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  • Writer's pictureWilliam Tyler
    • Apr 3, 2020
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Booklist


Six Minutes in May - Nicholas Shakespeare [Churchill's assumption of power]


Cabinet's Finest Hour - David Owen

[Former Foreign Secretary writes of May 1940]


The World in Conflict - John Andrews

[A country by country round-up]


A Place for Everything - Judith Flanders

[History of the alphabet]


Birds in a Cage - Derek Niemann

[Birdwatchers in a Nazi POW Camp]


Providence Lost - Paul Lay

[Brilliant book about Cromwell's Protectorate]


Tidelands - Philippa Gregory

[Novel of The Civil War]


To Calais, in Ordinary Time - James Meek

[Novel set at time of Black Death written in a form of Middle English ; well worth the effort]


The Girl without Skin - Mads Peder Nordbo

[A fictional crime story set in Greenland with lots of history and culture; for fans of intelligent Scandinavian Noir]


Sentenced to Life - Clive James

[A must for poetry lovers]












 

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