Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-08-25
Dewey code: 598.07234092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.91
Review This Birding Life: The Best of the Guardian's Birdwatch: The Diary of a Lifetime's Hobby (Guardian) / Aurum Press Ltd:
Creator: John Miller
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-10-05
Dewey code: 920.720904
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.47
Review Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers / New World Library:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-11-30
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.62
Review Several Strangers: Writing from Three Decades / Penguin:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-08-01
Dewey code: 937
RRP: £3.99
Price: £0.71
Review Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) / Wordsworth Editions Ltd:
Creator: A. Guillaume
Edition: New impression
Publication date: 1989-01-05
Dewey code: 297.63
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.31
Review The Life of Muhammad / OUP Pakistan:
Creator: Paul Ryan
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 791.430233092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.56
Review Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson / Plexus Publishing Ltd:
Creator: Andrew Marr
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-02-06
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.95
Review Point of Departure (Classics of Reportage) / Granta Books:
Creator: Verlyn Klinkenborg
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-12-17
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.49
Review Walden (Everyman's Library classics) / Everyman's Library:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1993-08
Dewey code: 910.88042
RRP: £8.50
Price: £3.26
Review Victorian Lady Travellers / Academy Chicago Publications:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-01-12
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99
Review And When Did You Last See Your Father? / Granta Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1983-04-28
Dewey code: 917.8042
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.20
Review The Oregon Trail (American Library) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-10-10
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.74
Review "Guardian" Book of Obituaries / Atlantic Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-07-17
Dewey code: 941.066092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.11
Review The Diary: 1664 v. 5 (Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol 5) / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Dan Todman
Publication date: 2001-05-14
Price: £25.00
Review War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:Already celebrated as the most important war diaries yet to appear, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke's War Diaries 1939-1945, edited by Alex Danchev and Dan Todman, are full of fascinating and controversial stuff. But Alanbrooke's style should not be confused with that of Alan Clark: he does not set out to be controversial for controversy's own sake and there is little gossip or speculation. The tone is steady and soldierly throughout, which only makes it more impressive and, at times, curiously moving. It is the voice of a man of great self-control and military expertise, weighed down with the tremendous burdens of conducting a global war. The central relationship is inevitably with Winston Churchill, whose cavalier attitudes and short-term enthusiasms for hare-brained schemes that would cost many lives, often infuriated Alanbrooke. And, in private at least, on the pages of his diary, he would say so: Churchill "knows no details, talks absurdities" and is "a public menace". You can see Alanbrooke's point, when he records that Churchill has suggested making aircraft carriers out of ice. But above all, with Alanbrooke, you get balance. He never pretends that Churchill was anything but a genius, as a war leader: genius mixed with an astonishing lack of vision-he is quite the most difficult man to work with that I have ever struck but I should not have missed the chance of working with him for anything on earth! It is also interesting to find how poor relations were between Britain and America at the time, with even Churchill, part-American himself, inveighing against the "evils of Americans". The overwhelming feeling arising from these diaries is that, contrary to what we now think of as the inevitable, historic triumph of the Allies, it was in fact, as Wellington said after Waterloo, "a close run thing, a damn close run thing". [+]The diaries are superbly edited, cut short with fine judgement on the last day of August 1945, with the quiet entry, "I had Paget to lunch, he was in excellent form. In the evening I motored home". All in all, this is a good job well done. -Christopher Hart.
Creator: Denise Inge
Publication date: 2002-10-18
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £11.50
Review Thomas Traherne: Poetry and Prose (Golden Age of Spiritual Writing) / SPCK Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1977-05-26
Price: £7.99
Review I Can't Stay Long / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 1991-12-09
Dewey code: 895.68107
Price: £15.50
Review The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (Translations from the Asian Classics) / Columbia University Press:
Authors
- Valentine Ackland
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publication date: 1998-06-04
Dewey code: 828.91209
Price: £15.00
Review I'll Stand by You : The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland / Pimlico:
Edition: Da Capo Press
Publication date: 1996-05
Dewey code: 973.91
Price: £12.99
Review The American Earthquake: A Chronicle of the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression and the Dawn of the New Deal / Da Capo Press Inc:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-02-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.34
Review Heroes / Vintage:
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