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  • The Long Walk Home

    An Escape in Wartime Italy

    On September 13th 1943, two young British officers seized the chance to escape their PoW convoy after the capitulation of Italy. This catapulted them onto a two-month, seven-hundred-mile journey through enemy territory down the spine of Italy, helped by many brave local families. This new edition of The Long Walk Home sets the record of this extraordinary adventure straight. It gives Frank Simms ... Leer más

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  • London Sketchbook: A City Observed

    The best way of discovering London is on foot or from the top of a bus. No other large cuty is more rewarding to wander around, with a wealth of interesting things to see, both grand and intimate in scale. Watercolour painter Graham Byfield set out to capture the essence of the place, and his impressions are recorded in the London Sketchbook.Britain's capital is varied and cosmopolitan. It has no ... Leer más

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  • Accidental Agent

    Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance

    A covert agent's memoir of three perilous missions in Nazi-occupied Paris, told with "unconditional honesty" ( Kirkus Reviews).At first, John Goldsmith's services were consistently refused. But in 1942, he was recruited into Buckmasters F Section of the Special Operations Executive—and his wartime exploits would be remarkable.His faultless French and upbringing in Paris were to prove invaluable. ... Leer más

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  • Happy Odyssey

    The legendary British Army officer recounts his experiences in the Boer War and both World Wars in this memoir with a foreword by Winston Churchill.Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart had one of the most extraordinary military careers in the history of the British Army. His gallantry in combat won him a Victoria Cross and a Distinguished Service Order, as well as an eyepatch and an empty ... Leer más

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  • Mud, Blood and Bullets

    Memoirs of a Machine Gunner on the Western Front

    It is 1915 and the Great War has been raging for a year, when Edward Rowbotham, a coal miner from the Midlands, volunteers for Kitchener's Army. Drafted into the newly-formed Machine Gun Corps, he is sent to fight in places whose names will forever be associated with mud and blood and sacrifice: Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele. He is one of the 'lucky' ones, winning the Military Medal for ... Leer más

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  • Naples '44

    A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy

    de Norman Lewis ...
    The classic memoir of the Italian city left in chaos by the Nazis is "[a] masterpiece . . . elegiac and furious, and frequently hilarious" ( The New York Times)."Vivid, lucid, elegant, often funny," Naples '44 is the starkly human account of the true cost of war as seen through the eyes of a young, untested man who would never again look at his world the same way ( The New York Times Book Review) ... Leer más

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  • Once a Hussar

    A Memoir of Battle, Capture, and Escape in World War II

    de Ray Ellis ...
    Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago.As an impressionable teenager, filled with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the ... Leer más

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  • Alamein to Zem Zem

    de Keith Douglas ...
    In October 1942, Keith Douglas — a twenty-two-year-old poet serving as a tank commander with the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry — drove against orders to rejoin his regiment at El Alamein. What he found there, and in the weeks that followed as the Eighth Army pursued Rommel across the North African desert, became Alamein to Zem Zem: a prose memoir as vivid, unsparing, and strangely beautiful as ... Leer más

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  • War Is War

    de A. M. Burrage ...
    Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a ... Leer más

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  • The Sword of Fate

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  • Women in the War Zone

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