From the New World
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An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the...
The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace
Patricia Malcolmson and Robert Malcolmson
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'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ...can possibly have value.' So...
Blood on the Thistle: The Tragic Story of the Cranston Family and Their Remarkable Sacrifice
Stuart Pearson and Robert G. Mitchell
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Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the...
Slaughterhouse-Five
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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who...
A Tommy at Ypres: Walter's War - the Diary and Letters of Walter Williamson
Doreen Priddey and Walter Williamson
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'There was a blinding flash and an ear-splitting report and the "prisoner" fell across me. The...
The 1000 Wisest Things Ever Said: Wisdom of the Nobel Prize Winners
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'The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer,' said...
Spoils: A Novel
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It is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of...
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th...
Winifred Knights 1899-1947: Lost Artist of the Slade School
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Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women...
Gertigstrasse 56
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A gripping narrative account of one family's struggle against fascism in Germany. Spanning...