Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese hellships which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died & Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan & then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away.. . This is the extraordinary story of a young men conscripted at nineteen & whose father was a Somme Veteran survived not just one but three close encounters with death
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Romulus & Fabiola are twins born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman. At thirteen years old they are sold
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With over 250 stunning photographs of people & places all over London in the 1920s Forgotten London charts a decade of great ...

Six months after nearly losing everything to the men who kidnapped his girlfriends ten-year-old son Elvis Cole is slowly coming back to life
- when he receives an ominous phone call from the LAPD. An unidentified body has been found in a seedy Los Angeles alley. The only clue the cops have is a packet of newspaper articles about the past exploits of Elvis Cole
- & the fact that before the man died he said he was Elviss father... Joe Pike is the only person who can help Elvis navigate his past. As they investigate Elvis is haunted by the fact that at last he might have found his father. But with each clue they uncover a troubling picture emerges about the dead man. & as Elvis & Joe approach his true identity they unwittingly walk straight into a hornets nest.

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For more than 60 years hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel & the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank & the Gaza Strip the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem their experiences are often overlooked & forgotten. In this book historian Ilan Pappe examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule & what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities & Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival & interview material Pappe analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens finding discrimination in matters of housing education & civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable The Forgotten Palestinians" brings a new & much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate." ...

In this much-needed new book Darina reconnects you with the cooking skills that missed a generation or two. The book is divided into chapters such as Dairy Fish Bread & Preserving & forgotten processes such as smoking mackerel curing bacon & making yogurt & butter are explained in the simplest terms. The delicious recipes show you how to use your homemade produce to its best & include ideas for using forgotten cut of meat baking bread & cakes & even eating food from the wild. The Vegetables & Herbs chapter is stuffed with growing tips to satisfy even those with the smallest garden plot or window box & there are plenty of suggestions for using gluts of vegetables. Youll even discover how to keep a few chickens in the garden. With over 700 recipes this is the definitive modern guide to traditional cookery skills. ...

An international bestseller this is a German soldiers first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of the Second World War. When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942 the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger fatigue & constant deprivation. Posted to the crack Grosse Deutchland division with its sadistic instructors who shoot down those who fail to make the grade he enters a violent & remorseless world where all youthful hope is gradually ground down & all that matters is the brute will to survive. As the biting cold of the Russian winter sets in & the tide begins to turn against the Germans life becomes an endless round of pounding artillery attacks & vicious combat against a relentless & merciless Red Army. A book of stunning force this is an unforgettable reminder of the horrors of war. ...

Between Friday & Monday we never slept at all. Everyones face was one mass of sand. The guns were so hot all the paint had gone. (Bombardier Ray Ellis). Had the Allies lost in North Africa Rommels Afrika Korps would have swept through the Middle East cutting the vital supply line through the Suez Canal to Australia & India & taking the oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Britain would have been isolated without oil & unable to fight. These crucial battles of 1940-1943 were fought over vast distances on rugged terrain with supply lines often stretched to breaking point. It was here that David Stirling formed the SAS to perform audacious sabotage missions & the Long Range Desert Group collected intelligence from behind enemy lines. This is the story of the Allies first victory against Hitlers army told in the voices of the men who were there which proved that the seemingly unstoppable Germans could be beaten. ...

For Britain in the first half of the World War Two the importance of defending the Middle East against the Axis powers was second only to defending the homeland against invasion. Had the Allies lost in North Africa the vital life-line through the Suez Canal to Australia & India would have been cut. More crucial was protecting the route to the oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Without oil Britain could not fight. The initial threat came from a large Italian Army who from their bases in Libya were quick to take British-held ground in Egypt. Yet the professional British soldiers along with tough all-volunteer regiments from Australia & New Zealand easily defeated the poorly lead Italians. Churchill confident that this front was secure transferred troops & equipment to Greece little realising what the remaining troops would face when Rommel & his Panzer Division arrived. With their armies fighting over vast distances on rugged terrain & supply lines often stretched to breaking point both Rommel & the then little-known General Montgomery had to take huge tactical risks. Good intelligence was vital so the elite Long Range Desert Group was formed capable of covert operations behind enemy lines. David Stirling famously founded the SAS in the Western Desert trained to perform audacious sabotage missions. Told in the voices of the men who were there this is the story of the Western Desert & how the Allies struck the first successful blow to Axis forces & achieved this remarkable Second World War victory. ...

In 1960 the Imperial War Museum began a momentous & important task. A team of academics archivists & volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans & interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important archive of its kind in the world. Authors have occasionally been granted access to the vaults but digesting the thousands of hours of footage is a monumental task. Now forty years on the Imperial War Museum has at last given author Max Arthur & his team of researchers unlimited access to the complete WWI tapes. These are the forgotten voices of an entire generation of survivors of the Great War. The resulting book is an important unique & compelling history of WWI in the words of those who experienced it. This is a classic for years to come. ...