Colonel of Tamarkan. Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai, Paperback - Julie Summers

The gripping and fascinating story of the man who was really in charge of the construction of the infamous bridge on the river Kwai, by his grandda...

Award-winning war fiction about three POWs who endure Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway.

After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway Colonel Cary Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Ch...

The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed-...

Superb example of the ever popular Japanese POW memoir genre.

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller and subject of the acclaimed major motion picture Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks...

Beautifully illustrated, this lifts the veil on the captivating story of fashion in WWII, where the demands of industrial production and the need t...

A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of women welcoming home their menfolk from the Second World War

A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of children evacuated during the Second World War and the families they left behind

The Secret Life of Britain's Country Houses, 1939-1945. A remarkable narrative set against the dark days of the Second World War from one of the co...

The untold story of how the world's most renowned fashion magazine was brought into the modern world during the cauldron of the Second World War.Il...

"I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his."In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Made...

Publisher: Anthroposophic Press IncAuthor(s): J. AnonymousIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsTranslator: J. WetzlNumber of pages: 108Publi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Contributor(s): Author: Mai DonohueThis vivid, compulsively readable memoir of courage, grief and redemption illuminates the life of Mai, a young g...

Reducere. The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gat...

DescriptionAfter a humiliating mistake, lawyer Benjamin Booker resolves to never again trust a beautiful woman. When an old friend is killed, the s...

Reducere. First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku K...

Reducere. A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the Americas On Sunday, ...

Reducere. Paris, 1937. Andras Levi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious le...

Reducere. This book describes the experiences of an Army chaplain who officiated at the first two Memorial Services conducted in the Pentagon after 9/11, and...

A breathtakingly original history of the slave rebellion that almost changed the face of the Americas.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Marjol...

Reducere. After a humiliating mistake, lawyer Benjamin Booker resolves to never again trust a beautiful woman. When an old friend is killed, the senior partn...

This is Lieutenant Colonel Kappe's account of what he and the many other PoWs of F' Force endured from May to October 1943 whilst being forced to w...

Reducere. This book describes the experiences of an Army chaplain who officiated at the first two Memorial Services conducted in the Pentagon after 9/11, and...

Reducere. "In Bridge Over the River Why, the Coopers have succeeded in a dual task documenting their own journey through the grief of losing their son Eli by...

Notable Book, Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award Amazon Book Review Best Nonfiction of 2018 2018 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of the Year, Nonficti...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A Lake? A boat? An eagle and Otter? A bear eating smores by the campfire? Grandpa and Grandma? All things we see and experience going up north to g...

A highly original conceptual study of the opposing faces of universalism, its stimulation for Jewish emancipation and the struggle for its rescue f...

How do you dig up a 13, 000 year-old footprint? Why do kelp forests need sea otters? How do you measure a shrinking glacier from an airplane? What ...

Reducere. When engineering students in Canada are soon to graduate, the solemn "Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, " penned by none other than Rudyard Kip...

Reducere. Updated with the latest evidence, Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers's essential, acclaimed account of President Kennedy's assassination "He w...

A first-hand account covering the entire Second World War - following the author's career from captain to colonel during his time in Palestine, Egy...

Reducere. Wholeness Is Limiting Possibilities Emerge When We're in PiecesEveryone experiences brokenness at some point in their lives a romantic relationship...

Reducere. DescriptionEsteban Luj n's EL ROND N is a first person account of General Pasqual Orozco, Jr.'s 1912 uprising in Chihuahua, Mexico and one of the e...

Reducere. On a blizzardy morning in 1892, fifty armed men surrounded the cabin on Powder River where two cattle rustlers had spent the night. The first rustl...