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MarkUK
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Date Posted：2022-07-04 06:12:19Copy HTML One for Shula. I've just finished A Distant Mirror, the Calamitous 14th Century by the American author Barbara Tuchman. It's a look at the 60 years 1340-1400 in Europe mostly as it affected France. It concentrates on events that the French nobleman Enguerrand VII de Coucy was involved with. It goes into enough detail to give you a good idea of life during those miserable times without getting bogged down in too much detail. About a third of it is social history, the rest political. For me the best bits are the story of the Papal Schism and the devastating defeat at Nicopolis, events which I knew little about. Highly recommended.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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pbandrew3rd
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-02-27 01:56:02Copy HTML I haven't left the building. My computer caught a virus and spent Wednesday afternoon to this afternoon at the computer doc's office. I have not seen, and will not see, A Clockwork Orange. I heard the gratuitous violence would be more than I could take. I suppose you liked Reservoir Dogs, too. I watched your Reservoir Dogs but half way through remembered I had seen it before. The ending wasn't any better the second time than the first. A movie made for American audiences and full of violence. Break down and rent Empire of the Sun, you will thank me that you did. |
majorshrapnel
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-02-27 11:12:51Copy HTML Try Bridge over the River Kwai. The best Jap prisoner film made |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-02-27 11:19:46Copy HTML I see that Trump has got his hands on Epstein’s secret little films, goody, nowt like a bit of tittle tattle on the rich and famous eh? Especially Prince Andrew, dirty little rat |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-02-27 12:30:39Copy HTML Try Bridge over the River Kwai. The best Jap prisoner film made Now I will be marching around & whistling all day, Major. Damn you for bringing up that great movie. |
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MarkUK
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-02-27 03:19:19Copy HTML I see that Trump has got his hands on Epstein’s secret little films, goody, nowt like a bit of tittle tattle on the rich and famous eh? Especially Prince Andrew, dirty little rat He'll destroy them as he probably stars in them. |
