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The Pacific War Uncensored: A War Correspondent's Unvarnished Account
Harold Guard became a war correspondent quite by chance, after he had been invalided out of the navy following a submarine accident. Thereafter, working for United Press, he gained a...
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...
Brideshead Revisited: Popular Penguins
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric,...
Scoop: Popular Penguins
One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies,Scoopis a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast,...
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's...
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of...
Harries: The lifeguard from Bondi Beach
We all have different abilities. But sometimes, we need to dig a little deeper to find our own special gifts . Well-known Bondi Rescue lifeguard Anthony 'Harries' Carroll wasn't always...