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Review: Auschwitz A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account – Miklos Nyiszli

Posted on 19/09/2026 by Speesh in Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust

'The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available' - The New York Review of Books

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Review: The Vinland Sagas – Keneva Kunz, Gisli Sigurdsson

Posted on 11/09/2026 by Speesh in History, Non Fiction, The Americas, Vikings

The Icelandic Sagas about the first documented voyages across the North Atlantic

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Review: Journey Into Fear – Eric Ambler

Posted on 09/12/2024 by Speesh in Crime Fiction, Fiction, Spy Fiction, The Second World War

Is that all there is?

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Review: The Mask Of Dimitrios – Eric Ambler

Posted on 20/04/2024 by Speesh in Fiction, Spy Fiction, Thriller

Yawn

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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

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