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“frank gardner”

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  • Blood and Sand

    The BBC security correspondent’s own extraordinary and inspiring story

    by Frank Gardner ...
    On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullets into his body at point-blank range...Against all the odds, Frank Gardner survived.Today, although ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • General Ward's Colonial Army

    by Keith A. Brough, Frank Gardner ...
    General Ward’s Colonial Army is an enlightening collection of articles giving the history of the Massachusetts minute-men and militia that first engaged the British during the Revolutionary War. When this series was originally published for The Massachusetts Magazine, 1908–1918, the periodical proved an authoritative resource on the officers of the Massachusetts Revolutionary regiments and has ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frontlines and Lifelines

    Collected Poems from an Army Doctor in Crisis and War

    by Timothy Hodgetts ...
    This work captures personal experience of the Army's Surgeon General as a military doctor in crisis and war, spanning 30 years from Northern Ireland; through Kosovo to the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns; culminating in the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukraine war.Poetry provides the ability to say what is otherwise difficult or unpalatable. Some of the poems are critical and challenging. Some ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    The award-winning autobiography from the British politician and author of the Sunday Times bestseller, This Boy.In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill, ... Read more

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  • The Writer and the Traitor

    A thrilling history of the 20th century's most intriguing friendship - between novelist Graham Greene and spy Kim Philby

    by Robert Verkaik ...
    '[An] elegant and forensic double portrait setting Greene, that sociologist of sin, alongside the Kremlin's golden boy Philby, with the lengthening shadow of the cold war falling between them ... both his subjects make for terrific copy ... Part of the pleasure of Verkaik's book is the vicarious glide through their parallel rake's progresses.' - Pratinav Anil, Guardian'A wholly fascinating account ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Secret Service

    The Sunday Times top ten bestseller

    by Tom Bradby ...
    'A gripping thriller' Sunday Times'Imaginative and unexpected' The Times'A cracking, uber-topical spy thriller' Financial Times'Enthralling and fast-moving... the stuff headlines are made of' Daily Mail_______________________________The world is on the brink of crisis.The Cold War is playing out once mor... ... Read more

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  • Double Agent

    From the bestselling author of Secret Service

    by Tom Bradby ...
    'A high-paced thriller' Radio TimesIt was supposed to be a quiet family weekend away. But for Senior MI6 officer Kate Henderson, nothing is ever that simple...Kidnapped in Venice by a Russian defector, Kate knows she's in trouble. But all is not as it seems. The spy offers her conclusive evidence that the British Prime Minister is a live agent working for Moscow. Kate's holiday quickly becomes the ... Read more

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  • The Rebel Empresses

    Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

    by Nancy Goldstone ...
    From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling, “richly detailed, entertaining” chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).When they ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Rage of Party

    by George Owers ...
    THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics.Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become king, the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political battlelines of a ferociously polarised ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Stones of Britain

    A History of Britain through its Geology

    by Jon Cannon ...
    'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLSThis is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places, exploring the connection between geology and landscape, the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It movingly ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The World of the Cold War

    1945-1991

    by Vladislav Zubok ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    **FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'Monumental and highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok brings a prescient and fresh perspective' Financial Times**A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSRWhy did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six ... Read more

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  • Punishing Putin

    Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

    by Stephanie Baker ...
    A “masterful” (Foreign Policy), authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the United States and its European allies are waging against Russia after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that “reads like a detective novel” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)—written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources.Undeterred by eight years of timid US ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

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