Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-06-06
Dewey code: 990
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.82
Review Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare / John Murray:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2006-07-25
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.38
Price: £3.93
Review Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage / Plume Books:
Creator: Susan Massotty
Edition: The definitive ed
Publication date: 2000-03-30
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.54
Review The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-09-09
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.95
Review Amongst the Marines: The Untold Story / Mainstream Publishing:
Creator: Mass-Observation Archive
Publication date: 2007-09-06
Dewey code: 941.0840922
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.35
Review Private Battles: Our Intimate Diaries - How the War Almost Defeated Us / Ebury Press:
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed
Publication date: 2000-09-01
Dewey code: 940.548641
RRP: £18.00
Price: £6.36
Review Between Silk and Cyanide / Simon & Schuster:
Publication date: 2004-07-12
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £6.99
Price: £6.99
Review Shallow Graves in Siberia / Birlinn Ltd:
Creator: Alan Bishop
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-11-04
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.97
Review Letters from a Lost Generation - First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow / Abacus:The events set in motion by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 changed many lives irrevocably. For Vera Brittain, an Oxford undergraduate who left her studies to volunteer as a nurse in military hospitals in England and France, the war was a shattering experience; she not only witnessed the horrors inflicted by combat through her work, but she lost the four men closest to her at that time-her fiancé Roland Leighton, brother Edward and two close friends, Geoffrey Thurlow and Victor Nicholson, who all died on the battlefields. Letters from a Lost Generation, a collection of previously unpublished correspondence between Brittain and these young men-all public schoolboys at the start of the war-chronicles her relationship with them and reveals "the old lie": The idealised glory of patriotic duty which was soon overtaken by the grim reality of the Flanders' trenches. The letters are lively, dramatic, immediate and, despite the awfulness of war, curiously optimistic: ". somehow I feel the end is not destined to be here and now. We have not fulfilled ourselves-and someday we shall live our roseate poem through", wrote Vera to in one of her last letters to Roland in December 1915, just days before he was killed by a sniper's bullet. Following his death, and later those of their mutual friends Victor and Geoffrey, Vera's letters take on a new, raw intensity as she concentrates all her emotions on her brother-a hero awarded the Military Cross-until his death on the Italian Front in June 1918. These letters formed the basis of Vera Brittain's remarkable autobiography, Testament of Youth and vividly bring to life the voices of the "lost generation" whose words threaten to be lost forever as the First World War recedes even further from living memory. [+]-Catherine Taylor.
Publication date: 2006-11-30
RRP: £18.00
Price: £9.95
Review Life's Too Short to Cry: The Compelling Memoir of a Battle of Britain Ace / Grub Street Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-09-16
Dewey code: 359
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.37
Review Iron Coffins: A U-boat Commander's War, 1939-45 (Cassell Military Paperbacks) / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2008-09-04
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.22
Review Heart of Darfur / Hodder Paperbacks:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-10-21
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.36
Review Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C' Company / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Dewey code: 940.48141
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.01
Review A Month at the Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier / The Bodleian Library:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1991-11-21
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.40
Review The Dirty War / Arrow Books Ltd:
Creator: Sara Salih
Publication date: 2005-02-24
Dewey code: 947.0738092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.73
Review The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (Penguin 20th century classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-05-21
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.64
Review A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier / Fourth Estate Ltd:
Authors
- Edward Heffron
- William Guarnere
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-10-10
Dewey code: 940.5412730922
RRP: £24.95
Price: £8.33
Review Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends / Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-09-23
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £8.99
Review Paddy Mayne / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-05-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.31
Review The Jungle Is Neutral / Birlinn Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-12-31
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.64
Review The Pianist (Film Tie-in edition): The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 / Phoenix: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.
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