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For an old-style adventure story, this book was surprisingly colorful and witty. Dreyfus is framed for a contrived attempt to sell military secrets--a crime for which someone else eventually confessed--but because he is Jewish, the military court pin
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I read the three books in the trilogy as they were released, but having them in one volume made it worthwhile to reread the entire set. The story is complex but fascinating and richly detailed as we go from Pol Pot's holocaust-ravaged Cambodia, to th
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Alex
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read in February 2016
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One of the strangest books written about WWI, this novel follows the adventures of Melchior, a Bavarian crystallographer who is miraculously transferred from the trenches in France to a post in the Austrian alps and assigned to build a fortress insid
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