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|title=The True German: The Diary of a World War II Military Judge
|author=Werner Otto Muller-Hill and Benjamin Carter Hett
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=We've had diaries of teenagers, opium addicts, drug smugglers, and a lot more. Some of them have been optimistic, happy things, and many not. Clearly World War II was not a place for a terribly cheerful outlook, whatever the diarist. However sometimes it was not the done thing to be pessimistic, for example when you were in the huge German military and were publicly denigrating the dreamt-of Nazi success. Such ''corrosion of morale'' would mean you being put in front of a three-man military tribunal, and most probably sentenced for such treacherous behaviour. The startling thing about this book, however, is that it contains much that would certainly have been deemed ''corrosion of morale'', yet it was written by one of the very military judges who served on those panels.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278544</amazonuk>
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|summary=With all the revelations about the systemised doping culture surrounding Lance Armstrong's team in the 1990s, it was interesting to read a story of a time before cycling was embroiled in one drugs scandal after another. Although perhaps not as memorable as Armstrong's career, Stephen Roche's will hold a place in cycling history for 1987, when he became only the second man to win the Tour de France, the Giro D'Italia and the World Championships in the same season. A quarter of a century after that remarkable feat, Roche has produced his autobiography, ''Born to Ride''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091905</amazonuk>
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