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|author= Jo Woolf
|title= The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration
|rating= 3.5
|genre= History
|summary= Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910985880</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Allan Hailstone
|summary= New titles about the Yorkist dynasty, which ruled England for little more than two decades, continue to proliferate. Michael Hicks, acknowledged as one of the great – although never sympathetic – experts on Richard III, has contributed an interesting chronicle to the shelves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660156</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Clive Pearson
|title=The Second World War in 100 Facts
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=To begin at the beginning, that is one dissembling title. 100 Facts? There are bounties galore here that that low figure belies. There are a lot more, and I would attest that there will be some you aren't completely au fait with. If the Phoney War and the Battle of the Plate are bread and butter to you, how about Matapan? You could well be used to reading essays about Goebbels or Speer, but Field-Marshal von Manstein? That's not to say this is utterly exhaustive or complex, nor confined to the trivial. Its unexpected format actually makes it one of the better primers for the entire WWII, before, during and after.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653532</amazonuk>
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