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Saturday, February 1, 2025
the rest is history ...
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The prospect of penning my thoughts on history and how it may – or may not – have a bearing on my literary endeavors creates some disc...
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Egyptissimo
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Brier, Bob. Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs , Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Brier, Bob. The...
Monday, June 20, 2022
the good war that never ends
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Collingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.) The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food. New York, Penguin, 2012. Kempowski, Walt...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Tricky, the Dragon Lady, the gumshoe and the shrink
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Graff, Garrett M. Watergate: A New History . Simon & Schuster, 2021. O’Donnell, Lawrence. Playing with Fire: the 1968 Election and t...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Cry of the city
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Wilson, Ben. Metropolis: a history of the city, humankind’s greatest invention . New York, Doubleday, 2020. “ … a colourful journey ...
Friday, May 1, 2020
Revisionism and its discontents
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Zinn, Howard, A People’s History of the United States. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. Jeff Riggenbach, Why America...
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