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A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, ‘Netherland’.Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers – one Irish, one Turkish – were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA and was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O'Neill's other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy.At the age of thirty, Joseph O'Neill set out to uncover his grandfather's stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families and two charismatic but flawed men – it is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia and fear, of memories of violence and of fierce commitments to political causes.

We live in the era of the Mesozoic era, Antiquity and the Middle Ages. We dance the minuet, listen to the clash of swords and the sighs of the first steam engines. We ride through the empire of Genghis Khan, compose poems with the warriors of the Inca Empire, plunge into the world of the social experiment of Red Russia. We participate in the Second World War. Let’s explore big and small wars after War. We are looking for truths. We are the World