Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

Muravchik, Making David into Goliath One of the tragedies of the postwar period…

Padraig Og O Ruairc, Truce: Murder, Myth and the Last Days of the Irish War of Independence The catastrophic winding down of the struggle in Ireland

John R. Schindler, Fall of the Double Eagle I’m a big Schindler fan, looking forward to reading this…

Oldstone-Moore, Of Beards and Men This is a favourite subject of mine: let’s hope the book lives up…

Nicholas, Hidden Britain Real tunnels or folklore ones too?

Lawrence, Kursk Very expensive but by all accounts wonderful book…

Adams, The Earliest Christian Meeting Places Where two or more are gathered in my name…

Julia Lee, Our Gang, a Racial History Watched the early and the modern recently….

Froom, Evasion and Escape Devices Looks great, a bit expensive perhaps.

Asserate, King of Kings Always had a thing for Haile: choked with a pillow?

Christopher Othen, Katanga 1960-1963 Always been curious about Katanga, two many bad 1980 novels…

Another book that passed me by… The lost religions of the near east. Gerard Russell, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms  

Donald Crandell, The Spies of Lanikai This book covers the question of pre 11 Dec spying for Pearl Harbor. Always been curious about this. Read a couple of bad chapters elsewhere… Hope this fills the gap.

This is the book I’m most excited by this month. Richard Sugg (who was planning a book on poltergeists?) Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires  

Ok a re-release but I somehow missed this… John Dougill, In Search of Japan’s Hidden Christians