Stalag Luft III was a specially built German prison camp designed to hold the most determined escapers - officers and men from the RAF. The last surviving escapers, along with the original executioners have been tracked down and dramatically tell the full story in this volume.

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In 1988 Artyom Borovik marched with the Russian forces into Afghanistan, earning a medal for his 'valour in battle'. Calling to mind Michael Herr's Dispatches, Artyom Borovik's classic account of 'Russia's Vietnam' was both a critical and popular success on its initial publication in 1989.

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A timely contribution to the debate engulfing the US military about whether ends can ever justify means

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A reissue of a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare - in nature, poetry, folklore, history and art. science, literature, mythology, superstition, semantics, venery, and a rich swathe of countryman's talk .

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Dave Rich critically examines the relationship between the left, Israel and British Jews.

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Once they were portrayed as the salt of the earth. Nowadays, they take to the streets when paedophiles and asylum seekers are in their midst; they expose their lives in TV documentaries; they love Gucci and hate the Euro. The Likes of Us is a defence of the white working class in the face of such caricatures.

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The Lockerbie Bombing is co-written by Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died when Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed. This is his searing story, which has taken over three decades and across several continents to find the truth behind the atrocity.

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Riveting and authoritative, The Long Emergency is a startling vision of what lies ahead, bringing new urgency and accessibility to the critical issues that will shape our future, and which we can no longer ignore.

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Pedro Corra do Lago has gathered one of the world's finest autograph collections. From a parchment signed by four popes to Stephen Hawking's thumbprint signature, this book spans nearly 900 years of handwriting from the likes of van Gogh, Michelangelo, Queen Victoria, Einstein, and many more legendary figures across art, literature, science,...

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In December 1884, Austin was terrorised by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.

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An inside account of the Middle East peace process. Dennis Ross recounts the peace process in detail from 1988 to the breakdown of talks in early 2001, that prompted the so-called second Intifada - and takes account of developments in an after word written for this edition.

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In the 20th century, 170 million human beings have died in wars. That makes 4630 casualties a day, 193 every hour, and 3 every minute. While 1035 billion dollars were spent on warfare in 2004, only 78.6 billion were spent on aid to developing countries. This book presents post-9/11 analysis of war.

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Simply the most comprehensive compilation of information on the legendary Australian outlaw, in encyclopaedic form.

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There is no doubt that white settlers devastated Indian communities in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is our public policies today that have turned reservations into third-world countries in the middle of the richest and freest nation on earth.

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How the Nordic countries can teach us how to live better, healthier and more fulfilling lives

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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This is a study of hunter/gatherer culture. Brody studies the culture, and most especially the language, of the hunter/gatherers - the Inuit have 28 words for snow - and uses it to form insights into the way normal society works.

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Passionate essays by 25 San Francisco activists on elections, war, urban hell and transformational politics.

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By 1945, General MacArthur's forces had advanced from Papua to the Philippines and to Borneo. MacArthur's success was based on 22 amphibious assaults. The ships of the United States and Australian navies delivered them to the battlefronts and supported them. This book reveals facts of the Royal Australian Navy's crucial role in World War II.