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Didactylos

Didactylos@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 6 months ago

Eclectic reader but inceasingly annoyed at the commodification of books and the way our reading is being exploited

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Giles Milton: D-Day (2018, Hodder & Stoughton)

Pieced together accounts from participants on the day

Very readable but

There are numerous errors which grate and maybe suggest this is not anything like as factually correct as I thought it might be. Some of the beach descriptions are odd, the reference to German 88's as mortars when they were dual purpose AA and direct fire weapons, the pulling of a grenade pin by teeth (seriously impossible and just Hollywood), the officer who is actually a corporal.....

reviewed Rather Be The Devil by Ian Rankin (John Rebus -- [21])

Ian Rankin: Rather Be The Devil (2016)

John Rebus, now a couple of years into his retirement finds himself drawn into a …

Not greatly impressed

This feels very much like squeezing a little more out of a well wrung out towel. Rebus is pulled back into the action and seems able to go and do whatever he likes despite no longer being in the 'polis'. Strained my credibility. The ending seems rushed and a cop out.