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Phil Yates

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Having worked as an operations researcher, storyteller, programmer, military historian, and games designer, Phil Yates is embarking on a series of novels chronicling New Zealand’s battles in the Second World War. His tales of adventure weave together his love of history, interesting characters, and the strange things that actually happened in the midst of conflict.

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Team Yankee World War III Book

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Unfortunate Book on Keith Park

With Keith Park being a New Zealander who lived near me, and my fascination with anything WW2, I wanted to like this book, I tried to like this book. Unfortunately, it's just so scrambled and disorganised that I hated it.

As an example, it wasn't until the author mentioned that Park was 46 sometime before 1938 in chapter three that I had any idea when he was born. Since the preceding paragraphs kep Read more of this blog post »
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