Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
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In 1914, the armies and navies that faced each other were alike right down to the strengths of their...
Kristin (149 KP) rated Secrets of the Apple Tree Tavern in Books
Dec 7, 2018
Francis is a scared little boy who just lost his entire family. Luckily, he has a guardian angel in the form of a policeman who smuggles him to a friend who will raise little Francy as her own. Over the years, Francy grows into Frank, a wonderful young man who travels to Dublin and back during the height of World War II and shares many exciting adventures and mysteries with friends and family along the way.
This is a well-researched story that really makes you feel as though you are in 1930s/40s/50s Brooklyn, as well as Dublin during the war. The characters are easy to identify with, and the story itself keeps a very good pace while still providing detailed background on the locations, time period, and characters themselves. You can almost picture yourself as a patron at the bar, sitting right alongside Frank, Butch, Johnny, etc., listening to all the stories from over the years. The cliffhanger is one that I’m interested to see resolved, and I will certainly be awaiting the next installment to see how everything falls in line.
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The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler
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The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in...
The Psycho Records
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?The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and...
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine....
The Key to Deceit
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The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to...
The Gourmands’ Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
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“In The Gourmands’ Way, Justin Spring brilliantly recounts the French odyssey of six remarkable...
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Churchill: The Life: An Authorised Pictorial Biography
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When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874, no one could have predicted the path that lay...
The Appeal of Community in Magnung Photos: 1947 - Present
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Since 1947, artist-owned photo agency Magnum Photos has combined an extraordinary range of...