Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
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In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford....
Being Kurdish in a Hostile World
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In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of...
Blue Line - Pink Thread
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'Blue Line - Pink Thread' provides a fascinating insight into life in the police service from 1969...
England and its Rulers: 1066-1307
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This is an updated and expanded edition of a classic introduction to medieval England from the reign...
Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930
Eleanor Lord Pray, Birgitta Ingemanson and Patricia D. Silver
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In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok...
Memoirs of a (Highly) Political Economist
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These memoirs portray an individual coping with the adversities and surrealistic qualities of life...
New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Chopin
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This new biography is a fascinating account of the period in which Chopin lived, and the way in...
Players' Work Time: A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013
Martin Cloonan and John Williamson
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This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the...
Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement
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Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World," California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire...
High School Dropout: Stories of a Navy Pilot
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In his first book, Butch takes you through the stories of his life. Stories of family, friendship,...