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Grins

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8. Yes!

Reply to JoseBalow (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 9, 2023, 01:12 PM

Nov 2023

The freaky thing - I thought those books were written in that sequence. I saw Blackthorn’s descendants in Tai-Pan and Noble House!

Apparently that was just me. The books were not in that order.

Best book I have read on prison camps?
“Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand.
Again, Japanese prison camps.
Sections during which I had to pause reading and reflect on the horror I just read.

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