Author: Joseph Patrick Kennedy
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Memorial: Edward J. Essey Sr.

Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher: Hill & Wang
ISBN: 9780809055401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 637

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The statesman, scientist, and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) lived a divided life. Was he a noble scholar, or a conniving political crook? Was he a homosexual? Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart draw upon previously untapped sources to create a controversial nuanced portrait of the quintessential "Renaissance man", one whose achievements, while enormous, were nonetheless sadly circumscribed by his class and station.

Author: Elizabeth Cambridge
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155318
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Oliver Lindsay
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750980540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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In this remarkable study of the Far Eastern War, Oliver Lindsay and John R Harris have provided the most thorough and searching enquiry into the debacle which led to over 12,000 British, Canadian, Indian and Chinese defenders surrendering Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941. The authors have made use of a mass of unpublished material - part of it drawn from the original war diaries which have never before been in the public domain.Although it is over 60 years since Hong Kong was liberated from the Japanese, numerous important questions regarding the war in the East and occupation of the Colony from 1941 to 1945 have not been explored until now. To what extent, for example, were Churchill and the successive Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff responsible for abandoning this outpost, which could not be reinforced when attacked or defended adequately? Is it true that fine leadership prolonged the fighting, inflicting serious casualties on the highly experienced Japanese when they struck in 1941? How useful was Britain's spying organization in China, which led to catastrophic repercussions for the POWs and Internees? What form did the Japanese atrocities take upon the helpless captives?This detailed and authoritative account of the campaign will provide a particularly compelling read for those interested in the Second World War or the history of the Far East.

Author: Joan Lingard
Publisher: Puffin HC
ISBN: 9780140374001
Category : Young adult fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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This is the latest of Joan Lingard's hauntingly powerful Kevin and Sadie novels which set young love against the backdrop of the Irish troubles.

Author: Simon Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781899493036
Category : Hospital ships
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Yuki Fujine
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596028826
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Taking on someone else’s crime, she never expected the punishment to be as sweet as honey… Late one night, Tully sneaks into her brother’s office. Her hasty brother had tried to run away with company money, but if she can return it to the safe before anyone finds out, the crime may never come to light. However, the moment she opens the safe, the lights turn on! An intimidating man stares coldly at Tully. It’s undoubtedly Yate Meachem, the CEO her brother is so afraid of! How far is Tully willing to go in order to save her brother?

Author: Caroline Moorehead
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408838370
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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A taut, emotionally loaded, devastatingly powerful thriller from the acclaimed, Carnegie-longlisted author of In Darkness and Blood Ninja.

Author: Tim Scott
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553589857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all . . . “Don’t you hate it when this happens?” . . . that’s what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. It’s all the thieves who stole his house left behind. And if that weren’t bad enough, a saleswoman named Caroline E61 drops from the sky to sell him a set of encyclopedias and won’t take no for an answer. Can his luck get any worse? In this rip-roaring roller-coaster ride through a brilliantly imagined future of paranoid absurdity, Jonny X will learn the answer soon enough when he falls afoul of a lunatic motorcycle gang nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a relentless Belgian assassin, and his own irate girlfriend. Traversing a cityscape whose neighborhoods are organized by musical genres, running into joke-telling elevators and holographic computer viruses, Jonny is about to learn what a nightmare it’s going to be to get his old life back in a reality warping faster than the speed of the imagination. Outrageous Fortune heralds a marvelous new talent sure to be delightfully altering the minds of readers for years to come.