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  • Tomorrow You Die

    The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese

    by Andy Coogan ...
    Andy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917, the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants. He was tipped for Olympic glory, but a promising running career was interrupted by war service. His capture during the fall of Singapore marked the beginning of a three-and-a-half-year nightmare of starvation, torture and disease.Andy was imprisoned in the notorious Changi camp before being transported to Taiwan, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Today Everything Changes

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    by Andy McNab ...
    Abandoned as a baby, Andy McNab's start in life was tough. He grew up in South London with foster parents, and poverty around him on all sides.Andy attended seven schools in as many years, disillusioned and in remedial classes. It wasn't long before his life was one of petty crime. By the age of sixteen, he was in juvenile detention.Recruited into the Army from there, it soon became clear that he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Adolf Hitler

    My Part in his Downfall

    Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs
    Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian______________'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a trav... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Forgotten Highlander

    An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific

    Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “Death Railway” and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese “hellship,” his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Somme Stations

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 7 - Jim Stringer
    WINNER OF THE ELLIS PETERS AWARD'Superb.' Lancashire Evening Post'Richly satisfying.' Sunday TelegraphOn the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead.Durin... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'

    A Confrontation in the Desert

    Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs
    VOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times______________'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.''That's how I got in, sir.'<em... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Monty

    His Part in My Victory

    Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs
    VOLUME THREE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail______________'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.' 'This could mean wa... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Mussolini

    His Part in My Downfall

    Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs
    VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times______________A voice is calling across the land, 'Bombardier Milligan.' 'Bombadier Milligan is dead,' I replied in a disguised voice. The voice replied, 'The... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Where Have All the Bullets Gone?

    Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs
    VOLUME FIVE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard______________'Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava running in great red rivulets down the slope towards us, and Jock taking a drag on his cigarette and saying, "I think we've got grounds for a rent ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • On Paths of Ash

    by Robert Holman ...
    On Paths of Ash is an extraordinary Australian World War II story. Robert and Jack Holman were working-class brothers who found themselves in three of the most horrific experiences of the war. They were interned in Changi prisoner-of-war camp, from where they became prison labourers on the infamous Burma Railway. From there they went as slaves to the coalmines of Japan, close enough to Nagasaki to ... Read more

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  • Milligan's Meaning of Life

    An Autobiography of Sorts

    Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Behind Enemy Lines

    The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero

    With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a L�gion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army.Yet for 65 years the Highlander's story has remained untold. Few know how, aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers of the feared Das Reich tank column to surrender, or how Tommy ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD