Authors
- Bernard Law Montgomery of Alamein
Dewey code: 940.5421092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.54
Review The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery / Leo Cooper Ltd:
Authors
- Gottlob Herbert Bidermann
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-09-30
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £15.50
Price: £7.65
Review In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front (Modern War Studies) / University Press of Kansas:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1976-02-01
Price: £5.99
Review The Hiding Place (Hodder Christian Paperbacks) / Hodder & Stoughton Religious:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1985-03
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.92
Review And There Was Light: The Autobiography of a Blind Hero in the French Resistance (Floris classics) / Floris Books:
Publication date: 2007-04-24
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.63
Review The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich / Birlinn Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1988-01-01
Dewey code: 921
RRP: £5.99
Price: £53.80
Review Spycatcher / Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2008-02-12
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.50
Review Elizabeth and Leicester / Bantam Books:
Creator: Richard Astro
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-01-18
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.47
Review The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2007-09-13
Dewey code: 941.081092
RRP: £35.00
Price: £27.35
Review The Forgotten Prime Minister: the 14th Earl of Derby: Ascent, 1799-1851 v. 1 / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 1999-01-21
Price: £20.00
Review Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:The terrible tale of the Holocaust is mitigated in some tiny part by a few stories of grace and heroism; of these moments of reprieve, the story of Oscar Schindler is perhaps the best known. The inaction of foreign bureaucracies scared of offending Germany and precipitating conflict is well-known; less famous are the details of how many German Jews were procured exit visas and did survive. Frank Foley was the British passport officer in Berlin, and would have none of the nonsense of his superiors; he endlessly bent the rules and found pretexts for getting people out. This was all the more remarkable because he was also running a major intelligence operation, acquiring details of most of Germany's military research and development that were eventually crucial to Allied victory. The double bluff whereby he concealed his spying operations through known and active hostility to the regime was both ingenious and let him do what he was morally drawn to. Foley also had a crucial role in frustrating various schemes of the Stalinist Comintern, acquiring double agents who, for example, prevented a pro-Russian coup in Brazil. Foley-The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews is a fascinating story, efficiently rather than memorably told. -Roz Kavaney.
Authors
- John Hunt
- Captain Tam Henderson
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.69
Review Warrior: A True Story of Bravery and Betrayal in the Iraq War / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-09-06
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.00
Review The English: A Portrait of a People (Penguin Celebrations) / Penguin:What is it about the English? Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? As Jeremy Paxman remarks in his preface to The English, being English "used to be so easy". Now, with the Empire gone, with Wales and Scotland moving into more independent postures, with the troubling spectre of a united Europe(and despite the raucous hype of "Cool Britannia"), the English seem to have entered a collective crisis of national identity. Jeremy Paxman has set himself the task of finding just what exactly is going on. Why, he wonders, "do the English seem to enjoy feeling so persecuted? What is behind the English obsession with games? How did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex and food? Where did they get their extraordinary capacity for hypocrisy?" He ranges widely in pursuit of answers, sifting through literature, cinema and history. It is an intriguing investigation, encompassing many aspects of national life and character (such as it is), including the obligatory visit to that baffling phenomenon, the funeral of Princess Diana. Yet Paxman finds something fresh and interesting to say about even that now rather threadbare topic. In the end, he seems to find further questions to ask instead of answers. But why not? To him it is a sign that the English are acquiring a new sense of self. And some indication of this might lie in the obvious response to his remark that the English, being top of the British Imperial tree, had nicknames for the fellow nationalities-Jock, Taffy, Paddy and Mick-but there was no corresponding name for an Englishman. [+]Of course, there is now, and it comes from one of the bits of empire to which so many undesirables were exported: Whinging Pom. -Robin Davidson.
Authors
- Mahatma Gandhi
- M.K.Gandhi
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1982-11-25
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £9.99
Price: £198.91
Review An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1998-03-16
Dewey code: 940.5344
RRP: £11.99
Price: £7.70
Review Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-45 / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 1993-10-18
RRP: £25.00
Price: £33.08
Review The Downing Street Years / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-04-26
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.31
Review Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh / Penguin:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1995-11-21
Dewey code: 940.53180922
RRP: £20.00
Price: £14.13
Review Maus: v. 1 & 2: A Survivor's Tale - My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began: v. 1 & 2 / Random House Inc:
Creator: William Steig
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-11-20
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.95
Review The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-04-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.77
Review Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood / Pimlico:
Creator: Lisa Blosfelds
Publication date: 2008-05-22
Dewey code: 940.54217092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.68
Review Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front: Fighting with Hitler's Latvian SS / Pen & Sword Military:
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