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	The Devils of Cardona 3.71 avg rating — 804 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الدين والدم: إبادة شعب الأندلس by Matthew Carr (Goodreads Author), ماثيو كار, مصطفى محمد قاسم (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Sun Rising 3.52 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism 3.80 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2007 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent 3.57 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War 3.53 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination 3.50 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Father's House: In Search of a Lost Past 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emperor of Seville (The Bernardo de Mendoza Mysteries Book 2) 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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In the 1957 sci fi film The Incredible Shrinking Man, Scott, the central protagonist is enveloped by a mysterious mist while lounging on a boat, and shortly afterwards he begins to realise that he is getting smaller. Nothing can stop the process, it seems, as he shrinks to the size of a boy, and then becomes small enough to live in a dolls house. At first, Scott rages against his predicament,

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Matthew Carr wrote a new blog post The Incredible Shrinking Country In the 1957 sci fi film The Incredible Shrinking Man, Scott, the central protagonist is enveloped by a mysterious mist while lounging on a boat, and Read more of this blog post »
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Matthew Carr rated a book really liked it Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten by Kate Brown	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A brilliant collection of essays on ‘marginal places’ in the US, Ukraine and Russia from the author of A Biography of No Place. Brown is a humane and observant writer, a Russian speaker with a deep knowledge of the Ukrainian-Polish borderlands In thi ...more
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Matthew Carr rated a book really liked it Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 by Robert Goodwin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Quirky, colourful and thoroughly entertaining account of Hapsburg Spain’s rise to political and cultural greatness in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The second half impressed me less, with its in-depth analysis of Don Quixote and Valázquez, ...more
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Matthew Carr rated a book really liked it My Name Is Light by Elsa Osorio	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Fearsomely gripping and quite staggering novel about the dark legacies of the Argentinian dictatorship, and one young woman’s search for her stolen identity. I picked it up in a local bookshop and could barely put it down. Osorio effortlessly juggles ...more
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Matthew Carr liked Jane Stanley's review of Slaughterhouse-Five: "Read for a book group And wanted to like it as it's a classic anti-war book and is so famous. Unfortunately I couldn't get into it fully. I appreciate its anti war stance, and the device of aliens looking down in dismay, possibly, on the Earthlings a" Read more of this review »
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Matthew Carr and 1 other person liked Jane Stanley's review of The Safekeep: "A part of Dutch history I didn't know, (but which I feel I should have) added a much needed extra dimension. I won't give spoilers though! The second narrative voiced section was much more engaging than that of 'Isabel'. I think that listening to thi" Read more of this review »
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Matthew Carr rated a book really liked it Butcher's Crossing by John Williams	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Really haunting and powerful novel from the author of the brilliant Stoner. The two books couldn’t be more different - except for their common themes of futility and disappointment. The first is a seemingly ‘small’ but ultimately moving story about a ...more
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Matthew Carr rated a book really liked it We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Thought-provoking and engaging study of a philosopher and thinker whose ideas seem constantly relevant to the mess we’re in. Stonebridge is not blind to Arendt’s failings, but her clear-eyed analysis of her strengths makes you want to go and seek out ...more
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“even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers . . . as far as I know, all the fighting men of our army want peace; and it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
― Matthew Carr, Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War

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