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“The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy

“He had always been so careful, never revealed his true identity. But somehow, they’d fingered him, and his life had changed forever—for the worst. He couldn’t help but think that someone in the Central Intelligence Agency had turned on him. One of his own.”
― Scavenger Hunt
― Scavenger Hunt

“Jane hid her trembling hands inside her muff. She wished there was a way to hide the fact that she was trembling all over. “I understood you from the first moment I saw you,” she admitted, her voice little more than a whisper.
Mr Churchill looked up from her ribbons, and she was bowled over by his beautiful, soul-piercing, intelligent eyes. “And I knew from the moment you looked at me, that you understood me like no one has ever understood me before.” ”
― My Dearest Miss Fairfax
Mr Churchill looked up from her ribbons, and she was bowled over by his beautiful, soul-piercing, intelligent eyes. “And I knew from the moment you looked at me, that you understood me like no one has ever understood me before.” ”
― My Dearest Miss Fairfax

“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― The Emperor
― The Emperor

“to hurt the weak and the helpless; but what stuck in my mind was this, he said that cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if”
― Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse [with Original Illustrations]
― Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse [with Original Illustrations]
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