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HAMILTON’S MARCH by Winston Churchill In addition to his enduring fame as a statesman, Winston Churchill was a Nobel Prize-winning author. These books reflect his early career as a Boer War correspondent for London’s Morning Post newspaper in 1899 and 1900. It chronicles the Boer War’s first five months, from the author’s arrival in South Africa to his capture during a Boer ambush of an armoured train. Churchill’s gripping narrative of his escapes from a prisoner-of-war camp traces a gruelling journey across enemy territory and back to British lines. The second tale, Ian Hamilton’s March, picks up the action immediately afterwards, documenting the eponymous general’s 400 mile advance from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. The march saw ten major battles and numerous skirmishes, culminating in the release of prisoners from the camp where Churchill himself had been held. Softback, 405pp. $16.95 NOW £6


70707 JOHNNY CHECKETTS: THE ROAD TO BIGGIN HILL: A Gripping Story of Courage in the Air and Evasion on the Ground by Vincent Orange with foreword by Alan C


Deere DSO, OBE, DFC The story of how, in World War II, a handful of painfully young and barely trained young men flew their planes out of Biggin Hill in Kent and


fought to the death against the might of the German Luftwaffe is one that surely must never be forgotten. One of those wartime aces, a true - though incredibly modest hero - was the New Zealander Johnny Checketts. A dare-devil motorcycle rider in his youth, it was natural that, when the war broke out, he should join the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Many airmen from the Allied ranks were drafted to Biggin Hill, where Johnny turned out to be a great asset, a tactician and leader in battle who achieved one of the highest scores of enemy aircraft destroyed in the air over the Channel. This is the stirring account of how he was shot down and, with the help of the French Resistance, avoided capture by the Germans, making his way on foot and by car through France to the coast and finally by boat to Penzance. He later rose to the rank of Wing Commander and was personally decorated by King George VI. After all his dangerous exploits he managed to live to the ripe old age of 94. An incredible 192 pages with b/w archive photos, notes and maps. £16 NOW £6


70149 117 DAYS by Ruth First


Ruth First, who was killed by a letter bomb in Maputo, was an incisive writer, a practical academic and a creative revolutionary at the heart of the liberation struggle in South Africa. Her book is a personal account of her detention by the South African Special Branch under the iniquitous ’90-Day Law’ of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge, no trial and no time limit -


only suspicion. This sparsely written record tells of her experiences of solitary confinement, constant interrogation and instantaneous re-arrest on release. It is lightened by humorous portraits of governors, matrons, wardresses and interrogators, seen as the tools of the police state. 176pp in paperback with photo. £8.99 NOW £3


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69834 EXTREME RISK: A Life Fighting the Bombmakers


by Major Chris Hunter Hunter joined the army at 16 from a flick-knife comprehensive and had to make his way at Sandhurst alongside the 85% of cadets with a university degree. When the suicide of his drug-addict brother provoked a personal crisis, his commanding officer persuaded Hunter that as a bomb-disposal expert he would have


maximum opportunities for fighting the drugs trade which terrorists use to finance their weapons. Hunter is first deployed in Mostar. Hunter describes being in the bomb disposal control room as events unfold on 7/7, followed by deployment in Colombia and Afghanistan. Raw, funny, moving and horrific by turns. 354pp, maps, colour photos.


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70048 SIMON WIESENTHAL: The Life and Legends


by Tom Segev


In Tel Aviv, on June 26th, 1949, 30 porcelain urns were buried in one grave. They contained the ashes of 200,000 Jews who had been murdered in the Holocaust and whose remains had been collected from concentration camps across Austria. The man who organized this historic spectacle was Simon Wiesenthal, then 41 years old, who - from the day he was released from the Mauthausen concentration camp - had occupied himself with searching out Nazi war criminals. Although, in the eyes of many people, he was a hero, he was still attacked by those who preferred to try to forget the past. Here is chronicled the nature of his hatred for Elie Wiesel, head of the Memorial Council that worked on the Holocaust Museum, and with whom he had disagreements about the inclusion of Gypsies as victims of the Nazis and his role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann. A revelatory and very moving 482 pages, b/ w photos.


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69094 ROSIE’S WAR: An English Woman’s Escape from Occupied France


by Rosemary Say and Noel Holland


January 1939, and 19-year-old Rosie Say is waving goodbye to her family on the platform of Victoria Station. She is bound for Avignon in the south of France, full of hope and excitement, to begin her new job as an au pair to the Odette family.


