Category Archives: BOOK REVIEW
Book review: Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life by Peter McPhee
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
Book review: Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders by Sian Rees

Author: Sian Rees
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Reviewed by: Hallie Rubenhold
Price (RRP): £18.99
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.