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Review: Auschwitz A History – Sybille Steinbacher

My version: Paperback Genre: Non Fiction, Auschwitz, The Holocaust Publisher: Penguin Random House First published: 2004 ISBN: 978-0-141-98748-4 Pages: 168 Bought

From the cover: At the terrible heart of the modern age, lies Auschwitz. in Sybille Steinbacher’s book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable became a sprawling, industrial reality. How Auschwitz grew…

Without wishing in any way to make this sound like a regular occurrence, my advance copy of James Aitcheson’s new novel ‘The Splintered Kingdom’ arrived in the post this lunchtime.

The series James is writing, is subtitled ‘1066: The Bloody Aftermath’.

I read his previous book (I downloaded it in iBookson my iPad/iPhone), his first, ‘Sworn Sword’ a while back and thought it was excellent. It was,…

Review: The Earl Strongbow – Ruadh Butler

Series: The Invader Series 3

My version: Audio Book Genre: Historical Fiction, medieval Ireland, Wales, Publisher: Accent Press First published: 2018 ISBN: 9781910939291 Pages: 380 Supplied

From the cover: Exiled from court, distrusted and indebted, Richard de Clare is a man whose past is greater than his prospects and whose once-great name overshadows his deeds. Having backed the loser…

Review: Blood of The Unicorn – Mette Holm

I’ve been more than a little remiss in not remembering to post this article on my friend Mette’s book – she’s surely soon ‘pressing the button on number two’! Maybe better late than never though after such a nice dedication in the front of Unicorn, I hope she can forgive me.

Me. Today.

A while back, I was asked by Mette, to have a look at a book she was writing. We live in Denmark, and she…

Review: The Code Hunters – Jackson Coppley

Series: Nicholas Foxe 1

My version: Paperback Genre: Fiction, action, adventure, science fiction-ish Publisher: Contour Press First published: 2019 ISBN: 9781091070110 Pages: 405 Supplied by author

From the cover: In The Code Hunters, an ancient tablet is discovered deep in the earth that sends an unlikely team on a mission that will change the future. Coppley introduces the reader to…

Review: Evil Winds Tradecraft Phase Two – Michael Shusko

Series: Tradecraft 3

My version: Paperback Genre: Fiction, thriller, Aftica, Sudan, Chad Publisher: First published: 2018 ISBN: 9780998195957 Pages: 264 Supplied

From the cover: Up-and-coming news reporter Angie Bryant is determined to get the scoop on what’s really happening in Darfur, no matter the risk, after all, it’s the kind of story that will catapult her career to the next level. Ja…

Forged in Fury – Michael Elkins

My version: Hardback Genre: Non Fiction, The Holocaust and after Publisher: Judy Piatkus Publishers Ltd First published: 1981 ISBN: 0861880986 Pages: 274 Bought

I was recently having a hyggelig old time cataloging books to my new Book Keeper application, when I came across this one.

I remember Michael Elkins– from when I was growing up in the UK – as the BBC’s Jerusalem correspondent. I…

Review: A Mighty Dawn – Theodore Brun

My version: Paperback Genre: Historical Fiction, Early eighth century Scandinavia Publisher: Corvus First published: 2017 ISBN: 9781782399971 Pages: 581 (590 with Historical Note, acknowledgements) Supplied, signed

From the cover: Hakan, son of Haldan, chosen son of the Lord of the Northern Jutes, swears loyalty to his father in fire, in iron and in blood. But there are always shadown that…

The promised Jason Bourne, Treadstone series book and tv series is almost ready!

I know you, like me, have been waiting for some new stuff from the Robert Ludlum, Jason Bourne, Treadstone world…well, now it’s got dates, pictures and even trailers!

There has been word of a tv series in the works for a while, but now there is a name ‘Treadstone’ and a trailer. I’m not sure which network is behind it – ie where Ican see it – but I don’t think it’ll be on Netflix. Anyway,…

Review: Night Flight To Paris – David Gilman

My version: Hardback Genre: Historical Fiction Second World War, espionage Publisher: Head of Zeus First published: 2018 ISBN: 9781788544900 Pages: 486 Bought, signed

From the cover: Paris, 1943 The swastika flies from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Soldiers clad in field grey patrol the streets. Buildings have been renamed, books banned, art stolen and people disappeared. Amongst the missing is…

Review: Emperor Of Rome – Robert Fabbri

Series: Vespasian 9

My version: Hardback Genre: Historical Fiction, Rome, Vespasian, the four Emperors Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd First published: 2019 ISBN: 978-1-78239-708-3 Pages: 343 Bought

From the cover: AD68. Vespasian is tasked with the impossible. Should he quell the revolt in Judea, as Nero the Emperor has instructed, or must he resort to the unthinkable and sabotage his own…

Review: Night Heron – Adam Brookes

Series: Philip Mangan 1

My version: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Thriller, China, MI6 Publisher: Sphere First published: 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7515-5250-8 Pages: 431 Bought

From the cover: A lone man escapes a labour camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British. Now he finds Beijing transformed and crawling with…

Review: Rome’s Sacred Flame – Robert Fabbri

Series: Vespasian

My version:hardback Genre: Historical Fiction, Rome Publisher: Corvus First published: 2018 ISBN: 9-781782-397045 Pages: 343 (347)

Bought, signed

From the cover: Rome, AD63. Vespasian has been made Governor of Africa. Nero, Rome’s increasingly unpredictable Emperor, orders him to journey with his most trusted men to a far-flung kingdom in Africa to free 200 Roman…

Britain AD – Francis Pryor

I was just the other day updating the review for Francis Pryor’s ‘Britain AD,’ where one of his main themes was showing that the Saxon ‘invaders’ weren’t invaders as we normally think of them. That there wasn’t a short period after the Roman legions left, where huge fleets sailed over from (what is now) northern Germany (Saxons) and Denmark (Angles, Jutes), and…

Review: Red Icon – Sam Eastland

Series: Inspector Pekkala 6

My version: Paperback Genre: Historical Fiction, The Soviet Union, World War II, Stalin Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd First published: 2015 ISBN: 978-0-571-31229-0 Pages: 345 Bought

From the cover: It is 1944. The German army crumbles before the unstoppable tide of the advancing Soviet forces. In the midst of the fighting, two Russian soldiers seek refuge in the…

Review: Blood’s Revolution – Angus Donald

Series: Holcroft Blood 2

My version: Hardback Genre: Historical Fiction, 17th Century, Charles II, William of Orange Publisher: Zaffre Publishing First published: 2018 ISBN: 978-1-7856-404-2 Pages: 354 Bought, signed

From the cover: England, 1685. Newly returned from years of secret work in Paris for the late Charles II, Lieutenant Holcroft Blood, a brilliant but unusual gunnery officer in His…