 | Soldier: The Autobiography by General Sir Mike Jackson
Buy new: £12.29 / Used from: £0.01 Very personal and proud exposition of the debt owed through blood and treasure
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 | Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 At times profound....and pointless. It divides opinion, but somehow I feel better for having read it
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 | The Red Badge of Courage (Penguin Popular Classics) by Stephen Crane
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Quite a simple yet poignant tale of how courage and truth are also victims on the field of battle
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 | God is Not Great: The Case Against Religion by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £11.59 / Used from: £4.39 Delicious polemic, so typical of the man. Not as rapier-like as Dawkins, but as earnest as any preacher.
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 | Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel Cervantes
Buy new: £6.63 / Used from: £1.98 Outstanding! A truly great work that is just so rich in character, plot and meaning. Funny, sad and full of observation on human frailty
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 | The Warden (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 2008 The year I fell in love with Trollope. Beautiful evocation of time and place and exposition of the periods morality. In breaking the 'fourth wall' the narrative becomes more richly personal.
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 | Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 by Keith Lowe
Buy used from: £15.42 Excellent, vivid portryal of the horrors of total aerial war on a city. Rightly highlights the courage of the RAF as well as the suffering of the German population
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 | North America (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Buy used from: £0.24 Beatifully observed travelogue with a political edge due to the ongoing Civil War. Thoughtful and warm redeeming his mothers earlier views!
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.59 Exciting story told in wonderfully spare prose. I was moved by the detail of acceptance of suffering and futlity
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 | The Last of the Mohicans (Penguin Popular Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 A Ripping Yarn that just delivers. Very much of its time this is nonetheless a great tale of love honour and duty
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 | The Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £0.62 Simply first class. Excellent translation. an awesome rendition of the war and surrounding politics by a man who was there
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 | Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £0.01 Part 2 of this wonderful world! A moral comedy with a cast that becomes so real through Trollopes prose
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 | Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.99 Roth is simply a genius. Perhaps this should be required reading for the X-Factor wannabes. A cautionary tale on the excesses of fame and pride
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 | Eighth Air Force: The American Bomber Crews in Britain by Donald L. Miller
Buy new: £7.33 / Used from: £5.04 A fullsome account of the incredible actions of so many young men. Not without a critical edge it is a sobering read. Lest we forget
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.77 / Used from: £0.05 Dazzlingly brilliant. One of the best, most rewarding books I've read. Full of love, pathos, humour and hope
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 | The Deerslayer (Wordsworth Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Dreamy, picturesque and full of romantic derring-do. Another classic adventure
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 | The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.89 A first class account of a truly breathtaking, heroic endeavour. Quality journalsitic narrative redolent of Capote, typically Wolfe in its expression of emotions
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 | Dr Thorne (Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.39 Part 3!! Truly superb plot, intricate characters and lovely style.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.99 A haunting troubling autobiographical novel of depression and the seemingly futile point of existence. If you have in any way been touched by depression, read this.
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 | The Good War: An Oral History of WWII by Studs Terkel
Buy used from: £9.94 Truly touching personal accounts. Fabulously done by Terkel. Everyone should read this.
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 | Framley Parsonage (English Library) by Anthony Trollope
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 Part 4. Dirty deeds, pride, scandal, love and class. Can't wait to read more!
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