Publication date: 2005-05-31
Dewey code: 958.1046
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.36
Review On the Trail of a Lion: Tracking Down Ahmed Shah Massoud: Ahmed Shah Massoud, Oil, Politics and Terror / Mosaic Press:
Creator: Alicia Nitecki
Publication date: 2007-06-15
Dewey code: 891.8517
RRP: £23.95
Price: £12.56
Review Postal Indiscretions: The Correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski (Holocaust Studies): The Correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski / Northwestern University Press,U.S.:
Publication date: 2006-10-31
RRP: £20.00
Price: £11.39
Review Slessor: Bomber Champion - The Life of Marshal of the RAF Sir John Slessor, GCB, DSO, MC / Grub Street:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-11-04
Dewey code: 359.0092
Price: £20.00
Review Cochrane: Napoleon's Sea Wolf / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:This is a reprint of Thomas's 1975 biography of the sea-captain he calls "the supreme romantic hero". Thomas has a reputation as a literary biographer: His Swinburne is the standard life of that poet and his Robert Browning: A Life Within a Life was runner-up for the Whitbread Biography Award. But his biography of Cochrane reads like C. S. Forster's Hornblower or Patrick O'Brian's Blue at the Mizzen. Indeed, as Thomas puts it himself, if Cochrane's life was written as a novel readers would disbelieve it. To begin with he enjoyed a distinguished career as a naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars-seizing over 50 French vessels and destroying much of the French fleet with fireships, so that that Napoleon himself dubbed Cochrane "England's Sea Wolf". After the war he entered Parliament as a Radical politician and democrat. His enemies plotted against him, forging material to discredit his naval achievements and convict him as "one of the principal movers of the greatest Stock Exchange fraud of the century". He was imprisoned, and escaped and went off to command the Chilean navy. [+]He became a mercenary Admiral and commanded in turn the Brazilian and Greek navies. In his old age he returned to Britain and vindication. He proposed secret weapons against the Russians in the Crimean War ("under cover of the clouds of gas from Cochrane's "stink vessels", the port of Cronstadt could be seized. ") and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1855. Thomas does justice to this rip-roaring story; the tale rattles along as good as any novel. -Adam Roberts.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-11-05
Dewey code: 355
Price: £10.99
Review The Homicidal Earl: Lord Cardigan / Abacus:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1991-08-08
Price: £4.99
Review Mossad: Israel's Most Secret Service / Corgi:
Publication date: 1999-03-04
Price: £12.99
Review The Pianist / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was the same piece and the same pianist, when broadcasting resumed six years later. The Pianist is Szpilman's account of the years inbetween, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock. Szpilman, now 88, has not looked at his description since he wrote it in 1946 (the same time as Primo Levi's If This Is A Man?; it is too personally painful. The rest of us have no such excuse. Szpilman's family were deported to Treblinka, where they were exterminated; he survived only because a music-loving policeman recognised him. This was only the first in a series of fatefully lucky escapes that littered his life as he hid among the rubble and corpses of the Warsaw Ghetto, growing thinner and hungrier, yet condemned to live. Ironically it was a German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, who saved Szpilman's life by bringing food and an eiderdown to the derelict ruin where he discovered him. Hosenfeld died seven years later in a Stalingrad labour camp, but portions of his diary, reprinted here, tell of his outraged incomprehension of the madness and evil he witnessed, thereby establishing an effective counterpoint to ground the nightmarish vision of the pianist in a desperate reality. Szpilman originally published his account in Poland in 1946, but it was almost immediately withdrawn by Stalin's Polish minions as it unashamedly described collaborations by Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles and Jews with the Nazis. [+]In 1997 it was published in Germany after Szpilman's son found it on his father's bookcase. This admirably robust translation by Anthea Bell is the first in the English language. There were 3,500,000 Jews in Poland before the Nazi occupation; after it there were 240,000. Wladyslaw Szpilman's extraordinary account of his own miraculous survival offers a voice across the years for the faceless millions who lost their lives. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 2005-09-30
Dewey code: 359.331092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £16.91
Review Rodney and The Breaking of the Line / Leo Cooper Ltd:
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed
Publication date: 2005-06-09
Dewey code: 940.53184984
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.40
Review In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe - A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust / Carroll & Graf Publishing:
Authors
- Werner Girbig
- Helmut Lipfert
RRP: £24.95
Price: £21.73
Review The War Diary of Hauptmann Helmut Lipfert: JG 52 on the Russian Front 1943-45 (Schiffer Military History) / Schiffer Publishing Ltd:
Edition: 1st U.S. Ed
Publication date: 1994-02
Dewey code: 940.5423092
RRP: £16.06
Price: £22.41
Review Knight's Cross: The Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel / HarperCollins:
Creator: Madeline Levine
Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £7.61
Price: £3.84
Review The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories / Other Press (NY):
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-03-05
Dewey code: 940.5423092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £11.49
Review Rommel: And His Art of War (Greenhill Military Paperback): And His Art of War (Greenhill Military Paperback) / Greenhill Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-01-05
Dewey code: 327.12730092
Price: £14.00
Review See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism / Three Rivers Press (CA):
Publication date: 2000-05-22
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.73
Review Wilfrid Freeman: The Genius Behind Allied Air Supremacy, 1939 to 1945 / The History Press LTD:
Publication date: 2004-04-30
Dewey code: 973.82
RRP: £9.50
Price: £4.06
Review Warriors at the Little Big Horn 1876 (Men-at-arms) / Osprey Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-06-30
RRP: £18.00
Price: £9.00
Review Into Enemy Arms: The Remarkable True Story of a German Girl's Struggle Against Nazism, and Her Daring Escape with the Allied Airman She Loved / Grub Street:
Publication date: 2005-09-29
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.88
Review Insurgent Iraq / Constable:
Authors
- Roy Bradford
- Martin Dillon
Price: £14.95
Review Rogue Warrior of the S.A.S.: Lt.Col.Paddy Blair Mayne, D.S.O. / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 947.52
RRP: £14.22
Price: £4.03
Review Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya / Thomas Dunne Books:
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