Stories By Brett F. Woods
Fiction Reviews
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
July 14, 2026Set 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
June 30, 2026Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
June 18, 2026In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
History
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
June 9, 2026As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
Great Britain
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
June 1, 2026To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
May 31, 2026...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
May 20, 2026The 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
April 25, 2026But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
December 6, 2025Like 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
November 27, 2025Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....
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