Titanic: The Unsinkable
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Try to avoid the sinking of the RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage in 1912. Experience the...
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (Pottermore Presents, #1)
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‘Minerva was the Roman goddess of warriors and wisdom. William McGonagall is celebrated as the...
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
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n this spellbinding novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old...
The Kingdoms
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Come home, if you remember The postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years,...
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David McK (3425 KP) rated Rebellion (Eagles of the Empire #22) in Books
Apr 4, 2024
Which, like the French with Napoleon at Waterloo, if you knew nothing about British history you might be forgiven for thinking she won (she lost).
The majority of the novel is taken up with the impact the Rebellion had on the Romans in the south of England and (in particular) in London, with Macro and Cato still separated at the start of the novel and with the former in captivity amongst Boudicca's army following the fall of the veterans colony in the former novel, and facing quite gruesome execution.
I have to say, I was actually surprised how little of this novel was spent on the final pitched battle between the Romans and the Britons, with more of it spent on describing the sense of desperation and the breakdown of law and order (well, that's what the Romans would have said) as Boudicca's horde descends on London.
ClareR (5726 KP) rated We Germans in Books
Aug 17, 2023
That letter is the book we read, with asides and clarifications from the grandson.
We don’t have a story that covers from the beginning to the end of the war. This is told from when things have started to go wrong for the Germans. The army is fragmented. The soldiers don’t really know where they’re going, but they know that they want to try and make it back to Germany - on foot. These men are scared, confused and the acts they see committed by both sides are horrific.
The grandson helps us to see the effects of the war on his grandfather, and his subsequent imprisonment in Russia. How 70 years post-war have changed him, how the war changed him as well. He acknowledges that he was to blame for what had happened as much as anyone else, but that he was expected to toe the line as a soldier.
This is historical fiction, but its well researched and has the hint of reality about it. It really gives the reader something to think about, and I know that personally, I haven’t found many books out there that cover this period of history in this way. I can’t say as it’s something I want to avidly read lots of books about, but having read this from a more human perspective (rather than a factual history book that lists dates and places), it feels very personal.
This is a short, powerful novel, and I think it’s worth the time spent reading it if you have an interest in either the time in history, or human nature.
Wounds: A Memoir of Love and War
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A family story of a murder, blood and betrayal that tore an Irish town apart and causes men to be...
Death and Mr Pickwick
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On 31 March 1836 the publishers Chapman and Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly...