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Review: Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car BombUser Review - Misha - GoodreadsThe book feels like a 2.5-day cruise of all Europe: glitzy and with style but ultimately shallow and unsatisfying. The title is catchy. Davis' prose is lively and pithy. This book however, does not ... Read full review Review: Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car BombUser Review - Leonie - Goodreads'Buda's wagon truly has become the hot rod of the apocalypse'. I now suspect Mike Davis wrote the whole book simply to be able to end it on that snappy quote. It rather does some up the progression of ... Read full review Related books
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