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5. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

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Thu Sep 18, 2014, 04:41 PM

Sep 2014

A fascinating guy who came to a bad end by picking the wrong side in a civil war.

I'm reading aloud, "Band of Angels", an historical novel about woman who joins Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War.

And, "Sleepwalkers" about the start of WWI.

I am a very undisciplined reader.

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