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Why the Germans Do it Better

Map of Germany Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction – Them and Us Rebuilding and Remembering Mutti’s Warm Embrace Multikulti No Longer a Child The Wonder The Dog Doesn’t Eat the Dog No More Pillepalle Conclusion

Dante in Love

Why This Book Has Been Written Rome Dante’s Florence, 1260-74 Gemma Donati and Beatrice Portinari Dante’s Education A New Constitution for Florence and the Sicilian Vespers Late Teens – The Dream A Poet’s Apprenticeship The Warrior Who Fought at Campaldino Death of Beatrice The Consolation of Philosophy The Dark Wood Dante and the Painted Word. …

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Not I

Foreword How Everything Comes Together The World Falls Apart Even if All Others Do Just Don’t Get Sentimental Leave-takings Alien Worlds Friends and Enemies Of the Soldier’s Life and of Dying The Escape Not Home Yet Restrospect and a Few Leaps Ahead Postscript

Engines of War

War Before Railways The Railways Called into Action Slavery Loses Out to the Iron Road Lessons Not Learnt The New Weapon of War The War the World Anticipated The Great Railway War on the Western Front Eastern Contrasts Here We Go Again Blood on the Tracks

Fire and Steam

Introduction: Why Railways? The First Railway Getting the Railway Habit Joining Up Britain Changing Britain Railways Everywhere The Big Companies: Great But Not Necessarily Good The Agatha Christie Railway Danger and Exploitation on the Tracks Speeding to Danger The Only Way to Get There Fighting Together – Reluctantly Compromise – The Big Four And Then …

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