Tag: history
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Review: Midnight in Chernobyl (Paperback)
In my quest to read more non-fiction; buoyed by last year’s acclaim for the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, I took a recommendation to read Midnight in Chernobyl. I had previously attempted a non-fiction book about the Chernobyl disaster, Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy – however I’d stalled on that one, and thus I…
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Honour and Glory
I’d been keeping an eye on the Titanic: Honour and Glory project for a while and it’s great to see it getting some media attention as it’s a noble and fine interactive project I feel anyone can relate to. But this week I finally got a chance to play around a small area of the…
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Review: Rise of Nations Extended Edition
When it comes to gaming, a lot of my joy comes from nostalgia and rediscovering gems from my youth. Rise of Nations ticks all the boxes there so discovering Microsoft (in a rare display of doing something good in the gaming sphere) was planning to re-issue the revered strategy game in a remastered format I…
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