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“History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.”

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This novel delves into the lives of a family across generations, examining their religious beliefs and cultural traditions, and how these shape their identities and relationships. more

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Eamon Duffy

Eamon Duffy is a prominent historian specializing in the history of Christianity in England. Born on February 9, 1947, Duffy has made significant contributions to the field through his meticulous research and engaging writing style. more

“I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.”

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Author:Michael Howard

“People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.”

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Author:Michael Howard

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