Archive for the ‘History’ Category
Moro Warrior: A Philippine Chieftain, an American Schoolmaster, and The Untold Story of the Most Remarkable Resistance Fighters of World War II in the Pacific (2022), by Thomas McKenna
Posted by: Lisa Hill on March 23, 2023
The Shortest History of China (2021), by Linda Jaivin
Posted by: Lisa Hill on February 17, 2023
The Boy (2010), by Dan Porat
Posted by: Lisa Hill on January 27, 2023
The Love-charm of Bombs, Restless Lives in the Second World War (2013), by Lara Feigel
Posted by: Lisa Hill on June 25, 2022
The Hero’s Way (2021), by Tim Parks
Posted by: Lisa Hill on May 3, 2022
Les Parisiennes, by Anne Sebba (and how Lisa broke the law in Paris in 2005)
Posted by: Lisa Hill on April 8, 2022
Blitz Spirit, compiled by Becky Brown from the Mass-Observation Archive
Posted by: Lisa Hill on February 17, 2022
Harlem Nights, The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age, by Deirdre O’Connell
Posted by: Lisa Hill on December 8, 2021
Atlantic Meeting, by H.V. Morton
Posted by: Lisa Hill on August 4, 2021
A Train in Winter (2011), by Caroline Moorehead
Posted by: Lisa Hill on July 18, 2020
Nothing New, A History of Second-Hand (2019), by Robyn Annear
Posted by: Lisa Hill on November 2, 2019
We Are Building Capitalism, Moscow in Transition, 1992-1997 (2019), by Robert Stephenson
Posted by: Lisa Hill on August 10, 2019
The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (2019), by Sisonke Msimang
Posted by: Lisa Hill on May 1, 2019
The Book Thieves (2013), by Anders Rydell, translated by Henning Koch
Posted by: Lisa Hill on January 14, 2019
The Bletchley Girls (2015), by Tessa Dunlop
Posted by: Lisa Hill on December 30, 2018
1939: The Last Season (2003), by Anne de Courcy
Posted by: Lisa Hill on August 1, 2018
Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade (2017), by John Broich
Posted by: Lisa Hill on July 15, 2018
East West Street, On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (2016), by Philippe Sands
Posted by: Lisa Hill on March 15, 2018
Spinning Tops and Gumdrops, a portrait of colonial childhood (2018), by Edwin Barnard
Posted by: Lisa Hill on February 27, 2018
Mary Gaunt, in Australia’s First Century 1788-1888, (Facsimiles from Cassell’s Picturesque Australasia 1889), edited by E.E. Morris Part 2
Posted by: Lisa Hill on January 20, 2018
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