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  • I survived the Somme

    The Secret Diary of a Tommy

    Charles Meeres served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. He kept a secret diary and painted many watercolours of life at the front, so that his diary gives a unique insight into the campaign in France over four years. He describes how he fought alongside the men of Kitchener's army at the Battle of Loos in 1915 and daily life in the trenches in the winter of that year. He was present at ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

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  • The Pillow Book

    A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the TALE OF GENJI, this is one of the major Japanese Classics. ... Read more

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  • Postcards from the End of America

    by Linh Dinh ...
    Roaming the country by bus and train, on a budget and without any institutional support, Linh Dinh set out to document, in words and pictures, what life is like for people. From Los Angeles, Cheyenne, Portland, and New Orleans, to Jackson and Wolf Point--Linh walked miles and miles through unfamiliar neighborhoods, talking to whoever would talk to him: the homeless living in tent cities, the ... Read more

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  • Dear Michael, Love Dad

    Letters, laughter and all the things we leave unsaid.

    by Iain Maitland ...
    'A moving read - honest, funny and sad' Woman and Home'wonderful, moving, humorous ... extremely poignant' Charlie Mortimer, Dear Lupin'Iain's love for his son shines through every sentence of this affecting account, as does his guilt. He blames himself for being unable to demonstrate or verbalise his affection ... This is a wonderfully entertaining and moving book, with lessons for every parent. ... Read more

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  • The Code of Love

    An Astonishing True Tale of Secrets, Love, and War

    For fifty years, Pamela Kirrage longed to unlock the secrets of her husband’s encrypted war diary. She was on the verge of giving up when she at last found a mathematician who became as obsessed with learning the secrets of the diary as she was. After months of painstaking investigation, he was finally able to crack the code, and in the process uncover the ending to an extraordinary World War II ... Read more

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  • Life in Occupied Guernsey

    The Diaries of Ruth Ozanne 1940-1945

    by Ruth Ozanne ...
    The diaries of Ruth Ozanne give us a remarkable eyewitness account of daily life during the German occupation of Guernsey from 1940 to 1945. At the beginning of the occupation, there is an atmosphere of good-humoured defiance on the Island. The relatively few German soldiers are on their best behaviour and the Islanders are bolstered by a stream of optimistic rumours. Life gradually darkens, ... Read more

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  • Zap Tales: True Stories from Behind Bars

    The Fourth Side, #0.5

    by Zap Tales ...
    Series Book 0.5 - The Fourth Side
    After going to prison, Zap Tales was left with one thing to truly call his own: his words.He started posting his musing and stories to the Zap Tales website, and later went on to publish his book, The Fourth Side. Now he brings his collection of short stories to ebook form for easier reading.Sometimes emotional, sometimes thought-provoking, and sprinkled with Zap Tales' own personal brand of humor ... Read more

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  • Home

    Home. A simple word; a loaded one. You can say it in a whisper; you can say it in a cry. Expressed in the voices of father and daughter, you can hear a visceral longing, in poems and prose, for an ideal place. A place never to be found again.Imagine the shock, imagine the sadness when a daughter discovers her father's work, the poetry he had never shared with anyone during the last two decades of ... Read more

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  • Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko

    Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989

    Series Book 82 - Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
    Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and Matsuko provides previously unpublished memories, anecdotes, and insights into the lives, opinions, personalities, and writings of the great novelist Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886*–1965) and his wife Matsuko (1903–*1991), gleaned from the diaries of Edward Seidensticker and two decades of Anthony Chambers’s conversations with Mrs. Tanizaki and others who were close ... Read more

    $14.39 USD