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Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer.\" -- Max Hastings \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It is a strange story that Garth tells, but he tells it clearly and compellingly.\" -- Tom Shippey \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation.\" -- Charles Matthews, \u003cem\u003eSan Jose Mercury News\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights.\" -- \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A labor of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman's nose for a good story with a scholar's scrupulous attention to detail . . . 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