British Railway Enthusiasm
Ian Carter and Jeffrey Richards
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Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain....
Barry Hines: Kes, Threads and Beyond
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Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known...
The Party is richly atmospheric and descriptive. The post-war pub is lively, crowded and seems like a lot of fun! Post-war Bristol is described in such a way that I had no problem seeing the damage around the port and the pub as I read.
The contrast of the sisters is also interesting: Moira is worldly wise, Evelyn is young and inexperienced, which shows particularly at the mansion gathering. These people are clearly from a different social class to the sisters. At first, they’re not exactly welcomed by some of their hosts, but everyone warms up as the evening progresses - in a number of ways. It’s an entertaining evening!
Another enjoyable read from Tessa Hadley, and I’m reminded yet again why I’m always happy to pick up another of her books.
Martha Graham in Love and War: The Life in the Work
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Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham...
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 Emperor's Tomb
Joseph Roth and Michael Hofmann
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The Emperor's Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the...
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Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War
Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg, Vladimir Paperny and Eamonn Canniffe
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This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at...
Jack and Hopit, Comrades in Arms: An Officer of the 9th Lancers in the Great War and His War Horse
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A chance discovery of the existence of the gravestone carved with the battle honours of Hopit - the...
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
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"A dynamic work of reportage" (The New York Times) written "with clarity and...wit" (The New York...