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“frank gardner”

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  • Blood and Sand

    The BBC security correspondent’s own extraordinary and inspiring story

    by Frank Gardner ...
    On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullets into his body at point-blank range...Against all the odds, Frank Gardner survived.Today, although ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • General Ward's Colonial Army

    by Keith A. Brough, Frank Gardner ...
    General Ward’s Colonial Army is an enlightening collection of articles giving the history of the Massachusetts minute-men and militia that first engaged the British during the Revolutionary War. When this series was originally published for The Massachusetts Magazine, 1908–1918, the periodical proved an authoritative resource on the officers of the Massachusetts Revolutionary regiments and has ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frontlines and Lifelines

    Collected Poems from an Army Doctor in Crisis and War

    by Timothy Hodgetts ...
    This work captures personal experience of the Army's Surgeon General as a military doctor in crisis and war, spanning 30 years from Northern Ireland; through Kosovo to the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns; culminating in the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukraine war.Poetry provides the ability to say what is otherwise difficult or unpalatable. Some of the poems are critical and challenging. Some ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling, “richly detailed, entertaining” chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).When they ... Read more

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  • The Rage of Party

    by George Owers ...
    THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics.Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become king, the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political battlelines of a ferociously polarised ... Read more

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  • The Stones of Britain

    A History of Britain through its Geology

    by Jon Cannon ...
    'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLSThis is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places, exploring the connection between geology and landscape, the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It movingly ... Read more

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  • The World of the Cold War

    1945-1991

    by Vladislav Zubok ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    **FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'Monumental and highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok brings a prescient and fresh perspective' Financial Times**A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSRWhy did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six ... Read more

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  • Rot

    An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    **A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster“Vigorous and engaging.”—Fintan O’Toole, The New YorkerA New Yorker Best Book of the Year**In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight’s devastation ... Read more

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  • Punishing Putin

    Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

    by Stephanie Baker ...
    A “masterful” (Foreign Policy), authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the United States and its European allies are waging against Russia after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that “reads like a detective novel” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)—written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources.Undeterred by eight years of timid US ... Read more

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  • The Five Giants [New Edition]

    A Biography of the Welfare State

    by Nicholas Timmins ...
    A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEARA LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning history of the British Welfare State –now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century.‘A masterpiece’ Sunday TimesGiant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. Giant Idleness.These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction... ... Read more

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  • Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

    by Jean Trumpington ...
    Forthright, witty and deliciously opinionated, Jean Trumpington's Coming Up Trumps is a wonderfully readable account of a life very well lived.In this characteristically trenchant memoir, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, Jean Campbell-Harris was born into a world of considerable ... Read more

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  • Only When I Laugh: My Autobiography

    by Paul Merton ...
    Known for his intelligent and often surreal humour, Paul Merton’s weekly appearances on BBC1’s Have I Got News For You – as well as Radio 4’s Just A Minute and his travel documentaries – have seen him become an artfully rebellious fixture in our lives for over 25 years.He also has a real story to tell. In ONLY WHEN I LAUGH, his rich and beautifully-observed autobiography, Paul takes us on an ... Read more

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