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|author= Stacy Schiff
|title= The Witches: Salem 1692
|rating= 5
|genre= History
|summary= Like most people I know the story of Salem through the very particular lens of _The Crucible_. That particular lens was the very current witch-hunt that was going on at the time. Arthur Miller's play is rightly seen as an allegory of the McCarthyism in 1950s America – but having read Schiff's more academic approach to the source tale, it's easy to see that Miller's drama is much more about the hunting down of the 'red menace' than about what might have happened in New England two hundred and fifty years earlier.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147460224X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Danielle McLaughlin
|summary=The thing about pirates and their treasure is that once they have won it, they then have to keep control of it. Mutineers, enemy pirates, and those pesky good people, all step in with their say about what happens to it. Oh, and you can now add to that list a huge sea monster, that is capable of cutting its way through a perfectly circular porthole it makes in your treasure storage and helping itself. Is it any wonder that our heroic Steampunk Pirates need to combine forces with a returning character (last met in [[Attack of the Giant Sea Spiders (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates) by Gareth P Jones|book two]]) to put paid to this new horror?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156649</amazonuk>
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