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  • José Bergamín

    A Critical Introduction, 1920-1936

    by Nigel Dennis ...
    Series series Heritage
    Writer, critic, and cultural activist José Bergamín (1895-1983) was unjustly relegated to the sidelines of contemporary Spanish intellectual life for reasons that have more to do with his political dissidence and long periods of exile than with the interest and importance of his written work. This book represents the first attempt to come to terms with that work.Professor Dennis's study focuses on ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Cards of Identity

    by Nigel Dennis ...
    'Formerly, he thinks to himself, an artist took real people and transformed them into painted ones: how much finer and more satisfying is the modern method of assuming that people are not real at all, only self-painted, and of proceeding to make them real by giving them new selves based on the best-available theories of human nature...'In Nigel Dennis's 1955 novel - instantly acclaimed as a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Boys and Girls Come Out to Play

    by Nigel Dennis ...
    'Everyone who now remembers Nigel Dennis thinks that his first novel was Cards of Identity (1955). But in fact he had already written Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1949)... what I recall liking so much about it was first the story of a young man's emergence from the dark tunnel of his childhood, with the discovery that there are drugs to control the epilepsy that has kept him imprisoned, and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A House in Order

    by Nigel Dennis ...
    A House in Order was Nigel Dennis's third and final novel, first published in 1966.'A quizzical pleasure... This civilized conundrum is about a nameless man captured in a timeless war in an anonymous country who manages to survive in a greenhouse, where he is most protected as well as most exposed... An antiseptic little man, a cartographer by profession, a horticulturist by avocation, he spends a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Felse Investigations Volume One

    Fallen into the Pit, Death and the Joyful Woman, and Flight of a Witch

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series series The Felse Investigations
    From the author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, the first three mysteries in the Edgar Award–winning series about an English policeman and his son.CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorIn the English village of Comerford, just on the border of Wales, it's Det. Sgt. George Felse's duty to keep the peace—and keep his fourteen-year-old son, Dominic, out of harm's way . . .Fallen into the Pit: ... Read more

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  • The Bridge On The River Kwai

    by Pierre Boulle ...
    The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back.Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is ... Read more

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  • The Balkan Trilogy

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  • Rogue Male

    by Geoffrey Household ...
    1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator’s private compound. He does. He has the potential target in his sites and is wondering whether to pull the trigger when security catches up with him. Imprisoned, tortured, doomed to a ... Read more

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  • Fallen into the Pit

    by Ellis Peters ...
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    In this "hypnotically good" debut, a Nazi murdered in an English village sets Sergeant Felse and his son on an investigation few want solved ( Boston Sunday Globe ).Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorIt is 1952, and the shadow of World War II still lies over the green fields of the small village of Comerford on the Welsh borders. When ex-prisoner of war Helmut Schauffler is ... Read more

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  • The Defence of Duffer's Drift (Illustrated)

    by Ernest Dunlop Swinton ...
    The Defense of Duffer’s Drift is one of the most important works ever written on small unit tactics and is required reading for junior officers in military organizations around the world. It was written by Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton in 1904 when Swinton was a Captain. It details a fictional encounter in the Boer War. The book is narrated by Lieutenant Backsight Forethought (BF) who ... Read more

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  • War Is War

    by A. M. Burrage ...
    Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a ... Read more

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