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Les Mémoires à la tête desquels on lira cette préface embrassent ou embrasseront le cours entier de ma vie ; ils ont été commencés dès l'année 1811, et continués jusqu'à ce jour. Je raconte dans ce ……続きを見る

Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885–1942) was brought face to face with th……続きを見る

A welcome reissue of this wartime classic from the author of Birdy. During WW II, a dying American soldier, William Wiley, and his German captor, Wilhelm Klug, are miraculously rescued by a fox endo……続きを見る

It's the end of the 1970's and the only job available to an adventurous, small-town teen is a live-in position at a nearby nudist resort that's been mostly a mystery to residents of the area. What d……続きを見る

In April 1982 Harry Benson was a 21-year-old Royal Navy commando helicopter pilot, fresh out of training and one of the youngest helicopter pilots to serve in the Falklands War. These pilots, nickna……続きを見る

It is equally true that his generosity, his piety, devoid of fanaticism, that flower of liberality and courtesy which had been the model of our old chroniclers, won him no less popularity in Frankis……続きを見る

Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there wer……続きを見る

Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Richard the Lionheart•David Humes biography of Richard I from The History of England•Laws of Richard I Concerning Crusaders Who Were to Go by Se……続きを見る

‘Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious’ – Daily Mail Full of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother’s letters give readers a vivid insight into……続きを見る

AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2008: in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces and thousands of miles from home, Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, a Royal ……続きを見る

The author's biography is included in this version. The Life of General William Booth by Harold Begbie presents the biography of William Booth, a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation……続きを見る

During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work,……続きを見る

This is Margaret’s story, one of four true stories from the book GI Brides. “Margaret’s eyes were on the handsome officers who milled around the US Army headquarters. But it was one young second lie……続きを見る

Collins Shorts – insight in an instant. Feel the heat as a British army elite bomb disposal expert, one of the men who face death every day in the most dangerous region on earth – Helmand Province, ……続きを見る

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that whe……続きを見る

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination – this is Hilary Mantel’s epic nove……続きを見る

Emily Huckwell spent almost her entire life working for one family. Born in a tiny Sussex village in the 1870s, she went into domestic service in the Burton household before she was twelve, earning ……続きを見る

During the last months of Hitler's Berlin, an estimated 30,000 German teenagers perished defending their beloved Fhrer in the Russian onslaught. Armin Lehmann was one of the few boy soldiers who esc……続きを見る

Թուրքիայի հայտնի իրավապաշտպան Ֆեթհիյե Չեթինը «Մեծ մայրս» հուշագրական վիպակում վերապատմում է իր տատի կյանքն ու հուշերը։ Տատը, որին շրջապատում բոլորը գիտեին որպես մուսուլման թրքուհի՝ Սեհե……続きを見る

How did Florence Nightingale and Sir Alexander Mackenzie become part of the same family history? And how does Captain Booty Graves fit into the picture? Who was the well-respected doctor in London, ……続きを見る

In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the blo……続きを見る

"Is it a true story?" is the perennial query of children at their mother or father's knee. These well-told thrilling tales about real children by Mrs. Hayden will fascinate both young and……続きを見る

A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World : The Voyage of the Beagle, Plus Journal of Researches into the  Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of……続きを見る

The reading of the card persuaded me that he was dead and I was disturbed to find myself at check. Had he not been dead I would have gone into the little dark room behind the shop to find him sittin……続きを見る

How did Jenny Butchart turn an ugly, disused limestone quarry into the world’s most famous private garden? Over 100 years later Butchart Gardens still attracts almost a million visitors from around ……続きを見る

For the first time this is the full story of Australia's involvement in our longest military campaign 'Surely God weeps,' an Australian soldier wrote in despair of the conflict in Vietnam. But no Go……続きを見る

This is the third in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Daniel O’Connell. It follows him from the Waterford Election to the great Clare Election where Daniel himself was elected. Then……続きを見る

Burnished: Burnside Life Stories is a collection of life accounts from residents of Burnside Children's Homes, Sydney, compiled by Kate Shayler, author of 'The Long Way Home' and 'A Tuesday Thing'. ……続きを見る

A classic account of Alexander the Great's conquest and its impact on the conqueredーnow in English for the first time This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short histo……続きを見る

‘There is no dignity in death. Six bodies are piled up in front of me, shot to shit. I can see that their bones are white, their blood is red and their brains are yellow. I’ve done this; I’ve helped……続きを見る