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  • Mary Churchill's War

    The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

    af Emma Soames ...
    'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Mary's affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries [...] are an informal record that perfectly complements Churchill's own six authoritative volumes of memoirs of the second world war ... This is a happy book' ... Læs mere

    152,26 kr.

  • Nursing Churchill

    Wartime Life from the Private Letters of Winston Churchill's Nurse

    af Jill Rose ...
    A fresh perspective on Churchill and wartime life through the eyes of the nurse charged with looking after the Prime Minister. In February 1943, when the course of the Second World War hung in the balance, 68-year-old Prime Minister Winston Churchill was stricken with pneumonia. Doris Miles, from St Mary's Hospital in London, was appointed as his private nurse. During her time with Churchill, she ... Læs mere

    132,11 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Mary Churchill's War

    The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

    af Emma Soames ...
    Fortalt af Emma Soames, Beth Eyre ...

    Uforkortet

    11 timer 38 min

    A unique portrait of war -- and a charming coming-of-age story -- from the private diaries of Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary.'I am not a great or important personage, but this will be the diary of an ordinary person's life in war time. Though I may never live to read it again, perhaps it may not prove altogether uninteresting as a record of my life - or rather the life of a girl in ... Læs mere

    200,36 kr.

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    The Thursday Murder Club

    The first novel in the multi-million copy bestselling murder mystery series

    Serier serie The Thursday Murder Club

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    12 timer 25 min

    THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX MOVIE RELEASE!Featuring an exclusive conversation between Richard Osman and Marian Keyes at the end of the audiobook.In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.But when a brutal killing takes place on their very ... Læs mere

    154,98 kr.

  • Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

    **Explore the fascinating history of the real Downton Abbey as the Crawley family saga makes its way on to the big screen with Downton Abbey, the major motion picture**'An excellent depiction of English aristocratic life ... a compelling portrait' Publisher's Weekly* * * * * *The follow-up to the international bestseller Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, this book mo... ... Læs mere

    128,20 kr.

  • How the Girl Guides Won the War

    af Janie Hampton ...
    A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world – the Girl Guides – and how they helped win the war.The Girl Guides is one of the world's most extraordinary movements: millions of women have been members. But what have the Guides actually achieved, since they began 100 years ago? Do they do more than sell biscuits, sing around campfires, and tie knots? In this ... Læs mere

    113,12 kr.

  • A Life of Contrasts

    The Autobiography

    af Diana Mitford ...
    'Beautifully written.' Valerie Grove, The Times 'Martini-dry wit.' Irish Times 'Often pure Wodehouse.' Financial Times 'Uncompromising.' A.N. Wilson, Sunday Telegraph 'It has all her charm.' Laura Thompson, A Good Read, BBC Radio 4 'Brilliant.' Evening Standard 'A Life of Contrasts is a candid, page-turning memoir, written by a woman who will—without any doubt—be viewed by history as one of the ... Læs mere

    44,91 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • We Hope to Get Word Tomorrow

    The Garvin Family Letters, 1914–1916

    This fascinating collection of letters traces the exchanges between a young subaltern on the front, Gerard ‘Ged’ Garvin, and his mother and father at home. Correspondence was eagerly awaited by all. Ged savored letters home like ‘Jim Hawkins trickling the doubloons through his fingers’. Equally, his mother and father at home were always fearful that each letter they received would be the last. In ... Læs mere

    94,99 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • 1939: The Last Season

    A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls and parties and ... Læs mere

    104,15 kr.

  • The Roses of No Man's Land

    af Lyn Macdonald ...
    THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War ...'Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents and draughty huts they fought another ... Læs mere

    86,02 kr.

  • The Quick and the Dead

    Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in the Great War

    At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. A further half a million children had lost one or more siblings. Appallingly, one in eight wives died within a year of receiving news of their husband's death. Few people remained unscathed and the effects of the conflict are still with us. The Quick and the Dead ... Læs mere

    85,55 kr.

  • Love and War in London: A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942

    A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942

    Serier serie Life Writing
    Olivia Cockett was twenty-six years old in the summer of 1939 when she responded to an invitation from Mass Observation to “ordinary” individuals to keep a diary of their everyday lives, attitudes, feelings, and social relations. This book is an annotated, unabridged edition of her candid and evocative diary.Love and War in London: A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942 is rooted in the extraordinary milieu of ... Læs mere

    129,86 kr.