Mayday!: A History of Flight Through its Martyrs, Oddballs, and Daredevils
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In a world without aircraft, to believe flight might be possible required a certain kind of...
The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby
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Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling...
Albert Camus and the Critique of Violence
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The temptation to resort to violence runs like a thread through Albert Camus works, and can be...
Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
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In thirty-two personal essays - more than half of which are here published for the first time - the...
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
David Bradshaw and Ford Madox Ford
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Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an...
Cabin Class Rivals: Lafayette & Champlain, Britannic & Georgic and Manhattan & Washington
David L. Williams and Richard P. de Kerbrech
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During the late 1920s and early 1930s three pairs of unique and innovative passenger liners emerged...
The Last Gentleman of the SAS: A Moving Testimony from the First Allied Officer to Enter Belsen at the End of the Second World War
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In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen - the concentration camp...
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
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In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both...
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature
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There was a time when "the Beats" seemed a familiar, even fixed, pantheon: Kerouac, Ginsberg,...
Architects' Homes
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This stunning book takes a rare glimpse into the intriguing and unique homes of some of the world's...