William S. Burroughs: A Life
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It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only...
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head...: My Autobiography
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In an era before big money arrived, Ian Redford, the son of a Perthshire farmer, was stigmatised as...
Raymond Carr: The Curiosity of the Fox
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Raymond Carr pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish history, releasing Spaniards form the...
Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor: Working with Bletchley Park, the SDs and the OSS
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The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of...
The Communist and the Communist's Daughter: A Memoir
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In a letter to his baby grandson, Bill Lazarre wrote that "unfortunately, despite the attempts by...
Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century
Isabella Image and Eve Rosenhaft
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This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence...
Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy: A Memoir
Anthea Bell, Werner Schroeter and Claudia Lenssen
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Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between...
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45
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Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen...
Let Me Tell You a Story: One Girl's Escape from the Nazis
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Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Two-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and...
Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers
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Carter and Ralph Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as...