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|author=Oliver Greeves
|title=Nelson's Folly
|rating=2.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The story of Admiral Nelson – who never actually achieved that rank, but only ascended to Vice Admiral – is one of the best known in English history. Despite our history teachers' best efforts there are very few battles that most of us can name. Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Hastings…if we live in the north then Flodden, Bannockburn, Culloden…it probably takes an interest in maritime things to know of the Battle of the Nile and the siege of Malta…but just about every English person knows about Trafalgar. They may not know where it is and what it was about, but we know (if only from the Square and the Column) that it was a mighty victory and that Nelson was in command.
|isbn=0645023701
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
|summary=First, the title. We're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?
|isbn=0571364438
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