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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    Done: off to Oxfam with it.

    Next: "Butter side Up" by Magnus Pyke of immortal memory.
    Done: Off to Oxfam with it. The one review on Goodreads is of the opinion it should have stayed in the 1970s. Cruel but probably correct: not overly inneresting but at least it was short.

    His cousin was the inventor of "Pykcrete": the ice/woodpulp combination for making aircraft carriers.

    Next: "Churchil's Secret Defence Army: resisting the Nazi invader" by Arthur Ward (2nd edition, 2013): the story of the "BRO" staybehind organisation.
    When the fun stops, STOP.

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      Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
      Next: "Churchil's Secret Defence Army: resisting the Nazi invader" by Arthur Ward (2nd edition, 2013): the story of the "BRO" staybehind organisation.
      Curiously uninneresting: some of the pictures were very good. Seemed to have a tendency to repeat himself rather irritatingly with the same information on two facing pages at one point.

      Happily push never came to shove so the organisation was disbanded in November 1944.

      Off to Oxfam with it.

      Next: TBD. So little choice. . "The Enigmatic Sailor" by Sir Alan Peacock. The Y Service on board ships.
      Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 16:55.
      When the fun stops, STOP.

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        The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope. Never read any Trollope before. Quite witty.

        Project Gutenberg so no returning anywhere! I recently download a few books and short stories from there by Robert Silverberg and Clifford D Simak.
        Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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          Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
          The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope. Never read any Trollope before. Quite witty.

          Project Gutenberg so no returning anywhere! I recently download a few books and short stories from there by Robert Silverberg and Clifford D Simak.
          Which Simak?
          When the fun stops, STOP.

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