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Review: The Riddle of The Sands (A record of secret service) – Erskine Childers

Posted on 11/06/201813/08/2018 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Spy Fiction

His son became the President of Ireland

Review: Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble – Antony Beevor

Posted on 15/11/2017 by Speesh in History, Non Fiction, The Second World War

December, 1944. Hitler launches his last gamble: soldiers and tanks pour into the snowy forests and gorges of the Ardennes. In the most hostile conditions since Stalingrad a million men do bloody battle to determine the end of the Second World War

Europe in 1814

Posted on 09/10/2017 by Speesh in Book Stuff

This time, we've moved forward to 1815 in the Rand McNally World Atlas Premier Collection, still published in 1946. The copy accompanying the map, goes like this: The Congress of Vienna in 1815 re-fashioned the map of Europe after the downfall of Napoleon. England and France in the west; Austria and Russia in the east; … Continue reading Europe in 1814 →