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  • THE BARBED-WIRE UNIVERSITY
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    THE BARBED-WIRE UNIVERSITY
    MIDGE GILLIES
    “A moving and eye-opening account of the lives of second world war PoWs by the daughter of a man who was captured . . . a riveting collection of stories.” —The Guardian Feature films like The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Great Escape have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. But, as Midge Gillies shows in this groundbreaking work of social history...

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  • SAIL
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    SAIL
    TIMOTHY JEFFERY
    A celebration of sailing, featuring profiles on the world's greatest races & sailors, as well as technical analysis of some of the best racing boats. Whether it is to test the high seas on around-the-world events in the glory of 49er yachts, to cut through choppy coastal waters on a Lazer racing for Olympic Gold or to set team against team in the great cup challenges, Sail is a...

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  • THE TELEGRAPH HISTORY OF THE WORLD
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    THE TELEGRAPH HISTORY OF THE WORLD
    GAVIN FULLER
    An archive of Great Britain's Daily Telegraph news coverage highlights the major historical events from the Victorian era through the twenty-first century. Celebrating 160 years of reporting, this is an anthology of the headlines that the Telegraph made. The paper sent Stanley to Africa and George Smith to discover the Babylonian story of Noah on ancient tablets. The twenty-two...

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  • ROYALTY INC.
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    ROYALTY INC.
    STEPHEN BATES
    The former Guardian royal correspondent "wisely explores a host of issues surrounding the royals, from the monarchy's role to the legacy of Diana" ( Get Surrey). It was an amazing feat in the twenty-frst century that Queen Elizabeth II, a small woman in her late-eighties, was one of the most recognisable people on the planet. The world had utterly, irreversibly, and radically e...

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  • THE SECRET LIFE OF FIGHTER COMMAND
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    THE SECRET LIFE OF FIGHTER COMMAND
    SINCLAIR MCKAY
    "Bring[s] alive the all-engulfing drama of 1940, as Hitler's Luftwaffe attempted to establish air superiority over England. . . . Poetry and sharp politics." — The Times During the dark days of 1940, when Britain faced the might of Hitler's armed forces alone, the RAF played an integral role in winning the Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe, thus ensuring the country's saf...

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  • WINSTON CHURCHILL AT THE TELEGRAPH
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    WINSTON CHURCHILL AT THE TELEGRAPH
    DR WARREN DOCKTER AND BORIS JOHNSON
    This fascinating collection of reportage chronicles the Prime Minister's life through the newspaper where he began his career. The Telegraph had a uniquely close connection with Winston Churchill at every stage of his life. Beginning with his early days as a war correspondent for the paper, the association continued as he himself became the news—reported on in its pages at ever...

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  • HOW UFOS CONQUERED THE WORLD
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    HOW UFOS CONQUERED THE WORLD
    DAVID CLARKE
    "Cover[s] all the major themes of ufology, ranging from lights in the sky to crashed saucers, government cover-ups and alien abductions . . . fascinating." — Popular Science Books Neither a credulous work of conspiracy theory nor a skeptical debunking of belief in "flying saucers," How UFOs Conquered the World explores the origins of UFOs in the build-up to the First World War ...

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  • THE SUMMER OF '45
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    THE SUMMER OF '45
    KEVIN TELFER
    A social history of British civilian life in the months following the declaration of the end of the second world war. On the 8th of May in 1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill finally announced to waiting crowds that the Allies had accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and that the war in Europe was over. For the next two days, people around the world ce...

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  • HOW TO JUG A HARE
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    HOW TO JUG A HARE
    SARAH RAINEY
    Featuring a forward by a bestselling food writer from The Telegraph, this collection from the newspaper's archives celebrates all things culinary. The opening of the Savoy in 1889, with Auguste Escoffier at the helm of its kitchen, rang in the new era of the celebrity chef. Though food is intrinsic to our very existence, the public's interest was piqued and our pursuit of gastr...

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  • THE TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
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    THE TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    GAVIN FULLER AND MICHAEL WRIGHT
    An WWI archive of Great Britain's Daily Telegraph news coverage reveals how the press influenced public perception of the Great War. One hundred years on, the First World War has not lost its power to clutch at the heart. But how much do we really know about the war that would shape the twentieth century? And, all the more poignantly, how much did people know at the time? Today...

