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The Last Overland

Singapore to London: The Return Journey of the Iconic Land Rover Expedition (with a foreword by Tim Slessor)

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* NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON ALL 4 *‘This is a fabulous adventure – reckless, insanely ambitious and filled with sweat, tears and laughter ... irresistible reading.’ Joanna Lumley‘Alex Bescoby weaves travel, adventure, history and the contemporary together like no one else. His great gift is to take us on a journey through past and present. By its end we have learned more about the world ... Read more

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* NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON ALL 4 *‘This is a fabulous adventure – reckless, insanely ambitious and filled with sweat, tears and laughter ... irresistible reading.’ Joanna Lumley‘Alex Bescoby weaves travel, adventure, history and the contemporary together like no one else. His great gift is to take us on a journey through past and present. By its end we have learned more about the world
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The Last Overland

Singapore to London: The Return Journey of the Iconic Land Rover Expedition

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"In 1955, a young TV producer named David Attenborough was approached by six recent graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities determined to drive the entire length of Eurasia, as it was then known, from London to Singapore. Many tried this before, but none succeeded. Sensing this time might be different, Attenborough gave The Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition enough film reels to ... Read more

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"In 1955, a young TV producer named David Attenborough was approached by six recent graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities determined to drive the entire length of Eurasia, as it was then known, from London to Singapore. Many tried this before, but none succeeded. Sensing this time might be different, Attenborough gave The Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition enough film reels to
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Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

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Series series Pantheon Graphic Library
**A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. This graphic edition remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust literature.“[A] stunning, haunting work of art..."—The New York Times Book Review**For both young readers and adults ... Read more

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**A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. This graphic edition remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust literature.“[A] stunning, haunting work of art..."—The New York Times Book Review**For both young readers and adults
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First Overland

London-Singapore by Land Rover

by Tim Slessor, Sir David Attenborough ...

Why not? No-one had ever done it: one of the longest of all overland journeys, from the English Channel to Singapore. Several expeditions had tried. Some had reached the Persian deserts; a few, the Indian plains. But none had gone further: over the jungle-clad Assamese mountains, across northern Burma, to Thailand and Malaya. It was 1955. For the final 3,000 miles, it seemed, there were 'too many ... Read more

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Why not? No-one had ever done it: one of the longest of all overland journeys, from the English Channel to Singapore. Several expeditions had tried. Some had reached the Persian deserts; a few, the Indian plains. But none had gone further: over the jungle-clad Assamese mountains, across northern Burma, to Thailand and Malaya. It was 1955. For the final 3,000 miles, it seemed, there were 'too many
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From Border to Border: Crossing the Continent by Land Rover

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Starting an expedition requires planning, faith, and ignorance. When I set off on a trans-continental expedition in a vintage Land Rover I was strong on the second two.For Land Rover's 50th anniversary in 1998 I joined a group of fifty people from all over North America to travel off-road from Canada to Mexico. Acting as my co-drivers were my brother, father, and girlfriend, in order of declining ... Read more

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Starting an expedition requires planning, faith, and ignorance. When I set off on a trans-continental expedition in a vintage Land Rover I was strong on the second two.For Land Rover's 50th anniversary in 1998 I joined a group of fifty people from all over North America to travel off-road from Canada to Mexico. Acting as my co-drivers were my brother, father, and girlfriend, in order of declining
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Land Rover Adventures in Africa

by David Phillips ...

Land Rovers are the vehicles that take you to the places others can't reach – and nowhere is this more true than in Africa. Renowned Land Rover expert David Phillips takes you there in this unmissable book, in which he recounts his amazing adventures from the dunes of the Sahara Desert to the desolate mountains of Lesotho and the wildlife-rich plains and swamps of the Okavanga Delta, driving ... Read more

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Land Rovers are the vehicles that take you to the places others can't reach – and nowhere is this more true than in Africa. Renowned Land Rover expert David Phillips takes you there in this unmissable book, in which he recounts his amazing adventures from the dunes of the Sahara Desert to the desolate mountains of Lesotho and the wildlife-rich plains and swamps of the Okavanga Delta, driving
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East West Street

On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"

by Philippe Sands ...

**A profound, important book, a moving personal detective story and an uncovering of secret pasts, set in Europe’s center, the city of bright colors—Lviv, Ukraine, dividing east from west, north from south, in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire.A book that explores the development of the world-changing legal concepts of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” that came about as a result of ... Read more

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**A profound, important book, a moving personal detective story and an uncovering of secret pasts, set in Europe’s center, the city of bright colors—Lviv, Ukraine, dividing east from west, north from south, in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire.A book that explores the development of the world-changing legal concepts of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” that came about as a result of
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Underground in Berlin

A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

by Marie Jalowicz Simon, Hermann Simon ...

Translated by Anthea Bell ...

A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin."The most extraordinary memoir of World War II I've ever encountered." — Washinton PostIn 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish Berliner, made the extraordinary decision to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed her yellow star, ... Read more

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A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin."The most extraordinary memoir of World War II I've ever encountered." — Washinton PostIn 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish Berliner, made the extraordinary decision to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed her yellow star,
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Rosa's Child

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by Jeremy JOSEPHS ...

Born in Germany in 1936, three year old Susi Bechhofer and her twin sister Lotte were among thousands of children evacuated on the now famous Kindertransport as the country fell into the cruel grip of Nazism. Adopted by the Manns, a childless Welsh Baptist minister and his wife on their arrival in Britain, the two girls were given a new identity in an attempt to erase all traces of their previous ... Read more

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Born in Germany in 1936, three year old Susi Bechhofer and her twin sister Lotte were among thousands of children evacuated on the now famous Kindertransport as the country fell into the cruel grip of Nazism. Adopted by the Manns, a childless Welsh Baptist minister and his wife on their arrival in Britain, the two girls were given a new identity in an attempt to erase all traces of their previous
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Anne Frank

The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

by Francine Prose ...

“Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” — Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described ... Read more

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“Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” — Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described
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The Story of the Jews Volume Two

Belonging: 1492-1900

by Simon Schama ...

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In the second volume of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth century.A sweeping work of narrative history, volume two of this epic incorporates the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories: not just the rabbis and the ... Read more

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The Life and Legends

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**With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrationsNow in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter—a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part invention, was wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that their destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten.**Within days of being liberated from ... Read more

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