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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:25:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:24:33 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book avoided two stars just for not forcing me to contemplate leaping from a cliff after the last book I read on the subject of dictators.  Great for a day's read, but it's always more interesting if you can find specific biographies.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:21:52 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book was filled with tedious bias and raging inaccuracies, coupled with a style better fit for a sixth-grade history report.  For example:<br/><blockquote>World War I forced Germany to accept war guilt, to demilitarize their strategic valleys, to breakdown down (sic) their military caste system, and not t...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82687521">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:08:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Coverage of early Christianity, from Peter and Paul through Constantine and the early church fathers to Aquinas.  It shows the early church's disdain for Greek philosophy, as well as its grudging acceptance of the methods of the latter in order to appeal intellectually for the soul of the Roman Empi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82685790">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:55:37 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[After all the movies over all the years, you would think that the SS and it's various arms were a monolith.  This book sets about displaying the inner workings of this organization, showing the various divisions to be private fiefdoms of their respective heads, all vying for ultimate control.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:56:49 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is some of the most beautiful, dream-like writing I've read in a while.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138299.The_Great_Game_The_Struggle_for_Empire_in_Central_Asia">The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/79989.Peter_Hopkirk">Peter Hopkirk</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:38:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Do you like spy novels (and films), but find there's too much reliance on new-fangled gadgets and characters whose only qualifications are being suave and sophisticated?  Then this might be worth checking out.  A history real-life intrigues in Central Asia of England and Russia in the nineteenth cen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76669988">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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