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March Book Club - CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr

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The Invasion of Constantinople

The Nazis built this gigantic like like absurdly gigantic canon that had to be transported on like rails and it's really purely a vanity project. I mean I was thinking about how how funny this is because then hundreds of years later the Nazis built an even bigger canon. It didn't seem like like obviously they rolled up to Constantinople with this canon and figured like one day of this thing pounded into the walls we're in it's done. That's not what happened did did it did it do anything in the actual siege? "I think John is saying no right now as we talk about this you're probably you're probably right"

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