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61.Francesco's Italy by: Francesco da Mosto June 08, 2006
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Thankfully i managed to record all four episodes of Francescos very entertaining Top to Toe series on Italy onto disc. His ladish exploits in that gorgeous Alfa Spider made the series a more lite hearted affair to his magnificent Venice,and his influnce in being one of the oldest Venitian families opened doors into fabulous palaces and villas that are barred to all members of the public. Naturally he could not spend too long in the north of the country but witnessing Lucca, Puccinis birthplace and Bolognia the oldest university in the world made what he did choose trully excelleny.Veronia was where Shakespeare based Romeo and Juiliet but Shakey never visited the place. The highlite of the series for me was when ... Read More:

62.Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story by: Nicola Tyrer February 28, 2008
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Finally a book that tells the story of the remarkable women nurses in WW2. From the first page the reader is immediately transported to the world that these women were part of. From their nursing training to the weird and wonderful details of their uniform. If you think you know what nurses such as these did in WW2, then think again. The horrors they endured and the terrible situations they found themselves in will shock the reader and leave you with nothing but admiration for their spirit and bravery. The book has plenty of quotes and paragraphs from the women themselves, and/or diary entries from that time. A few of the women are featured throughout the book, and the reader will find themselves taken vividly back to ... Read More:

63.The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by: William Dalrymple April 02, 2007
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This magnificent book is based on Persian and Urdu documents in India's National Archives. It vividly portrays Mughal Delhi and its destruction in 1857. The last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II (1775-1862), was at the heart of a court of great brilliance, home of `the greatest literary renaissance in modern Indian history'. Architectural historian James Ferguson called his palace `the most splendid palace in the world'. Dalrymple shows that the Uprising resulted from the Raj's growing racism and hatred, its `steady crescendo of insensitivity'. Its arrogant schemes to impose Evangelical Christianity and Christian laws on India `ushered in the most obnoxious phase of colonialism'. The uprising was `along distinct class ... Read More:

64.Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chamber by: Filip Muller August 24, 1999
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Truly the worst holocaust testimony ever written.So many mistakes throughout the whole text.Two examples of which were when Mr Muller mentions the camp orchestra in Birkenau,there was none.He also quotes that Kramer was in Birkenau and had came from Auschwitz 2.Both are one and the same place But important errors like these were repeated in every chapter and the worry for me is that Holocaust deniers may pick up on these simple blunders.Mr Mullers over use of adjectives and repetition of statements at times resulted in the book bordering on being boring.It read more like a students written essay who wasnt fully informed ,rather than an actual Holocaust survivors memoirs.Ive read many more imformative Holocaust testimonies and even Mr Muller must have been disappointed ... Read More:

65.The Discovery of France by: Graham Robb September 07, 2007
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I must admit I was seduced by the wonderful cover photo of Mont-Saint-Michel, and the title which suggests a romantic travel book, where the local peculiarities are grounded in the authors knowledge of local history - something like a H.V.Morton's Traveller in Italy for today (and for France). What you actually get is a social history of the provincial French peasantry from 1780 to 1880. I now find out that the American edition has a sub-title very like this, but not a sign of it on my copy, or on Amazon-UK. However, it is well written and so not as dull as that sounds, in fact it is good to read, and interesting in a rather vague way - paints pictures rather then pushing a thesis. The only way it is 'heavy' is the 400 good-size pages, 100 of ... Read More:

66.Sod That for a Game of Soldiers by: Mark Eyles-Thomas June 01, 2007
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I feel i have to write in a retort to Jayetee's reveiw. The comments about the authour being rude and abusive, although being his/her personnel opinion should not stand. I have recently laid the book down after what i can describe as one of the most moving accounts that i have ever digested. Mark Eyles-Thomas served with the Parachute Regiment, calling all other members of the armed forces who did not earn the Maroon beret as HATS, is what is best described as banter, mickey taking and having a massive sense of self pride. What the Paras and other elite units do is not normal, these people are close, because of what they are asked to do; by people sat in their living rooms and cosy offices. Is the reviewer so naive as to think those HATS do not have their own ... Read More:

67.Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned by: Damien Lewis August 21, 2008
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The Killer. The author has destroyed what could have been a good book. His research is so poor that he made the cardinal sin of writing - he has misspelled the name of a dead man. Before the book even gets out of the prologue L Cpl Mathew Ford who gave his life for our country has been spelled wrong - unforgivable. Inaccurate. It goes from bad to worse. I read the prologue and know the crews that flew the mission. It is so wrong and inaccurate that it doesn't even portray what happened. I lost count of the amount of errors in the very first pages and gave up counting. Persistence was not worth it. Wanting to know more I persisted with the book and felt let down with the whole thing. The blurb has a lot of hype that quite frankly isn't fulfilled. ... Read More:

68.London: The Biography by: Peter Ackroyd September 06, 2001
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Rambling, unfocused, poorly researched, and little real history. An enjoyable holiday read perhaps, but those looking to learn about the origins of this great city should look elsewhere. Most of the discussion centers on the 17th and 18th centuries and most of the anecdotes come from only two souces. The author could have taken the trouble to do a little more research! Very disappointing.

69.Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by: George Orwell June 05, 2003
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Note how the great Orwell never says anything positive about those doing the bulk of the fighting against Franco - in fact, note how he barely mentions Franco and fascism at all! In the course of the events he descibes in this book, he spends most of his time doing nothing, like the rest of his Trotskyist and anarchist friends. Meanwhile, the Republicans, whom he slanders from afar, were fighting and dying in the front line against the Nazi and Italian forces who enabled Franco's victory. Note also how he never says a positive word about the Soviet Union, which was the only country to help the Republic, while the British and French governments helped Hitler and Mussolini to intervene.

70.Japanese Tattoo by: Sandi Fellman, D.M. Thomas January 01, 1991
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This book is great! Having just flipped through it, you can see right away that the pictures inside are big and easy to see the detail. It also gives a little background to the different images used in a Japanese Tattoo. For example, it tells you what the dragon symbolises and where it originated from in the tattoo format. I would recommend this book for any tattoo enthusiast.

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