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Amazon.com: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W.  Tuchmans Great War Series (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books) eBook  : Tuchman, Barbara W., Robert K. Massie: Kindle

I've been wanting to read this FOREVER but I got busy with Life.....

So I'll read The Proud Tower first and then read this one...









Well I just finished this one....

It's May 1940 and Maisie is asked to find a boy who hasn't called his folks in a while. He's working as an apprentice for a government contractor painting new barracks and airfields with fire retardant paint.

Well you know what May 1940 was.....



DUNKIRK!

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You people will just have to read it....but first you'll have to read ALL the Other Ones!....because it's like....a TV Miniseries!!






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Jacqueline Winspear (Author of Maisie Dobbs)

I would have to say that Jacqueline Winspear is my favorite author....she replaced Wilbur Smith and Edgar Rice Burroughs....













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The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15) by Jacqueline Winspear

I'm reading Maisie Dobbs volunteering for ambulance service during the Blitz.......Un-Freaking-Believable......








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I can picture my girls doing a "Maisie Dobbs"!  They are a couple of Hard-Heads!!   

Full Steam Ahead! Damn the Torpedoes!  


* and my ex-wife.....   Bucky










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I just ordered Jack Carr's #2 and #4 of the James Reese Terminal List series.  I avoided "The Terminal LIst" for a long time, just because it didn't seem like it would be anything "different", mentally challenging... I was WRONG.  Well written, technically excellent, lots of action, thoughtfully provoking (and borrowing from some of the recent similar themed movies and books... or at least very well along many of the same conditions... OK, it works... Carr does a great job).  I, wrongfully, thought Carr would have nothing new and interesting to offer.  "The Terminal LIst" was "chew your fingernails" suspenseful.  I will follow Reese until the end...
Too bad he and Maisie Dobbs can't have an affair... 
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I am checking out the hotties online to see who I would want to see play Maisie in the movies..... Bucky


But....it's better if you read Maisie in ORDER because it's not like some Agatha Christie mystery...it's a veritable miniseries about Maisie's life and all her friends and family! Like Downton Abbey!

(plus Maisie does get.....umm....involved with a few men over the years....)     Bucky









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The Consequences of Fear: A Maisie Dobbs Novel - Kindle edition by  Winspear, Jacqueline. Literature &amp; Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Reading this now.....pretty soon I will be sitting on Jacqueline Winspear's front porch waiting for typing paper....






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Maisie would like James Reese...too bad she's too old now...
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A Sunlit Weapon: A Novel (Maisie Dobbs Book 17) - Kindle edition by  Winspear, Jacqueline. Literature &amp; Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.     

Well, I just finished this.....THE LATEST Maisie Dobbs book.......crap! Now I'm going to have to wait for her to write another one to find out what's happening next!!!   


SPITFIRE | The Plane That Won The War - YouTube





So in order to pull myself together I am starting COLDITZ....I saw the movie 50 years ago, now I will read the book about the POW escapes....

Town and castle

Colditz Castle where the Nazis held the BAD POWs.....like The Great Escape......


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Colditz: The Full Story: Reid, P. R.: 9780760346518: Amazon.com: Books




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Maisie Dobbs - Emilia Clarke
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An almnus of my Dad's school in (then) Rhodesia called Plumtree.

Apparently Dad asked him what Colditz had been like and this gentleman replied "After Plumtree, easy"
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I understand they had quite a stringent academic program at Colditz...
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