Doug Kemp
Plague and Cholera
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Translated from the original French, this is a fictional biography of the scientist Alexandre Yersin. Born in Switzerland in the mid-19th century, ...Read Review
My War Diary, 1914-1918
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Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of The Great War, this is a colour reproduction of the diary kept by Ethel Bilbrough ...Read Review
In the Light of the Morning
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May 1944 in the midst of the Second World War, and Lieutenant Tom Freedman is parachuted into Slovenia. He is an interpreter in intelligence ...Read Review
In the Wolf’s Mouth
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Set mostly in the battlegrounds of North Africa and Italy in the Second World War, this is a poetic and beautifully observed novel. ...Read Review
At Break of Day
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Ho-hum, thinks the reader – yet another novel about the Great War. Misgivings increase when the story, starting on the morning of 1st July 1916 ...Read Review
Back to Back
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The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and brother and sister Thomas and Ella are growing up ...Read Review
The Unreturning Army: A Field Gunner in Flanders 1917-1918
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This is a memoir and series of letters, edited by his son, that Huntly Gordon sent from the Allied front-line in Belgium and ...Read Review
What’s in a Surname? A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker
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Most of us have some idea of the origin of our own family names. This fascinating book covers the growth and changing patterns ...Read Review
Firefly
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Jamaica 1971, and Sir Noël Coward is in declining health, living out his final years in the sun and heat at his eponymous ...Read Review
The Windsor Faction
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It is the first few months of the Second World War, and the British are in that curiously suspended situation, wondering when, if ...Read Review
