
The Undertaking
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A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles...
Fertility of Soils: Future for Farming in the West African Savannah
Christian J.M.G. Pieri and P. Gething
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Can a continuous growth of agriculture be achieved in the sub-Sahara region without inducing...

Sign of the Cross (Cal Donovan, #1)
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Abruzzo, Italy: a young priest suffers the stigmata of the crucifixion. The Vatican, Rome: the...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
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During World War II, 8-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) and his family leave Berlin to take up...

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Subway maps designed with a common graphic language. Easy to read, easy to use, easy to memorize....

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The Scent of a Storm
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A heart-wrenching love story for the ages – inspired by true events Eastern Prussia, 1944:...
Historical Fiction WWII

ClareR (5950 KP) rated The Dictator’s Muse in Books
Jan 10, 2023
Hitler is in power, and one of his most respected film makers, Leni Riefenstahl, has been tasked with filming the Berlin Olympics. She has to tread a fine line between the film-making she wants to create and that of the Nazi propaganda machine.
Meanwhile, back in England, Kit is training for the olympics whilst holding down a full time job and trying to impress his upper class girlfriend. He discovers he can get sponsorship through Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, even though he isn’t by any means a fascist.
Alun is a Welsh Communist, who has been tasked with infiltrating the Blackshirts.
Leni seems to be in a state of permanent dread, because even those who are staunch Nazis aren’t safe from being taken down by the SS.
There’s a lot going on in this book, and it sounds like it should be confusing. But it’s really not. It wasn’t fact, unputdownable.
There’s a great mystery threaded through this, introduced by a modern day character, an academic called Sigrun Meier.
Historical fiction AND a mystery - what’s not to like?!

Quicksands: A Memoir
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Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and...

Lovelock
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Jack Lovelock has been called the first modern athlete. He became famous internationally when he...