![]() | The Tortilla Curtain (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by T.Coraghessan Boyle
Buy new: £22.70 / Used from: £3.87 A good story of fear, hatred, hope and desperation. Set in California
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![]() | The Fuck-up by Arthur Nersesian
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.44 Highly Recommended! A superbly written book.
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![]() | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.80 The best war novel you will ever read.
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![]() | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 A very sad book about the crushed ambitions of a young girl.
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![]() | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £3.00 Life in the Siberian prison. Strangely uplifiting.
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![]() | The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.05 The story of a young boy growing up in NY and what happens to himself and those around him.
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![]() | Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing S. Ngor
Buy used from: £17.19 Unbelievable true story about Ngor's experiences in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Love sustains him in the darkness.
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![]() | Dispatches (Picador) by Michael Herr
Buy new: £2.43 / Used from: £0.01 Some of Herr's experiences in Vietnam, part of which was used in Full Metal Jacket. Fascinating stuff.
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![]() | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £3.15 / Used from: £2.24 This story about Afghanistan and kite running, has an excellent beginning. You can almost see the blue Afghan sky.
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![]() | Fire Under the Snow: True Story of a Tibetan Monk (Panther) by Palden Gyatso
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £0.95 A true story of repression and destruction by the Chinese in Tibet. A national tragedy is happening before the worlds very eyes.
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![]() | If I Die in a Combat Zone (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Tim O'Brien
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.01 This book captures the difficulty faced by many men drafted into the Vietnam war. Which was not a war of liberation, or desired by the people.....
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![]() | The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 Unbelievable true story. Slow to begin with but then gripping.
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![]() | War Reporting for Cowards by Chris Ayres
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 Ayres has a self effacing style which makes his book easy to read and enjoyable.
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![]() | Chess: A Novel (Penguin Red Classics) by Stefan Zweig
Buy new: £1.75 / Used from: £1.49 A masterpiece. A little bit like an iceberg this very short book has much more depth to it than first perceived. Strongly recommended.
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![]() | The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
Buy used from: £0.01 Best book I ever read. Ninh describes how his life has been completely altered as a result of the fighting for 10 years as a NVA soldier. A love lost story really.
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![]() | Knight's Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by Sir David Fraser
Buy used from: £5.00 Rommel was an extraordinairy man and this book dispels some of the many misconceptions and cliches used when people talk about the man and his army.
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![]() | Bobby Fischer by Frank Brady
Buy new: £5.12 / Used from: £1.99 The American chess prodigy managed some quite astounding feats.
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![]() | Life in Prison by Stanley "Tookie" Williams
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.04 A very simple book with an important message.
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![]() | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 Kundera creates another wonderful world of characters and perceptions.
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![]() | Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: £3.60 / Used from: £0.01 The truth behind junk food and the exploitation this business is allowed to engage in. Fast food is the new smoking. Disgusting and unhealthy!
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![]() | The End of Oil: The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New Energy Order by Paul Roberts
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.06 A beginners guide to understanding the insatiable appetite for oil and other energy sources of all the countries on the globe.
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![]() | The New Penguin History of the World by J.M. Roberts
Buy used from: £18.12 A big book! But really good for those with an interest in history.
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![]() | The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £8.17 Gives a view on why and how the world is as it is from an economic perspective.
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![]() | The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Remarkable Story of War by Tom Mangold
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 An interesting phenomenon of Vietnam was the use of tunnels by the Vietnamese. This book explains how they worked and what was attempted as means of counter measures.
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![]() | Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.25 Interesting not just for the struggle but how much people actually want and need positive reinforcement (i.e. praise)
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