To Be the Best: Reflections of a Champion

Gary Player

Biographies & Memoirs

Sidgwick and Jackson

SAS IN ACTION

History

Peter MacDonald

Historical Study & Educational Resources

English Heritage from the Air

75 of England's most attractive and historically significant sites, from Stonehenge, to Queen Victoria's Royal Palace at Osborne, are illustrated in this book which features photographs taken from a balloon. This unique viewpoint reveals much about the buildings and their geographical settings which is difficult to perceive from the ground, yet in considerably greater detail than conventional high-level aerial photographs. Almost all of the sites featured are in the care of English Heritage, an organization set up to protect England's inheritance of prehistoric and Roman remains, castles, abbeys, houses and gardens. An explanatory text by Nell Burton describes the significance of these landmarks and puts them into a clear historical perspective. Attention is focused on the Roman remains along Hadrian's Wall, on the ruined medieval abbeys which are dotted through the English countryside and on the huge variety of castle strongholds which reflect the bloodier side of England's past.

Travel

Neil Burton

Pictorial

During World War II, two figures symbolized the spirit of Britain: Winston Churchill and Vera Lynn. The indomitable optimism, quiet courage, enterprise, patience, and uncrushable humour of the British people was personified by the irrepressible energy of Dame Vera Lynn who sang to the troops abroad and reached the hearts of the people on the home front.
Including Dame Vera`s own recollections of the war, We`ll Meet Again revisits the way the people of Britain lived during those extraordinary years. Rationing, air raids, adjusting to loved ones being away while trying to maintain as normal a routine as possible are all addressed alongside family life, education, evacuation, the royal family, sport, commerce and entertainment. How did the British deal with all these aspects of life during the years between 1939 and 1945?
Marvellously anecdotal and sumptuously illustrated throughout, this book reveals the fashions of the time, the films people were watching, the songs people were singing and the headlines that people absorbed everyday.

We'll Meet Again

Arts & Photography

CROSS, Robin

De Gex, Jenny

Lynn, Vera

Music

SAS rescue

SAS Rescue

Engineering & Transportation

Barry Davies

Engineering

Dusty Springfield's contribution to music over the last 25 years has been phenomenal. From her international hit "I Only Want to be With You", in 1963 through to the chart-topping single "What Have I Done to Deserve this", with the Pet Shop Boys in 1987, her musical career has been as varied as it has been important. As a presenter of the pioneering TV show "Ready Steady Go", she was credited as the person responsible for introducing Motown music to Britain, and her 1968 album "Dusty in Memphis" revolutionized the expected methods of production and delivery for white British singers. Suddenly, in 1974, at the very height of international success, she fled to Los Angeles, tired with the pop business and the constant invasion of her private life by tabloid press hounds. She became entangled in legal arguments with uninspiring managers and her old record company. It was only in the 1980s that she re-emerged as a major talent, achieving cult status among a younger generation of fans with her powerful voice and striking sicties-style appearance. There are comments in the book from personalities such as Cilla Black, Annie Lennox, Lulu and Alison Moyet, as well as Dusty herself and her longtime friend and current manager, Vicki Wickham.

Dusty

O'BRIEN, Lucy

Arts & Literature

Oliver Postgate wrote, narrated and filmed Bagpuss, the Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog and Pogle's Wood, among many others. This autobiography covers his years as a conscientious objector, farmer, inventor and filmmaker.

Seeing Things: an Autobiography

Postgate, Oliver

illustrations by Peter Firmin

Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. Facsimile signature on second free page. 348pp. An autobiography of the first celebrity chef, famous for food, women and his tipples. ISBN 0283071052

Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography

FLOYD, Keith

Memoirs

Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Confessions of a Sociopath[A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight] [CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIOPATH] [Paperback]

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Thomas, M.E.

Psychology & Counseling

Fighting ISIS

Locks Tim

Military

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