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Review: A Traitor in the Family – Nicholas Searle

Posted on 08/12/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Spy Fiction, Terrorism, Thriller

Prison break

Tagged A Traitor In The Family, IRA, Nicholas Searle, Northern Ireland, The StrugglesLeave a comment

Review: 13 Hours: The Inside Account Of What Really Happened In Benghazi – Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team

Posted on 30/11/201812/01/2019 by Speesh in Conflict, Counterterrorism, Non Fiction

The worst fighting took place back in Washington.

Tagged 13 Hours, 13 Hours The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, Libya, Macmillan, Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team, Pan Macmillan, TerrorismLeave a comment

Review: Pendragon – James Wilde

Posted on 24/11/201825/11/2018 by Speesh in Britain/England, Britannia, Dark Age Britain, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Pendrabon

Tagged Arthur, Bantam Press, Dark Age, James Wilde, King Arthur, Merlin, Pendragon, Penguin Random House, Roman Britain, TransworldLeave a comment

Review: Lone Survivor – Marcus Luttrell

Posted on 22/11/2018 by Speesh in Conflict, Non Fiction

The Luttrell psalter

Tagged Afghanistan, Little Brown Books, Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell, WarLeave a comment

Review: The Tourist – Robert Dickinson

Posted on 15/11/201811/12/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Science Fiction

Interesting ideas, not sure about the execution

Tagged Orbit Books, Robert Dickinson, The Tourist, Time TravelLeave a comment

Review: Stalingrad – Antony Beevor

Posted on 11/11/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War

The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia

Tagged Nazi Germany, Russia, Sam Eastland, Stalin, Stalingrad, The Beast In The Red Forest, The Penguin Group, The Soviet Union, Viking Books2 Comments

Review: The Druid – Steven A. McKay

Posted on 03/11/2018 by Speesh in Britain/England, Dark Age Britain, Fiction, Historical Fiction, The Romans

Oak-knower

Tagged Bellicus, Steven A. McKay, The Druid2 Comments

Review: The Beast In The Red Forest – Sam Eastland

Posted on 18/10/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, The Soviet Union, World War II

Impekkalable

Tagged Faber And Faber, Inspector Pekkala, Sam Eastland, Stalin, The Beast In The Red Forest, The Soviet UnionLeave a comment

Review: Our Friends In Berlin – Anthony Quinn

Posted on 14/10/201815/10/2018 by Speesh in Britain/England, Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II

Too friendly

Tagged Anthony Quinn, Jonathan Cape, Our Friends In Berlin, Penguin Random HouseLeave a comment

Review: Greeks Bearing Gifts – Philip Kerr

Posted on 09/10/201809/10/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Post WWII, Post-War Germany, World War II Germany

A killer has returned to Athens - one who may never have left

Tagged Bernie Gunther, Greece, Greeks Bearing Gifts, Jonathan Cape, Nazi Germany, Penguin Random House, Philip KerrLeave a comment

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