Publication date: 2008-05-06
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.96
Review Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Publication date: 2007-04-05
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.86
Review In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I / Robinson Publishing:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-09-29
Dewey code: 973.46092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.03
Review Thomas Jefferson / OUP USA:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-01-30
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.99
Review The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives / Vintage:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-10-03
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.52
Review The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe / Vintage:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-03-02
Dewey code: 941.0840922
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.79
Review We are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times / Ebury Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-05-08
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £10.42
Price: £5.81
Review The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope / Simon & Schuster:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-06-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.20
Review The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream / Penguin:On Good Friday in 1914, a young British Army officer named Stewart Gore-Browne first glimpsed a lake in what was then Northern Rhodesia that the local Bemba tribe called Shiwa Ngandu ("Lake of the Royal Crocodiles"). At that moment, a love affair began which would last his lifetime, as the enraptured Gore-Browne set about creating a very British idyll in the African bush, complete with redbrick house and a terrace on which uniformed staff would serve champagne and cocktails. This is the complicated story of a man, his colonial vision, and the burden it became, set against the country in which he battles to realise it. Christina Lamb has assembled the story from the mass of diaries and correspondence that lay within the now crumbling and neglected house. It is an extraordinary tale that leaps off the page with the grace of a springbok. Gore-Browne initially appears an extinct species, all Harrovian vowels, and prone to pepper with lead shot anything that moves. He is, however, infused with a liberal, humane streak that leads him in later life to support Kenneth Kaunda and the UNIP in their fight for power. Indeed, Kaunda said of him, ". [+]he [Gore-Browne] was born an English gentleman, and died a Zambian gentleman". Gore-Browne's personal life progressed from an unrequited love to a dramatic marriage, while still indulging in a formidably passionate correspondence with a favourite aunt. There are times when you wish for a timely swipe of the novelist's pen, but it is the nature of this beast that questions remain unanswered; what holds this engrossing chronicle in place is the Africa House itself, and the lives that unfold in and around it, perched incongruously as it is in a country that has outgrown it. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 2008-06-05
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.75
Review The Princes in the Tower / Vintage:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-05-09
Dewey code: 782.50922
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.79
Review The Story of the Trapp Family Singers / HarperCollins:
Publication date: 2008-05-15
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99
Review At Her Majesty's Pleasure / Hodder Paperbacks:
Authors
- Oscar Zarate
- Richard Appignanesi
Dewey code: 609
RRP: £6.11
Price: £3.63
Review Freud for Beginners / Pantheon Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-05-03
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.69
Review Squaddie: A Soldier's Story / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2001-09-27
Dewey code: 943
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.64
Review The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich / Oxford Paperbacks:Before writing Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris the first volume of his substantial biography of Adolf Hitler, Ian Kershaw focused on the popular appeal of the Nazi dictator in The Hitler Myth. Arguing that "the sources of Hitler's appeal must be sought. in those who adored him, rather than in the leader himself," Kershaw shows how Hitler's public image welded together antagonistic forces within the Nazi state, mobilised the nation for war, and contributed to the ethos that animated systematic and genocidal violence. Responding to historians who maintain that Hitler's personality or ideological fixations accounted for his broad acceptance, Kershaw argues that, in the early 1930s a sizeable plurality of Germans hungered for an omnipotent Führer to stand above the political disharmonies of the Weimar state. Later, foriegn policy and military victories attracted many more to the Hitler legend. However, victories were the price for popularity; and Hitler became more and more bloodthirsty as both his image and regime foundered under the blows of the Allied powers. The Hitler myth, then-a cultural phenomenon the Reich Minister Joeseph Goebbels claimed as his greatest propaganda triumph-became a fundamental cause for the collapse of the Nazi State. Kershaw's authoritative history of political culture in Hitler's Germany forcefully demonstrates that the Führer's popularity rested less on "bizarre and arcane precepts of Nazi ideology, than on social and political values. [+]recognisable in many societies other than the Third Reich. " In our present political environment, which repeatedly features outcries for "leadership" from pundits and public servants alike, the disturbing lessons of The Hitler Myth are an urgent warning. -James Highfill.
Creator: Wanda Carter
Publication date: 2006-10-16
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.30
Review Street Kid: One Child's Desperate Fight for Survival / Harper Element:
Creator: Barry Unsworth
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-08-03
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.04
Review Claudius the God (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: 1st American Trade Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 941.0840922
RRP: £14.00
Price: £5.79
Review The Children of Henry VIII / Ballantine Books Inc.:
Publication date: 2008-03-06
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.15
Review No One Wants You: A True Story of a Child Forced into Prostitution / Ebury Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-10-23
Dewey code: 942.64084092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.00
Review War Boy: A Wartime Childhood / Pavilion Children's Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1991-03-28
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.82
Review Eastern Approaches / Penguin:
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