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Hammer of the Gods: King Olaf's Viking Conquest

by Don Hollway

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Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land

by Steve Tibble

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Melisende’s Quotes

“I do suffer from an associative malady that permits me to justify acquiring almost every book.”
― Henry Hitchens (Browse)

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“... history is a fog, a fog of uncertainty. The deeper one peers into it, the murkier and more uncertain the fog becomes. The instant an event has transpired and begins receding into the past it becomes vulnerable to memory and interpretation..”
― Don Hollway, The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen

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― Gregg Podolski, The Recruiter

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“The thing about somebody else's car was, it was automatically an all-terrain vehicle.”
― Mick Herron, Joe Country

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“Books are so full of thoughts that some of them have learned to think.”
― Henry Hitchens (Browse)

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where people can talk about anything and everything Medieval from known historical figures to life and times of the period to favorite authors of the ...more

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