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Gregory pens an intimate tale of deceit, deception, greed and vanity with “The Red Queen. Young Margaret Beaufort believes she is called by God. She also believes that it is her responsibility to give the House of Lancaster its next heir.
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Book Review for "The Red Queen"
All those who accused BJP of attempting to saffronize History when Murli Manohar Joshi spoke about re-writing Indian History must read this book and form their own opinion. This book contains incontrovertible evidence to prove that we as an Independent country are, beyond any trace of doubt, guilty of distorting history! That too within the first fifty years of independence itself!
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Worshiping False Gods – Written by Arun Shourie – Book Review
“The First Assassin” Takes us back to the days when Abraham Lincoln had just been elected president despite the very separate views of those from the north and those from the south. In many cases it was family against family, white against black, white against white, and blacks trying to figure out where they would stand in a skirmish between the north and the south. The story starts with an assassin planning to assassinate Lincoln upon his arrival in Baltimore while on his way to Washington to assume the presidency.
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The First Assassin Written by John J Miller
The Odyssey is a tale of Bronze Age Greece as seen from the eyes of the Dark Age author Homer. From historical sources we see the Bronze Age cities as obviously run by some kind of powerful hierarchy that can direct the efforts of its citizens and collect both taxes and resources, but what we see in the Odyssey is a collection of village chieftains forming a confederation of nobles. Despite the grandeur of their palaces, and their god-like feats of heroism, in all ways they represent a gilded version of the Homeric chieftain who leads with the approval of the region in which he resides in an attempt to sustain and provide prosperity for his people.
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The Odyssey As a Historical Source
Eddie Chapman was a prolific spy who simply rode his luck (that’s what we think, he may differ). His British controllers called him Agent Zigzag, as he was working for Germans initially, and then he was recruited by the British. Even Scotland Yard was looking for him for the robberies he conducted in the pre-war period. Eddie Chapman is just the right subject for any book, a man who knew many languages (learnt from women he wooed) and a self styled gentleman conman (these words don’t sound nice together).
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Agent Zigzag – The Double Agent With Double the Luck
I have never read a book with such detailed war action. The Vietnam War, or as our government referred to it as a “police action”, was not a popular war in the minds of the American people.
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Missions of Fire and Mercy, Until Death Do Us Part Written by William E Peterson
A winner of various awards, including the 2005 History Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, and garner of accolades from parties across the Westminster spectrum, such as Shirley Williams of the Liberal Democrats, William Hague’s recounting of the life of William Pitt is primarily a read of relaxation. Our longest serving Prime Minister but one (Walpole of the early eighteenth century lays claim to such fame; however, Pitt never used the title ‘Prime Minister’ himself, it being a term of derision in the 1700s), he became chief of Westminster at the tender age of twenty-four, heading…
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William Pitt the Younger by William Hague
