Man of Steel and Honour: General Stanislaw Maczek: Soldier of Poland, Commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division in North-West Europe 1944-45
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This is a biography of one of the most undervalued commanders of the Second World War, General...
Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup
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On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a...
Wall Flower: A Life on the German Border
Rita Kuczynski and Anthony J. Steinhoff
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In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano...
I Die in a Good Cause: Thomas Ashe: A Biography
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Originally from west Kerry, Thomas Ashe was a schoolteacher in north County Dublin and a founding...
The Storms: Adventure and Tragedy on Everest
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In August 1979 twenty-seven-year-old Mike Trueman set sail from the south-west coast of Wales, en...
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...
For the Love of Sauntress: A Forty-Year Affair
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"I wonder if you can help me." "Maybe I could, or maybe I couldn't," was the very Welsh reply. "What...
Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall
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Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political...
The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy
David Pearson, Antal Szerb and Len Rix
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A typically brilliant, ironic and moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest...
William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios
R. Barton Palmer, Stefan Solomon and Matthew Bernstein
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During more than two decades (1932-1954), William Faulkner worked on approximately fifty screenplays...