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  • In Many Wars, by Many War Correspondents

    Edited by George Lynch ...
    Series series From Our Own Correspondent
    “There are few people in the world who have more opportunity for getting close to the hot interesting things of one’s time than the special correspondent of a great paper,” George Lynch, a veteran British correspondent, wrote in Impressions of a War Correspondent, published in 1903. He made it all sound glorious, just the way war correspondents like to recount their experiences on the battlefield. ... Read more

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  • Impressions of a War Correspondent

    by George Lynch ...
    There are few people in the world who have more opportunity for getting close to the hot, interesting things of one's time than the special correspondent of a great paper. He is enabled to see the wheels go round; has the chance of getting his knowledge at first hand. In stirring times the drama of life is to him like the first night of a play. There are no preconceived opinions for him to go by; ... Read more

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    by Leo Tolstoy ...
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  • Stories and Novellas

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    This book-collection file includes: Amy Foster, End of the Tether, Falk, A Point of Honor, A Set of Six ( GASPAR RUIZ, THE INFORMER, THE BRUTE, AN ANARCHIST, THE DUEL, IL CONDE), Tales of Hearsay (The Warrior's Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, The Black Mate), Tales of Unrest (KARAIN: A MEMORY, THE IDIOTS, AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS, This book includes: Amy Foster, End of the Tether, Falk, A Point of ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Combat

    Reports from the Frontline

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 368 - Mammoth Books
    Over a hundred eyewitness accounts of the reality of combat from some of the finest writers of the last century and our own. Lucid, vivid, complex images of conflict, from Walt Whitman on the American Civil War to contemporary reporting from Afghanistan.The collection includes Martha Gellhorn on the Battle of the Bulge, Michael Herr at Khe Sanh, David Rohde's and Anthony Shadid's Pulitzer-winning ... Read more

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  • Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Nautical Stories, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on an Indifferent Sea

    Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad gathers the author's compact fiction alongside autobiographical writings, letters, and critical essays, revealing the full architecture of his moral and artistic imagination. In tales of sailors, exiles, colonial administrators, and haunted wanderers, Conrad compresses the psychological density of his novels into narratives marked by irony, layered narration ... Read more

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  • The Himalaya Club and Other Entertainments from the Raj

    by John Lang ...
    'Mrs Merrydale went off with Lieutenant Maxwell, leaving her children under the care of the servants, until her husband came to take them away. Mrs Hastings, who used to bore us about the duties of a wife, carried off that silly boy Stammersleigh. These elopements led to two actions in H.M. Supreme Court of Calcutta...' Born in Australia in 1816, John Lang-novelist, newspaper editor and barrister, ... Read more

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  • The Escape of a Princess Pat

    First published in 1918. "In order to remove all question of doubt in the mind of the reader it might perhaps be well to state here that the facts as given are thebona fide experiences of Corporal Edwards, Number 39, Number One Company, P. P. C. L. I., and as such were subjected to the closest scrutiny both by the author and others before it was deemed advisable to give the account to the public. ... Read more

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  • When Men & Mountains Meet

    Like the desire for drink or drugs, the craving for mountains is not easily overcome

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 5 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. "Strenuousness is the immortal path, sloth is the way of death."'First published in 1946, the scope of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's When Men and Mountains Meet is broad, covering his disastrous expedition to the Assam Himalaya, ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Burma: Wild Green Earth

    Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson returned to Burma as part of this, as a Brigadier, leading the only Brigade in the new force ... Read more

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  • Greenmantle

    by John Buchan ...
    During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment—in England and abroad, during long journeys, in half–hours between graver tasks; and it bears, I fear, the mark of its gipsy begetting. But it has amused me to write, and I shall be well repaid if it amuses you—and a few others—to ... Read more

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  • A Passionate Prodigality

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    by Guy Chapman ...
    This classic WWI memoir by a decorated infantryman and historian presents a vivid account of life in the trenches on the Western Front.During World War One, Major Guy Chapman, OBE MC, served in the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. Joining soon after war was declared, Chapman was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of Arras.When Chapman's memoir, A ... Read more

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