New Releases from Historium Press - War, Intrigue, Spies, and Politics

New Releases from Historium Press

Historium Press is excited to announce the latest additions to our catalog, featuring three captivating titles that are sure to engage readers with their unique stories and perspectives. Below is a brief overview of each new release:

Murder in Petrograd by Asya M. Pereltsvaig

Petrograd, 1916. As Russia is swept up in the maelstrom of war, Oswald Rayner, a bookish Oxford graduate, is sent by British Intelligence to Petrograd.

His mission is to curb Rasputin's influence and eliminate the man himself if needed. But Oswald soon realizes that his remit goes against his morals. Will he shirk his duty or be forever haunted by the blood on his hands and the burden of secrecy?

Murder in Petrograd re-imagines the web of forces surrounding Rasputin's murder in a gripping saga of obsession, politics, loyalty, friendship, love, and fate. Taking the reader from Russia in 1905 to Oxford and California fifty-five years later, the novel delves into the emotional lives of a wide cast of real historical figures to explore the central questions of power, complicity, morality, and destiny. Murder in Petrograd asks whether it is ever morally right to take the life of a human being, however repugnant and dangerous he might be. Blending archival research, immersive period detail, and vivid narrative reconstruction, it bridges scholarship and storytelling with cinematic scope.

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Into the Lion's Den by Dan Handel

Into the Lion's Den is set against the brutal realities of the Mau Mau rebellion in colonial Kenya.

Told through the voice of Simon Jackson Payne-a biracial man caught between British privilege and African heritage-the story unfolds as Simon stands trial in London in 1957, accused of treason by the very empire he served.

From his upbringing on a Kenyan coffee farm to elite schools in Nairobi and London, Simon straddles two worlds but fully belongs to neither. Denied an officer's commission because of his skin color, he fights in World War II as a sergeant in Burma, only to return home to a country unraveling. Recruited to infiltrate the Mau Mau, Simon is forced into moral compromises that culminate in an unforgivable act-one that will haunt him long after the rebellion is crushed.

As political expediency turns him into a scapegoat, Simon's trial exposes how race, loyalty, and power collide within the machinery of empire. Into the Lion's Den is a haunting exploration of identity, betrayal, and the devastating cost of survival when history demands a pawn.

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Pandaemonium Moon by John G. Ives

"Pandaemonium Moon is a startling and powerful work about one of the most dramatic eras of modern history. The rise of fascism and the war in Spain are rendered as if they are happening now, under our watch. The prose is effortless and the story is so powerful, it made me wish I'd been alive at the time so I could help fight."

-Sebastian Junger, New York Times Bestselling Author of "The Perfect Storm" and "Tribe"

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Arthur Rosen is a young Jewish man living in Brooklyn in 1936, watching with growing alarm as fascism spreads across Europe and begins to cast its shadow over America. When a confrontation with a Nazi brownshirt turns deadly and Arthur kills the man in self-defense, he realizes that the danger is no longer something he can simply observe from a distance. With his life threatened and nowhere left to hide, Arthur flees the United States and makes his way to Spain.

There, he finds a country already tearing itself apart.

The Spanish Republic has been attacked by an army led by General Francisco Franco, whose ambition is to destroy the Republic and establish a right-wing dictatorship supported by Spain's aristocracy, the Catholic Church, and the military power of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. As German planes bomb Spanish cities and Italian troops pour across the border, Spain becomes the battlefield on which the future of Europe may be decided.

From around the world, nearly 40,000 young men and women abandon their homes, families, and ordinary lives to travel to Spain. They come with little more than their convictions, determined to stand against fascism before it can spread beyond Spain's borders. They are the International Brigades.

Arthur joins their ranks.

Thrown into the brutal reality of modern warfare, he quickly discovers that courage and conviction offer little protection against bullets, artillery, hunger, exhaustion, and death. Amid the chaos, he encounters two women whose lives have been transformed by the war.

One is a beautiful Spanish woman assigned to photograph the conflict and document its atrocities. Moving through bombed streets and shattered villages with her camera, she records the suffering of civilians while struggling to preserve her own humanity. The other is a young woman from a small Spanish village whose life has been destroyed by the violence of Franco's advancing forces. Having lost almost everything, she arrives in Madrid determined not to become another victim. Instead, she joins the fight.

As Franco's armies close in on Madrid, the three strangers are drawn together by circumstances none of them could have foreseen. The city becomes both sanctuary and battlefield as its defenders refuse to surrender, even while bombs fall from the skies and Franco's forces press relentlessly toward the capital.

Through the eyes of Arthur, the photographer, and the young Spanish fighter, Pandaemonium Moon brings the Spanish Civil War vividly to life-the idealism of the International Brigades, the terror of aerial bombardment, the courage of ordinary civilians, and the terrible cost of choosing a side. As the siege of Madrid gives way to longer and increasingly bitter battles, their personal struggles become inseparable from the fate of a nation.

The first English-language novel to be fully set against the Spanish Civil War since Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Pandaemonium Moon is an epic story of war, love, sacrifice, and resistance-a powerful portrait of the young men and women who crossed continents to fight fascism and of the people who were already fighting simply to survive.

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These new releases from Historium Press offer a diverse range of genres and themes, ensuring there is something for everyone. Be sure to check them out and immerse yourself in these extraordinary narratives!