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|title=Angela Merkel: The Chancellor and Her World
|author=Stefan Kornelius
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=You have to admire the lady, this rather awkward and shy daughter of a staunch Lutheran pastor who himself had been born as a Polish Catholic. His daughter studied with such intelligence and application that soon brought her academic success particularly in Russian and finally in Quantum Chemistry. At the age of 26, she obtained her doctorate and - in passing, it rather seems - her first husband, the physicist Ulrike Merkel. Her rise to power was rapid and took place through the period in which the DDR collapsed as Russian policy under Gorbachev changed. Along with a wry and dry sense of humour Angela Merkel’s personality is the embodiment of the characteristic known in German as ''fleissig'' - hardworking, sedulous, diligent and assiduous.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883180</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
|summary=This collection of short stories written by some of the leading writers for young adults today is a moving and engaging account of an aspect of the First World War not often covered in teen fiction. Each story explores how the war changed the lives of young women of that time forever as they learned to cope with loss and grief.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440600</amazonuk>
}}