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Derek Nudd
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The Riddle
The Riddle: Illuminating the Story Behind the Riddle of the Sands by Maldwin DrummondMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is clearly a labour of love by someone who knows the sea and has followed Childers' wake. Getting into the meat of it, the author offers an extended summary of the story of The Riddle of the Sands then Childers' own analogous tour in 1897. Here he sometimes blends the movements of C Read more of this blog post »
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| Ask any passer-by to name a famous pirate and they might come up with Kidd (who arguably wasn't a pirate at all), Blackbeard, Morgan, the fictional Long John Silver - but Bartholomew Roberts? How come so few have heard of the most successful sea robb ...more | |
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Captain William Kidd was one of history's most notorious and bloodthirsty pirates, right? Wrong, according to this well-researched book. It presents him as a skilled seaman and commander, ambitious, but naive in the treacherous ways of political man. ...more |
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The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II:
"History has a strange cruelty, it remembers the grand speeches, the decorated leaders, and the glamorous victories, but it keeps the suffering of ordinary men tucked away in footnotes. Gautam Hazarika’s "The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II"
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