A Lightness in My Soul
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Inspired by the incredible true story of a German teen taken prisoner at the end of WWII, determined...
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Daughters of the Winter Queen
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From the author of The Rival Queens, a lively group biography of Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen,...
The Lost Women of Mill Street
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1864: As Sherman’s army marches toward Atlanta, a cotton mill commandeered by the Confederacy lies...
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Surviving the Nazi Onslaught: The Defence of Calais to the Death March for Freedom
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Ted Taylor, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, was sent to France in May 1940 as part of Calais...
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred
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Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust surveys the history of the Holocaust whilst demonstrating the...
King of Thorns
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The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to...
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House of Sacrifice
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Hail Him. Behold Him. Man-killer, life-stealer, death-bringer, life’s thief. All are bound to...
With Macro injured early on and left behind to hold the fort (literally) while Cato marches off, under orders from his legate, to capture the Druid stronghold of the Isle of Mona, the novel is perhaps unusual in that the two main characters are apart for a large part of the read. Things, of course, do not go to plan, with the tail end of the novel (for some reason) reminding me quite strongly of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow ...
it is, of course, always the curse(?) of the literary hero to be in the thick of the action; to act (perhaps) out of character in relation to certain situations and threats - let's face it, it would be a pretty boring read otherwise! With that in mind, I can quite easily forgive the, perhaps, more flagrant examples of throwing the hero in the midst of things simply for the sake of doing so - the prime example being the rescue of the sailors from the shipwreck.