Published: 2010
Rating: 5
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LOVED IT! This well researched historical novel focuses on the events leading up to WWI or the Great War, the war itself, the Bolshevik revolution and the woman's suffrage movement. These monumental and world-changing events are told through the interrelated lives of five families from the US, Wales, Russia, Germany and England.
I had my ipad nearby to check facts and read more about certain events. Having never been interested in history, I find myself wanting to learn more.
Published: 2012
Rating: 5
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LOVED IT as much as the first. This book covers the brief interlude between the two World Wars and WWII. Once again, I could not put it down. After finishing, I watched the HBO series Band of Brothers (loved it!) and read the book.
Historical fiction is my new favorite genre. I am currently reading Jeff Shaara's The Rising Tide which covers the North African conflict in WWII. I know absolutely nothing about this and again, finding it fascinating. My husband says I need to watch the movie Patton with George C Scott which is set in this time period.
Published: 1992
Rating: 5
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This book chronicles the amazing and heroic journey of the men from Easy Company, the 506th regiment of the 101st Airborne from enlistment to the grueling training which few survived; to the drop on D-Day into enemy territory, to the gallant fighting in key battles such as the Battle of the Bulge to the taking of Hitler's Eagle' Nest towards the end of the war.
I loved the HBO series and plan to watch HBO's The Pacific to learn about the fight against the Japanese.
Published: 1976
Rating: 4
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I have started a collection of Virginia Woolf's writings and am thinking of doing a study of her life and works using Hermione Lee's critically acclaimed biography as the guide to reading her diary, essays, short stories and novels in chronological order. I think it would be a fascinating study of a most unique and brilliant literary mind.
Published: 1937
Rating: 5
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I read this in anticipation of the movie from Peter Jackson that is coming out in December. A quick read which felt like a reunion with old friends from the Lord of the Rings trilogy (meaning movies as I have yet to read the books): Bilbo and The Ring, Gollum, Gandalf and Elrond of Rivendell.
