Napoleon's occupation of Egypt sparked a fascination with the so called Orient and a lust for its wealth and resources but strangely no corresponding understanding or respect for the Islamic culture of the region. Still, the French gained no lasting legacy from the episode, so when they set about a...
I was disappointed by this one. There are a lot of entertaining historical anecdotes in here, but somehow as a whole it doesn't quite hang together.Part of the problem is that it wants to be more than just a factual history. Hussey says in the prologue that he is modelling the project on Peter Ack...
Hercule Poirot takes on a diabolical group of criminal masterminds whose goal is world domination. The plot was frankly ludicrous but I did enjoy the banter between Poirot and Hastings. Listened to the audio narrated by Hugh Fraser who played Captain Hastings in the TV series.
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