Road to Recovery: 1950's (Looking Back at Britain)

Brian, Moynahan

Reader's Digest (29 Jan. 2010)

The great echoing phrases of the King James Bible that have boomed through the English-speaking mind for 400 years - an eye for an eye . . . eat, drink and be merry . . . . death, where is thy sting? . . . man shall not live by bread alone - are largely the work of a man whose genius for words matches Shakespeare. But William Tyndale, the young Gloucestershire tutor who wrote them, paid for them with his life. He was persecuted, exiled and eventually burned at the stake. Book of Fire is the thrilling, moving story of the man who first translated the word of God into the English vernacular. Tyndale did so in defiance of church and state, hunted by the implacable enmity and the agents of the sainted Thomas More. He was finally betrayed, but by then his courage and poetic instinct had provided the backbone of the single most significant work in the English language. The Tudor heretic had changed the literary, religious and political landscape for ever.

Book of Fire

History

Europe

ABACUS +

Airport Confidential

Reference

English as a Second Language

Summit Books

A survey of the forces that led Russia to revolution twice during the 20th century. Making use of contemporary letters, memoirs and documents, the book traces Russia's course from the last tsars to the present day and looks at what the future may hold.

The Russian Century

Pimlico

16 cassettes; 22.5 hours. Recorded Books # 95237

Rapsutin : The Saint Who Sinned

Biographies & Memoirs

John Gallagher

Leaders & Notable People

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Leningrad: Siege and Symphony

Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died of their wounds, the cold, and most of all, starvation. The assembled musicians - scrounged from frontline units and military bands, for only twenty of the orchestra's 100 players had survived - were so hungry, many feared they'd be too weak to play the score right through. In these, the darkest days of the Second World War, the music and the defiance it inspired provided a rare beacon of light for the watching world. 
Setting the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is a magisterial and moving account of one of the most tragic periods in history.

Arts & Literature

Quercus

Jungle Soldier

Quercus Publishing

The British Century: a Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated

The russian century (A photojournalistic history of Russia in the twentieth century)

Seven Dials

"Forgotten Soldiers" is an enthralling work of military history that shows how the courage, intelligence or simple good fortune of the individual can exert a decisive influence on the outcome of a battle or campaign. It tells the stories of fifteen unsung heroes, none of a rank higher than major, whose deeds changed the course of important battles and - arguably - the course of history. These vivid and gripping accounts - largely drawn from the Second World War, but with tales too from other conflicts - have each been selected to illustrate one of the dictums of the great Prussian theorist of war, Carl von Clausewitz, about the importance of having the right man in the right place at the right time.From the Roman standard bearer who plunged into the waves off Deal in 55 bc, saving Julius Caesar's military honour and political career, to the young Israeli tank lieutenant who almost single-handedly stalled the advancing Syrian armour in 1973, these are above all tales of courage. But it is not just courage that wins wars, as these stories demonstrate: such elements as surprise, determination, good intelligence, chance, insight, inventiveness and clear thinking all play their parts in eventual victory. And it may only take one man, often of lowly rank, his name largely forgotten, to embody such qualities for the effect to be felt around the world.

Forgotten Soldiers

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Engineering

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