The Corps Franc Pommiès (CFP) was founded on 17 November 1942 by its namesake, André Pommiès. It operated in south-western France, becoming one of the largest and most important Resistance units in the south. After initial work in the sabotage of rail and road networks, factories and power plants, on 15 April 1944 it sabotaged […]
Latest releases from HWA members
Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest by Sharon Bennett Connolly
The momentous events of 1066, the story of invasion, battle and conquest, are well known. But what of the women? Harold II of England had been with Edith Swanneck for twenty years but in 1066, in order to strengthen his hold on the throne, he married Ealdgyth, sister of two earls. William of Normandy’s Duchess, […]
A Miracle of Deliverance: A Dunkirk Short Story Anthology by Patrick Larsimont and others
Seven authors. Nine stories. One Dunkirk collection. This anthology commemorates the Dunkirk evacuation in a series of linked short stories. A young girl flees war-ravaged Belgium, while a German tanker progresses closer to the beaches, and a British soldier reflects on the chaos of war as he faces his final battle. A French artilleryman gets […]
Operation Berlin by Michael Ridpath
in 1930 historian Archie Laverick, scarred mentally and physically by the Great War, travels to Berlin to research a famed Prussian general. His quiet study is shattered when he crosses paths with Esme Carmichael, a spirited young American intent on making her name as a foreign correspondent. When a shooting at a Saxon castle leaves […]
The Family Lives of Medieval Women by Catherine Hanley
Women in the Middle Ages led fascinating and often wildly differing everyday lives, depending on their social class and family situation. Yet their wealth of experience has long been obscured and overshadowed by the experiences of men, with history books often relegating women to a single, catch-all chapter, as if their lives formed a unified […]
The Enemy’s Wife by Deborah Swift
When Zofia’s beloved husband Haru is conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941, she is left to navigate Japanese-occupied Shanghai alone. Far from home and surrounded by a country at war, Zofia finds unexpected comfort in a bond with Hilly, a spirited young refugee escaping Nazi-occupied Austria. As violence tightens its grip on the […]
Dangerous by Essie Fox
Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city. But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then a novel called The Vampyre is published under his name, rumours begin to spread that Byron may be the murderer. As events escalate and […]
Dominion of Dust by Matthew Harffy
It’s AD797, and warrior-monk Hunlaf and his crew are on a voyage to Cyprus to acquire an important Christian relic before it falls into the hands of Byzantium’s scheming Empress Eirene. Hunlaf’s crew receive unexpected help as they seek their treasure, but soon find themselves betrayed. About to leave for home empty-handed, the adventurers instead […]