Her arrival home, three years later, made front-page news. She had been placed in a women’s internment camp. Conditions, though primitive, were not terrible and, as she remarks, the privations of an English boarding school education had armoured her against the horrors of camp life! What followed was a perilous trek over the Pyrenees to war-ravaged Spain, then through neutral Ireland and back to London. Photos, drawings, telegrams and documents. 256pp, colour and b/w illus. £17.99 NOW £5


70083 DIARY OF A DEAD OFFICER: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West by Arthur Graeme West


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Evoking the cruelty and waste of war with complete frankness and sincerity, here is the diary of a World War I officer who never ceased to be a pacifist and who developed an intense abhorrence for army life. He had felt it his patriotic duty to enlist, but never came to terms with the horrifying realities of war. These made him question the very core of his beliefs - about religion, patriotism and the need to fight. So strong were his emotions that they could find expression only in poetry, and his diary ends with a section devoted to his powerful anti-war poems, two at least of which are comparable to the more well-known ones of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. He was shot dead by a sniper’s bullet. 171 pages, b/w photo.


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Subtitled An Anthology of the World’s Greatest War Diaries, the book is arranged as a diary around the calendar year. It tells many stories from individuals from wars down the ages, from faceless foot soldiers to those charged with orchestrating battle, from the Home Front to the Holocaust, from famous writers, political leaders and fighting men and women to ordinary working people enveloped by events over which they had little influence. These words are subjective, partial, personal, sometimes prejudice and occasionally mundane. heavyweight compendium, 676pp in paperback.


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68082 MY GRAMMAR AND I (OR SHOULD THAT BE ME?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English


by Caroline Taggart and J. A. Wines Can you tell when a sentence contains more clichés than you have had hot dinners, or if it is tautological and pointlessly repetitive? Is a preposition necessarily a bad thing to end a sentence with? Are you able to immediately spot a split infinitive? The English language is a veritable minefield, but this book explains, in a humorous way, the rules of our troublesome tongue, highlighting the most common mistakes of which we can all be guilty. 191 pages. £9.99 NOW £6


69914 HOW TO TALK LIKE A LOCAL: From Cockney to Geordie A National


Companion by Susie Dent Here are hundreds of words that you would never find in an ordinary dictionary - all of them simply crying out to be read aloud to long- suffering friends and family, especially the ones like chav which has apparently been around for centuries, would you believe? We cannot wait to call someone in the


office a dardledumdue or point out that there is a forkin robbin on their desk. As for learning how to talk like a Brummie or an Ulsterman, nothing could be simpler. And how could you resist a book that is packed with such words as tittamatorter and antwack? We can boast, though, that we knew what stovies were. Delicious! 244 pages.


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27097 DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS by E.B. Ordway


Will enable readers to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but everyone who enjoys the richness and diversity of the English language will find a great deal to reward them within its covers. 256pp. Paperback. ONLY £4


69121 POLITICALLY INCORRECT: Words of Mass Deception Exposed by Michell O’Regan


If you have been “surplused” by your company you may not be able to afford a cornet of


environmentally-friendly “Rain Forest Crunch” ice cream, but do not despair, for after some “rightsizing” the managers may decide to “upstaff” and you could be


able to “boomerang” back into a job. This handy guide to the language of the modern world is both highly informative (would you know how to reply to the question “QPSA?”) and also satirical, with sections on “Job ads decoded”, “Management speak and what it really means”, and a “History of Math lessons 1950- Present”. Particularly fascinating is a feature on politically correct ways of describing both men and women and what they really mean, for instance “ego- abundant” (self-centred) and “He is not having a midlife crisis, he is assessing his chronological options.” Modern paraphrases of proverbs and well-known sayings include, “Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific”, while on a more serious level, an analysis of techniques of persuasion exposes the ways politicians and ad-men manipulate their audiences. 302pp, softback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


69917 MELLIFLUOUS BOOK OF HARD


WORDS: Read it, See it, Know it, Use it by David Bramwell


Have you ever yearned to know what callipygian meant? Or have you always wanted to give a display of floccinaucinihilipilification? This unique visual guide is the effortless answer to how to upgrade your vocabulary. See in pictures how hard words are broken down into easily learned sections, you will also be able to pronounce them properly and show off by using them in the right context. The book is graded from hard to harder to hardest, so you will be able to progress as you become more confident. Now go and boast that you are an autodidact pronounced aw-toh-DIGH-dakt! 128 pages with ingenious sequences of thematic cartoons to imprint each part of each word on your memory. £9.99 NOW £2.50


