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Cairo in the War: 1939-45 by Artemis Cooper
30.00 NZD
Category: History
For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was a sto ...Show more
Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her ...Show more
Paris After the Liberation : 1944-1949 (new edition) by Antony Beevor; Artemis Cooper
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning ...Show more
Patrick Leigh Fermor - An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated ...Show more
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