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Category: Historical Fiction

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

Review: Blood Of The Wolf – Steven A. McKay

Posted on 10/09/201816/08/2020 by Speesh in Britain/England, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Medieval England, Robin Hood

Robin Hood faces his most dangerous enemy yet - and it isn't the Sheriff of Nottingham

Tagged Angus Donald, Blood Of The Wolf, Steven A. McKay, The Death Of Robin Hood, The Forest LordLeave a comment

Review: Butchers of Berlin – Chris Petit

Posted on 06/09/201809/10/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II Germany

"You're different from the rest. Remember that, for you will see enough terrible things to turn your hair white many times over"

Tagged Berlin, Chris Petit, Simon & Schuster, The Butchers Of BerlinLeave a comment

Review: Prussian Blue – Philip Kerr

Posted on 22/08/201822/08/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Post WWII, Post-War Germany, The Second World War, World War II Germany

"Streets ahead of most other historical thrillers" - The Times

Tagged Bernie Gunther, France, Germany, Nazi Germany, Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue, Quercus3 Comments

Review: Wræcca – C.R. May

Posted on 19/08/201814/10/2018 by Speesh in Anglo-Saxon, Beowulf, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Myth, monsters, magic and May

Tagged Angles, Anglo Saxons, Beowulf, C.R. May, Eaters Of The Dead, Geats, Jutes, Michael Crichton, Saxons, Sword of Woden, WræccaLeave a comment

Review: The Draughtsman – Robert Lautner

Posted on 14/08/201821/09/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II Germany

What would you do? Really? I don't think so...

Tagged Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Germany, Nazi Germany, Robert Lautner, The Borough Press, The Draughtsman, The Holocaust, Topf And SonsLeave a comment

Review: War At The Edge Of The World – Ian Ross

Posted on 10/08/201813/09/2018 by Speesh in Britain/England, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Roman Britain

Real Historical Fiction

Tagged Ian Ross, Roman Britain, Roman Empire, Twilight Of Empire, War At The Edge Of The WorldLeave a comment

Review: The Red Moth – Sam Eastland

Posted on 04/08/201812/09/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Russia, The Soviet Union

Summer, 1941. Russia has been invaded.

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