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War Memorial Monday - Kemmel Hill, Belgium

The Kemmelberg (English: Kemmel Hill, French:Mont Kemmel) is a hillformation in Flanders,Belgium. Itis located less than a kilometre from the village of Kemmel, part of themunicipality in the province of WestFlanders. The Kemmelberg is the highest point in the province with analtitude of 154 metres (505 ft).

During World War I, it was the location of one of the war'smost ferocious battles,

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	Titanic: The Tragic Story of the Ill-Fated Ocean Liner 4.30 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life during the reign of Victorian London's most brutal killer 3.85 avg rating — 239 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stalingrad: The Battle that Shattered Hitler's Dream of World Domination 3.87 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitler : Military Commander 3.67 avg rating — 166 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life During the Reign of Victorian London's Most Brutal Killer 3.78 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Age of the Gladiators: Savagery & Spectacle in Ancient Rome 3.52 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer!: Fortunes You'd Rather Not Tell by Rupert Matthews (Goodreads Author), David Antram (Illustrator), David Salariya (Goodreads Author) (Created by) 3.94 avg rating — 120 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alien Encounters 3.52 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2007 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Wouldn't Want to Be a Chicago Gangster! by Rupert Matthews (Goodreads Author), David Salariya (Goodreads Author) (Creator), Mark Bergin (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sasquatch: True-Life Encounters with Legendary Ape-Men 3.67 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rupert Matthews rated a book One-Upmanship by Stephen Potter	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is the fourth book in this humorous series that I've read. I'm not sure if it was the fourth to be written, but it is clearly not the first. I enjoyed i. The central joke - that there is a college that teaches people how to win in life without a ...more
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Rupert Matthews rated a book liked it The Stone Monkey (Lincoln Rhyme, #4) by Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I enjoyed this book, once I had got started on it. The plot was well developed with plenty of twists and turns as we went along. Mind you, the big surprise revealed towards the end did not come as all that much of a surprise. The author had sprinkled ...more
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Rupert Matthews rated a book The long banana skin by Michael Bentine	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a great book. Of course, it helps if you remember Michael Bentine as otherwise you might wonder who this chap was. Fortunately I recall him as a star of children's TV when I was a child. My main memory is of the ridiculous flea circus and the ...more
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Rupert Matthews rated a book it was amazing Battle of the Arctic: The Epic Story of World War Two Amongst the Ice by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wow! What an epic. At 800 pages with 24 detailed map, 116 photos and hundreds of notes and references this book is a real endurance test for the reader. But it is worth it. Before staring on this book I knew little about the convoys to Russia. My fath ...more
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Rupert Matthews rated a book liked it The Snow Tiger by Desmond Bagley	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Well, it was OK. But I'd not go further than that. The storyline was told largely in flashback as the testimony of assorted people appearing at a public inquiry into a disaster. It must be said that this element of the book was done competently but w ...more
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Brilliant This is a hugely amusing and interesting book. The author namedrops shamelessly about the film stars, celebrities and royalty that he met during his long career in Hollywood and European movies. The stories are unfailingly interesting and fr ...more
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Rupert Matthews rated a book liked it Predator (Hector Cross, #3) by Wilbur Smith	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Another in the series of books about security consultant Hector Cross, but not I fear one of the best. The book shares all the strengths of the other Cross books: good characters, great action scenes, plenty of detail about glamorous places [and not ...more
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A fascinating book. Obviously of great interest to those of us who remember the Falklands War and all the controversy that surrounded the sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano. This book analyses that sinking and the circumstances around it. Many o ...more
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Rupert Matthews rated a book really liked it Winterling (Winterling, #1) by Sarah Prineas (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A very enjoyable book, in a lightweight sort of a way. I guess it is aimed at teenagers since the hero is a teenager, but honestly I thought it worked quite well as a lightweight book for adults. The sort of thing you might read beside the pool on ho ...more
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So this isn't my normal sort of thing, but I saw it second hand for 50p and thought that maybe I should broaden my horizons - and I'm glad that I did. I don't know what modern romance books are supposed to be like, but this was an engaging, if slight ...more
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“Outsiders might mistake the East Enders habit of dealing with their own issues as being criminal, but to the local inhabitants it was more a case of keeping things out of the hands of the authorities.”
― Rupert Matthews, Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life during the reign of Victorian London's most brutal killer

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“Murder, even an accidental killing in a fight, was not only frowned upoп but was rare. In 1887 there was only one murder in Whitechapel, and in 1889 none at all. So while violence was common and widespread, killing was not.”
― Rupert Matthews, Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life during the reign of Victorian London's most brutal killer

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“It is not the number of victims that Jack the Ripper claimed that ensure his lasting fame. Only five women were definitely killed by him, and certainly there were no more than eight victims. Other serial killers since then have murdered more. And although the horrific mutilations Jack the Ripper carried out were disturbing and violent, they too have been surpassed since. In the records of serial killers, Jack the Ripper is unexceptional in many ways. But he remains the most famous of them all.”
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