Porter, Steward, Citizen: An African American's Memoir of World War I
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In 1919, Royal Christian privately published a memoir based on his experiences in World War I....
Putty: From Tel-El-Kebir to Cambrai: the Life and Letters of Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney 1861-1941
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Once described by a subordinate as "the most completely ignorant general I served during the war",...
The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide
J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
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Stunning two-volume slipcased set containing the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's...
Boom: The Life of Viscount Trenchard, Father of the Royal Air Force
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Hugh 'Boom' Trenchard was embarrassed by being described as 'The Father of the Royal Air Force' - he...
Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy: A Memoir
Anthea Bell, Werner Schroeter and Claudia Lenssen
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Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between...
Didier Drogba: From Tito to Drogba
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Didier Drogba. is best known for his career at Chelsea,whose supporters voted him the club's...
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45
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Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen...
Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall
Margaret Hall and Margaret R. Higonnet
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In August 1918 a Massachusetts-born woman named Margaret Hall boarded a transport ship in New York...
Henry V: pocket GIANTS
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Henry V is the best-known military hero in English history: better known than Marlborough or...
Hugh de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster: Rising and Falling in Angevin Ireland
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This book charts the striking rise, fall and restoration of the first earl of Ulster, Hugh II de...