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  • Marshal Pétain

    Marshal Philippe Pétain was, in the words of historian Andrew Roberts, 'the most controversial Frenchman of the twentieth century.' A truly distinguished soldier who rose from humble origins, he commanded French forces at Verdun in 1916 and became a national hero. But though by 1940 he had become French Deputy Prime Minister his political abilities were meagre. And after France fell to the Nazis ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Fellow Travellers of the Right

    British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

    When reviewing the first edition in the Times Literary Supplement, Stephen Koss wrote that Fellow Travellers of the Right 'should be required reading for those who believe that ignorance under any circumstances can deter evil'. One can see why. So topsy-turvy had attitudes become in certain circles that the accusation of being 'unquestionably the biggest war-monger in the world today' was levelled ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A Christmouse Tale

    On a night before Christmas, as everyone sleeps, Around and about a little mouse creeps. As Santa is journeying all through the night The little mouse scurries to set something right. Join a little mouse on his journey through a sleepy house to make sure there's a gift waiting for Santa when he comes down the chimney. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Victor Canning's Mr Finchley

    Two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations

    Narrated by Full Cast, Richard Griffiths ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 25 min

    Two BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Victor Canning’s comic novels about the exploits of a shy solicitor’s clerk, starring Richard GriffithsEdgar Finchley is middle-aged, unassuming and not in the habit of taking holidays – but in these two delightful dramatisations, he unexpectedly discovers the delights of travel as he crosses the Channel to the Continent and explores the English countryside.Mr ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    History of the European Union

    An audio course on the Origins and Development of the E.U.

    Unabridged

    3 hours 57 min

    Richard Griffiths invites the listener to look closer at the history and the underlying reasons behind the main developments of European integration. He passionately presents a history that is richer and intellectually more satisfying than much of the elegiac literature on the European union that passes for history. A solid and humorous account on the making of the union. Inhoud College 1 H1. The ... Read more

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    Agatha Christie: Twelve Radio Mysteries

    Twelve BBC Radio 4 dramatisations

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    Twelve classic Christie short stories are given a modern spin in these BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations.Agatha Christie is the acknowledged 'Queen of Crime', and these twelve short stories showcase her skilful plotting and talent for producing compelling mysteries. First broadcast in the early 2000s, the stories were adapted and brought up-to-date for a contemporary audience.Among the star ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Detective Stories - Volume 3: George Griffiths to Richard Marsh

    The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Read more

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  • The Pen and the Cross

    Catholicism and English Literature 1850 - 2000

    An illuminating study looking at an influential group of Roman Catholic novelists and writers - Chesterton, Belloc, Waugh, Greene, Spark and David Lodge among others.Students and Scholars at all levels of English Literature, of the place of Catholicism in English society and any intelligent reader interested in the relationship between religion and literature. ... Read more

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  • The Use of Abuse

    In this book, which closely examines the techniques used by the polemists of the Dreyfus Affair, much is learned not only about the Mair itself, but also about the polemic of the age in which it was situated, and the interaction between writers and their public. The discourse within which people's thoughts were imprisoned is seen not merely to have reflected events, but to have created them, in an ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Patriotism Perverted

    Captain Ramsay, the Right Club, and British Anti-Semitism, 1939-1940

    Patriotism Perverted is an exploration of British anti-Semitism in the last six months of peace and the first year of the Second World War. It shows how, against the backdrop of an endemic British 'social anti-Semitism', a virulent form of this tendency was able to emerge in the late Thirties in a variety of extremist movements. These movements gained their strength from the popular obsessions, in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    All's Well That Ends Well

    A BBC Radio Shakespeare production

    Unabridged

    2 hours 14 min

    In this BBC full-cast production of All's Well That Ends Well, the trials of marriage are hilariously explored. Will Helena complete the Herculean tasks to win Bertram's love?All's Well That Ends Well finds Helena rewarded for her ministries to the sick with the choice of any husband she wishes. Her choice, Bertram, is unwilling to have her as his wife and sets her a number of seemingly impossible ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920

    Power and Influence in the Porth-Pontypridd Region

    This is the first significant study of the entrepreneurial society created by the Welsh coal boom (most books up to now having concentrated upon the workers and the unions). Using the Porth-Pontypridd area as its example, it looks closely at the networks of power created by the second-generation middle classes of the Valleys towns, and at the often hair-raising business methods that they used. ... Read more

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