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Choosing To Live - A Remarkable True Story Of Adventure And Survival In The Amazon Jungle (Paperback): Davey du Plessis Choosing To Live - A Remarkable True Story Of Adventure And Survival In The Amazon Jungle (Paperback)
Davey du Plessis
R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Two months into a planned solo source-to-sea navigation of the Amazon River, adventure Davey du Plessis was ambushed and shot within the isolated jungles of Peru.

The adventure turned into an intense moment-to-moment struggle to survive as he made his way, wounded, through the dense jungle, seeking rescue and safety.

Choosing To Live is Davey's personal account of his Amazon experience. He retells the remarkable story with an endearing openness, while sharing unique insights into the power of compassion and his ability to maintain motivation in his balance between life and death.

Unbroken (Paperback, Film tie-in edition): Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken (Paperback, Film tie-in edition)
Laura Hillenbrand 1
R403 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louise Zamperini had already transformed himself from child delinquent to prodigious athlete, running in the Berlin Olympics. Now he must embark on one of the Second World War's most extraordinary odysseys. Zamperini faces thousands of miles of open ocean on a failing raft. Beyond like only greater trials, in Japan's prisoner-of-war camps. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini's destiny, whether triumph or tragedy, depends on the strength of his will ... Now a major motion picture, directed by Angelina Jolie and starring Jack O' Connell.

The Silence In Between (Paperback): Josie Ferguson The Silence In Between (Paperback)
Josie Ferguson
R380 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R41 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your child...

Lisette is in hospital with her baby boy. The doctors tell her to go home and get some rest, that he’ll be fine.

When she awakes, everything has changed. Because overnight, on 13 August 1961, the border between East and West Berlin has closed, slicing the city - and the world - in two.

Lisette is trapped in the east, while her newborn baby is unreachable in the west. With the streets in chaos and armed guards ordered to shoot anyone who tries to cross, her situation is desperate.

Lisette's teenage daughter, Elly, has always struggled to understand the distance between herself and her mother. Both have lived for music, but while Elly hears notes surrounding every person she meets, for her mother - once a talented pianist - the music has gone silent.

Perhaps Elly can do something to bridge the gap between them. What begins as the flicker of an idea turns into a daring plan to escape East Berlin, find her baby brother, and bring him home....

Based on true stories, The Silence in Between is a page-turning, emotional epic that will stay with you long after you finish reading.

Through Their Eyes (Paperback): David Radford Through Their Eyes (Paperback)
David Radford
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based on a series of fascinating interviews, this extraordinary book relates real stories of conflict from the people who lived through it. In vivid detail, and genuinely moving accounts, this unique publication draws the reader into a hugely significant period of history; capturing surprising and emotional stories first hand, before they disappear forever. These are more than just memories, they are the events that marked the world and an entire generation.

The Waffenmeister (Paperback): Kenneth Ballantyne The Waffenmeister (Paperback)
Kenneth Ballantyne
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
No-one Land: Israel/Palestine 2000-2002 (Paperback): Henry Ralph Carse No-one Land: Israel/Palestine 2000-2002 (Paperback)
Henry Ralph Carse
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the shattered land of Israel and Occupied Palestine comes a vivid account of anguish and determination. In his passionate essays penned during the violence of the Second Intifada, writer Henry Ralph Carse, practical theologian, pilgrim and scholar, seeks meaning in the seemingly senseless conflict. Living in the heart of East Jerusalem, Carse is an educator and the father of four children growing up in the midst of the mayhem. Driven by hope and concern, he chronicles his daily ventures into No-One Land, engaging both Israelis and Palestinians in the terrible and inspiring realities of their lives in the crossfire.

The Book Collectors of Daraya - A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a... The Book Collectors of Daraya - A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War (Paperback)
Delphine Minoui; Translated by Lara Vergnaud 1
R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.' Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally besieged by Syrian government forces. Four years of suffering ensued, punctuated by shelling, barrel bombs and chemical gas attacks. People's homes were destroyed and their food supplies cut off; disease was rife. Yet in this man-made hell, forty young Syrian revolutionaries embarked on an extraordinary project, rescuing all the books they could find in the bombed-out ruins of their home town. They used them to create a secret library, in a safe place, deep underground. It became their school, their university, their refuge. It was a place to learn, to exchange ideas, to dream and to hope. Based on lengthy interviews with these young men, conducted over Skype by the award-winning French journalist Delphine Minoui, The Book Collectors of Daraya is a powerful testament to freedom, tolerance and the power of literature. Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.

