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Published May 2010
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by A.L. Kennedy
Published Mar 2009
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by C.J. Sansom
Published Jan 2009
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by Danny Scheinmann
Published Jan 2009
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by Sara Young (Pennypacker)
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsMining a lost piece of history, Sara Young takes us deep into the lives of women living in the worst of times. Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, My Enemy's Cradle keens for what we lose in war and sings for the hope we sometimes find.
by Louis de Bernieres
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsEpic in its narrative sweep, steeped in historical fact yet profoundly humane, and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail. This is de Bernières' first book since Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
by Ian McEwan
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsBrilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class. At its center this is a profoundand profoundly movingexploration of shame, forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
by John Keegan
Published May 2000
Read ReviewsJohn Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation.
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