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Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from
Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including key confrontations of World War II. After serving as...
D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander
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A remarkable first-hand account of one tank commander's experiences during the Allied invasion from D-Day to VE Day. 'An arresting chronicle of the life of an ordinary soldier during the...
Ypres Diary 1914-15: The Memoirs of Sir Morgan Crofton
Sir Morgan Crofton fought in the Boer War and joined the 2nd Life Guards at 34 years old as a cavalry office. His diary charts his experiences on the front-line...
Letters From the Empire: A Soldier's Account of the Boer War and the
From 17 trunks in a Lakeland attic comes this eyewitness account of a soldier's life at a pivotal moment in the history of the British Empire. Allan Marriot Hutchins, handsome,...
The Smoking Diaries Volume 1
When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of...
Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)
In between the partying, the drugs, the love affairs, the 'squalid overboogie' of it all, Eve Babitz made time to chronicle the world as she saw it in works like...
Letters between Nin and Henry Miller
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A "lyrical, impassioned" document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June ( Booklist ). This exchange of letters between the two...
Burn After Writing
THE MILLION-COPY TIKTOK PHENOMENON THE BESTSELLING BOOK Write. Burn. Repeat. Now featuring a brand new pink cover. Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant...
A Trillion Cliches Every Dad Will Do Prompted Journal
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Think of it as an entertaining way to take inventory of your (or your dad's) life. As it turns out, becoming a father is the permission slip every guy is...
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
Follow-up to the phenomenal international bestseller. Including letters from: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis...
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)
After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life . Writing and acting...
The Words Of War
For this remarkable anthology, the Imperial War Museum has opened its vast archive of some 1,300 personal diaries written by ordinary men and woman who fought, and in some cases...
God's Own Gentlewoman: The Life of Margaret Paston
The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman. Drawing on what is the largest archive of medieval...
Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother.
'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes 'This book made me cry' Sara Cox After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her...
Theroux The Keyhole: Diaries of a Grounded Documentary Maker
Step inside Louis' life like never before as he turns his critical eye on himself, his home, and family and tries to make sense of our weird and sometimes scary...
From the Heart: Women of Letters
Uplifting, passionate and compelling, From the Heart is a wonderful new collection from your favourite Australians of note. 'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,'...
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 (Volume 3)
The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries. TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of curiosity and sense of adventure. Michael was not the...
Sergey Prokofiev Diaries 1924-1933: Prodigal Son
The third and final volume of Prokofiev's Diaries covers the years 1924 to1933 when he was living in Paris. Intimate accounts of the successes and disappointments of a great creative...
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth
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The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
'An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid' -- Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding...
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...
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
A magical memoir from the New York Times bestselling writer about coming back from the brink of cancer and finding love second time around. If you pitched a movie about...
Dear Eddie: God, Turtles and Letters About Mum
"How do you prepare a pre-schooler for his mother's death? How do you preserve her memory so he'll never forget? These were the troublesome questions that compelled journalist Danny Russell...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante's workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and...
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell, author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller,...
Letters from Everest
Sixty years after the first ascent of Mount Everest, this unique book of letters from New Zealander George Lowe celebrates, in a very personal way, this most majestic of mountains....
Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time
'Captures moments in time like nothing else.' RICHARD E. GRANT 'Intimate . . . and rarely predictable.' MICHAEL PALIN 'Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY 'A volume to...
The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing
Letters have been here all along, quietly influencing countless people in profound ways. They encourage, they bring happiness, while to some they even provide the will to keep on living....
Ian Fairweather: A Life in Letters
A self-portrait by one of Australia's greatest artists, a man mistakenly portrayed as a hermit. When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on...
Galileo: Watcher of the Skies
A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Revolution Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth
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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...
Spike Milligan: Man of Letters
Spike Milligan: Man of Letters is a collection of the funniest, rudest and most revealing letters from one of the greatest comics of the twentieth century to some of its...
Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's
Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the...
I'm Not Here to Give a Speech
Throughout his life Gabriel Garcia Marquez spoke with the same passion and energy as he wrote, charming his audiences as beguilingly as he did his millions of readers. Now, in...
Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936
Between 1925 and 1936 - a dramatic period of transformation within the Soviet Union - Josef Stalin wrote frequently to his trusted friend and political colleague Viachestav Molotov, Politburo member,...
Garden Voices: A year of gardeners' writing
A fascinating celebration of our love for all things horticultural, with a selection of garden-related entries from diaries, letters and articles for every day of the year. Garden Voices captures...
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...
Letters to My Younger Queer Self: Inspiring, influential voices from
'The compelling stories in this book are funny, uplifting and at times poignant and sad, but always honest. I learned such a lot. ' - Lorraine Kelly 'A beautifully heartfelt...
A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45
Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of...
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956
This comprehensive edition of Sylvia Plath's letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a complete and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters Plath wrote...
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
Correspondence from over 22 years between two of the twentieth century's greatest writers, reissued in a new jacket look Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's...
Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015
'Roy Strong's diaries are a treasure . . . magnificently readable' THE TIMES 'Essential reading' TATLER 'When it comes to viperish high-society gossip, Roy Strong is in a class of...
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December
This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards...