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Rupert Colley
Goodreads Author
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in The United Kingdom
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https://www.goodreads.com/historyinanhour
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World War One: History In An Hour
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2012
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World War Two: History in an Hour
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2009
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The Woman on the Train (The Love and War Series)
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2014
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The Russian Revolution: History in an Hour
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2012
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Hitler: History in an Hour Unabridged
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2010
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The Cold War: History in an Hour
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2010
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Stalin: History in an Hour
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2012
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The White Venus: Historical fiction with heart and drama (The Love and War Series)
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Nazi Germany: History in an Hour
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This Time Tomorrow (The Searight Saga, #1)
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How 'The Sixth Man' came about
It’s strange how a new novel can materialise in a writer’s mind.
Most of the time, like most novelists, I have a nugget of an idea and a setting. Then I spend days, weeks, even months, nurturing and fleshing it out – the character arcs, the plot developments, sub-plots, etc.
But not so with my latest novel, The Sixth Man. I was sitting in the garden one sunny afternoon in August 2014, cup of tea in Read more of this blog post »
Most of the time, like most novelists, I have a nugget of an idea and a setting. Then I spend days, weeks, even months, nurturing and fleshing it out – the character arcs, the plot developments, sub-plots, etc.
But not so with my latest novel, The Sixth Man. I was sitting in the garden one sunny afternoon in August 2014, cup of tea in Read more of this blog post »
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| A marvellous tale about two women fighting injustice and inhumanity; one during the First World War, the other during the Second. We follow these women in this dual timeline novel as they face their fears head-on, as their beloved city, Brussels, is ...more | |
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“On Christmas Day, 1914, British troops in the front-line trenches could hear the Germans singing Stille Nacht (Silent Night). The British joined in. Cautiously, soldiers on both sides climbed out of their trenches and walked towards each other across No Man’s Land. They shook hands, exchanged cigarettes, and took photographs of each other. Further up the line, a group of Scots played the Germans at football with helmets for goalposts. The Germans won 3–2. But the festivities had to end. With reluctant handshakes, they each returned to their trenches and grudgingly took up their arms. This fraternization was very much against orders. It was never to happen, to such a large extent, again.”
― World War One: History in an Hour
― World War One: History in an Hour
“Whenever Stalin made a speech his audience would applaud so much that no one dared be the first to stop, applauding even to the point of collapse. The writer and Soviet dissident, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, relates a tale from 1937 when, after eleven exhausting minutes of enthusiastic clapping, a factory director was the first to stop; he got ten years in a gulag. Eventually Stalin permitted the use of a bell to signify a stop. If Stalin, in a speech, mispronounced a word (Russian, after all, being his second language), those speaking after him, if using the same word, would mispronounce it in exactly the same way.”
― Stalin: History in an Hour
― Stalin: History in an Hour
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