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Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their StoriesBy The Johns Hopkins University Press |
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Tail GunnerBy ISIS Paperbacks
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Heavenly Days: The Recollections of a Contented AirmanBy Crecy Publishing |
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Under Fire: An American Story - The Explosive Autobiography of Oliver NorthBy HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Men at ArnhemBy Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The Other Anzacs: Nurses at war 1914-1918By ORION |
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The Mitrokhin ArchiveBy Allen Lane
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The Long Road of War: A Marine's Story of Pacific CombatBy University of Nebraska Press |
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A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years Adventures of Samuel Leech (Sailors' tales)By Chatham Publishing
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Battleship 'Bismarck'By Birlinn Ltd
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ti_opinion - Letters: Electoral reform
The books' subjects: overwhelmingly war, thrillers, espionage, science, underworld, sci-fi, sports and adventure. The only mention of gender in the children's selection is where one book is described as a "lauded release for boys". ... Your (all male) panel has clearly not sought out the recent pleasures of Janice Galloway's biography This is not about me; nor Haifa Zangana's Iraq memoir Dreaming of Baghdad; or Sara Wheeler's exploration of the Arctic Magnetic North; ...
http://opinion.independentminds.livejournal.com/1408753.html
The Oxonian Review » Blunt Instrument
The resulting reinvigoration of debates over Blunt's espionage has raised some thorny questions—not just about Blunt's own story, but also about how we understand, recollect, and depict the Cold War. ... In an otherwise worthy biography of Blunt in 2002, Miranda Carter sought to counterpoise Blunt's defection with the inadequacy of British intelligence, which failed to unmask him despite suspicions of communist sympathies and even, rather embarrassingly, ...
http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/blunt-instrument/
Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown ...
Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art: despite the common claim that little is known of his biography, there is actually an abundance of fascinating information about Vermeer's life that Binstock brings to bear on ... MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II. By Nigel West. This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations. ...
http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Vermeers-Family-Secrets-isbn9780415966641
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored: The Death of a President
In Dallas 46 years ago today, Communist and dishonorably discharged ex-Marine Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated 46-year-old President John F. Kennedy, shooting him from a window in the Texas School Book Depository building, ... unequivocal supporter of West Berlin against Soviet imperialism, and risked nuclear war, when he faced down the Soviets during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. (Due to the statute of limitations, Nixon could not prosecute Hiss for treason or espionage. ...
http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2009/11/death-of-president.html
Paco Enterprises: From the Shelves of the Paco Library
He wrote books ranging from comic fiction to espionage novels, and a fascinating biography of Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas and his exploits working with the Resistance in WWII (The White Rabbit, highlighted in a previous “Shelves” post) . ... The other novel is the cold-war classic, Vespers in Vienna. Published in 1947, the book deals with British Colonel Michael “Hooky” Nicobar, who has received the unpleasant assignment of assisting in the repatriation of displaced ...
http://pacoenterprises.blogspot.com/2009/11/from-shelves-of-paco-library_18.html
Andrew Lownie Literary Agency | A Literary Agency Week
Submit proposal by a music psychologist to a UK editor, a customised US version of a book to some American editors and a biography proposal to several UK publishers giving them the usual month's deadline though I know in my heart of hearts ... Overnight submissions include: a collection of interviews with famous writers; a romantic thriller set in Ireland in 1920s; a World War Two memoir based on transcribed tapes which I suggest be sent to a specialist military list; ...
http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/2009/11/15/a-literary-agency-week
A Pacifist's Love Of War Movies « cinephilia
General George Patton was an imposing, brash, egotistical man but a brilliant tactician and the ideal fodder for a movie biography. Francis Coppola and former military man Edmund North wrote a terrific script that perfectly captured ... start of the Second World War to give audiences a glimpse into the heretofore unknown world of the silent service, it stars Cary Grant as the skipper of a sub that has the unenviable task of sneaking into Tokyo Bay on an espionage mission, ...
http://argento2665.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/a-pacifists-love-of-war-movies/
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: Four more new books from ...
Mixed with interesting details about Japanese history and culture, the biography traces Nagai's spiritual quest as he studied medicine at Nagasaki University, served as a medic with the Japanese army during its occupation of Manchuria, and returned to Nagasaki to dedicate himself to the science of ... It has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller: espionage, conspiracy, a struggle against evil powers, undercover work by dark of night... but it's all true. ...
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/11/four-more-new-books-from-ignatius-press.html
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Psychic Warrior: Inside the Cia's Stargate Program : The True Story of a Soldier's Espionage and Awakening;David Morehouse -;PsychNotes: Clinical Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition;Darlene D. Pedersen -;Psychoanalysis at the Limit: .... Punisher: Little Black Book;Max Comics -;Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective;Terance D. Miethe, Hong Lu -;Purchased for Revenge (Modern Romance);Julia James -;Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War (Studies in Modern British ...
http://blog.lumbungbuku.com/2009/11/daftar-teksbook-w.html
Haus Publishing: Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy (Published by ...
When the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917, he narrowly escaped St Petersburg, then led anti-Bolshevik forces during the civil war in Finland. However, his finest hour arguably came at the age of 73, when he led Finland in the 1940 ' Winter War' ... Jonathan will be speaking at the Finnish Institute at 6pm on Wednesday 18th November 2009 as part of the launch of this biography. If you would like more information about this event or the book itself, please contact Haus ...
http://blog.hauspublishing.com/2009/11/mannerheim-president-soldier-spy.html
