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The Riddle of the Sands

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The Riddle of the SandsThe Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
ISBN: 9780141031279
Published by Penguin Adult on June 7th 2007
Genres: Fiction, Classics
Pages: 352

Len's Summary: An early spy novel written in 1903 by a Boer War veteran; the plot revolves around German plans to invade England discovered while sailing among the Frisian Islands. Childers (pronounced Chill-ders), an Irish patriot who smuggled arms aboard his yacht, was executed by the Free State authorities in 1922 during the Irish Civil War.

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The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 – 1939

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The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 – 1939The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars by Richard Overy
ISBN: 9780141003252
Published by Penguin Adult on May 7th 2009
Genres: History, General, Great Britain
Pages: 544

Len's Summary: A prize-winning British historian looks at the sense of dread, a presentiment of impending disaster, which seized England in the interwar years. Favorably reviewed in the Economist.

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