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A noble combat
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Shiela Grant Duff |
Adam von Trott, 24, a German Rhodes scholar, and Shiela Duff, 18, intellectually precocious daughter of the British aristocracy, met at Oxford in 1931, became platonic comrades and shared a dream of … |
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Who killed George Polk?
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Elias Vlanton |
Reconstructing the murder, investigation, trial, and aftermath, Who Killed George Polk? offers a penetrating analysis of the willingness of the American media - including CBS and a committee of promi… |
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The missing Colton
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Loreth Anne White |
"The dark mystery of a Colton child's disappearance has haunted Dead River Ranch for thirty years. Solving the crime is foreign correspondent Jagger McKnight's last chance to put his war-ravaged past… |
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From our own correspondent
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Kate Adie,Tony Grant |
Every week, the BBC programme 'From Our Own Correspondent' reports on the events & the personalities that are making the news. This anthology, featuring journalists such as Matt Frei, John Simpson, &… |
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The year I was Peter the Great
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Marvin L. Kalb |
The year 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called "the year of the thaw"--a time when Stalin's dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that… |
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Serpent in paradise
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Julian West |
The moment Eva agreed to return to the island to report on its civil war, she knew she would have to meet ghosts from her past. But just as Eva seems set to finally understand her neglected childhood… |
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The breaking wave
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Nevil Shute |
This is the same book as *Requiem for a Wren*.
Alan Duncan is a lawyer, recently called to the bar in England, returning home to his wealthy parents' prosperous sheep station (ranch) in Australia… |
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Of spies and spokesmen
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Nicholas Daniloff |
"A riveting look at Cold War journalism behind the Iron Curtain by a Russian-American reporter who was later falsely accused of spying and thrown into a Russian prison. Daniloff sheds light on such p… |
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