Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story
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The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to...
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Louis Barthas, Edward M. Strauss, Remy Cazals and Robert Cowley
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The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches...
Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz
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Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced...
Dodging the Devil
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On the 21st August 1914, George Martindale, along with many of his peers, enlisted for the war in...
East of the Oder: A German Childhood Under the Nazis and Soviets
Luise Urban and Eva Wood
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Luise Urban was born in 1933 into a world about to be turned upside down. Her family lived east of...
Fiddlers and Whores: The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson's Fleet
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'A country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels', Nelson's famous description of Naples, was...
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
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Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction...This book tells the story of Lady...
Motherland: Growing Up with the Holocaust
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The author writes: "I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her...
Mountain: A Life on the Rocks
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Steve Backshall has been climbing since his teens and has a genuine love affair with the mountains,...
River Forth: From Source to Sea
Richard Happer and Mark Steward
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The Forth packs more interesting historical and geographical attractions into its relatively short...