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• Golden Parasol by Wendy Law-Yone
  ...rs and sisters lives, but hints at the tragedy in some of them that may or may not have grown out of their early experiences. ...ruggle in context we recommend [[The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn]] of for the modern take [[Burma Chronicles by Guy Delis
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To David Canning
  ...These ideas don't get too much of an airing in literature and some readers may find them quite novel or even uncomfortable, but I've found that, in partic ...the vocabulary and idioms of the period (although, I suppose, in part this may be down to pressures from the publishing companies). So my story contains
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• Newest Biography Reviews
  ...itive and thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe a ...and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't k
  14 KB (2,334 words) - 16:37, 21 July 2022
• Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2016
  |summary=1942: Hitler is pushing his way ever further, the USA adds its strength to the A ...Together they discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach, and may only be gained through full scale rebellion...
  13 KB (2,105 words) - 13:16, 30 January 2024
• Newest Crime (Historical) Reviews
  |summary=Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murde ...just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the
  15 KB (2,585 words) - 13:45, 25 March 2023
• Newest History Reviews
  ...ist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempte ...ould stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.
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