69556 DAMP SQUID: The English Language


Laid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield Among the hundreds of words and phrases which Shakespeare bequeathed to English is ‘sea change’ which is exactly what the somewhat traditional world of dictionary-making has undergone. This super Oxford University Press paperback looks at how many words we have, our Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English origins and where these words come from, why spelling wobbles, meaning in context, word groupings, idiomatic phrases, what we mean by grammar, usages people hate, and dictionaries then and now. 180pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £4


69859 SPILLING THE BEANS ON THE CAT’S PYJAMAS: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We got Them by Judy Parkinson


The English language is littered with linguistic quirks that seem utterly fantastical. To make no bones about it, there is a different flavour of the month for each generation - which leaves many of us up a gum tree - but take a dekko through these pages and you’ll be in seventh heaven because this book is the bee’s knees, the cat’s whiskers and the cat’s pyjamas all rolled into one. The familiar, well-worn expressions that all of us use originate from the most diverse of sources. From the High Street to Homer and from advertising to America this helpful manual is an all-singing, all-dancing trip through the history of our language. 192 pages, line drawings.


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70646 WICKED WIT OF WINSTON CHURCHILL


by Dominique Enright Churchill’s most famous speeches and sayings have passed into history and everyday language, but many of his aphorisms, puns, bons mots and jokes are not public property. Anyone who describes General de Gaulle as looking ‘like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath’ is all right by us, and his definition of golf takes


the biscuit: ‘... a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for the purpose’. This unrivalled selection gathers hundreds of his most humorous and wickedest quips. 160 pages with b/w illustrations. £9.99 NOW £5


34620 WORDSWORTH CROSSWORD COMPANION


by Stephen Curtis and Martin Manser This crossword book is the ideal friend at your elbow to help in solving crosswords. Clear guidance on how to recognize and work out anagrams and on how to decipher cryptic clues. Thousands of synonym entries arranged in order of the number of letters in every word, e.g. fault n (3) bug; (4) flaw, lack, sport; (5) blame, error, taint; (6) defect; (7) absence, blemish, failing, frailty, mistake; (8) weakness; (10) deficiency, inadequacy; (11) shortcoming; (14) responsiblity; over 30,000 synonyms. Helpful introduction on the art of solving crosswords. ONLY £4


53404 CONCISE ENGLISH DICTIONARY Highly acclaimed for its competitive edge on other editions of its kind, this dictionary reflects the usage not just of the UK and the USA but also of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and all those parts of the world where English is the first language. Covers of current scientific and technical terminology, as well as literary and colloquial words and phrases. Impressively comprehensive, this dictionary contains 121,000 references and over 156,000 definitions, together with copious and invaluable appendices consisting of conversion tables, mathematical symbols, the Greek alphabet, Roman numerals and an extensive list of abbreviations. Paperback, 1093pp. ONLY £4


55377 FRENCH DICTIONARY


A general-purpose dictionary, suitable for a great variety of both English and French speakers at all levels of proficiency, providing over 85,000 entries. As well as everyday vocabulary and colloquialisms, the dictionary includes a selection of scientific and technological terms. Also included are the different spellings and usage of American English words. All headwords, both English and French, have phonetic transcriptions based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to assist with pronounciation. 1056pp. Paperback. ONLY £4


70644 GOOD SAMARITAN BITES THE DUST by Ferdie Addis


Subtitled The Amazing Way the Bible Influences Our Everyday Language, we only have to flick through to spot dozens of well known phrases lifted from the Bible - no rest for the wicked, no room at the inn, live by the sword, die by the sword, a leopard can’t change his spots, to hide one’s talent under


a bushel, one’s hearts desire, fire and brimstone, my cup runneth over, to crucify, man does not live by bread alone and dozens and dozens more. Have you ever referred to a family member as your flesh and blood or encouraged your friends to eat, drink and be merry? Well wittingly or not, you have been quoting from the Bible. 192pp.


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69091 LANGUAGE OF LONDON: Cockney Rhyming Slang by Daniel Smith


Adopted by costermongers and market traders, cockney rhyming slang originated as a secret code among the thieves of London’s East End. It fast became a vibrant patois that defined a community, confused the police and outsiders and evolved to include evermore colourful rhyming phrases. Combining history, trivia, quotes and anecdotes, here is an exploration of the origins and meanings of phrases together with a useful English to Slang glossary. Walk the frog and toad (road) trying to ignore your rising damp (cramp) and your Spanish onion (bunion). Lots of fun and rude stuff too. 160pp. £9.99 NOW £4.50


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