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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Homage to Catalonia Homage to Catalonia 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… OL1168169W
Try to tell the story Try to tell the story 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… OL14856851W
The Tartan Pimpernel The Tartan Pimpernel 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… OL18474844W
Testament of experience Testament of experience 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… OL1971472W
The Straits impregnable The Straits impregnable Sydney De Loghe harrowing brutal account of slaughtr and the sacrifice made by the anzacs OL205469W
Tank! Tank! 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. M… OL2274803W
War in a Stringbag War in a Stringbag 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… OL3670837W
A NURSE'S WAR A NURSE'S WAR 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… OL5183308W
Journey down a blind alley Journey down a blind alley Mary Borden A history of the Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit OL7441372W