Shot down over Europe in 1918, decorated American pilot Charlie Halifax believes his luck has finally abandoned him.  Disfigured  and demoralized, he deserts from France's famed Lafayette Escadrille, only to be captured, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years in the Foreigh Legion.  He serves in Africa, where, along with a motley group of convicts and outcasts, Halifax is forced to fly illegal arms shipments to the very tribesmen they have been sent to fight.  But a dream keeps Halifax alive even as his companions fall to harm or misery-the relentless determination to become the first pilot to fly nonstop from Paris to New York.

In the Blue Light of African Dreams

Literature & Fiction

Paul Watkins

Genre Fiction

Vintage

My Life with Charles Manson

BANTAM BOOKS

MODERN MILK PRODUCTION: ITS PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS AND FARMERS

Faber and Faber

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Stand Before Your God

Biographies & Memoirs

Faber Paperbacks

Present-day Russia is the setting for this stunning new novel from Robert Harris, author of the bestsellers Fatherland and Enigma.        Archangel tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives.        One night, Kelso is visited in his hotel room by an old NKVD officer, a former bodyguard of the secret police chief, Lavrenty Beria. The old man claims to have been at Stalin's dacha on the night Stalin had his fatal stroke, and to have helped Beria steal the dictator's private papers, among them a notebook.        Kelso decides to use his last morning in Moscow to check out the old man's story. But what starts as an idle inquiry in the Lenin Library soon turns into a murderous chase across nighttime Moscow and up to northern Russia--to the vast forests near the White Sea port of Archangel, where the final secret of Josef Stalin has been hidden for almost half a century.        Archangel combines the imaginative sweep and dark suspense of Fatherland with the meticulous historical detail of Enigma. The result is Robert Harris's most compelling novel yet.

Archangel

Contemporary

Flying with the Lafayette Squadron in 1918, Charlie Halifax, a holder of the Croix de Guerre, is shot down and badly wounded. He deserts but is recaptured and exiled into the Foreign Legion. Having escaped to Paris, he attempts to become the first man to fly non-stop across the Atlantic.

Faber and Faber Limited

Night Over Day Over Night

Faber Faber Inc

The Story of My Disappearance

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<p>When celebrating his 106th birthday, Dr Bill Frankland was asked why he had lived to such an age. His reply was quite straightforward, 'Because I have been so near to death so many times. This is the biography of a truly remarkable man. Growing up in the Lake District, he qualified as a doctor in 1938. A year later he joined the Army, and served his country throughout World War 2. It was only the toss of a coin which saved him from certain death in Singapore in February 1942. Imprisoned on Hell Island he suffered terribly under his Japanese captors. After the war he decided not to talk about his experiences. Instead, focussing on his career in medicine, he worked for Sir Alexander Fleming, developed the pollen count and helped thousands of patients suffering from hay fever. An internationally acclaimed expert, he has treated presidents and paupers around the world. Using his own words, this book tells the story of an outstanding doctor, one who has lived through two world wars, served his King and Country and made major contributions to medicine.</p>

From Hell Island To Hay Fever - The Life of Dr Bill Frankland

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Brown Dog Books

Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn. Paul Watkins

Literary

Daunt

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