A Time of GiftsIn 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'A Time of Gifts' is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow,

through the application of good sense

debauchery

that of a born

Shannon - an architect

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to the bombs that fell on it

and America

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thirty-two-year old Chris Adams she's known since they were kids

you shouldn't read it to a child

Simms traces the way in which Hitler's ideology emerged after the First World War

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