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Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell |
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Span… |
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Try to tell the story
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David Thomson |
From one of our most celebrated film critics and historians now comes a beautifully written memoir about his first eighteen years, growing up as an only child in south London in the midforties and la… |
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The Tartan Pimpernel
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Donald C. Caskie |
"I had caught up with a struggling mass of people when German and Italian aircraft streaked down from the sky. Machine guns spat indiscriminate death. Bombs thudded and exploded all along the road."T… |
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Testament of experience
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Vera Brittain |
In *Testament of Youth*, one of the most famous and best loved autobiographies of the First World War, Very Brittain wrote both a heartbreaking record of those agonizing years and a loving memorial t… |
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The Straits impregnable
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Sydney De Loghe |
harrowing brutal account of slaughtr and the sacrifice made by the anzacs |
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Tank!
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Ken Tout |
This short book is a novelette-sized experiential treatment. It is raw, full of the period banter between the men of a tank battalion in Normandy. The characters crass humour is exquisitely raw.
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War in a Stringbag
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Charles Lamb |
Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It was an antiquated machine, but it could outmanoeuvre almost any other aircraft… |
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A NURSE'S WAR
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Brenda McBryde |
Branda BcBryde's remarkable account of her experiences as a nurse in the Second World War.
Her uniquely moving story began on the eve of World War II when Branda McBryde enrolled as a trainee nurs… |
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Journey down a blind alley
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Mary Borden |
A history of the Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit |
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