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The Longest Day (1962)
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War Horse (2011)
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Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and his beloved horse, Joey, live on a farm in the British countryside. At...
Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M. Mason
John J. Hurt and Steven E. Sidebotham
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Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War "log" that depicts the experiences of...
Some Day I'll Find You
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Richard Madeley's first novel plays beautifully into the heart of commercial fiction, a love story...
Norman Stone Castles: v. 1: British Isles 1066-1216
Adam Hook and Christopher Gravett
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The Normans were some of the most feared warriors of the High Medieval period, descended from the...
From Paris with Love (2010)
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James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real...
David McK (3188 KP) rated Warlord (The Outlaw Chronicles, #4) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Like the previous three books in the series, this is presented as an elderly Alan Dale recounting the adventures of his youth, with each section (and the epilogue) of the novel as him committing the tale to paper, and his thoughts in so doing.
While the cover of the novel also has "A Robin Hood tale" above the title, I actually found that character to be sidelined more in favour of Alan in this novel than in the previous, where he very much was central to the story but seemingly not so much here. That's not to mean that he's not present, and that he doesn't have a role to play: just that this novel is more about Richard than it is Robin.
The novel also includes elements form that other great Medieval tale/obsession of the Holy Grail, which is worked into the reason why Richard is besieging the castle (at Robin's urgings) at which he receives his fatal wound. That plot strand, however, is also left wide-open for the sequel, already announced as titled <i>Grail Knight</i>, and which I'm already looking forward to!
Etape: The Untold Stories of the Tour de France's Defining Stages
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In ETAPE, critically acclaimed author Richard Moore will take readers on a virtual Tour de France,...