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  • THE LAST POST
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    THE LAST POST
    ALWYN W. TURNER
    A history of the military bugle call, its use at the end of World War I on Armistice Day, and its effect in today's culture. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th November 1919 the entire British Empire came to a halt to remember the dead of the Great War. During that first two-minute silence all transport stayed still, all work ceased and millions stood motionless in th...

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  • A VERY COURAGEOUS DECISION
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    A VERY COURAGEOUS DECISION
    GRAHAM MCCANN
    A behind-the-scenes history of one of the most successful and admired British sitcoms of the 1980s. In 1977 the BBC commissioned a new satirical sitcom set in Whitehall . Production of its first series was stalled, however, by the death throes of Jim Callaghan's Labour government and the 'Winter of Discontent'; Auntie being unwilling to broadcast such an overtly political comed...

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  • JEWISH PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
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    JEWISH PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
    EDWARD KRITZLER
    A history of Sephardic Jews in the New World, involving intrigue, horror, defeat, survival, and victory over the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and...

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  • WITCH-HUNT IN HOLLYWOOD
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    WITCH-HUNT IN HOLLYWOOD
    MICHAEL FREEDLAND / BARBRA PASKIN
    How political paranoia shaped cinema for a decade: "One of the most readable and damning accounts of that period." — The Guardian This is the story of how the politicians took Tinseltown to task in the late 1940s and 1950s. As the Cold War with the Soviet Union began in earnest, the search for "Reds under the bed," later led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, was felt most keenly in H...

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  • GOODBYE, DEAR FRIEND
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    GOODBYE, DEAR FRIEND
    VIRGINIA IRONSIDE
    Losing a pet causes real grief—this book provides real understanding, comfort, and support to help you heal. It's not odd, crazy or maladjusted to cry and feel utterly lost when a pet dies. Often that pet has been a close friend, uncritical, loyal, and devoted—bringing us countless hours of peaceful companionship and joyful play. There is no need to keep grief hidden or wonder ...

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  • THIS BIRDING LIFE
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    THIS BIRDING LIFE
    STEPHEN MOSS
    This collection of essays "gives bird enthusiasts the next best thing to birdwatching, an eloquent and insightful consideration of birds and birding" ( Publishers Weekly). Stephen Moss's collection of Guardian "Birdwatch" columns forms a fascinating picture of one man's birding life: from early coot-watching as a young boy, through teenage cycle trips to Dungeness, to adult tra...

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  • CLARK GABLE
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    CLARK GABLE
    DAVID BRET
    Clark Gable was perceived as the archetypal Hollywood superman, the kind of man that women lusted after and their husbands envied. However, as David Bret reveals in this powerful biography, in the early days of his career, with his squinty teeth and fondness for men as well as woman, he was anything but the wholesome figure he appeared. Gable was adopted by the 'Sewing Circle' ...

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  • THE LOST WORLD OF BLETCHLEY PARK
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    THE LOST WORLD OF BLETCHLEY PARK
    SINCLAIR MCKAY
    An illustrated history of the English manor house and grounds that were home to the famous World War II codebreakers. The huge success of Sinclair's The Secret Life of Bletchley Park—a quarter of a million copies sold to date—has been symptomatic of a similarly dramatic increase in visitors to Bletchley Park itself, the Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire now open as an engros...

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  • INSIDE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE
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    INSIDE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE
    GORDON THOMAS
    " Rollicking, readable new history of Britain's famous spy organization." — Los Angeles Times A complete and up-to-date account of the two oldest and still the most powerful, secretive intelligence services in the world: MI5, the security service, and MI6, the secret intelligence service, which have been in existence for over a century. This is a story of spectacular triumphs, ...

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  • BARACK OBAMA
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    BARACK OBAMA
    LISA ROGAK
    New York Times Bestseller: A collection of quotations by the forty-fourth US president, arranged A-to-Z by topic. From the day he delivered his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama became a national political figure—a little-known Illinois senator transformed into the country's first African American president just four years later. He has bee...

