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  • Captured at Singapore

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    Drawn from a journal secretly written by a young soldier in the Royal Army Service Corps, a true POW story of adventure, courage, resilience and luck.What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again? What if you had to depart on a ship in the dead of night heading for an unknown destination only to find yourself in the heat of a battle that concludes in ... Leer más

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  • The Lost History of Christianity

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  • The Eagle in the Mirror

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    Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of Charles Howard “Dick” Ellis, the Australian-born British intelligence officer and master spy accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century.The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis came to New York at ... Leer más

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  • Regeneration Through Violence

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  • The North Star

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