by webdesignerjosh@gmail.com | Jun 6, 2024 | Book Reviews
By Adam Hochschild, Picador Classic . 2019 . ISBN 9781509882205 The author, Adam Hochschild, an American journalist and historian, whose particular interest are human rights and social justice, tells a gruesome story of exploitation, cruelty and forced labour in what...
by webdesignerjosh@gmail.com | Jun 6, 2024 | Book Reviews
By Cathy Hunt, West MidlandHistory. £20.00. ISBN 9781905036684 Cathy Hunt is a well known Midland historian who specialises in the history of labour together with the work of women. The book is the product of extensive recent research, so recent that its publishing...
by webdesignerjosh@gmail.com | Jun 6, 2024 | Book Reviews
By Philippe Sands,Weidenfeld andNicholson.Hardback, £20 ISBN 9781474608121 As a title, ‘The Ratline’ is a slight misnomer, as the escape route for Nazi fugitives takes up only a minor part of the book — and much of that is tangential, as the main character never...
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By Simon Elliott, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, ISBN-10 : 1526765721, ISBN-13 : 978-1526765727 The unexplained disappearance of the legio IX Hispana (also known as the Ninth) from historical records around the second century AD has caught the public imagination...
by webdesignerjosh@gmail.com | Jun 5, 2024 | Book Reviews
By Christopher Eimer, Spink Books Hardback, £25.00. ISBN 9781912667 666. Available from www.spinkbooks.com Mehmet II was barely twenty-one years old when he conquered Constantinople in 1453 and ended the Eastern Roman Empire after 1123 years of existence. Feared and...
by webdesignerjosh@gmail.com | May 9, 2024 | Book Reviews
BIRMINGHAM AND THE BLACK COUNTRY (Pevsner Architectural Guides The Buildings of England) Andy Foster, Nikolaus Pevsner and Alexandra Wedgwood. Yale University Press, 2022, Hardback (£48) ISBN 978 0300 22391 0. In our study of history there are some landmark volumes...
