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Man of My Time by Dalia Sofer

Man of My Time

by Dalia Sofer
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  • Apr 14, 2020, 384 pages
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  • Apr 2021, 384 pages
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He handed us the flags. They were of the old variety with a golden lion and sun in the middle, and carried such messages as "Down with the devil" and "One day the prince shall return," and other such nonsense. Of all the splintered groups of our nation, the royalists were the most pathetic.

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