bookshelves: summer-2015, published-1986, long-weekend, e-book, china, historical-fiction, under-20, superstitions, love, architecture Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from August 11 to 21, 2015 Description: Shanghai, 1927.Major Mark Rawlings is sent to Shanghai to investigate the collap...
3.5 stars"Revolution isn't war, it's an expression of national freedom...I know what is seething beneath the surface of this country. When the time comes, the people will rise and take what is rightly theirs." Major Mark Rawlings of the Royal Engineers is ordered to Shanghai to inspect the wreckage ...
The focus of this novel is on the Second Boer War, and I'll give you a very brief rundown as I understand it. The Boers (Dutch) originally settled in South Africa to farm and practice their religion in peace. Upon the discovery of gold and diamonds, the British began arriving in greater numbers to t...
Rupert Torrington is called to the deathbed of his good friend and fellow soldier, Edward Deane, who asks him to take his personal possessions to his sister Harriet. Word of Edward's death had never reached England and Harriet thinks the red-coated soldier arriving at her door is her brother, forcin...
An early Klausner sighting,http://www.amazon.com/Distant-Hero-Emma-Drummond/product-reviews/0312171773/ref=pd_ybh_9_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
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