
Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life
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In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this...

Stage Blood: Five Tempestuous Years in the Early Life of the National Theatre
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In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier....

Tessa Verney Wheeler: Women and Archaeology Before World War Two
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In this book, Carr unravels the biography of the archaeologist Tessa Verney Wheeler, a charming,...

The Advance from Mons 1914: The Experiences of a German Infantry Officer
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This is an outstanding personal memoir penned by a German infantry officer recalling his experiences...

The Battle
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The revelatory autobiography of a rugby colossus: Paul O'Connell There has never been a rugby player...

The First Nazi: Erich Ludendorff: the Man Who Made Hitler Possible
Will Brownell, Denise Drace-Brownell and Alex Rovt
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General Erich Ludendorff was one of the most important military individuals of the last century, yet...
The Great War as I Saw it
Frederick George Scott and Mark G. McGowan
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A fifty-three-year-old Anglican priest and poet when the First World War broke out, Frederick George...

The Happy Warrior: The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill as Told Through the Eagle Comic of the 1950's
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To so many British children growing up in 1950s and 1960s Britain, Fridays meant only one thing -...

Becoming a Lion
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Johnny Sexton - the man who pulled the strings for the Lions - gives an intimate insight into the...

Bigger Than Hitler - Better Than Christ
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In this electrifying autobiography, Rik stands naked in front of his vast legions of fans and...