EXERCISE TIGER CASUALTY COVER UP REVEALED 2017 (Paperback): Richard Bass EXERCISE TIGER CASUALTY COVER UP REVEALED 2017 (Paperback)
Richard Bass
R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ace, Marvel, Spy - A Novel Of Alice Marble (Paperback): Jenni L Walsh Ace, Marvel, Spy - A Novel Of Alice Marble (Paperback)
Jenni L Walsh
R355 R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Save R29 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Trailblazer, superstar, activist, and spy: Alice Marble was a true American icon.

At seventeen, Alice Marble has no formal tennis skills and no coach. What she does have is an ability to hit the ball as hard as she can and a strong desire to prove herself. With steadfast determination and one sacrifice after another, Alice plays her heart out on the courts of the rich and famous, at national tournaments, and—the greatest of them all—at Wimbledon, rising to be one of the top-ranked players in the world.

But then her world falls apart.

With the outbreak of war with Germany, Alice’s tennis career and life come to a screeching halt, and for the first time, she is forced to confront who she is without tennis. As she seeks to understand her new place in the world and how she can aid in the war efforts, a telegram arrives with devastating news from overseas. Heartbroken and lost, she feels like she can only watch as the war wreaks havoc in every area of her life.

Alice is given the chance to fight back when the US Army sends her a request: Under the guise of playing in tennis exhibition games in Switzerland, she would be a spy for them. Alice aches for nothing more than to avenge what the war has taken from her and to prove herself against this new opponent. But what awaits her might be her greatest challenge yet.

From her start as a promising athlete with worn-out shoes to her status as a glamorous international star, Alice Marble’s determination to control her own life and destiny fuels a story of achievement, discipline, loss, and love.

Jenni L. Walsh’s Ace, Marvel, Spy brilliantly showcases the life of Alice Marble, a real-life tennis sensation known for her extraordinary talent and indomitable spirit. This fast-paced and action-packed historical novel spans multiple international settings and is enhanced by discussion questions that prompt readers to reflect on Alice’s challenges and triumphs, making it an ideal choice for book clubs.

Finding Stefan - Colin's Story (Paperback): Hazel Hartstone Finding Stefan - Colin's Story (Paperback)
Hazel Hartstone
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The extraordinary story of how a Derbyshire coal miner survived as an escaped POW in occupied Poland by posing as a deaf-mute for three years. A few years before Colin Marshall died in 1993 he wrote his story and gave it to his daughter Hazel. She knew he'd had an extraordinary life but she read things he had never talked about, and it seemed part of another world. Years later, after Hazel's mother Nancy died, Hazel found tucked away in a cupboard, unseen letters, postcards and photographs that her mother had saved from Colin's time in Poland during WWII. As a tribute to her dad and the Polish people who helped him, Hazel decided to turn it into a book. This true story takes the reader from Colin growing-up in a Derbyshire mining village in the 1920s: starting work at the local colliery, joining the Lincolnshire Regiment of the Royal Engineers, being called-up at the outbreak of war, captured at Dunkirk and escaping from a POW camp in Poland - to being befriended by a Polish family, in a village occupied by German soldiers. Unable at that time to speak Polish, he posed as a deaf-mute for three years to avoid capture. Any slip-up and Colin knew that his Polish friends would be shot. It is a story of courage and determination and of two Polish families who risked their lives in order to save others.

Bloodied, but Unbowed (Paperback): Norman A. Brooke Bloodied, but Unbowed (Paperback)
Norman A. Brooke
R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With the outbreak of World War I, whilst thousands of men were being swallowed up in the patriotic surge of volunteering for the Army, large numbers of physically fit men were being rejected out of hand. These were those who were less than the mandatory height for acceptance, five feet three inches. Six young men from very different walks of life found that when they tried to volunteer, they were summarily rejected because they were not tall enough. All this would change in December, 1914 when "Bantam" units were raised in order to tap this otherwise wasted source of manpower. These six men who enlisted at the same time and recruiting office made a pact that if they could manage to do so, they would stay together as a group whilst they were in the Army. The narrative sees them through their training in the Yorkshire Dales and on Salisbury Plain thence to France in the winter of 1916 where they are introduced to the hardships of trench warfare in the flooded battlefields of French Flanders. Ultimately, they move to the Somme where their luck runs out. Having recovered from their wounds, two of the survivors take part in the mining operations at Messines Ridge, before moving on to Passchendaele and all its horrors. One of them is shipped back to England after more wounding. As a result of his experiences catching up with him, he will not return to active service in France. This story is based on facts, the service history of the author's father.

