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    Vatican thriller

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/08/2017

    » Christianity hasn't been around long, its two millennia shorter than Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism. The God-Mary match captured the public's imagination and Holy Mother Church has been matched with God ever since. It survived its encounters with the Saracens and the Reformation, and now has an estimated following of 1 billion.

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    Renaissance history

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 14/07/2017

    » I am so conditioned when I pick up a new book about Italy that I expect it to be a historical novel about Ancient Rome. That period seems to fascinate historians and historical novelists. This reviewer finds it no more than somewhat interesting.

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    Right vs Justice

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/02/2015

    » It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the North Yorkshire Police is as well known in the UK in this day and age as London private detective Sherlock Holmes was a century ago. Less so in the US with its plethora of shamuses. But crime thriller fans the world over rate him as one of the best.

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    Human trafficking

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/03/2013

    » Slavery is as old as mankind. The slaves were made to work by the rich and powerful, their owners and overseers, at physical labours that sapped their strength and deprived them of their dignity. Often chained, always beaten to keep them in line. Tilling fields, building pyramids, or rowing ships, they died in place.

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    A Druid victory

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 13/10/2017

    » I didn't realise how many contemporary historians there are until I began reviewing their books. However, their interests don't vary greatly. Ancient Rome and the Tudor periods are predominant. Followed by World War II and the Templar knights. Then Ancient Egypt and the Napoleonic Wars.

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    Don’t pass it by

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/10/2014

    » Perhaps my chief complaint about authors is that all too many have nothing worthwhile to say. They tell a more or less interesting story, which we forget soon after turning the last page. There are writers, however, whose works leave us with food for thought.

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    The future is now

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 17/11/2014

    » At the end of the 19th century the intelligentsia agreed that everything had been discovered and all mankind had to do was enjoy it. Needless to say they were wrong. More was to be discovered in the 20th century than in all the previous centuries. New discoveries continue to be made non-stop this century.

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    Much wisdom here

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 06/10/2014

    » A Free Thinker but not an atheist, I evaluate the world's various religions not by their holy books, but by how their followers act when away from their temple/church/mosque. Alas, all too often, they forget the "be good, do good" sermons. Love, compassion, peace, forgiveness are sung about in hymns, but hardly ever practised.

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    Europe in chaos

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 29/07/2013

    » Born and bred in the Big Apple, my first memory of war was of a photo of a near naked native standing with a spear on the front page of a newspaper. Upon enquiry I was told that he was a soldier of Ethiopia, of which I had never heard. It was at war with Italy, of which I had.

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    The Black Prince

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/01/2013

    » Titling a novel with the year in which it is set presumes that the reader is aware of the historical event _ 476, the fall of the Roman Empire; 1215, Magna Carta; 1588, the defeat of the Spanish Armada; 1775, the American Revolution; 1789, the French Revolution; 1814, Waterloo; 1939, Hitler's invasion of Poland; 1941, Pearl Harbour. But 1356... with how many people does it ring a bell ?

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