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Jacqueline Winspear _ A Dangerous Place
There are many oppressed people across the border, people who are dirt poor and have little chance in life. Then there are those who don't want them anywhere near the table, let alone sitting at the feast. In 1931 the people of Spain voted in their first free election in sixty years. Until that point the country had been controlled by the rich-the landed aristocracy, the church, and the industrialists. But the new Republic had its problems, though the poor saw more in the way of education and public money. So if you are looking for the roots of the war, they lie in discontent-and discontent always rises up like froth on beer. Look at Russia. The revolution is a fine example of what might happen in such a society.
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Jacqueline Winspear _ A Dangerous Place
Bombers were the dark crows of death, sent out to lay their eggs on an unsuspecting world.
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Jacqueline Winspear _ A Dangerous Place
the time it took to brush away one tear could mean the difference between saving a soldier or laying him out after death.
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Jacqueline Winspear _ A Dangerous Place
...broken buildings like jagged teeth in the mouth of a mad dog...
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Jacqueline Winspear _ A Dangerous Place
Sometimes she thought she could see that good heart beating, and realized that more often now she looked for goodness in a person, sought it out and found it comforting.
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Jacqueline Winspear _ A Dangerous Place
I see how the gaping abyss between those who have much and those who have nothing can cause dangerous fractures in society. I see how power corrupts, how the people are manipulated and kept in their place. I
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Jacqueline Winspear _ A Dangerous Place
Solitude was her soul's hermitage.
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