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London, Macdonald, 1965 New York, Crowell, 1969. The Dark Tower: Tales from the Past (for children).Hermes in Paris London, Peter Owen, 2000.London, Peter Owen, 1995 Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, 1995. London, Peter Owen, 1988 Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, Dufour, 1989. London, Macmillan, and New York, Walker, 1964. London, Macmillan, 1963 as The Siege, New York, Walker, 1963. London, Bodley Head, 1959 New York, Walker, 1961. London, Bodley Head, 1958 New York, Abelard Schuman, 1959. London, Reinhardt, 1956 New York, Abelard Schuman, 1957. Secret Protocols, his last novel (and planned as such), is set in World War II and was published in 2007. Such phenomena relate very immediately to my own work, in which myth can be all too real, and the real degenerate into fantasy.” He said, “I was long impressed by the woeful distinction between the historical Macbeth and Shakespeare's: by the swift transformation of E.M. In his works, Vansittart expressed his fascination with how time transforms historical facts into fantasy and myth.

This must be partly due to my obsession with language and speculation at the expense of narrative, however much I relish narrative in others.” He said of his work, “My novels have been appreciated, if not always enjoyed, more by critics than the reading public, which shows no sign of enjoying them at all. For several decades he was acclaimed as England’s greatest living historical novelist. Vansittart’s novels span eras from 2,000 BC to AD 1986.

Secret Protocols by Peter Vansittart