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A train in winter
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Caroline Moorehead |
On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz--the only train, in the four years of German o… |
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A bold and dangerous family
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Caroline Moorehead |
Mussolini was not only ruthless- he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him- arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes, intimidation and the forcible… |
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Dancing to the precipice
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Caroline Moorehead |
Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; the Great Terror; America at the time of Washington and Jefferson; Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon; Regency London; t… |
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Legends of Britain
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Caroline Moorehead |
Fifteen legends from England, Scotland, and Wales include ten about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. |
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Iris Origo
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Caroline Moorehead |
"Iris Origo was one of those rare characters who, despite being born with a platinum spoon in her mouth, went on to accomplish great things. In Origo's case, she managed to add light and colour to ev… |
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Lost treasures of Troy
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Caroline Moorehead |
A life of Heinrich Schliemann with particular attention paid to his excavation of Troy, his discovery of gold there, the interest and controversy surrounding this treasure and the fate of his artefac… |
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