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    <body><![CDATA[It’s not very often that a fictional character comes to feel like an old friend. But that’s exactly how I feel about Amalia, the heroine of G.G. Vandagriff’s ‘The Last Waltz’. Ever since my high school visit to Europe, where I danced around the gazebo used in ‘The Sound of Music’ singi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50957438">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m sad to have finished G. G. Vandagriff’s epic historical romance, The Last Waltz, and grateful for the splendid read. What a grand, eye-opening adventure! I feel like I’ve lived in Austria and Germany since Page 1 and enjoyed every minute of my visit.<br/><br/>This novel of love and war c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50406001">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't decide between 2 and 3 stars.  The book was a nice escape for me.  It was dramatic, exiciting and passionate (modestly so). But after awhile, the characters weren't so believable.  That two people kept missing each other over and over again was not convincing.  And after being married for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68649937">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[amazing book dipicting life in world war 1 and 2 from an austrians womans point of view. Amalia Faulhabor was a middle case Austrian with with ancestry back to a count and so lived in style. However she didn't let this get to her head. she was engaged to be married to a baron Ebenhard, a Prussian un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54094127">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this novel very much. One of those books I was sad to have finished!<br/><br/>It was great to get specific historical information about what happened in Austria during WWI and the beginning of WWII.<br/>Through out we follow Amelia from being a 19 year old middle class Austrian. She is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67207993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My mother-in-law lent me this book to read in Lake Powell last month.  I only got a couple chapters into it on the trip, but was able to finish it this week, finally.  I really loved it and can't wait till the next volume comes out (it was very obvious at the end that there was at least another book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69951338">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mrs. Vandagriff's book is full of history and rich storytelling. Her research and characters shine throughout the book.<br/><br/>The story starts with an engaged Amalia, an idealistic teen living in Austria right before WWI. Her fiance, a Baron who will help her family's social status, feels he ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50427034">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredible, beautiful, breathtaking... I could go on and on. EXACTLY what a historical romance should be. Although the setting is not usually my forte (WWI through WWII), Vandagriff wove information into such a riveting story and through the eyes of such an admirable heroine that I was hardly aware ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79334109">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is set in WWI, which I know very little about so it's interesting in that way.  It is mostly a book about a young aristocratic woman, her several male relationships and how the war twists its way into her loves, her life, her family and her character.  Perhaps not a book for &quot;the guy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68987377">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a historical novel set before WWI through Hitler's European takeover and WWII.  And actually, I really really liked it.  The overall story was a love story, but all the historical facts were right on as far as I can remember from my history classes.  I sped-read through some of the politica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64317306">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was diffenitly a romance book. Amalia was the main character and it was interesting to watch her become the woman at the end of the book. It was based around World War I and World War II time and I wish the writer had but more history into the book, I think it would have broken up the roma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74947988">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love my German heritage and that is what drew me to this book. It's a tale of love and war. It spans the time from WWI to the beginning stages of WWII and spans the countries of Germany, Prussia, Vienna, and Poland. It was quite interesting to me. It is definately not a fairy tale with happy endin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81952375">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All I can say it that I am so thankful I am done reading this book. I don't even know why I finished it, I just got so far in that I couldn't quit. This book was way over my head with mumbo jumbo about the politics in Austria. The Last Waltz would be the &quot;last&quot; book I would recommend to an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70218516">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just felt like the whole time I was waiting and waiting and waiting for something exciting to happen. And it never did. Or if it did, it was just anticlimatic. I don't know. And I also really dislike reading books where you're hoping something will happen to the husband -- like he'll die or someth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74616530">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Spanning 1913 to 1938 Austria, this ambitious historical romance offers an interesting perspective on the inception of both world wars, and was quite entertaining to read.  The romance, though intriguing, was tortuous and usually of an adulterous nature.  Though the heroine mostly resists, I didn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64609481">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The historical facts were deftly woven into the story of Amalia and her family in pre WWI Vienna. The relationships of the characters were interesting and thought provoking. I simply could not put this book down and enjoyed learning history while being wonderfully ent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79201231">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I very much enjoyed this novel. The first half of the book has a different feeling than the second half perhaps reflecing the time table in which it was actually written. You don't know how it is going to end - until it ends.  I was left needing to discuss the book with someone - great book club cho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69841100">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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