"This is an excellent and well-researched study of a horrific crime."
4 Stars
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The Law Society Gazette
"This is an excellent and well-researched study of a horrific crime."
4 Stars
Read the full review [link=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/reviews/the-roaring-twenties-and-organised-crime/5126974.article]here[/link]
The Law Society Gazette
“… Sokolov was able to use the Russian archives and presents a fresh perspective, based on dozens of new Russian-language secondary sources that have been published since 2000.”
The NYMAS Review
“… Sokolov was able to use the Russian archives and presents a fresh perspective, based on dozens of new Russian-language secondary sources that have been published since 2000.”
The NYMAS Review
"I think you’ve done an excellent job of telling the story of the volunteers in the SCW. It’s very readable and accessible, but also a fine bit of scholarship. Congratulations. It’s a very well-presented book too. I hope it sells well."
Jim Jump - Chair International Brigade Memorial Trust (IBMT), author of 'The Fighter Fell in Love' and 'Antifascistas' and editor of 'Poems from Spain' and 'Looking back at the Spanish Civil War'.
"I think you’ve done an excellent job of telling the story of the volunteers in the SCW. It’s very readable and accessible, but also a fine bit of scholarship. Congratulations. It’s a very well-presented book too. I hope it sells well."
Jim Jump - Chair International Brigade Memorial Trust (IBMT), author of 'The Fighter Fell in Love' and 'Antifascistas' and editor of 'Poems from Spain' and 'Looking back at the Spanish Civil War'.
"Overall, this is a decent introduction..."
Friends of the National Railway Museum Review - Spring 2026
"Overall, this is a decent introduction..."
Friends of the National Railway Museum Review - Spring 2026
It's rare that I read a book about video games and learn something new, but this one's exhaustive and insanely detailed list of everything and anything to do with Aliens games did just that. An absolutely fascinating read packed with anecdotes and details.
A rollercoaster ride that takes in the highest of highs and the lowest of lows of a video game franchise filled with hits, misses, and infuriatingly wasted opportunities. If you want to know the hows and whys of Aliens video games, this is a must. A right riveting read, as they used to say.
Julian 'Jaz' Rignall, legendary games journalist and author of The Games of a Lifetime
It's rare that I read a book about video games and learn something new, but this one's exhaustive and insanely detailed list of everything and anything to do with Aliens games did just that. An absolutely fascinating read packed with anecdotes and details.
A rollercoaster ride that takes in the highest of highs and the lowest of lows of a video game franchise filled with hits, misses, and infuriatingly wasted opportunities. If you want to know the hows and whys of Aliens video games, this is a must. A right riveting read, as they used to say.
Julian 'Jaz' Rignall, legendary games journalist and author of The Games of a Lifetime
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British Music Hall
'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPE Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan Leno, it reached its glorious, brassy height between 1890… Read more...
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Leadership in War
In this controversial study, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty wartime leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He considers the extraordinary difficulties they faced, and analyses how they performed and what they achieved. Were they successful, or were they beaten down by the burden of their roles? His… Read more...
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The Courage of Cowards
To many they were nothing more than cowards, but the 'conchies' of the First World War had the courage to stand by their principles when the nation was against them... An innovative new history of conscientious objectors during the First World War. Drawing on previously unpublished archive material, Karyn Burnham reconstructs the personal stories of… Read more...
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A Postcard History of the Passenger Liner
From around 1880 for almost 100 years shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted, as well as their magnificent liners, the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life on board. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on posters and postcards to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was… Read more...
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War of the White Death
On 30 November 1939 Stalin's Red Army attacked Finland, expecting to crush the outnumbered, ill-equipped Finnish forces in a matter of days. But, in one of the most astonishing upsets in modern military history, the Finnish defenders broke the Red Army's advance, inflicting devastating casualties and destroying some of the divisions that had been thrown… Read more...
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A Century of Sea Travel
This book is a voyage through the life of the passenger steamship, a voyage described by travellers who sailed on these vessels, and it carries within it their thoughts and experiences, mirrored here in words and pictures. The pictures are memories of ships and places in times gone by, glimpses of steamship travel through the years. In memoirs and… Read more...
We Seek the Highest has been the motto of the thousands of Officer Cadets who, over ten decades, have passed through the rigorous training regime at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire. The words embody the College ethos: to strive to reach the tough standards demanded by the RAF, in the air and on the ground. This book tells the 100-year… Read more...
