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Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918by: Thomas Cairns Livingstone September 15, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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I don't usually read diaries but this caught my eye and I decided to give it a go as I generally read war books. From page one it became a treasure trove of snippets from a bygone era. How a family strove to make ends meet through severe hardship during ww1. Thomas makes light of it all with wit, charm and such delightful drawings of news items or his family.
Shaun sewell has made a great discovery and shared it with the nation. We must thank you for that and just hope Harper collins will see fit to produce book 2 from 1919 t0 1933. I only hope someone will find the pre war diaries that might have started as early as 1905 whilst thomas was courting Agnes. This is a real gem, set in Glasgow it gives us all another angle on the great ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction)by: Vera Brittain January 01, 1933 Best Selling > Books > History |
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My mother having pressed me to read this book, I finally got round to it early this year. Thank God I did.
I cannot begin to put into words how much this book touched me. Vera Brittan must be an inspiration to all women; a strong and determined character who, despite losing almost everything to the War, did not give up. Vera Brittan was a young, ambitious girl growing up pre-war with aspirations to go to University (something uncommon for the day.) She succeeded in getting into Oxford to study English. Then the War came crashing into her life, and Vera's brother and friends get called up to fight. She herself finds her place, working as a nurse first in London, then abroad. Vera Brittan lost so much to this horrific War and yet still ... Read More: >>More Details |
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I Never Knew That About Londonby: Christopher Winn October 04, 2007 Best Selling > Books > History |
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This is an excellent 'by the bed' book for dipping in and out of. Each section has a generous selection of interesting gems and more bizarre nuggets about the capital that will make any reader an instant London Bore or a valued member of any pub-quiz team (admittedly only for the London questions!). Certainly a book worth having even if you don't have a huge thirst for knowledge about London - this will gently change that without you even noticing.
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The Great Crash, 1929 (Penguin business)by: John Kenneth Galbraith October 29, 1992 Best Selling > Books > History |
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John Kenneth Galbraith's classic study of the 1929 Wall Street crash is an exhilarating read. Galbraith combines a fluent, witty style with a detailed breakdown of the build up to disaster,
It is interesting to note how most of the experts - journalists, academics, businessmen, bankers and politicians didn't have a clue what was going to happen and thought that the good times would carry on rolling. Gordon Brown anyone? >>More Details |
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The Duchessby: Amanda Foreman August 04, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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The book is simply amazing. The letters that the Duchess exchanged with others bring her character and her peers back to life. Despite the high rank and society Georgiana belonged to, she was just a woman whose ambitions moved her forward, whose love-life could not be more difficult and restrained her from being loved in return. The film adaptation is a far cry from the books original text.
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What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Dayby: Christopher Lloyd October 06, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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This is a fabulous book ... an important book ... not just a history book but something that gives a fantastic perspective, a glimpse of how we got here. The narrative flows through key points of the story of planet, the life on the planet and critically how humans fit into this story in the extraordinarily brief moment we've been
around. It weaves together the disparate bits of knowledge you may have along with much that probably you don't know into something that connects & illuminates. The whole is even greater than the sum of the parts ... indeed it is quite a moving experience at times and certainly enormously stimulating and relevant to many of the big questions we ask; both philosphical, political and simply everyday curiousities. The ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (Allen Lane History)by: Richard J Evans October 02, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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This magnificent book completes Evans' trilogy on the Third Reich. It covers all aspects of the war including the home front: morale, the role of women, the effect of the bombing, food, wages and conditions. He also examines the roles of the air force, navy and army, and gives us shrewd portraits of the leading personalities in the Nazi state.
Nazi ideology blamed the Jews for all ills, including the Second World War itself, and saw communism and socialism as essentially Jewish. Hitler created a genocidal mentality and justified a genocidal policy. The Nazis committed countless atrocities. They killed thousands of handicapped children. They killed as many Gypsies as they could. They deported Jews from all the countries they occupied to death ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Monstersby: Simon Sebag Montefiore September 25, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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The above book is beautifully produced but on reading the article on Richard III in the book I was disappointed to see a re-hash of the old John Rous/Thomas More/William Shakespeare version of history. I appreciate that this is `popular' history but to rely on the largely disproved traditional history of Richard III is very unimaginative. Whatever their opinion of Richard III, most historians now agree that the Tudor version of Richard III is highly biased and inaccurate with the aim to discredit Richard to bolster Henry Tudor's own weak claim to the throne. Reference to Richard's deformities, the accusation that Richard affected the murder of his brother, George and the assertion that Richard was loathed during his life time for the murder of his nephews are all products ... Read More:
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Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (Tales of a New Jerusalem)by: David Kynaston October 06, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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No-one could fault the time and effort that have gone into producing this extensive work but the sheer volume of facts, figures and comments might well prove mind-numbing to the average reader and certainly led to me - who can just remember the period in question - losing interest and scanning through pages looking for the essence amongst innumerable details. A great resource for a student of the times but not for those seeking a general account of these important years.
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Girls are Bestby: Sandi Toksvig November 06, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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No-one could fault the time and effort that have gone into producing this extensive work but the sheer volume of facts, figures and comments might well prove mind-numbing to the average reader and certainly led to me - who can just remember the period in question - losing interest and scanning through pages looking for the essence amongst innumerable details. A great resource for a student of the times but not for those seeking a general account of these important years.
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