Think of Me
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A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must...
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This Boy
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Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was...
The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships
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The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all...
International Noir
R. Barton Palmer and Homer B Pettey
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Following World War II, film noir became the dominant cinematic expression of Cold War angst,...
When we Were Young and Brave
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Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . . The New York Times...
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The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007
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This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of...
When the Skies Rained Freedom
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Captivating, gripping and relentlessly authentic...inspired by eyewitness accounts. To this day,...
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The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller
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Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) in Movies
Mar 4, 2018 (Updated Mar 4, 2018)
Actually really, really tame as a horror movie by modern standards, obviously, but also of great historical interest as the birth of a legend in British cinema. One can't help suspecting the TV show was a lot more thoughtful, but this still works pretty well as an SF movie, and an influential one at that, and the juxtaposition of B-movie SF ideas and images with post-war Britain is interesting. Imported American star Brian Donlevy is not very good as Professor Q (original writer Nigel Kneale claimed he was on the sauce all the time); Richard Wordsworth is mesmerising as the doomed astronaut.
The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor
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In recent times the British monarchy has become an 'ultimate family' of international superstars,...