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From the outbreak of war in September 1939 all the way to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Palestine, Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day, Nijmegen and the crossing of the Rhine, this book offers an account of the Second World War.

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"An introduction to the life and work of the philosopher Jacques Derrida"--

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Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years.

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Braiding memoir and cultural criticism, XXX is former sex worker Charlotte Shanes intimate and incisive account of what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.

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In An Indelible Event, Henry Silvert relates how a serious accident in childhood changed but did not define his life. The book also explores his adventurous childhood spent in a number of South American countries, experiences with political activism, and intellectual awakening and pursuit of a career in the social sciences.

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The hugely entertaining, and extremely candid, autobiography of one of the most colourful characters in motor sport

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How does an Italian become Italian

In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at home, at work and at play.

An Officer and a Gentlewoman is the first female perspective on Sandhurst and the making of a female British Army officer.

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Open Championship hero Darren Clarke tells the gripping and moving story of his life as Britain's best-loved golfer.

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In the tradition of "The Power of Myth", this is a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distils the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of this scholar and mythologist.

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The life of Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm.

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Writer Alvin Schwartz received a great deal of attention from fans when he began talking publicly about his seventeen-year stint writing "Superman" and "Batman" comics. One of the individuals who contacted him was no ordinary fan, but a seven-foot Buddhist monk named Thongden, a tulpa or individual who was thought into being by a Tibetan mystic.

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The moving and inspiring story of one woman's struggle to come to terms with the racist murder of her son.

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Blake Morrison's vibrant and deeply moving portrait of his father, and a raw, dazzling memoir of masculinity, family, and bereavement.

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Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. This is a biography of Andrew Carnegie who is one of the America's famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists.

One of America's leading historians shows how ill-suited Johnson was for assuming the presidency following President Lincoln's assassination. The climax of Johnson's career was his impeachment trial, which Gordon-Reed recounts with drama and tension.

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The definitive biography of perhaps the most respected political figure in the world - updated to include her final months in office

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For the first time a brilliant writer shows us that the abolition of slavery and the publication of the Origin of Species, which together created the modern world, share profound intellectual similarities

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Profoundly moving - and with a range of questions about issues such as death, relationships, the state of the planet, and many more, all answered by the Angels - this is an inspiring story of hope and forgiveness, and a testament to the healing power of Angels that will stay with you for ever.

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Originally published: New York: The John Dow Co., 1944.