Although strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944-45. He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a bed to sleep in nor a hot meal to go home to. This is warfare in the raw ' brutal, yet humorous, immensely tragic, but sadly, all true.
The Devil's Own Luck
This book argues that the sin of the devil compels a view of moral responsibility that undermines concerns about luck.
During the Napoleonic Wars, Harry and James Ludlow are aboard the Magnanime, a gunship under the command of Oliver Carter.
William Carey has played many roles in his thirty-two years of life.
Pirates don't ask for permission. The widow Hannah Collingwood isn't supposed to be on this ship. The Devil's Luck? Impossible. That would make these men ... Pirates. And Captain Edmund Blackburn doesn't take passengers.
This extraordinary story is the basis for Bryan Singer's major new film Valkyrie, due to be released in February 2009.
1793: the onset of Britain's conflict with Revolutionary France.
Of the lot, this man was still her best bet.
Set in Southern England, 1815Thomas Danfield's sexual escapades have kept the ton entertained for years and he has no plans to alter his self-indulgence lifestyle by taking a wife.
In the latest graphic novel from the creator of Harrow Couty, a down-on-his-luck schlub is possessed by a malevolent demon.