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William Finnegan recommended Homage to Catalonia in Books (curated)

 
Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell, Julian Symon | 2013 | Biography
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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"""Among all of Orwell’s great unflinching reportage, this book stands out as a personal odyssey and first-person witness to history. He went to Spain in 1936, during the civil war there, to help fight Fascism. He joined a leftist militia and found himself targeted not only by Franco’s forces but by Stalinists intent on crushing anyone not toeing the Moscow line. Orwell’s descriptions of wartime Barcelona and impoverished rural Spain, his clear-eyed analysis of the shifting factions in the war, are triumphs of tender, hard-headed participant-observation. He was wounded at the front, shot through the throat by a sniper. His peerless moral grasp of the dangers of totalitarianism began in Spain."

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Vegas (725 KP) rated Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) in Movies

Mar 28, 2020  
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
1971 | Action, Comedy, Family
7
8.1 (18 Ratings)
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A family film that still has a feel good feel to it...
A trainee witch is looking after a group of children in wartime Britain when her final lesson in witchcraft doesn't arrive... What follows is a search for the final spell on a magical bed... Trying to stop a German invasion and a fair bit of singing and dancing...

Angela Lansbury stars, in a role far removed from the character that she would later become famous for and puts in a great performance as the novice witch...

A live action and cartoon film that works really well when the two bend together, and is just the sort of film to bring a smile when things are getting you down...
  
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David McK (3929 KP) rated A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3) in Books

Sep 7, 2025  
A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3)
A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3)
Simon Scarrow | 2025
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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Third entry in Simon Scarrow's Criminal Inspector Schenke series, all of which have an unusual setting of being in wartime (WW2) Berlin, with their protagonist a Criminal Investigator member of the German police force (*not* SS).

In this one, it's largely about gang warfare, with CI Schenke and his team (some of whom he has to be very careful around) pulled into the investigation of a murder in Berlin (hence the tile) as Hitler prepares to invade Poland, and finding this murder may be connected to another case they are investigating around forged food coupons.

As before, it's shocking that some of the stuff you read about here - specifically, the with-holding of those (non forged) coupons from the Jewish community - actually happened!