He Took the King's Shilling - For the Love of Amelia (Paperback): Marion Cunningham He Took the King's Shilling - For the Love of Amelia (Paperback)
Marion Cunningham
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Part One This book is based on the true story of Jesse Fredrick Warren a 24 year old French Polisher by trade who was living in Bethnal Green, East London with his wife Amelia and their two young daughters Elizabeth and Beatrice. The start of the Great War in 1914 brought with it an end to regular employment and the beginning of great hardships for Jesse and his young family. By the February of 1915 they were destitute and starving. There was no money for food, gas or coal. Like so many other young men who found themselves in the same situation, there was only one option open to him: without telling his wife he signed on and volunteered for Kitchener's Army. It was not for King and Country that he joined up but to put food on the table for his wife and children. For this he was taken to France where he walked through the gates of hell. Part Two This is the continuing story of Jesse and Amelia Warren now living in Walthamstow, East London from the end of the Great War which against all odds he survived, until their deaths many years later...but firstly it takes the reader back to the meeting of a young couple who were to survive many hardships including two World Wars. It tells of their family, the good times they shared together and the bad times but also it tells of many hilarious moments that will certainly make the reader smile.

A Diary of Hope - The Story of an American Prisoner of War (Paperback): Andrew Gabriel A Diary of Hope - The Story of an American Prisoner of War (Paperback)
Andrew Gabriel
R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

My grandfather, Frank Carollo, was a prisoner of war in the infamous POW camp Stalag 17 B during World War II. During these dark days, he managed to keep a diary of his experiences, depicting everyday life within, through beautiful short stories, poetry, and drawings. Now years later, I've taken his accounts, adding background details from friends and family, to create a memoir of hope, love, and survival; a story of one man's life before, during, and after being confined within one of the most notorious of Nazi camps. 20% of the profits from each book sold will be donated to the national Alzheimer's Association, in memory of Frank Carollo.

Ten Brave Men and True - The Victoria Cross Holders from the Borough of Tunbridge Wells (Paperback): Richard Snow Ten Brave Men and True - The Victoria Cross Holders from the Borough of Tunbridge Wells (Paperback)
Richard Snow; Foreword by Dan Snow
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Foreword by Dan Snow. Ten holders of the Victoria Cross, the highest British military honour - for 'valour in the face of the enemy' - are associated with the Borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK. They include the very first VC to be awarded (in the Crimea, 1856).

A Man Alone - Biography of Robert T. Robinson, a Soldier of the 14th 'Forgotten' Army in India and Burma During World... A Man Alone - Biography of Robert T. Robinson, a Soldier of the 14th 'Forgotten' Army in India and Burma During World War Two (Paperback)
Peter Court
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? - A powerful true story of love and survival (Paperback): Horace Greasley Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? - A powerful true story of love and survival (Paperback)
Horace Greasley 1
R279 R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Save R141 (51%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Horace 'Jim' Greasley was twenty years of age in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and latterly Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters and the British government began to prepare for the inevitable war. After seven weeks training with the 2nd/5th Battalion Leicester, he found himself facing the might of the German army in a muddy field south of Cherbourg, in Northern France, with just thirty rounds of ammunition in his weapon pouch. Horace's war didn't last long. He was taken prisoner on 25th May 1940 and forced to endure a ten week march across France and Belgium en-route to Holland.

Horace survived...barely...food was scarce; he took nourishment from dandelion leaves, small insects and occasionally a secret food package from a sympathetic villager, and drank rain water from ditches. Many of his fellow comrades were not so fortunate. Falling by the side of the road through sheer exhaustion and malnourishment meant a bullet through the back of the head and the corpse left to rot. After a three day train journey without food and water, Horace found himself incarcerated in a prison camp in Poland. It was there he embarked on an incredible love affair with a German girl interpreting for his captors.

