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Brockenhurst War Memorial
Nestled in the New Forest, Brockenhurst as a touching war memorial. The village first erected a temporary shrine for their war dead. When the campaign to build stone war memorials gathered pace, this was replaced by an obelisk in 1921.
Meanwhile, a large house in the area had been commandeered for use as a war hospital for the Indian troops of the Lahore and Meerut Divisions. In 1916 it wa
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Wow! What an epic. At 800 pages with 24 detailed map, 116 photos and hundreds of notes and references this book is a real endurance test for the reader. But it is worth it. Before staring on this book I knew little about the convoys to Russia. My fath ...more |
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Well, it was OK. But I'd not go further than that. The storyline was told largely in flashback as the testimony of assorted people appearing at a public inquiry into a disaster. It must be said that this element of the book was done competently but w ...more |
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Brilliant This is a hugely amusing and interesting book. The author namedrops shamelessly about the film stars, celebrities and royalty that he met during his long career in Hollywood and European movies. The stories are unfailingly interesting and fr ...more |
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Another in the series of books about security consultant Hector Cross, but not I fear one of the best. The book shares all the strengths of the other Cross books: good characters, great action scenes, plenty of detail about glamorous places [and not ...more |
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| A fascinating book. Obviously of great interest to those of us who remember the Falklands War and all the controversy that surrounded the sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano. This book analyses that sinking and the circumstances around it. Many o ...more | |
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So this isn't my normal sort of thing, but I saw it second hand for 50p and thought that maybe I should broaden my horizons - and I'm glad that I did. I don't know what modern romance books are supposed to be like, but this was an engaging, if slight ...more |
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A good read, but ultimately it all felt rather hollow and unfinished. As with other books by Patterson, this follows the investigation into a serial killer who is murdering people across a period of several weeks. The plot twists and turns keep the r ...more |
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| The tagline is "a novel of the next world war" - and that is what this is. It is not a technical military book analysing weapons, strategies and tactics. Instead it is a novel telling the stories of the people involved in the war. Yes, the weapons an ...more | |
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“Outsiders might mistake the East Enders habit of dealing with their own issues as being criminal, but to the local inhabitants it was more a case of keeping things out of the hands of the authorities.”
― Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life during the reign of Victorian London's most brutal killer
― Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life during the reign of Victorian London's most brutal killer
“Murder, even an accidental killing in a fight, was not only frowned upoп but was rare. In 1887 there was only one murder in Whitechapel, and in 1889 none at all. So while violence was common and widespread, killing was not.”
― Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life during the reign of Victorian London's most brutal killer
― Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life during the reign of Victorian London's most brutal killer
“It is not the number of victims that Jack the Ripper claimed that ensure his lasting fame. Only five women were definitely killed by him, and certainly there were no more than eight victims. Other serial killers since then have murdered more. And although the horrific mutilations Jack the Ripper carried out were disturbing and violent, they too have been surpassed since. In the records of serial killers, Jack the Ripper is unexceptional in many ways. But he remains the most famous of them all.”
― Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror
― Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror
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