Category Archives: BOOK REVIEW
Book review: Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life by Peter McPhee
Publisher: Yale University Press
Reviewed by: Malcolm Crook
Price (RRP): £25
Malcolm Crook commends a scholarly biography of the blood-soaked French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre
Book Review: The Legacy of the Italian Resistance by Philip Cooke
The Legacy of the Italian Resistance
Philip Cooke
Palgrave Macmillan
263pp £52.25
Between 1943 and 1945 thousands of Italian men and women took part in what became known as ‘The Resistance’. Many were extremely young and most of those who died at the hands of the Italian Fascists and the Nazis were in their teens or early twenties.
Book review: The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
Publisher: Bodley Head
Reviewed by: Norman Housley
Price (RRP): £20
Norman Housley has mixed feelings about the latest attempt to write a narrative of the First Crusade
Book review: Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders by Sian Rees
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Reviewed by: Hallie Rubenhold
Price (RRP): £18.99
Hallie Rubenhold applauds an ambitious depiction of the historical backdrop to Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders
It goes without saying that writing ‘a life and times’ of a personality who never actually lived is going to present a few difficulties for a historian.
Book review: Secret Days by Asa Briggs
Publisher: Frontline Books
Reviewed by: Roger Moorhouse
Price (RRP): £19.99
From being Britain’s best kept wartime secret barely a generation ago, the story of the code-breakers of Bletchley Park is now a well-established part of our national narrative of the Second World War.