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The Duchess Countess - The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London (Paperback): Catherine Ostler The Duchess Countess - The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London (Paperback)
Catherine Ostler
R516 R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Power Of Two - A Riveting True Family Saga Spanning Three Generations (Hardcover): Anita E Patel The Power Of Two - A Riveting True Family Saga Spanning Three Generations (Hardcover)
Anita E Patel; Foreword by Sarojini Patel
R961 R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Save R117 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy - Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type /... Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy - Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Nicholas Reynolds
R730 R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionage A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award "IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) - "FASCINATING" (New York Review of Books) - "CAPTIVATING" (Missourian) A riveting international cloak-and-dagger epic ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the liberation of Western Europe, wartime China, the Red Scare of Cold War America, and the Cuban Revolution, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures in espionage and intelligence during the 1930s and 1940s (including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo"), a hidden chapter that fueled both his art and his undoing. While he was the historian at the esteemed CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S. Marine colonel, and Oxford-trained historian, began to uncover clues suggesting Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was deeply involved in mid-twentieth-century spycraft -- a mysterious and shocking relationship that was far more complex, sustained, and fraught with risks than has ever been previously supposed. Now Reynolds's meticulously researched and captivating narrative "looks among the shadows and finds a Hemingway not seen before" (London Review of Books), revealing for the first time the whole story of this hidden side of Hemingway's life: his troubling recruitment by Soviet spies to work with the NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB, followed in short order by a complex set of secret relationships with American agencies. Starting with Hemingway's sympathy to antifascist forces during the 1930s, Reynolds illuminates Hemingway's immersion in the life-and-death world of the revolutionary left, from his passionate commitment to the Spanish Republic; his successful pursuit by Soviet NKVD agents, who valued Hemingway's influence, access, and mobility; his wartime meeting in East Asia with communist leader Chou En-Lai, the future premier of the People's Republic of China; and finally to his undercover involvement with Cuban rebels in the late 1950s and his sympathy for Fidel Castro. Reynolds equally explores Hemingway's participation in various roles as an agent for the United States government, including hunting Nazi submarines with ONI-supplied munitions in the Caribbean on his boat, Pilar; his command of an informant ring in Cuba called the "Crook Factory" that reported to the American embassy in Havana; and his on-the-ground role in Europe, where he helped OSS gain key tactical intelligence for the liberation of Paris and fought alongside the U.S. infantry in the bloody endgame of World War II. As he examines the links between Hemingway's work as an operative and as an author, Reynolds reveals how Hemingway's secret adventures influenced his literary output and contributed to the writer's block and mental decline (including paranoia) that plagued him during the postwar years -- a period marked by the Red Scare and McCarthy hearings. Reynolds also illuminates how those same experiences played a role in some of Hemingway's greatest works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, while also adding to the burden that he carried at the end of his life and perhaps contributing to his suicide. A literary biography with the soul of an espionage thriller, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy is an essential contribution to our understanding of the life, work, and fate of one of America's most legendary authors.

Hollywood, Elvis and Me (Hardcover): Suzanne Maurer Hollywood, Elvis and Me (Hardcover)
Suzanne Maurer
R1,060 Discovery Miles 10 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Waiting for the Morning Train - An American Boyhood (Paperback, Great Lakes books ed): Bruce Catton Waiting for the Morning Train - An American Boyhood (Paperback, Great Lakes books ed)
Bruce Catton
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bruce Catton, whose name is identified with Civil War history, grew up in Benzonia, Michigan, probably the only town within two hundred miles, he says, not founded to cash in on the lumber boom. In this memoir, Catton remembers his youth, his family, his home town, and his coming of age. With nostalgia, warmth, and humor, Catton recalls it all with a wealth of detail: the logging industry and its tremendous effect on the face of the state, the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic who first sparked his interest in the Civil War, the overnight train trips on long-gone sleepers, the days of great resort hotels, and fishing in once clear lakes. Although he writes of a time and place that are no more, his observations have implications that both underline the past and touch the future.

The Latch Key of My Bookhouse; 4 (Hardcover): Olive Beaupre Miller The Latch Key of My Bookhouse; 4 (Hardcover)
Olive Beaupre Miller
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Home Front - A true story based on the WWII diaries of Velma Beckerdite (Hardcover): Melinda B Hipple Home Front - A true story based on the WWII diaries of Velma Beckerdite (Hardcover)
Melinda B Hipple
R717 R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Running For My Life (Paperback): Jordan Wylie Running For My Life (Paperback)
Jordan Wylie 1
R308 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R36 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise awareness of the plight of children suffering in war zones as well as the funds to help provide education. Risking his life in some of the most hostile places in the world, Wylie defies suicide bombers, official advice, dehydration and exhaustion, as well as his own mental and physical health issues in an incredible tale of endurance and tenacity against the odds. His first race, in Somalia, is moved to Somaliland after a suicide bomber kills 600 people. Running the Baghdad half-marathon brings back painful memories of friends and colleagues he lost when he served there. Finally, at the Afghanistan marathon, he provides a high-profile target for the Taliban, who murder seventeen people the day before he arrives. What makes these three runs even more challenging is the fact that Jordan is affected not just by mental health issues from his own experiences, but also with epilepsy. Alongside the more extreme obstacles, Jordan has to overcome self-doubt - and the doubt of others - to show what can be achieved with belief and fortitude.

