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• Pathfinder

  David Blakeley

  
  
   

• Bombsites and Lollipops: My 1950s East End Childhood

  Jacky Hyams

  
  
   

• Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy

  Ben Macintyre

  
  One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters was knowing who he was. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent.
  
   

• Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold

  John Guy

  
  
   

• The Railway Man

  Eric Lomax

  
  A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma.
  
   

• Warrior: The Amazing Story of a Real War Horse

  General Jack Seely

  
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• Pathfinder

  David Blakeley

  
  First in - the official motto of one of the British Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son of the SAS. And like their counterparts in Hereford, the job of the Pathfinders is to operate unseen and undetected deep behind enemy lines.

  When British forces deployed to Iraq in 2003, Captain David Blakeley was given command of a reconnaissance mission of such critical importance that it could change the course of the war. It's the story of nine men, operating alone and unsupported, fifty miles ahead of a US Recon Marine advance and head straight into a hornets nest, teeming with thousands of heavily-armed enemy forces. This is the first account of that extraordinary mission - abandoned by coalition command, left with no option but to fight their way out of the enemy's backyard.

  And it provides a gripping insight into the Pathfinders themselves, a shadowy unit, just forty-five men strong, that plies its trade from the skies. Trained to parachute in to enemy territory far beyond the forward edge of battle - freefalling from high altitude breathing bottled oxygen and employing the latest skydiving technology - the PF are unique.

  Because of new rules introduced since the publication of Bravo Two Zero, there have been no first-hand accounts of British Special Forces waging modern-day warfare for
  
   

• The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue

  Mark Logue, Peter Conradi

  
  
   

• The Railway Man

  Eric Lomax

  
  
   

• The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

  Alistair Urquhart

  
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• If This Is a Man / The Truce

  Primo Levi

  
  Primo Levi's classic memoir of The Camps.
  
   

• Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11

  Alistair Darling

  
  
   

• The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

  Alistair Urquhart

  
  
   

• Report from: No. 24

  Gunnar Sonsteby

  
  
   

• Legionnaire: The Real Life Story of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion

  Simon Murray

  
  Simon Murray was nineteen when he joined the French Foreign Legion. Inspired by the romantic myths of Beau Geste, he found himself in the ranks of one of the world's greatest - and toughest - fighting forces. He kept a unique diary of the hard living, harsh discipline, and the military tradition of 'March or Die' which he turned into this gripping book. 'Simon Murray's personal account of a gently reared, well-educated British youth's coming of age in the French Foreign Legion has the drama, excitement and colour of a good guts-and-glory thriller . . . Murray is a talented storyteller, and his fellow legionnaires and their disciplined and proud Corps are vividly portrayed. I was hooked from the first page.' Dr Henry Kissinger 'One of the greatest adventure stories in recent years.' Chris Patten
  
   

• 'Harold' The Last of The Saxon Kings [Illustrated]

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton

  
  
   

• The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour

  Peter Mandelson

  
  
   

• Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

  Trustees of the Mass Observation Archives

  
  In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life.
  
   

• Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11

  Alistair Darling

  
  
   

• 'Lawrence of Arabia' - Seven Pillars of Wisdom [Illustrated]

  T.E. Lawrence

  
  Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph is the autobiographical account of the experiences of T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman. Lawrence led the Arab Revolt teaching the non-uniformed Arab raiders to use explosives to attack Turkish transport.
  
  
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