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The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq»rank: 14882par: Gwynne Dyer
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War»rank: 12620par: Lynn H. Nicholas
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Every few months you'll read a newspaper story of the discovery of some long-lost art treasure hidden away in a German basement or a Russian attic: a Cranach, a Holbein, even, not long ago, a da Vinci. Such treasures ended up far from the museums and churches in which they once hung, taken as war loot by Allied and Axis soldiers alike. Thousands of important pieces have never been recovered. Lynn Nicholas offers an astonishingly good account of the wholesale ravaging of European art during World War ll, of ... |
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith»rank: 1966par: Jon Krakauer
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression»rank: 952par: Amity Shlaes
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It»rank: 2760par: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln»rank: 1773par: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |
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The Forever War»rank: 737par: Dexter Filkins
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |
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Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point In Canada's Afghan Mission»rank: 545par: Lee Windsor, David Charters
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |
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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction»rank: 10163par: Michel Foucault
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |
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Persepolis Boxed Set»rank: 7603par: Marjane Satrapi
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |