Reviews

The Russian Countess
Edith Sollohub

ISBN: 978 0 9556239 5 0 (£18.99)
Format: HB
20 llustrations

Publication: December 2009

Countess Edith Sollohub, born Edith Natalie de Martens, was well known in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg for accompanying her husband Alexander on shooting and riding trips and for being outstandingly accurate with her gun. She was the daughter of a high-ranking Russian diplomat, and the mother of three young sons, destined to join the social and intellectual elite of imperial Russia. The Revolution of 1917 changed the course of these lives.

Illustrated with original family photographs this account will interest the serious academic and general reader alike.

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Exeter Cathedral
The First Thousand Years, c.400– 1550

Nicholas Orme

ISBN: 978 0 9556239 8 1 (£14.99)

There has been a church on the site of Exeter Cathedral since Roman times.
This is the story of its first thousand years, when three successive cathedrals
were built, including the present one.

In twelve chapters, the author takes us
back to the past to see why the cathedral is like it is, and what went on there.
We explore its origins; its surroundings and buildings; its wealth, clergy, and
people; its workings from day to day and throughout the year; and how it
changed at the time of the Reformation. This is a fascinating piece of religious
and social history, written for the general reader and illustrated with maps,
reconstructions, and colour photography.

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SAS Operation Galia

Robert Hann

ISBN:978 0 9556239 9 8 (£7.99)

Publication: December 2009

Two days after Christmas 1944, during the
harshest winter in living memory, 33 SAS
troops parachuted into the valley of Rossano,
Northern Italy.

Carried out in broad daylight, the parachute drop was intended to
deceive observing enemy forces into believing that a full parachute
brigade of 400 men had landed behind them.
Drawing on post-op reports and memoirs, this book is a fictionalised
account written from the perspective of one of the rank and file parachutists
who took part in the operation: the author’s father.

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Review by Colonel Bob Stewart

A Dictionary of Kabbalah and Kabbalists
Dan Cohn-Sherbok

ISBN: 978 0 9556239 7 4(PB) (£12.99)
ISBN: 978 0 9556239 6 7(HB) (£25.00)
256 pp, 20 illustrations

Publication: December 2009

Designed as a reference work for the student and general reader, this Kabbalistic dictionary is a concise and handy guide to the history and treasures of the Jewish mystical tradition. It is the first dictionary of Kabbalah which provides an overview of the major themes of Jewish Kabbalistic thought as it developed over the centuries as well as brief introductions to its major practitioners. In addition to the dictionary itself, the book contains a chronology of Kabbalah, a history of Kabbalah from ancient times to the present, maps, illustrations and an insight into the emergence of the Kabbalah Centre in California, where many stars, including Madonna, worship.

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