Publication date: 1986-12-31
Dewey code: 955.054
RRP: £11.61
Price: £78.07
Review On Wings of Eagles / Durkin Hayes:
Creator: George Vail
Publication date: 1994-12
Dewey code: 973
Price: £12.99
Review Lincoln's Prose: Unabridged: Major Works of a Great American Writer: Unabridged (Commuter's Library) / Penton Overseas Inc:
Publication date: 1998-10-08
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Course of My Life: Edward Heath's Autobiography / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Edward Heath's autobiography is at times oddly impersonal; much of its emotional force has to do with a passion for setting the record straight. The son of a small builder, his Conservatism defined itself early on through his patriotism and passion for self-improvement. His travels in Europe as a young man filled him with a dread of the Nazis and he had, as they say, a good war. Just as his time in charge of firing squads put him off capital punishment, so the war made him a determined European; his premiership failed in many ways, but he did succeed in getting Britain into Europe. His opposition to recent Conservative leaders is less the personal pique sometimes alleged than a determination not to see his legacy destroyed. His resolution not to let the Eurosceptics rewrite history sometimes bogs his story down in repetitive score-settling; given the charge of disloyalty so often made against him, it is legitimate that he establish his credentials. At the book's occasional best, he shows a dry humour and an unexpected sense of his own absurdity; there are some surprising vignettes as well, like Fidel Castro drunkenly ranting about his hero- worship of Winston Churchill, and Enoch Powell promising to break an NHS strike by importing Jamaican nurses. -Roz Kaveney.
Publication date: 1991-01-01
Dewey code: 133
Price: £8.99
Review Many Lives, Many Masters / Simon & Schuster Audio:
Creator: etc.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1993-04
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £10.76
Price: £8.00
Review Best of 2nd World War Poetry / CSA WORD:
Publication date: 1994-06-01
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.01
Review JFK, The Kennedy Tapes: Highlights of the Original Speeches of the Presidential Years (Penton Audio) / Soundworks,U.S.:
Publication date: 1994-08-31
Dewey code: 361
RRP: £29.95
Price: £29.95
Review The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass / Penton Overseas Inc:
Creator: Richard Derrington
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-09
RRP: £31.95
Price: £31.95
Review My Darling Buffy: Early Life of the Queen Mother: Complete & Unabridged / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 1998-12-22
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.21
Review Civil War Tales of A.Bierce / Penton Overseas Inc:
Authors
- Mark J. Green
- Eric Alterman
- Nick Sullivan
RRP: £80.25
Price: £78.96
Review The Book on Bush: How George W. (mis)leads America / Sound Library:
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £12.93
Review Lloyd George to Beveridge 1906-1951 / Sussex Publications:
Publication date: 1997-10-24
RRP: £7.82
Price: £6.89
Review Running in the Family / Macmillan Audio Books:
Publication date: 1995-03-01
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £7.50
Price: £6.00
Review Robert F.Kennedy: In His Own Words / Soundworks,U.S.:
Publication date: 1997-04-06
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review Gsce History: Hitler and Mussolini / Arc Publishing:
Creator: John Brownjohn
Publication date: 2003-12-02
RRP: £12.67
Price: £4.49
Review Churchill (Life & Times) / Haus Publishing Limited:
Publication date: 1997-09
RRP: £3.45
Price: £3.45
Review "Tikki" AND "Road to Mombassa" / Heron Hunter Audio Books:
Creator: Martin Anderson
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2002-02-01
Dewey code: 973.927
RRP: £20.88
Price: £4.33
Review Reagan in His Own Voice / Simon & Schuster Audio:
Publication date: 2002-11-07
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.00
Review It's a Long Way from Penny Apples / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Sheila Mitchell
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-12
RRP: £55.95
Price: £54.76
Review Testament of Youth: Complete & Unabridged: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925: Complete & Unabridged / ISIS Gold Audio Books:In 1914 Vera Brittain was 21 years old, and an undergraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford. When war broke out in August of that year, Brittain "temporarily" disrupted her studies to enrol as a volunteer nurse, nursing casualties both in England and on the Western Front. The next four years were to cause a deep rupture in Brittain's life, as she witnessed not only the horrors of war first hand, but also experienced the quadruple loss of her fiancé, her brother, and two close friends. Testament of Youth is a powerfully written, unsentimental memoir which has continued to move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933. Brittain, a pacifist since her First World War experiences, prefaces the book with a fairy tale, in which Catherine, the heroine, encounters a fairy godmother and is given the choice of having either a happy youth or a happy old age. She selects the latter and so her fate is determined: "Now this woman," warns the tale, "was the destiny of poor Catherine. " And we find as we delve deeper into the book that she was the destiny of poor Vera too.
Authors
- Andrew Crofts
- Helen Alice Dear
Publication date: 2008-04-01
RRP: £34.95
Price: £34.95
Review My Family Is All I Have: A British Woman's Story of Escaping the Nazis and Surviving the Communists / Soundings Audio Books:
| Models & Brands:
On Wings of Eagles, Lincoln's Prose: Unabridged: Major Works of a Great American Writer: Unabridged (Commuter's Library), The Course of My Life: Edward Heath's Autobiography, Many Lives, Many Masters, Best of 2nd World War Poetry, JFK, The Kennedy Tapes: Highlights of the Original Speeches of the Presidential Years (Penton Audio), The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass, My Darling Buffy: Early Life of the Queen Mother: Complete & Unabridged, Civil War Tales of A.Bierce, The Book on Bush: How George W. (mis)leads America, Lloyd George to Beveridge 1906-1951, Running in the Family, Robert F.Kennedy: In His Own Words, Gsce History: Hitler and Mussolini, Churchill (Life & Times), "Tikki" AND "Road to Mombassa", Reagan in His Own Voice, It's a Long Way from Penny Apples, Testament of Youth: Complete & Unabridged: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925: Complete & Unabridged, My Family Is All I Have: A British Woman's Story of Escaping the Nazis and Surviving the Communists |
