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“john humphries”

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  • The Man from the Alamo

    by John Humphries ...
    John Rees, soldier and freedom fighter, was a shadowy figure who surfaced during two crucial nineteenth-century revolts and then disappeared from history. For the first time, author John Humphries reveals the fate of the man, first mentioned as a member of the New Orleans Greys, who fought for Texan Independence at the Alamo and narrowly escaped execution at the Goliad Mission.Later, Rees was one ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dead Duck Bounced

    by John Humphries ...
    What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • The Myth of Achievement Tests

    The GED and the Role of Character in American Life

    Edited by James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Tim Kautz ...
    Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of high school graduate to anyone who passes it. GED recipients currently account for 12 percent of all high school credentials issued each year in the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Spying for Hitler

    The Welsh Double Cross

    by John Humphries ...
    After Dunkirk the British Army was broken, the country isolated and invasion imminent. German Military Intelligence was sat the task of recruiting collaborators from among Welsh nationalists to sabotage military and civilian installations ahead of the landing. Strategic deception was one of the few weapons left. To fool the Germans into believing Britain was ready and able to repel invaders when ... Read more

    $9.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Craig Brown: A BBC Radio Collection

    This is Craig Brown, 1966 & All That, As Told to Craig Brown and Lost Diaries

    by Craig Brown ...
    Narrated by Craig Brown, Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Rory Bremner, Harry Enfield, Barry Norman, John Humphrys, Lewis McLeod0, Dolly Wells1, Juliet Stevenson2 ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    'The wittiest writer in Britain today' Stephen FryColumnist, critic and award-winning author Craig Brown is well known for his Private Eye parodies lampooning politicians and celebrities. He has written for numerous newspapers, both under his own name and as his alter egos Wallace Arnold and Bel Littlejohn. Collected here are Brown's four fantastic radio series, plus two bonus programmes in which ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Search for the Nile's Source

    The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-Century Welsh Explorer

    by John Humphries ...
    This experimental volume of literary criticism offers various interpretations of the work of the poet Menna Elfyn, and gives an outline of our relationship with literature and our reading habits. It is an attempt to provide a fresh interpretation of the work by experimenting for the first time in Welsh with the epistolary method of criticism, through a series of fictional letters. This is also the ... Read more

    $9.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Rites

    by John Humphries ...
    A ringing telephone, once belonging to the KGB, leads investigative journalist Jack Flynt to the island in search of the woman pleading for help at the other end of the line. ... Read more

    $6.70 USD

  • In God We Doubt

    by John Humphrys ...
    'All the erudition and pithy wit you would expect from Humphrys, but there is also a charming, genuine enquiry that shines through' MAIL ON SUNDAY* * * * * *Bestselling author, radio presenter and national treasure John Humphrys tackles the big question of God through his own personal journey and argues that doubt is the only credible belief.Throughout the ages believers have been persecuted - ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Germany’s Western Front: 1915

    Translations from the German Official History of the Great War

    Edited by John Maker, Mark Osborne Humphries ...
    The first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War.Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the untold story of Germany’s experience on the Western front, in the words of its official historians, making it vital to the study of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Germany’s Western Front: 1914

    Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, Part 1

    Edited by John Maker, Mark Osborne Humphries ...
    The first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War.Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the inside story of Germany’s experience on the Western front. Recorded in the words of its official historians, this account is vital to ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

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    Beyond Words

    by John Humphrys ...
    Narrated by John Humphrys ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 10 min

    From the huge response to Lost for Words, it’s clear that many of us share John’s strong feelings about the use and misuse of the English language. Not because we want to split hairs (or infinitives) but because how we use words reveals so much about the way we see the world.Here John takes a sharp look at phrases and expressions in current use to expose the often hidden attitudes that lie behind ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    In God We Doubt

    by John Humphrys ...
    Narrated by John Humphrys ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 13 min

    Bestselling author, radio presenter and national treasure John Humphrys tackles the big question of God through his own personal journey and argues that doubt is the only credible belief.Throughout the ages believers have been persecuted - usually for believing in the "wrong" God. So have non-believers who have denied the existence of God as superstitious rubbish.Today it is the agnostics who are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook