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The New King: George I of Great Britain
by Peter Ackroyd
In the following excerpt from Revolution, Peter Ackroyd transports readers to England in…
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The Smoking Gun: Was MI5 Aware of a Plot to Kill King Edward VIII?
by Alexander Larman
Someone once said that there are only three really enjoyable parts of creating…
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Collecting the Treasures of the World
by Elsa Hart
In 1714, the gardener and caretaker Edmund Howard supervised his employer’s move to…
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Cecil Vandepeer Clarke: Churchill’s Secret Weapon
by Giles Milton Cecil Vandepeer Clarke viewed his caravan with the sort of affection that most…
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Eoin MacNeill: Building an Army for the Easter Rising
by Tim Pat Coogan ‘MacNeill’ was Eoin MacNeill, the ostensible leader of the Irish Volunteers, a…
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Operation Market Garden: Arnham, September 17–21, 1944
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab On 17 September 1944, the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army…
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Normandy Landings, June 6, 1944
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab The initial British–Canadian–American Normandy landings (Operation Neptune, the…
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Guy Burgess: The Life of a Cold War Double Agent
by Andrew Lownie
When Harold Macmillan, now the Prime Minister, visited the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev…
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Understanding the Language of War: Tony Blair and Winston Churchill
by Mark Thompson It’s May 13, 1940. Winston Churchill has been prime minister of the United…
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The Lewis Chessmen: Brexit and a New North Sea Style
by Nancy Marie Brown Look at a map and remember the key position this area enjoyed…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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The First Shots of the Revolution
by Jack Kelly
In the following excerpt from God Save Benedict Arnold , the first shots of…
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The Cave Man
by Tom Clavin
Did you know that there was a series of events known as the…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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Edith Wharton’s Guide to New York
by Mariah Fredericks
Mariah Fredericks's new novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton through…
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