Maison Rouge: Memories of a Childhood in War, Paperback - Liliane Leila Juma

DescriptionLiliane Leila Juma was sixteen years old when her family home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was destroyed by rebel soldiers. S...

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Presents Madhur Jaffrey's memoir of her childhood in India. With recipes drawn from memories of dinners, lunches, breakfasts, weddings, and picnics...

The incredible true story of a boy trying to lead a normal life in London amidst the terrors and horrors of the Blitz and V bombs raining down in t...

The extraordinary memoir of a childhood spent in the 'Children of God' cult.

The extraordinary memoir of a childhood spent in the 'Children of God' cult.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Faith MorganNumber of pages: 36...

Reducere. Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city...

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Reducere. In a book that will touch hearts and minds, acclaimed cultural historian Marilyn Yalom presents firsthand accounts of six witnesses to war, each of...

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium Marcel Liebman was one of post-war Europe's preeminent Marxist intellect...

Reducere. A story about the harvest traditions that have been shared among Palestinian farmers for centuries. The story takes the reader's imagination on a j...

Reducere. DescriptionThe world is changing for two girls in China in the 1970s. Da Qin--Big Piano--and her younger sister, Xiao Qin--Little Piano--live in th...

One man's story of an experience shared by thousands of children. The idyllic upbringing of the child of a Navy officer in Malaya and Singapore dur...

Publisher: International Law and Taxation PublishersAuthor(s): Alexandre DumasIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 424Publication date: 2...

'Each time my mother laid a finger on me... it was another step into the jaws of hell. Her abuse, more so than any other, destroyed me. It was the ...

Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully written and well observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong shortly aft...

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Reducere. A story about friendship and holiday traditions that have been shared among Palestinian Christian and Muslim families for centuries. A story that r...

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Reducere. At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of th...

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Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Likengkeng SargeauntIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 196Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 2...

Reducere. A poignant and true story about love, loss, and family strength during World War One is now available in paperback During World War One, a young gi...

Reducere. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

Reducere. In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a...

Reducere. First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and ...

When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Ken...

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In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries...

Reducere. RONALD MORTENSON wrote this book so that his relatives and others could understand and know more about how their ancestors struggled to overcome ob...

Reducere. Back when people spent their whole lives in one place, life was all about family and family rituals. It was about the whole clan gathering at dinne...

Publisher: Dalesman Publishing Co LtdIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 208 x 139 x 24Cover type: ...

DescriptionA landing beach in France, exploding under fire and littered with wounded men. Grim surgeries performed in a captured pillbox, in an orc...

'No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence, ' wrote Marlborough, and from the earliest times commanders have sought ...

Working as a courier for an escape line over the Pyrenees early in the Second World War, Francoise is approached by the British Secret Service. Is ...

I always wondered what kind of people specialised in psychology and neurology. I was very curious to know how a psychiatrist lived. Why did it firs...

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Publisher: Eglantyne BooksAuthor(s): Ernst JohannsenTranslator: Melanie FlorenceNumber of pages: 76Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 217 x 21...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert A. PapeFrom Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Ca...

Michelle Forster has been researching and producing books for people with dementia since 2007. Having supported her Mother with dementia, Michelle ...

When the Japanese invaded Java during World War II, four-year-old Clara Kelly was sent to a women's camp with her mother and two young brothers. He...

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Inna Wolkovich Gardner Nichols' story is not a recount of the horrors of war--for those stories have already been written. Her story is a true pers...

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrog...