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The Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection

Marcus Hearn

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The Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth & Co started producing 'saucy' postcards in 1910. These...

War Damage

Elizabeth Wilson

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London in the aftermath of WW2 is a beaten down, hungry place, so it's no wonder that Regine...

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Manual 1942-60 (All Marks): An Insight into the Design, Operation, Maintenance and Restoration of the Usa's Giant Long-Range Heavy Bomber

Simon Howlett

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An insight into the design, operation, maintenance and restoration of the USA's giant long-range...

The Helsingør Sewing Club [Audiobook]

Ella Gyland

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Inspired by the incredible true story of how the people of Denmark saved their Jewish neighbours...

ClareR (5603 KP) rated Lucifer’s Game in Books

Feb 15, 2022

Lucifer’s Game

Cristina Loggia | 2022 | Fiction & Poetry, Thriller

8.0

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This was an enjoyable, well-researched historical fiction novel set during WW2 in Rome.
Cordelia Olivieri’s life in Rome becomes more precarious as the Italian fascists start to identify more Italians with Jewish heritage. Cordelia’s English mother was Jewish. She has a friend in the Vatican who promises to get her on a transport to England, if she will just photograph the German plans for North Africa. This seems a simple task (or not!), as the German officer in charge of the planning for Rommel has taken over Cordelia’s hotel as his centre of operations. But Cordelia complicates things somewhat when she starts to fall in love with him.
The villains in this book are thoroughly despicable, and the ‘goodies’ are in constant danger. It’s all very nail-bitingly exciting and another great read on The Pigeonhole!

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Dean (6925 KP) rated The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) in Movies

Nov 7, 2018

A potentially great story about alien contact was really let down by the plot more than anything. I have seen the original and while that would be regarded as well ahead of it's time made in 1951 this will shortly be forgotten. This has the big budget modern effects otherwise the main difference of this and the original is the reason for the alien contact. The original made after WW2 was all about living in peace or risk destruction for our violent actions. This is all about the environment if we can't change our ways we risk killing the earth and ourselves. Oh and John Cleese is always worthy of more than a few minutes cameo?!
Great start but a missed opportunity. If you want a good action, drama or disaster film on a similar them watch Independence day, War of the Worlds, or The day after tomorrow instead.