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Colonel Stuart Tootal is the first senior commander to provide an account of the fighting in Afghanistan. A gritty portrayal of unforgiving conflict, Danger Close captures the essence of combat, the risks involved and the aftermath. 3 PARA was the first unit into...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2009-07-27
ePub
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**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH**'It was a revelation. Moving, terrifying, funny and brilliant. I shall never forget it - an amazing achievement' STEPHEN FRY'Brash and frightening and funny' NEW YORK TIMES* * * * * * The Sunday Times...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-07-23
ePub
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A “compelling” (New York Times) and personal daily account of the experience of the Great Depression in the mid-west, full of anxieties about the economic future, with powerful echoes for today. In the early 1920s, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer fresh...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2009-07-22
ePub
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Few champions have astonished the world as much as Lance Armstrong. A cancer survivor who went on to win the Tour de France an unprecedented seven times, he is an inspiration to millions. Now the full story can be told. With complete access to Armstrong, and to his...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2009-07-09
ePub
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The heartbreaking true story of a love that transcended tragedy.On 1 May 2000 Hasso von Bredow's life was forever changed.The young and active father of three suffered a massive stroke at the base of his brainstem, leaving him totally paralysed and unable to speak....
Editeur :
Orion
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2009-06-25
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The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite imminent. And when the time comes, my father will lead it. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's Iranian-born father and American Jewish mother had one thing in common: their unshakable...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-06-25
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When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which, incredibly, was...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-06-25
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As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town. During the man’s post-luncheon siestas, Jordan passed the time reading books, a fact that astounded his boss. “Vernon can read!” the man...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-06-17
ePub
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The scandalous 1994 Thai novel hailed as a world-class masterpiece
Editeur :
Thaifiction Publishing
Parution :
2009-06-17
epub sans DRM
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Richard Brookhiser wrote his first cover story for National Review at age fourteen, and became the magazine's youngest senior editor at twenty-three. William F. Buckley Jr. was Brookhiser's mentor, hero, and admirer; within a year of Brookhiser's arrival at the...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-06-09
ePub
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'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-06-04
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**FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING MARLEY & ME**'Genuinely heartrending' NEW YORK TIMES'Wry and witty' WASHINGTON POST'Grogan makes readers feel they have a seat at the family dinner table' PEOPLE* * * * * *Finding your place in the world can be the longest trip home....
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-05-28
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'My father would not have wasted time reading -- a trait I have inherited from him.' The unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire, the youngest of the Mitford sisters, rings out of this second volume of her occasional writings. As broad and eclectic as her long and...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2009-05-14
ePub
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A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV series.In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2009-05-14
ePub
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A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2009-05-14
ePub
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The Sunday Times Bestseller All Michael Parkinson really wanted to do was play cricket for Yorkshire and England. However, he soon realised that to be paid to watch films, football and cricket would be the best way to spend life, and he became a journalist. Television...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-05-14
ePub
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"This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old." So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the events that have...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2009-05-12
ePub
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Catherine Whitney's brother, Vietnam veteran Jim Schuler, died at just fifty-three years old, while living in a flophouse. It had been sixteen years since, in one of his drunken rages, he had last seen his family. He was one of countless veterans who never recovered...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-05-12
ePub
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When seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him.When they were through, they...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-04-27
ePub
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Celebrated TV critic John Doyle has penned an Irish memoir that gives a portrait of a boy and his country transformed by television. Funny, insightful, and engaging, A Great Feast of Light begins in the small town of Nenagh, where young John's father purchased the...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-04-24
ePub
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