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|author= Amy Licence
|title= The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women's Stories
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Biography
|summary= According to popular wisdom, Henry VIII had six wives and only two mistresses. The former statement is correct, but the latter only tells part of the story. Even while he was married to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, there were many more ladies in his life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660393</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Dan Ropek
|summary= Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives and Queens, was arguably the most unhappy figure during the Tudor era who did not meet her end on the scaffold or at the stake. The cliché 'tragic love story' must be a fitting one in her case.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656701</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steven Burgauer
|title=The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=After World War II Bill Frodsham led an everyday life, raising a family in an ordinary US suburb. He, his wife and children became friends with the Burgauer family, little Steven Burgauer knowing him as Mr F. Time rolls on and little Steven grows up, and then eventually retires from the American financial sector to write science fiction and lecture from time to time. He's therefore surprised when, out of the blue, Mr F's daughter tracks him down and presents him with a pile of handwritten notes asking Steven to make them into a book. These are Mr F's self-authored memoirs, stretching from his youth onwards and showing that this seemingly good, kind but unremarkable man was anything but unremarkable. During the war Mr F trained for the impossible and then lived it as he led men across Omaha Beach on D Day. He was then captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW in inhumane conditions. Steven accepted the request and ''The Road to War'' is the result: the life and war of Captain William C Frodsham Jr.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1450218806</amazonuk>
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