Motor Racing Heroes: The Stories of 100 Greats
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Covering almost 100 years of motor racing history, humanity, not simple statistics, is revealed here...
The Tiger and the Ruby: A Journey to the Other Side of British India
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In 1841, Nigel Halleck set out from Britain for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He...
A Whole Life
Robert Seethaler and Charlotte Collins
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'Heart-rending and heart-warming ...for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel' Jim Crace Andreas...
Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict
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Storm Warning is the latest collection from award-winning writer Vanessa Gebbie, described as...
God's Rainbow
Jaroslav Durych and David Short
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This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we...
Hollywood's Hawaii: Race, Nation, and War
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Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining...
Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated The Diplomat’s Wife in Books
Jan 14, 2021
It kept me guessing right until the very last chapters, which is very unusual.
It follows Emma and her grandson as they travel around Europe to France, Germany and finally Spain to solve a mystery that Emma has been trying to work out for 40 years... what happened to her brother. Throughout the book she tells her grandson but about her life in the 30s before WWII broke out when she met and married her husband - a British diplomat.
I loved that the font changed when it came to the chapters about Emma’s life in the 30s and when she was with Phil in the 70s, it made it so much easier when I’d put the book down (unwillingly!) for a little while to remember, just by looking, the perspective the book was coming from.
I was very sad about the book ending, as it was such a lovely read and one that was very easy to lose yourself in. I would definitely recommend it!
Among the Red Stars
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A suspenseful historical YA debut inspired by the true story of an all-female bomber unit in Russia...
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Merissa (11805 KP) rated A Lightness in My Soul in Books
Jan 18, 2021 (Updated Aug 7, 2023)
Just like the British evacuated their children, so did the Germans, although not everyone was put into homes, but camps instead. This is a heartbreaking and harrowing tale, told in the first person, as Arthur goes to a KLV camp. You stay with him as he begins to question just what is going on, then the Americans arrive, and you stay with him in the aftermath of that.
The conditions Arthur has to face are very well-written, managing to give the reader the horror and hopelessness of the situation without making it gruesome or unnecessarily violent.
For anyone with an interest in the history of WWII, especially if you are interested in the German perspective, then this is definitely one for your bookshelves. A one-sitting, engrossing read highly recommended by me.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
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Jan 18, 2021
The Girl from Bologna (Girls from the Italian Resistance #3) by Siobhan Daiko
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Bologna, Italy, 1944, and the streets are crawling with German soldiers. Nineteen-year-old Leila...
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