Friday, 31 January 2025

The Books I Read In January

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  Fiction 'Stasi Child' by David Young This is a novel set in 1975 featuring Oberleutnant Karin Müller member of the East Berlin Vop...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

The Books I Read In December

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This year I read 59 books, the shortest being 160 pages and the longest being 634 pages. P.P. 06/03/2025 I was interested to see where this ...
Saturday, 30 November 2024

The Books I Read In November

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  Fiction 'A Scream in Soho' by John G. Brandon This is a crime novel very precisely set in early 1940 before Italy entered the war ...
Saturday, 23 November 2024

The Hated Chapters: A What If? Novel of an Arab State in Southern Iberia in the 1990s

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While stories set in the latter part of the 20th Century do appear in some of my anthologies such as 'Mark in the Sea'  (2018) and ...
Friday, 22 November 2024

The Loyal Pursuit: The American Forces are more Successful in the War of 1812

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The War of 1812 actually ran until 1815. It was about the USA, not yet 50 years old, asserting itself in North America. Researching the conf...
Thursday, 21 November 2024

Taken In Lycia: The Treaty of Sèvres Enforced Giving Fascist Italy a Zone in Anatolia

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  Of the peace treaties signed following the First World War, one which envisaged some of the greatest changes to the defeated Power was the...
Saturday, 9 November 2024

'What If?'s I Have Written About

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Now that I have been publishing 'what if?' analysis books and collections of short stories for eight years, I thought it might be us...