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Shadow of the Titanic - The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived (Paperback): Andrew Wilson Shadow of the Titanic - The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived (Paperback)
Andrew Wilson
R513 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

We think we know the story of the Titanic--the once majestic and supposedly unsinkable ship that struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Britain to America--but very little has been written about the vessel's 705 survivors. How did the events of that horrific night in the icy waters of the North Atlantic affect the lives of those who lived to tell the tale?
Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished letters, memoirs, diaries, and interviews with their family members, award-winning journalist Andrew
Wilson brings to life the survivors' colorful voices, from the famous, like heiress Madeleine Astor, to the lesser known second-and third-class passengers, such as the Navratil brothers, who were traveling under assumed names because they were being abducted by their father.
More than one hundred years after that fateful voyage, "Shadow of the Titanic" adds an important new dimension to this enduringly captivating story.

Boss - The story of S.F.B Morse, the founder of Pebble Beach (Hardcover): Charles Osborne Boss - The story of S.F.B Morse, the founder of Pebble Beach (Hardcover)
Charles Osborne
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Wartime Experiences of a Cleveland Czechoslovak Legionnaire - The World War I Diary of Ladislav Krizek (Hardcover): Stephen... The Wartime Experiences of a Cleveland Czechoslovak Legionnaire - The World War I Diary of Ladislav Krizek (Hardcover)
Stephen J. Sebesta
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From a Place to Behold - The Goodman Theatre Stories Collection (Hardcover): Barbara L Mcbee From a Place to Behold - The Goodman Theatre Stories Collection (Hardcover)
Barbara L Mcbee
R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of William the Conqueror (Hardcover): Jacob Abbott History of William the Conqueror (Hardcover)
Jacob Abbott
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Boy Soldier to Major - British Army 1931-72 (Hardcover): Major Frederick Lloyd Price Mbe From Boy Soldier to Major - British Army 1931-72 (Hardcover)
Major Frederick Lloyd Price Mbe
R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A personal account of a career soldier, his early life in the 1920's in a rural working-class family, orphaned at 13 years of age and enlistment into boy-service of the British Army one year later. Sent to India at 15 years of age, narrating an insight into military life in Pre-Independence India. An individual perception of the military pre-war years in India and Burma and his experiences during the war with the great retreat from Burma by a fragmented battalion. Post war military life and steady progression in rank and responsibility through to his retirement at 55 years in 1972. He passed away at 99 years and was buried in Stillingfleet, the Yorkshire village where he was born.

Rescue in the Valley of the Tigers (Hardcover): thomas A ross Rescue in the Valley of the Tigers (Hardcover)
thomas A ross
R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American to the Corps - Iraq, Bosnia, Benghazi, Snowden: A Marine Corps Intelligence Officer's Incredible Journey... American to the Corps - Iraq, Bosnia, Benghazi, Snowden: A Marine Corps Intelligence Officer's Incredible Journey (Hardcover)
Jonathon P Myers
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Insurgent Mexico (Hardcover): John Reed Insurgent Mexico (Hardcover)
John Reed
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Promises Betrayed - An Afghan Interpreter at The Fall of Kabul (Deluxe Color Edition) (Hardcover): Jamil Hassan Promises Betrayed - An Afghan Interpreter at The Fall of Kabul (Deluxe Color Edition) (Hardcover)
Jamil Hassan; Foreword by David Petraeus
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Famous Men of Rome and Greece - Easy to Read Layout (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): John Haaren Famous Men of Rome and Greece - Easy to Read Layout (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
John Haaren
R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Green Underwear (Hardcover): Terence McSweeney Green Underwear (Hardcover)
Terence McSweeney
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Why? - The Greatest Generation (Hardcover): Arthur L Peterson Why? - The Greatest Generation (Hardcover)
Arthur L Peterson
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A New and General Biographical Dictionary - Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most... A New and General Biographical Dictionary - Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particularly the British and Irish: From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present...; 11 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Don't Waste Your Pain (Hardcover): Shirley Maynard Don't Waste Your Pain (Hardcover)
Shirley Maynard
R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Awaiting The Dawn - My Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp (Hardcover): Vladimir Husaruk Awaiting The Dawn - My Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp (Hardcover)
Vladimir Husaruk
R744 R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Save R51 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Calvin's Crusaders in the Wars That Made America (Hardcover): David T. Fisher Calvin's Crusaders in the Wars That Made America (Hardcover)
David T. Fisher
R1,668 R1,382 Discovery Miles 13 820 Save R286 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Andrew Jackson - The American Presidents Series: The 7th President, 1829-1837 (Hardcover): Sean Wilentz Andrew Jackson - The American Presidents Series: The 7th President, 1829-1837 (Hardcover)
Sean Wilentz; Edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger
R806 R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The towering figure who remade American politics--the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege
The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they were distrustful of the common people, having designed a constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as the revolutionary generation passed from the scene in the 1820s, a new movement, based on the principle of broader democracy, gathered force and united behind Andrew Jackson, the charismatic general who had defeated the British at New Orleans and who embodied the hopes of ordinary Americans. Raising his voice against the artificial inequalities fostered by birth, station, monied power, and political privilege, Jackson brought American politics into a new age.
Sean Wilentz, one of America's leading historians of the nineteenth century, recounts the fiery career of this larger-than-life figure, a man whose high ideals were matched in equal measure by his failures and moral blind spots, a man who is remembered for the accomplishments of his eight years in office and for the bitter enemies he made. It was in Jackson's time that the great conflicts of American politics--urban versus rural, federal versus state, free versus slave--crystallized, and Jackson was not shy about taking a vigorous stand. It was under Jackson that modern American politics began, and his legacy continues to inform our debates to the present day.

Doug Peters - Bay Street Economist on Parliament Hill (Hardcover): David W Peters Doug Peters - Bay Street Economist on Parliament Hill (Hardcover)
David W Peters; Contributions by Rt Paul Martin
R800 R706 Discovery Miles 7 060 Save R94 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Death Valley in '49 (Hardcover): William Lewis Manly Death Valley in '49 (Hardcover)
William Lewis Manly
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Along the Way - A Green Beret shares stirring stories of those he met and those who supported him in Vietnam - Tet 1968... Along the Way - A Green Beret shares stirring stories of those he met and those who supported him in Vietnam - Tet 1968 (Hardcover, 2nd Privileges of War ed.)
thomas A ross
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Country of Vast Designs - James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (Paperback): Robert W... A Country of Vast Designs - James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (Paperback)
Robert W Merry
R627 R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Save R46 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

ROBERT MERRY'S BRILLIANT AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED HISTORY OF A CRUCIAL EPOCH IN U.S. HISTORY.
In a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of America's Manifest Destiny--extending its territory across the continent by threatening England with war and manufacturing a controversial and unpopular two-year war with Mexico.

Harvey C. Kett - Plainsman (Hardcover): Mabel Mirie Austin, Judi Barchet Harvey C. Kett - Plainsman (Hardcover)
Mabel Mirie Austin, Judi Barchet
R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Backwash of War (Hardcover): Ellen N Lamotte The Backwash of War (Hardcover)
Ellen N Lamotte
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Chasing bin Laden - My Hunt for the World's Most Notorious Terrorist (Hardcover): Barbara K Janik Chasing bin Laden - My Hunt for the World's Most Notorious Terrorist (Hardcover)
Barbara K Janik
R991 Discovery Miles 9 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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