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“Shattered Lands has the quality of some of the best history books: it makes you constantly ask yourself if what you are reading can possibly be true because it is so surprising and underdiscussed. It tells its story with compassionate, funny character portraits and vignettes that give an insight into a world that was, in many ways, unimaginably different from our own. It is the story of one of the 20th century’s most important, and yet least appreciated, events and brilliantly shows how contingent history can be.” Read more...
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