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Task Force A Soldier's Story of Life, Death and Combat on the Afghan Front Line [Paperback] Beattie MC, Doug

From Britain's foremost criminal psychologist and bestselling author, a companion volume to his award-winning autobiography, The Jigsaw Man . Paul ...

To look and listen to the extraordinary Katie Piper, it is difficult to comprehend the severe trauma she suffered from a brutal rape and acid attac...

The memoirs of a leading politician, this work is also an autobiography of Denis Healey. He was born in 1917, expanded his political views at Oxfor...

Sevenoaks. 18 cm. 352 p., [24] p. of plates ill. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Coronet Books. Originally Lon...

A charming and nostalgic true story of three British nurses who road trip across America in the 1950s, written by one of their daughters   In my dr...

Ship of Gold tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from t...

Fired by a fascination with trains that stemmed from childhood, Paul Theroux set out one day with the intention of boarding every train that chugge...

Book by Guevara, Che

From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through her adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1...

Heartfelt, funny, and ultimately uplifting, one father discusses the life of a single dad raising a son who just so happens to have autism My Son's...

I will teach them literature, poetry, culture. I will teach them The Waste Land ! I will be the Best Teacher Who Has Ever Lived! Or so the Secret T...

Follow much-loved Scottish comedian Billy Connolly across Route 66 on this unforgettable journey, filled with music, modern history and hilarious s...

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited , A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies , this is the biography of Ronald ...

The minutes and hours following the 11th September terror attacks on the World Trade Center posed the greatest challenge to governance in New York ...

The I'm Sorry Bible tells the whole story of the notorious Python gang, from Footlights to Broadway to the ferret-filled madness of Radio Prune—com...

British bestselling author Damien Lewis is an award-winning journalist who has spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones....

Maureen Coppinger's earliest memory is of watching the woman she believed to be her mother walk away and abandon her to the care of the nuns at one...

Toast is Nigel Slater’s biography of a childhood remembered through food. Whether recalling his mother’s surprisingly good rice pudding, his father...

Billy Bragg remains to this day a much-loved songwriter and performer, whose campaigning has now spanned three decades and shows no sign of relenti...

Often referred to as a forgotten war, the Falklands conflict was the first war of the modern age, using satellite surveillance, night observation d...

*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure* Join Peter Kay on his incredible journey through the great and the good of TV: from tea-m...

WRITTEN IN HISTORY: LETTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD celebrates the letter in world history and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montef...

Seven months and twenty-three agreeably ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport Gavin Young, by slow boat, from Piraeus to Canton....