Froissart's Chronicles
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"The Chronicles of Jean Froissart" (1337-1410) are universally acknowledged as the most vivid and...
Rocco and the Nightingale
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When a minor Paris criminal is found stabbed in the neck on a country lane in Picardie it looks like...
The Daylight Gate
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GOOD FRIDAY, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted...
The Kindly Ones
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Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual...
The Single Soldier
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It is said that home is where the heart is, but when war rips a young man from everything he knows...
From Paris with Love (2010)
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James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real...
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From Lysander to Lightning: Teddy Petter, Aircraft Designer
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The Lysander, Canberra, Lightning and Folland Gnat are massive names in the world of aviation. Only...
Agincourt 1415: Field of Blood
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On 25 October 1415, a trapped and vastly-outnumbered force of exhausted and demoralised English...
Fw-200 Condor Vs Atlantic Convoys: 1941-43
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After the fall of France in 1940, Germany attempted to strangle Britain into submission by attacking...