FORD MADOX FORD Book Number: 84226 |
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Ford Madox Ford chose his name in honour of his grandfather, the pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown and he founded two influential journals, The English Review in 1908 and The Transatlantic Re...
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JOHN BROOM Book Number: 85165 |
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'My son, cast thy heart firmly on the Lord, and fear not the judgement of men, when conscience testifieth of thy dutifulness and innocencey.' - Edith Cavell. A toxic mix of nationalism and militar...
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JIM MAULTSAID Book Number: 85179 |
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Jim Maultsaid's superbly illustrated Great War diaries covers his experiences from 1916 until mid 1918. On 1st July 1916, the first day of the Somme, Sergeant Maultsaid was seriously wounded. Des...
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STEPHEN JOHN Book Number: 85180 |
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A history of the 24th (Pembroke & Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment sheds new light on the battalion's almost forgotten campaign in Palestine. It saw many of its troops killed and ...
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DAVID MILLICHOPE Book Number: 85920 |
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Halifax's experience of the Great War was different to that of many other large towns and cities. A garrison town (home of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment), within days the public moo...
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EDIT. BY D. HAWKINS & M. JONES Book Number: 86035 |
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War Report was first broadcast from the beaches of Normandy in June 1944. It was a landmark for the BBC and for combat reporting and gave millions of listeners daily updates on the Armed Forces' p...
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JULIE SUMMERS Book Number: 85892 |
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In a heartfelt tribute to the ordinary country women who were at the core of the village Women's Institutes, a researcher and historian draws on interviews with many WI members and uses hitherto un...
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WILLIAM ANDREW FLETCHER Book Number: 86257 |
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The memoirs of a Confederate soldier written at the time in April 1861 when war was declared between the Union and the Confederacy in America. When the news came, it made W. A. Fletcher nervous as...
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DANIEL ANSELME Book Number: 86413 |
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Daniel Rabinovitch was born in 1927 and adopted the name Anselme while serving in the French Resistance and this novel was first published in Paris in 1957. France's engagement in Algeria was beco...
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ELSABÉ BRITS Book Number: 86658 |
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During the Anglo-Boer War, it is estimated that over 27,000 Boer women and children died. Although Emily Hobhouse has been little celebrated in her own country, she is still lauded in South Africa ...
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DONALD JACK Book Number: 87055 |
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With the blackest of black comedy and seat-of-the-pants escapades, this series about a young pilot makes the War to End All Wars come roaring to life. Descriptive and full of air combats and writt...
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PENNY PERRICK Book Number: 87001 |
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The story of a flamboyant woman in her upper class circle and her "startling achievements" during the war. Best known for her popular biographies of her relatives including Winston Churchill's mot...
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JOSEPH HELLER Book Number: 87241 |
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"Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this." - Financial Times. Subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on, the novel's st...
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BETTINA STANGNETH Book Number: 87248 |
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In 1962 Adolf Eichmann was convicted and hanged in Jerusalem for crimes against humanity. After his career as a manager of the Holocaust he had escaped to Argentina, but was finally captured and t...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Book Number: 87251 |
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In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, comradeship and courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and br...
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IVAN CHISTYAKOV Book Number: 87192 |
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A rare first-person testimony of the hardships of a Soviet labour camp. Long suppressed, it is becoming a cornerstone of the understanding of the Soviet Union. Originally written in a couple of h...
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KEITH OGILVIE Book Number: 87437 |
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Sub-titled 'Battle of Britain to The Great Escape: The Extraordinary Life of Keith 'Skeets' Ogilvie DFC'. When the Royal Canadian Airforce wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Kei...
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SHEELAGH MAWE Book Number: 83999 |
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It was a sunny day in 1940, Britain was at war, and Sarah age five and her brother James, six, were sitting at the table watching their mother pour the tea. Suddenly she broke the news. 'It's your ...
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ANN KRAMER Book Number: 87383 |
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In 1916 a new phrase, 'conchies', entered the English language. Used derogatively by press and public, the term referred to conscientious objectors, those men who for reasons of conscience refused...
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ANNA SEGHERS Book Number: 87688 |
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A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, now in affordable paperback edition, it is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. Written...
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HAING NGOR & ROGER WARNER Book Number: 87689 |
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A young doctor in his native Cambodia, Haing Ngor saw his life transformed when the Khmer Rouge Communists, led by the notorious Pol Pot, took over his country in 1975. He and his family along wit...
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JACK HIGGINS Book Number: 87919 |
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On one side, the largest and most effective seagoing Task Force ever assembled. On the other, an air force ready to die as they attack again and again despite the odds. A single deadly mission me...
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AUDREY MAGEE Book Number: 87951 |
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A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, that woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rat...
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IVAN CHISTYAKOV Book Number: 87607 |
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The author was a Muscovite who was expelled from the Communist Party during the purges of the late 1920s and early 30s. He commanded an armed guard unit on a section of BAM, the Baikal-Amur Railwa...
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RACHEL TRETHEWEY Book Number: 88077 |
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Before we commemorated with poppies, we commemorated with pearls. This was the campaign the 'Red Cross Pearls', an idea by Lady Northcliffe to raise money for the British Red Cross by collecting en...
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DAVID RUTLAND & EMMA ELLIS Book Number: 88079 |
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A two-generation saga of the Manners family, Resolution shares the history of John Masters, Marquis of Granby, who famously led a cavalry charge during the Seven Years War and his two sons - Charle...
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PETER DOYLE Book Number: 88080 |
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Frank and Percy Talley were two brothers born and raised in Muswell Hill in north London in a comfortable middle-class home. In August 1914 when they were both in their 20s they volunteered to join...
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MATTHEW SWEET Book Number: 87956 |
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From the egregious conman Sir Curtis Lampson to the louche inhabitants of the Pink Sink Spa, Fifth columnists, communists, spies, spivs, charlatans and deposed monarchs, here is an affectionate sea...
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SUSAN MAJOR Book Number: 88151 |
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Even though some women worked in clerical, cleaning and catering roles on the railways, between the wars even these jobs were done mostly by men. Before the outbreak of WWII the roles of porters, g...
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TOBY HARNDEN Book Number: 88180 |
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Winner of the Orwell Prize in 2012, here is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. Under-equipped and overstretched, they fo...
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