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  • A BIRD IN THE BUSH
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    A BIRD IN THE BUSH
    STEPHEN MOSS
    This journey through the world of birdwatchers is "a wonderful book. . . . fascinating, often hilarious anecdotes and information" ( Daily Mail, Critic's Choice). Scholarly, authoritative, and above all supremely readable, Stephen Moss's book is the first to trace the fascinating history of how and why people have watched birds for pleasure, from the beginnings with Gilbert Whi...

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  • TERRY NATION
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    TERRY NATION
    ALWYN W. TURNER
    A "splendidly entertaining" biography of the British tv writer acclaimed for his invention of a fictional alien race for Doctor Who (Dominic Sandrook, author of State of Emergency—The Way We Were: Britain 1970–1974). The Daleks are one of the most iconic and fearsome creations in television history. Since their first appearance in 1963, they have simultaneously fascinated and t...

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  • ON THE TRAIL OF THE LAST HUMAN CANNONBALL
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    ON THE TRAIL OF THE LAST HUMAN CANNONBALL
    BYRON ROGERS
    From "a great journalist of the older school," travel essays chronicling the author's search for incredible stories about extraordinary people ( The Guardian). Byron Rogers' latest collection of travel pieces follows the winning formula of his previous book, An Audience with an Elephant, as he goes in search of a remarkable array of quirky, whimsical, and singular individuals. ...

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  • THE SPADE AS MIGHTY AS THE SWORD
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    THE SPADE AS MIGHTY AS THE SWORD
    DANIEL SMITH
    The little-known history of the "Garden Front"—Britain's wildly successful vegetable-growing campaign during WWII: "A fascinating story." — Northern Echo After food rationing was introduced in 1940, and German U-boats began threatening merchant shipping bringing in essential foodstuffs, the Ministry of Agriculture decided something had to be done to make the kitchens of Britain...

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  • A MYSTERIOUS SOMETHING IN THE LIGHT
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    A MYSTERIOUS SOMETHING IN THE LIGHT
    TOM WILLIAMS
    "A remarkably detailed portrait of the famously hard-boiled writer" and creator of the popular gumshoe, Philip Marlowe ( Publishers Weekly). What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the A...

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  • THE FINAL YEARS OF MARILYN MONROE
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    THE FINAL YEARS OF MARILYN MONROE
    KEITH BADMAN
    This "extraordinary" account of the superstar's tragic death, and what led up to it, is "a relentless and detailed quest for the truth" ( Lancashire Post). In his illuminating, fascinating book, Keith Badman finally uncovers the truth about the iconic actress's last years. It was a tough time—one in which Marilyn Monroe's increasingly erratic behavior and dependence on alcohol ...

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  • THE AUSTERITY OLYMPICS
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    THE AUSTERITY OLYMPICS
    JANIE HAMPTON
    'An enthralling account.' — Independent 'A fascinating book … researched with an awesome thoroughness.' — Daily Telegraph 'Hampton's excellent book should be compulsory reading for everyone involved in the 2012 London Olympics.' — Daily Mail Critic's Choice The budget for the 2012 Olympic village alone is already a billion pounds short. The likelihood of corporate sponsorship r...

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  • THE LAST ENGLISHMAN
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    THE LAST ENGLISHMAN
    BYRON ROGERS
    A biography of the English educator, dictionary writer, and celebrated author of A Month in the Country. J.L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, cricket enthusiast and campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the author of half a dozen utterly unique novels, including his masterpiece, A Month in the Coun...

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  • LIFE OF PEE
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    LIFE OF PEE
    SALLY MAGNUSSON
    A frank and humorous encyclopedic history of the forgotten life of urine and its many uses in society. Alchemists sought gold in it. David Bowie refrigerated it to ward off evil. In the trenches of Ypres soldiers used it as a gas mask, whereas modern-day terrorists add it to home-made explosives. All the Fullers, Tuckers and Walkers in the phonebook owe their names to it, and i...

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  • SUNRISE ON THE SOUTHBOUND SLEEPER
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    SUNRISE ON THE SOUTHBOUND SLEEPER
    MICHAEL KERR
    "An exceptionally well-chosen collection . . . the book itself amounts to a pleasurable journey . . . punctuated by pithy, profound anecdotal nuggets." — Time Out "Railway termini," wrote E. M. Forster, "are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine." Now, in this new collection of great journeys from the pages of the Daily ...

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