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|author=Irina Ratushinskaya

|title=Grey is the Colour of Hope

|rating=5

|genre=Autobiography

|summary=In April 1983 [[:Category:Irina Ratushinskaya|Irina Ratushinskaya]] was convicted of 'agitation carried on for the purpose of subverting or wrecking the Soviet Regime'. She had dared to defend human rights and to ask questions of the Soviet system via her writing in general and poetry in particular. The penalty that came with the conviction was 7 years in a labour camp followed by 5 years in internal exile. In [[In the Beginning by Irina Ratushinskaya|In the Beginning]], her first autobiography, Irina touches on that time of her life. Now, ''Grey is the Colour of Hope'' goes back to look at it in detail.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473637228</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Irina Ratushinskaya

|summary= If you think you know everything about owls, think again. Even the basic things that you THINK are a given may turn out to be wrong. Plop is an adorable 8 week old baby owl and he has the feathers and the beak and the all-around owl look, with two crucial differences: he's not very good at flying, and he's afraid of the dark. Which, for a nocturnal creature, is a bit of a problem.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281847</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Nicholas Stargardt~~

~~|title=The German War~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=History~~

|summary=History can be a dry subject when it focusses only on events and the key people that shaped them. However, when it uses those events as the backdrop to the lives of ordinary people it truly comes to life. ‘The German War' is the story of the second world war through the eyes of a diverse group of Germans. It tells their stories, with great candour and humanity, as it follows the build up to the war, the war itself and its aftermath. Using detailed research, interviews and anecdotal evidence, Nicholas Stargardt has created a narrative that is both a historical record and compelling. Its scope is massive but it is a tremendous achievement. Books from the allies' perspective are many and varied; as a result, this can lead to a distortion of the historical record. This work addresses this imbalance.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953987X</amazonuk>~~

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