He experienced the sweet taste of freedom each time he escaped to see her, yet incredibly he made his way back into the camp each time, sometimes two, three times every week. Horace broke out of the camp then crept back in again under the cover of darkness after his natural urges were fulfilled. He brought food back to his fellow prisoners to supplement their meagre rations. He broke out of the camp over two hundred times and towards the end of the war even managed to bring radio parts back in. The BBC news would be delivered daily to over 3,000 prisoners. This is an incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance of the German nation.

Exercise Tiger: The D-Day Practice Landing Tragedies Uncovered (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Richard Bass Exercise Tiger: The D-Day Practice Landing Tragedies Uncovered (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Richard Bass
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Waggoner's War - A Motor Transport Driver's Experiences in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Army Service Corps... A Waggoner's War - A Motor Transport Driver's Experiences in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Army Service Corps -1942-45 (Paperback)
Fergus Fulton
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sky Laughing - Humorous Stories Featuring the Parachute Regiment and Other Airborne Forces (Paperback): Roger Payne Sky Laughing - Humorous Stories Featuring the Parachute Regiment and Other Airborne Forces (Paperback)
Roger Payne
R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Moose's War - The Exploits of Wing Commander Robert 'Moose' Fumerton DFC & Bar, AFC - Canada's... Moose's War - The Exploits of Wing Commander Robert 'Moose' Fumerton DFC & Bar, AFC - Canada's Highest-Scoring Night-Fighter Pilot of the Second World War (Paperback)
Richard Pike
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dead leaves - Two years in the Rhodesian War (Paperback): Dan Wylie Dead leaves - Two years in the Rhodesian War (Paperback)
Dan Wylie
R105 R97 Discovery Miles 970 Save R8 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

It is January, 1978. Groups of nervous, dutiful white conscripts begin their National Service with Rhodesia's security forces. Ian Smith's minority regime is in its dying days and negotiations towards majority rule are already under way. For these inexperienced eighteen-year-olds, there is nothing to do but go on fighting, and hold the line while the transition happens around them. Dead Leaves is a richly textured memoir in which an ordinary troopie grapples with the unique dilemmas presented by an extraordinary period in history - the specters of inner violence and death; the pressurized arrival of manhood; and the place of conscience, friendship and beauty in the pervasive atmosphere of futile warfare.

Desert War Diary: 213 Squadron 1941-43 - The Wartime Journal of an RAF Airman in North Africa (Paperback): John Walton Desert War Diary: 213 Squadron 1941-43 - The Wartime Journal of an RAF Airman in North Africa (Paperback)
John Walton
R580 Discovery Miles 5 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Doro - Refugee, hero, champion, survivor (Hardcover): Brendan Woodhouse, Doro Goumaneh Doro - Refugee, hero, champion, survivor (Hardcover)
Brendan Woodhouse, Doro Goumaneh
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'This is Doro and he is beautiful.' So begins the extraordinary story of Doro Goumaneh, who faced an unimaginable series of adversities on his journey from persecution in The Gambia to refuge in France. Doro was once a relatively prosperous fisherman, but in 2014, when the country's fishing rights were stolen and secret police began arresting Gambian fishermen, Doro left home, fleeing for his life. From Senegal to Libya to Algeria and back to Libya, Doro fell victim to the horrific cycle of abuse targeted at refugees. He endured shipwreck, torture and being left for dead in a mass grave. Miraculously, he survived. In 2019, during one of his many attempts to reach Europe, Doro was rescued by the boat Sea-Watch 3 in the Mediterranean, where he met volunteer Brendan Woodhouse. While waiting out a two-week standoff - floating off the coast of Sicily, as political leaders accused Sea-Watch, a German organisation that helps migrants, of facilitating illegal entry to Europe - a great friendship formed. Told through both Doro's and Brendan's perspectives, Doro touches on questions of policy and politics, brutality and bravery, survival and belonging - issues that confront refugees everywhere. But ultimately it is one man's incredible story - that of Doro: refugee, hero, champion, survivor and friend.

The Hill - A Memoir of War in Helmand Province (Hardcover): Aaron Kirk The Hill - A Memoir of War in Helmand Province (Hardcover)
Aaron Kirk
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
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