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Maclean’s book reviews and bestsellers

This week’s book reviews: billionaires, bombs and the sex lives of soldiers

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July 19, 2013

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I Invented The Modern Age: The Rise Of Henry Ford, by Richard Snow, reviewed by Colby Cosh
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story by Lily Koppel, reviewed by Joanne Latimer
The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm, reviewed by Dafna Izenberg

Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw, reviewed by Richard Warnica

A Short History Of Nuclear Folly by Rudolph Herzog, reviewed by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts, reviewed by Brian Bethune

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