Stories By Brett F. Woods
Fiction Reviews
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
March 6, 2025Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
History
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
February 20, 2025In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
February 12, 2025As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
February 3, 2025...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
Great Britain
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
February 3, 2025To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
January 21, 2025The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
December 25, 2024But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
History
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
August 1, 2024Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
Fiction Reviews
Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
July 23, 2024Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....
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