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• Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler

  
  
   

• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson

  Mitch Albom

  
  
   

• An Unquiet Mind

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  
  
   

• Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

  Mark Bostridge

  
  
   

• Into Danger: Risking Your Life for Work

  Kate Adie

  
  
   

• In Stitches: The Highs and Lows of Life as an AandE Doctor

  Nick Edwards

  
  
   

• The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

  Shane Claiborne

  
  
   

• Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence

  Luke Jackson

  
  
   

• Fabulosity: What It Is and How to Get It

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  
  
   

• Not without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted

  Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, Juliana Buhring

  
  
   

• Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There (Forgotten Voices/the Great War)

  Max Arthur

  
  Max Arthur's compilation of First World War memories, Forgotten Voices of the Great War, offers a reminder of the scale of human experience within the 1914-18 conflict. Arthur, a military historian best known for his history of the RAF and his account of the Falklands campaign in 1982, has assembled hundreds of excerpts from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum. Officers, rank-and-file troops, Australians, Americans, war widows, women in the munitions factories, and German soldiers too, all left oral testimony of their experiences, and these interviews provide the basis of the book. Arthur has put them in chronological and campaign order, and provided a general commentary, but beyond that, has left the rich and moving record to speak for itself.

  The sheer humdrum ordinariness of modern warfare--the mud and rain, the relentless loss of life and inevitability of death, the pointless routine of attrition--come over in the matter-of-fact recollections of so many. But so too does the humanity and morality of the ordinary soldier--a factor that rather belies the recent emphasis amongst some historians on how soldiers loved to kill. Arthur might have intruded more. No biographical information is given about the owners of these "voices", nor does he say when, where and how this oral testimony was gathered.

  These quibbles aside this is a worthwhile read and should encourage people not only to observe a minute's silence on Remembrance Day, but also to spend a few hours in the Imperial War Museum itself. --Miles Taylor

  
   

• Bedside Stories: Confessions of a Junior Doctor

  Michael Foxton

  
  
   

• Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography

  Cherie Blair

  
  
   

• The Thought That Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Obsessive-compulsive DIsorder (Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)

  Jared Douglas Kant, Martin Franklin, Linda Wasmer Andrews

  
  
   

• Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard - Until Someone Listened

  Torey L. Hayden

  
  
   

• Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book About Depression

  Gwyneth Lewis

  
  
   

• Making a Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun in Iraq

  James Ashcroft

  
  
   

• In the Shadow of Papillon: Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System

  Frank Kane, John Tilsley

  
  
   

• One Child

  Torey L. Hayden

  
  
   

• There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

  Antony Flew, Roy Abraham Varghese