the german geniusby peter watson describing the great geramn scientsits, philosphers writers and musicians of the 19th to 20th centuries and their expresion of german ideas form the wilhelmine to the post nazi despite rthe bildung nothing really special here all countries have their great scientists, musicians and writers
the 1000 pages plus of the book only go to show how germany has fallen off the world stage even if they did start it!!
skull and bones by john drake mercifully the final book in his long john silver his early days saga going downward from book one here both captain silver and captain flint spend little time at sea and less time in piracy having tom and jerry mis adventures in georgian london from bordello to tyburn meeting real life historical personages along the way like dr johnson and george washington
berlin-baghdad express sean mcmeekin relating the attempts of imperial germany to create a second front in arabia, persia and afghanistan to little effect
the war at the end of the world by mario vargas llosa a novel with huge numbers of charactors concerns itself with the millenarianist war of canudos and the army using more and more force to crush a small village of believers and their charismatic leader anthony
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