David McK (3562 KP) rated Flashpoint in Books
Jan 28, 2019
One of the most famous Flash stories - recently covered (briefly) in the DC TV series of the same name, during season 2.
In which Barry Allen wakes up at his desk to find the world he knows has changed drastically: there's no 'Man of Steel, nobody has ever heard of The Flash, and Wonder Woman and Aquaman are at war with each other.
All of which, over the course of the story, eventually comes to be because of a single change in the past, with that oen chagne leading to a domino effect and creating this world.
Reading this, it's also not hard to see why it is one of the more famous Flash stories and is (currently) rumoured to be the foundation for The Flash's upcoming Big Screen debut ...
Half the World
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'Grabbed me and refused to let go' George R.R. Martin SOMETIMES A GIRL IS TOUCHED BY MOTHER WAR...
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography
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Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet....
The Day of the Triffids
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Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has...
An Echo of Ashes
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An Echo of Ashes is a story lost to time, then found again in century-old letters that lay in a...
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The Crew
Joseph Kessel and Andre Naffis-Sahely
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The crew of a French reconnaissance plane during the First World War consisted of just two men: a...
CassidyTristyn (189 KP) rated Escaping the Holocaust: A True Story in Books
Aug 14, 2018
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Louis Barthas, Edward M. Strauss, Remy Cazals and Robert Cowley
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The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches...
Great Short Works
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The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness,...