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.Michelin Travel Guide Rome (Michelin Green Guide Rome) (Michelin Green Guides)
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by: Michelin

January 02, 2008
The guide has NO reference to websites: nothing whatsoever.
I find it amazing that a 2006 edition is written as if the internet doesn't exist: no hotels websites, or museums or anything.
Very unhelpful.
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.Mussolini and Fascist Italy (Lancaster Pamphlets)
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by: Martin Blinkhorn

August 25, 2006
A compelling read.
Basically this is a beautifully written potted history of "Il Duce," from small violent child to big violent fascist.
Intelligent, mesmerising, gifted, a vicious rapist and serial womaniser, but the right man at the right time. All of these things - from peasant to leader in ten years - the world's original fascist who never quite dropped his socialist roots, and due to his ability to change direction more than once in a single day, eventually stood for nothing.
Seriously, this wasn't a man ever tied by ideology, he had none. He was everything to everyone, then eventually nothing to anyone. The ultimate opportunist, when you read this you'll understand why there was only ever likely to be one outcome.
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.Conquest: The Roman Invasion of Britain
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by: John Peddie

July 21, 2005
Until I recently sat an Archaeology A level, I gave only a passing thought about the Roman period other than dates and the physical remains they left behind.

'Conquest' certainly brings the age to life. The descriptions of the conditions endured by the natives and the Roman soldiers are nothing less than vivid.

As the book unfolds, it illustrates how close the Roman army came to not invading at all.

Not only does the book cover written accounts or simply hypothesise, Mr Peddie, a former soldier, goes all out to prove how the Roman war machine functioned, going so far as to demonstrate how long it would have taken to build roads from the Kent coast to London, using a combination of equations and a team of willing ... Read More:
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.Romola (Penguin Classics)
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by: George Eliot

June 27, 1996
... but still a good read. The scenes set in Florence are interesting and the hero/heroine start out well, though she fails the hold our interest. For a similar situation examining the effects of unequal marriages on both men and women read Eliot's Middlemarch instead, which really is her masterpiece.
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.Walking in the Dolomites (Cicerone Mountain Walking)
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by: Gillian Price

July 15, 2008
I've used this book on 2 trips I organised to the Dolomites, and found it to be excellent, lots of walks, many of which can be completed in a day.
If you planning a trip, it's a must buy. You need to buy the Tabacco maps mentioned at the start of each walk, in order to get the most from the book.
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.1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
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by: Gavin Menzies

July 01, 2008
I've used this book on 2 trips I organised to the Dolomites, and found it to be excellent, lots of walks, many of which can be completed in a day.
If you planning a trip, it's a must buy. You need to buy the Tabacco maps mentioned at the start of each walk, in order to get the most from the book.
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.AA Best Drives Italian Lakes and Northern Italy (AA Best Drives)
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from: Automobile Association

January 26, 2006
I've used this book on 2 trips I organised to the Dolomites, and found it to be excellent, lots of walks, many of which can be completed in a day.
If you planning a trip, it's a must buy. You need to buy the Tabacco maps mentioned at the start of each walk, in order to get the most from the book.
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.The Rough Guide Map Tuscany (Rough Guide Map)
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from: Rough Guides Ltd

March 04, 2004
I've used this book on 2 trips I organised to the Dolomites, and found it to be excellent, lots of walks, many of which can be completed in a day.
If you planning a trip, it's a must buy. You need to buy the Tabacco maps mentioned at the start of each walk, in order to get the most from the book.
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.Forza Italia: The Fall and Rise of Italian Football
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by: Paddy Agnew

August 02, 2007
This book is not primarily a history of Italian football but the personal reflections of journalist Paddy Agnew on his years (22, approximately) covering the sport in Italy. Indeed, it is semi-autobiographical with stories of his early days in the country (chapter one) and a non-football chapter on the village of Trevignano (ch. 5), where he lives. Therefore the book has the advantages of observation from within, as Agnew, for example, experienced the political climate under former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (the title is the same as the name of Berlusconi's Political party). Inevitably, the time period covered is mid-80s (when Agnew arrived) to the present. There is a short and interesting history chapter entitled "Mussolini Invents Serie A" (ch. 2) before the book ... Read More:
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.Florence (Lonely Planet Best of ...)
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by: Damien Simonis

May 01, 2006
This book is not primarily a history of Italian football but the personal reflections of journalist Paddy Agnew on his years (22, approximately) covering the sport in Italy. Indeed, it is semi-autobiographical with stories of his early days in the country (chapter one) and a non-football chapter on the village of Trevignano (ch. 5), where he lives. Therefore the book has the advantages of observation from within, as Agnew, for example, experienced the political climate under former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (the title is the same as the name of Berlusconi's Political party). Inevitably, the time period covered is mid-80s (when Agnew arrived) to the present. There is a short and interesting history chapter entitled "Mussolini Invents Serie A" (ch. 2) before the book ... Read More:
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