Murf reviewed The Lost Army Of Cambyses by Paul Sussman
A mutilated corpse washes up on the banks of the Nile, an antiques dealer is …
Atmospheric thriller
Gripping read, makes me want to see Egypt.
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"Why, yes, I am still upset that the Library of Alexandria burnt down"
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Murf rated Blitzkrieg: 5 stars
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece to his own, more dramatic …
Murf rated Blitzkrieg: 5 stars
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece to his own, more dramatic …
Humankind by Rudger Bregman
Der Historiker Rutger Bregman setzt sich in seinem Buch mit dem Wesen des Menschen auseinander. Anders als in der westlichen …
Murf rated Scattered Minds: 5 stars
Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe …
Murf finished reading German Tanks of World War II by Dr. F.M. Von Senger und Etterlin
Highly detailed with excellent photographs.
Murf reviewed Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench)
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to …
Very enjoyable
Very enjoyable
Murf finished reading Blood and Sand by Von Tunzelmann, Alex
"A revelatory popular history that tells the story of the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian …
Brilliant & engaging parallet examination of the Suez and Hungarian crises of 1956.
Capitalism must be tamed!
5 stars
I'd already read a fair bit about this, but the detail and argument laid out here is very accessible and readable - excellent book.
Murf reviewed The Second Science Fiction Megapack by Robert Silverberg
Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned …
A little hit and miss
3 stars
A little hit and miss, but contains a few good ones and for the price its well worth it.
Murf rated The Autistic Brain: 5 stars
The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin, Richard Panek
I have before me as a reviewer for amazon.com/vine an Advance Reading Copy of Grandin's THE AUTISTIC BRAIN (2013). Notably …
Peacemakers : The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) is a historical narrative about the …
Murf rated Final Impact: 2 stars
Final Impact by John Birmingham
Final Impact is a science fiction novel by Austrlian writer John Birmingham, the last volume of his alternate history Axis …
Murf rated Love in a Time of War: 5 stars
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) is …
Fascinating insiders view of the peace talks of 1919 and the threads of history leading to today.