacre with Marshall Poe | RSS.com
British Fascism with Alec Marsh & Martin Pugh | RSS.com
Paul, your book was published 15 years ago to great acclaim. Why did you write it, after all it’s the only book you’ve written on the Napoleonic period. First and foremost I wrote Napoleon in Egypt because it was such an gripping story - one which included everything...
WW2 Italy with James Holland | RSS.com
2023 Books of the Year | RSS.com
David Pilling, why does the story of the Princes in the Tower still fascinate and did you enjoy The Princes in the Tower: The New Evidence? I think it is the theme of the slaughter of innocents. Plenty of political figures in this era met with a nasty end, of course,...
Charles I with Mark Turbull | RSS.com
As readers and fans of the site will know, Aspects of History runs a Books of the Year feature each December. There is often a history book which stands out for our board and contributors, such as The World by Simon Sebag-Montefiore and The White Ship by Charles...
Aspects of History Film Club: Lincoln (2012) | RSS.com
