This collection of notes and essays on Kipling’s world travels reveals a man bursting with self-deprecating wit, keen observational powers, and an intelligent awareness of his own cultural biases and prejudices. First published in 1899, this...
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Kipling was reported missing, believed killed, in his first battle on the Western Front. From this time he was constantly in pain from a gastric ulcer. He published some (censored) articles of war journalism in 1915, collected as The New Army in...
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Permanent Record (Young Readers Edition): How One Man Exposed the Truth about Government Spying and Digital Security
A young reader’s adaptation of whistleblower and bestselling author Edward Snowden’s memoir, Permanent Record—featuring a brand-new afterword that includes resources to learn about the basics of digital security.
In 2013, Edward Snowden...
Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s story of life in a busy A &E department during the Covid-19 crisis.
Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced...
General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all — the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound… the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang… the hero who defined a certain...
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Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin (50th Anniversary Edition) [Перевод на русский: «Гагарин. Человек и легенда»]
On April 12 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and venture into space. An icon of the 20th century, he also became a danger to himself and a threat to the Soviet state. At the age of 34, he was killed in a...
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Автор: Махно Нестор Иванович
Серия: Memoirs of Nestor Makhno #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
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Nestor Makhno (1888–1934) was a peasant anarcho-communist who organized an experiment in anarchist values and practice in southeast Ukraine during the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War (1917–1921).
The Russian...
Here is the triumphant sequel to Robert Mason’s bestselling account of his service as a chopper pilot in Vietnam. Chickenawk: Back in the World is a moving, no-holds-barred post-Vietnam memoir that reveals the war’s shattering legacy in the...
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Doctor Wood. Modern Wizard of the Laboratory [The Story of an American Small Boy Who Became the Most Daring and Original Experimental Physicist of Our Day-but Never Grew Up]
Few American scientfiic men can be better known in Great Britain than the subject of this biography. The author has been in close touch with him, and has had every opportunity of gaining authentic information. The book is a popular one, and, as is...
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Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945 [2nd Edition]
John Stieber was twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germany. Caught there by the outbreak of the Second World War, he was unable to return to his parents for seven years.
In due course, he was called to...