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Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45
A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944 the average life expectancy of a newly commissioned tank troop officer in...
Black Watch: Liberating Europe and catching Himmler - my extraordinary
As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It...
Bomber Pilot on the Eastern Front: 307 Missions Behind Enemy Lines
Soviet bombers played a vital role in defeating the Germans on the Eastern Front, yet their contribution is often forgotten. This graphic memoir should help to set the record straight....
I Fought at Dunkirk
When Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, thousands of young men sailed across the English Channel to fight for their country. Among them were the seven soldiers who...
Callsign Hades
The book titled Callsign Hades by the author Patrick Bury. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Point Man
The point man leads the patrol into battle, looking for signs of danger. He is the first to face ambushes, hidden bombs and snipers. Few survive for long. Between 2007...
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara offers a unique perspective on the life and making of this Aboriginal Western Arnhem clever man or marrkidjbu. Born at the end...
Those Who Trespass Against Us: One Woman's War Against the Nazis
Born in Vienna in 1898, Karolina Lanckoronska was an aristocrat and art historian who taught at the University of Lwow, then part of Poland. When the Soviets came to occupy...
Rifleman: A Front-Line Life
Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following...
Parting Words: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for
'I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz ' This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How...
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
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She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and...
Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Columbia
A memoir of a life in politics that reads like a fast-paced thriller, Until Death Do Us Part is the passionate story of Ingrid Betancourt's struggle against international criminals and...
Out of Africa
The book titled Out of Africa by the author Isak Dinesen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Politics On the Edge
From the former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament A political journey through turbulent times...
Unless Victory Comes: Combat With a World War II Machine Gunner in
A vivid, boots-on-the-ground memoir of World War II by an infantryman in General Patton's army, from the Battle of the Bulge to Germany's defeat On December 19, 1944, Gene Garrison...
Eight Weeks: Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds
A deeply moving and inspiring memoir that tells the remarkable life story of Baroness Young of Hornsey, from her childhood in foster care, to becoming one of the first Black...
Courage Under Fire
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame...
About Face
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Called "everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be" by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of...
My Early Life
This first part of the autobiography of Dr Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi spans the years until his selection as ruler of Sharjah as a young man of thirty-three. It reveals...
My Life
This priceless historical document features firsthand accounts from top levels of leadership in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, chronicling the struggle to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat....
A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory
The No 1. Bestseller and storyteller continues his forceful account of life inside the British penal system. On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey...
The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for
When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come. In this frank and...
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.Grant
"The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece." -Ron Chernow, in Grant Faced with cancer and financial ruin, Ulysses...
Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
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***The Instant New York Times Bestseller*** Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into...
Testament of Youth: An unforgettable true story of love and loss in
In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole...
The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons
16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A remarkable testimony to women's bravery, compassion and solidarity in...
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950-57
From August 1950 until 1966, Harold Macmillan kept one of the fullest and most entertaining political diaries of the 20th century. This first volume starts in the last full year...
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography
A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of The Path to Power and The Downing Street Years; this is Margaret Thatcher in her own words. Margaret Thatcher is the towering figure...
A Mission Without Borders: Why a Father and Son Risked it All for the
The inspiring true story of US elite special operations veterans fighting for freedom in Ukraine and discovering the power of faith, sacrifice, and hope. Author, speaker, and former Force Recon...
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the
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Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura's...
Rules of Engagement
From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a...
Apache at War: Flying the world's deadliest attack helicopter in
The ultimate fighting machine... The unflinching memoir of the elite combat pilot who flew it in action... And his nail-biting story of training Prince Harry. 'Rounds slammed the ground all...
How Not to Be a Political Wife
'You think you've married a journalist, then, horrors, he becomes a politician.' 'Sarah Vine is the Bridget Jones of politics.' Plum Sykes 'Everyone in Westminster is talking about it.' The...
Apache at War: Flying the world's deadliest attack helicopter in
'Rounds slammed the ground all around the Taliban. He hit the earth face first, vanishing into the foggy confusion of desert conflict. The Apache's engines rumbled on as we orbited,...
Going Back: Australian veterans return to Viet Nam
'What I thought I knew about the Viet Nam War didn't even come close to scratching the surface of what the Viet Nam experience really was all about for my...
Narrative of Frederick Douglass
An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass'sNarrativepowerfully details the life of the abolitionist...
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches
First time in Penguin Classics for this single-volume edition of Churchill's most famous speeches The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business...
The Autobiography
The book titled The Autobiography by the author Benvenuto Cellini. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson
Gentle, modest and handsome, a fine poet, proficient in nine languages, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. The elder of two sons of a formidable family of writers...
Outside the Wire: On the front line with the SAS in Australia's war in
' I've had more than my share of close calls. Truth is, it's f*cking thrilling. But the fear can hit just as hard, especially when you see mates wounded or...
100 Ways I Almost Died
'Relentless, raw and just impossible to fake. Bram Connolly has survived more in one lifetime than most of us could ever imagine - and takes us right there, with a...
Inside the NRA: A Tell-All Account of Corruption, Greed, and Paranoia
Joshua L. Powell is the NRA--a lifelong gun advocate, in 2016, he began his new role as a senior strategist and chief of staff to NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre. What...
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink
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From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything , this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison-Solitary Confinement, a
The Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. "544 Days" is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24. The dramatic memoir of the journalist who...
American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family
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Now in paperback: RFK Jr. describes his life growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that...
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38
The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century. An astonishing achievement. By turns frivolous and profound.' Ben Macintyre, The Times...