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Siggi Jepsen, the protagonist, is embroiled in the conflict between the totalitarian Nazi government and a creative artist. As a young boy he watched his father, constable of the northernmost police station in Germany, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist from painting and to seize all his 'degenerate' work.

Soldier, explorer, scholar and ambitious courtier in the shark-pool of Elizabethan politics, Sir Walter Raleigh is the epitome of the English Renaissance man. Yet to many of his day he was an arrogant liar, who deserved every one of his thirteen years in the Tower of London. In this title, the author reveals the truth.

This title contains a collection of the screenplays written by Joel and Ethan Coen. The plays include, "Raising Arizona" and "Barton Fink".

Six young men are arrested in Cape Town for subversion. Successful sabotage requires a high degree of loyalty, mutual confidence and efficiency; and it is an almost unbelievable shock when their betrayer turns out to be the one who has done most to organise and unite them.

One of the most frequently evoked national experiences is the Blitz of the Second World War. This eyewitness account chronicles the events of the period and also brings out the attitudes of the time, the courage in adversity, the impotence of not being able to fight back, and the live-for-today attitude that existed at times of the worst bombing.

On September 7th, 1940, the German Air Force set out to destroy London - the Blitz had begun.

Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb.

Four key men, four key moments in the Great War. The principal actors are four national commanders-in-chief: two German, one Frenchman, one Englishman. Each in turn, as commander-in-chief, bore his nation's sword at a period when the course of the war pivoted on his judgement and will: four actors in a continental tragedy of death and re-birth.'

Part 1: What Science Does: Introductory, Historical, The Existing Organization of Scientific Research in Britain, Science in Education, The Efficiency of Scientific Research, The Application of Science, Science and War and International Science.

From simple nostalgia to sophisticated political thought she looks at agrarian communes, the folk-song movement, peasant arts, garden cities, the reclamation of common lands, schools, dress and diet, and at the life and thought of such key figures as John Ruskin, William Morris and Edward Carpenter.

Winston Churchill was seventy-six when the Conservative Party won the 1951 General Election. This book gives an analysis of each major Government department, its ministers and especially the civil servants who in many cases not merely implemented policies but determined them too.

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a painter, poet, illustrator, dramatist, and most famously the creator of the "Gormenghast" trilogy. This biography is based on letters, photographs and drawings of Peake.

Charles Stewart Parnell has traditionally been studied from the political angle but here Foster places him in the social context of 19th century Irish gentry, and studies him in relation to his remarkable family.

Throughout the world, countries are obliged to make great sacrifices in order to raise the vast sums of money needed to secure their defence. This book works out the qualities needed by studying the tasks that would be likely to confront commanders of the day. It is relevant to the armies of developed countries.

A collection of poems.

He is shrewd about the novel in general and Ford in particular.' Gore Vidal, Times Literary Supplement'Indulgent, energetic, and immensely readable.' Richard Holmes, The Times 'Alan Judd has been drawn into Ford's embattlement and defends him staunchly and imaginatively.' A.

One of the co-founders of the Mass Observation project, Tom Harrison used many of the then-unpublished records of the organisation to put together this record of people's experiences on the British home front during the bombings of the Second World War- first-hand accounts recorded by people as they lived through the Blitz.

My one man, my two men shall mow me down my meadows, My three men, my four men shall carry my grass away, My four, my three, my two, my one, nay not mo, For to mow my hay and carry it away on a beautiful midsummer's day.

Harmony was not the leitmotif of the Tolstoy's marriage. In wedlock for forty-eight years, the couple had reached the nadir of mutual exasperation in 1910, the final year of Tolstoy's life. This biography includes extracts taken from the Countess' own diary and day book, as well as from Leo Tolstoy's private diary ("For Myself Alone").

What makes the Faber Finds edition unique is the illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. The original title-page says, 'with numerous illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.' That is true, there is an abundance of them from the full-page to the vignettes.

The Baltic country itself - the capital with its Old Town and Jewish Shops, the coast with its pine-fringes and little islands - is palpably there, and makes the moral drama of Jacob and his associates the more compelling.

On the death of his father, Stephen Stratton writes a long and deeply personal letter to his son, hoping that, as his son becomes a man, he can benefit from Stephen's experience and wisdom.

First published in 1996, Robert Ferguson's controversial Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography is perhaps the most irreverent and critical of all the Ibsen biographies.

During the Second World War, Miklos Hammer, a Hungarian Jew from Budapest, was a member of the forced-labour Jewish battalion in the Hungarian army. This is the story of his survival, as he told it to Gerald Jacobs - a survival made possible only by his own determination to take advantage of a few fortuitous events.

He introduces key figures on both sides of the battle including: Arthur Scherbius, who gave the Germans a boost in the race between codemaker and codebreaker and Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski, who reconstructed the Enigma keys.

When Ferguson writes of the demonic muse that haunted Hamsun throughout his life, we glimpse something profound about the creative act of writing, and we come very close to the exalted emotion that every writer feels - or hopes to feel.

she is aware of rootlessness in the teeming energy.' TLS'The book captures the contradictions and mad terror of Hong Kong better than could a novel - it's a dramatic documentary ...

Betjeman and Pevsner personified are two opposing sensibilities. This book shows how the two rivals became, behind a polite facade, irreconcilable foes who fought for the supremacy of their alternative visions until the same fatal illness struck them down.

Lusty sheep farmers and their sensible wives, brainy engineers and over-dressed girls on the make - the whole district loves the parties Helen Bailey throws at Cotamundra station each Saturday. And everyone loves Helen Bailey - everyone, that is, except her husband Walter, who sits alone in the Australian heat, polishing his gun.

.The character of the mother is a masterpiece, and so - only second to her - is Mr Fury.