Last reviews in History Books

Last reviews in History Books

• Guest 12th October 2009

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  Stephen E ambrose's D-day is extremely bias towards the americans. He is saying that the the americans had better weaponry than the germans this is not true. The german batalions at D-day had not seen action fo
  

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• teach1 30th September 2009

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  Many books have been written about the Iron Curtain, this one is unique. A mixture of biography and history book it succeeds where other books fail: it paints a more complex picture of the East German society t
  

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• Two Ravens 1st September 2009

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  Reginald Laubin,Gladys Laubin, The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction and Use:
  It's not that I really need a tent to sleep outdoors in the wintertime, but I thought about getting a(nother) tent.
  I lo
  

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• Guest 31st August 2009

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  Read Chris Ryan's The One That Got Away over my holiday, great through out until the ending. The pacing after the syrian border is quite bad.
  

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• Guest 29th August 2009

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  Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy is an alsoblutely enlightened book.
  
  difficult reading because of the writing style and maturity needed to understand the concepts.
  

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• Bette B 26th June 2009

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  Oliver Fritz's The Iron Curtain Kid is an engrossing and insightful account of every day life under Communism. From the memorable morning in 1961 when East Berliners awoke to find the border to the West had bee
  

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• degbert 25th May 2009

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  just as the front-cover quote from renowned Irish psychiatrist professor Anthony Clare describes this, this book truly is a tour de force; you won't find a more insightful, comprehensive or well-balanced histor
  

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• koalaaa 21st May 2009

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  Having lived in East Berlin for a couple of years myself I'm quite familiar with life behind the Iron Curtain in general, and life behind the Berlin Wall in particular. And I can truly say that Oliver Fritz, Th
  

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• June Robinson 20th May 2009

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  The Iron Curtain Kid by Oliver Fritz is a fascinating account of growing up in East Berlin. Oliver Fritz's eye for detail makes you feel as if you are right there with him. The memoir is bookended with two hist
  

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• weatherman 17th May 2009

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  Oliver Fritz, The Iron Curtain Kid is a very good read and miles apart from similar books on the subject because instead of being written in German (as one would expect from a German author) it has been written
  

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