Book Reviews

Book News March 2020

The War Queens: Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield Hardcover – 10 March 2020 (US) & 26 March 2020 (UK) History’s killer queens come in all colors, ages, and leadership styles. Elizabeth Tudor and Golda Meir played the roles of high-stakes gamblers who studied maps with an unblinking, calculating eye. Angola’s Queen Njinga was willing to [read more]

Book Reviews

Book News March 2019

Informally Royal: Studio Lisa and the Royal Family Hardcover – 1 November 2018 (US) & 1 March 2019 (UK) A chance meeting in 1936 gave Lisa and Jimmy Sheridan the opportunity of a lifetime. Keen amateur photographers, their company, Studio Lisa, were engaged by the then Duke and Duchess of York to take informal, casual photographs [read more]