Up From Slavery (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Booker T. Washington
R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Life Lines - The Chronicle of a Marriage and Family (Hardcover): Bill and Rose Ramsay Life Lines - The Chronicle of a Marriage and Family (Hardcover)
Bill and Rose Ramsay
R1,006 R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Save R122 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Because of Whose I Am - A Nazi's Daughter (Hardcover): Helga Lades Allison with Kathleen Jones Because of Whose I Am - A Nazi's Daughter (Hardcover)
Helga Lades Allison with Kathleen Jones
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Valley of the Shadow - An Account of American Pows of the Japanese (Hardcover): Whitney H Galbraith Valley of the Shadow - An Account of American Pows of the Japanese (Hardcover)
Whitney H Galbraith
R951 R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Don't Say I Can't - The American Spirit In My Life (Hardcover): Bill Tolley Don't Say I Can't - The American Spirit In My Life (Hardcover)
Bill Tolley
R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Cynic - The Political Education of Mitch McConnell (Paperback): Alec Macgillis The Cynic - The Political Education of Mitch McConnell (Paperback)
Alec Macgillis
R377 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Military Career of Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst - the War of Austrian Succession, the French & Indian War, the Ohio Indian... The Military Career of Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst - the War of Austrian Succession, the French & Indian War, the Ohio Indian War & the American War of Independence-Jeffery Amherst: A Biography by Lawrence Shaw Mayo & The Last Siege of Louisburg C. Ochiltree Macdonald (Hardcover)
Lawrence Shaw Mayo, C. Ochiltree MacDonald
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Margaret Beaufort of Bourne, Collyweston, Maxey and Deeping - The Tudor Dynasty (Hardcover): Margaret Wainwright Margaret Beaufort of Bourne, Collyweston, Maxey and Deeping - The Tudor Dynasty (Hardcover)
Margaret Wainwright
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An amazing woman from Bourne, Collyweston and Maxey who had a profound impact on history but has been virtually forgotten in our Lincolnshire locality. Read tales of her survival from the traumatic birth of her son (Henry VII) when aged only thirteen, her ever-changing fortunes in the Wars of the Roses, being condemned as a traitor by Richard III and her eventual triumph, which saw her become the matriarch of the Tudor dynasty. As the only blood link from the Normans to our present Royal Family (documented here), her legacy through her symbols and academia is still far-reaching today.

War Of Shadows (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Moss W Stanley War Of Shadows (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Moss W Stanley
R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Few escapades of the Second World War have captured the public's imagination more than the successful abduction of German General Kreipe from enemy-occupied Crete in 1944. It was an operation instigated and daringly executed by two British SOE officers - Patrick Leigh Fermor and William (Billy) Stanley Moss. The war didn't stop for Billy Moss after this operation though, and it is his continuing story that is told here. He reflects movingly on what it means to fight and deal in death, how the success of operations behind enemy lines in a foreign country is dependent on the goodwill of local inhabitants, and, surprisingly, on moments of high humour that punctuate the turmoil of war. War of Shadows is a book in three parts - each displaying differing aspects of World War II and its eventual conclusion, and all told with that tell-tale blend of poignancy and humour so characteristic of the time.

Danger Forward - The Forgotten Wars of General Paul F. Gorman (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Mike Guardia Danger Forward - The Forgotten Wars of General Paul F. Gorman (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Mike Guardia
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Hardcover): G. Suetonius Tranquillus The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Hardcover)
G. Suetonius Tranquillus
R1,000 Discovery Miles 10 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
One Man Air Force (Hardcover): Don S Gentile One Man Air Force (Hardcover)
Don S Gentile
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Rick Turner's Politics As The Art Of The Impossible (Paperback): Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Lawrence Hamilton, Laurence Piper,... Rick Turner's Politics As The Art Of The Impossible (Paperback)
Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Lawrence Hamilton, Laurence Piper, Gideon van Riet
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Rick Turner was a South African academic and activist who rebelled against apartheid at the height of its power. For this he was assassinated in 1978, at just 32 years of age, but his life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans everywhere. Turner chose to live freely in an unfree time and argued for a non-racial, socialist future in a context where this seemed unimaginable.

This book takes seriously Rick Turner’s challenge that political theorising requires thinking in a utopian way. Turner’s seminal book The Eye of the Needle: Towards a Participatory Democracy in South Africa laid out some of his most potent ideas on a radically different political and economic system. His demand was that we work to escape the limiting ideas of the present, carefully design a just future based on shared human values, and act to make it a reality, both politically and in our daily lives.

The contributors to this volume engage critically with Turner’s work on race relations, his relationship with Steve Biko, his views on religion, education and gender oppression, his participatory model of democracy, and his critique of enduring forms of poverty and economic inequality. They show how, in his life and work, Turner modelled how we can dare to be free and how hope can return, as the future always remains open to human construction. This book makes an important contribution to contemporary thinking and activism where the need for South Africans to define their understanding of their greater common good is of crucial importance.

Now It Can Be Told (Hardcover): Philip Gibbs Now It Can Be Told (Hardcover)
Philip Gibbs
R1,128 R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Save R114 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confessions of a Hippie - Always Searching for Love (Hardcover): Adriana Bardolino Confessions of a Hippie - Always Searching for Love (Hardcover)
Adriana Bardolino
R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Payback - Five Marines After Vietnam (Paperback, Reissue ed.): Joe Klein Payback - Five Marines After Vietnam (Paperback, Reissue ed.)
Joe Klein
R434 R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Save R24 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Leaves of the Tree - Studies in Biography (Hardcover): Arthur Christopher 1862-1925 Benson The Leaves of the Tree - Studies in Biography (Hardcover)
Arthur Christopher 1862-1925 Benson
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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