Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Louis Barthas, Edward M. Strauss, Remy Cazals and Robert Cowley
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The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches...
Great Short Works
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The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness,...
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An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & BAR 1939-1945
James Holland and Stanley Christopherson
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From the outbreak of war in September 1939 all the way to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945,...
Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
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"I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief." (Richard Davenport-Hines, The Spectator). The...
Monsters, Dinosaurs, Ghosts
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We wanted to be someone. Some ...I dunno ...thing. Nig and Wee Joe used to be soldiers. They have...
The First World War in Photographs
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It was the war to end all wars, a conflict without precedent in which millions died and millions...
The Secret Pilgrim
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The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and...
The Last Library of Paris
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In the heart of Paris, one library refuses to close its doors … As the city’s shopfronts go...
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