
Brothers in Arms: The Unique Collection of Letters and Photographs from Two Brothers at the Front During the First World War
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Hidden away in the back of an old desk drawer was a dusty pile of school-style exercise books. In...

David McK (3562 KP) rated That's Me in the Middle (The Bandy Papers, #2) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Set during the last year of the First World War (1914 - 1918), I have to say I found this book to be funnier than both the later installments in the series, and than the previous entry ("Three Cheers For Me"): indeed, this book was the cause of me getting some funny looks when I burst out laughing in work one lunch-time ...

IR$: The Black Gold War
Stephen Desberg and Bernard Vrancken
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Is the world barrelling towards the apocalypse? Russian commandoes are positioned around Georgia and...

The Last Gentleman of the SAS: A Moving Testimony from the First Allied Officer to Enter Belsen at the End of the Second World War
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In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen - the concentration camp...

Storm Siren (Storm Siren #1)
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“I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don’t want me. Because, eventually,...

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
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Over forty years of service to the United Nations - the last ten as Secretary-General - Kofi Annan...

Runebinder: The Runebinder Chronicles
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Magic is risen.When magic returned to the world, it could have saved humanity, but greed and thirst...
romance young adult

Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths
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One hundred years ago events in Russia took the world by storm. In February 1917, in the middle of...

Post-War British Literature and the 'End of Empire': 2016
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This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony...

When We Were Orphans
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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the...