A War Nurse's Diary |
 A World War 1 Nurse
ISBN: 1846853664
The true account of a brave British woman's experiences while volunteering as a nurse with the Red Cross during World War One. Her diary describes in graphic detail the horrors of working on the front in a war-torn Belgium. Right in the firing line in...(read more) |
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Anthony Van Dyck |
 Robin Blake
ISBN: 156663282X
This superb new biography provides the fullest narrative of Van Dyck's life and personality to appear in English. Commonly pigeonholed as a follower of Rubens or as the court painter of the Stuarts, Van Dyck here appears not only as a remarkably...(read more) |
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Born Jewish |
 Marcel Liebman
ISBN: 1844670392
A Childhood in Occupied Europe. The author describes his childhood in Nazi-occupied Belgium during World War II....(read more) |
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Claude Levi-Strauss: The Formative Years |
 Christopher Johnson
ISBN: 0521016673
Levi-Strauss is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. His theory of structuralism has been influential not only in anthropology, but across the entire field of the humanities and social sciences. This book looks at the...(read more) |
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Eddy Merckx |
 Rik Van Walleghem
ISBN: 1884737722
The Greatest Cyclist of the 20th Century. |
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Edmund Blunden |
 Helen McPhail, Philip Guest
ISBN: 0850526787
On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (Battleground Europe). This guide follows the war career of Edmund Blunden, the prolific First World War poet. Details of maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads to guide the visitor through the...(read more) |
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Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn |
 Donald Spoto
ISBN: 0091796555
More than a decade after her death in 1993, Audrey Hepburn remains an incomparable icon of movie style, of high fashion and mid-twentieth-century elegance. Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But...(read more) |
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I Choose to Live |
 Sabine Dardenne
ISBN: 1844082687
'I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it - about my 'personal' Dutroux Affair, my time in the company of the most hated psychopath in Belgium. I need to write this book for three reasons: so...(read more) |
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Iron Circle |
 D. Vandenberg, Rick Rever
ISBN: 1566252261
The True Life Story of Dominiquie Vandenberg. What does it mean to be a warrior? What does it take to be the best? What must a man do to endure life's injustice, confront his own demons and prevail? Dominiquie Vandenberg could have been one of the...(read more) |
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Jacques Brel: The Biography |
Alan Clayson
ISBN: 1860741364
Jacques Brel remains a figurehead in modern songwriting, despite his reluctance to sing in English. This biography explains the popularity of this pop-classical cross-over at a time when such hybrids were fashionable, and reflects the charm of Brel. |
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Leper Priest of Moloka'I |
 Richard Stewart
ISBN: 0824822323
The Father Damien Story. The story of the life of Father Damien from his boyhood in rural Belgium to his death at the leper settlement after 16 years as a missionary in Hawaii. To his spiritual ministry he added the practice of medicine and the skill of...(read more) |
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Rene Magritte |
 Mike Venezia
ISBN: 0516278142
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists. |
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Rubens |
 Paul Oppenheimer
ISBN: 0815412096
Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, according to his biographer Oppenheimer, did more that create remarkable baroque paintings and pictures of 'Rubenesque' nudes; he originated a powerful new idea of beauty that originates to this day. |
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Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller |
 Walter Buchignani, Regine Miller
ISBN: 0887763030
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Thirty-odd Feet Below Belgium |
 Arthur Stockwin
ISBN: 1898594805
An Affair of Letters in the Great War 1915-1916. When Geoffrey Boothby was seconded to the Royal Engineers in 1915, he was twenty-one and Edith Ainscow was eighteen. They had spent only four days together before Geoffrey was sent to the Front and the...(read more) |
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True World War 1 Stories |
 John Lewis
ISBN: 1841190950
This is a collection of nearly 60 personal accounts of the war to end all wars, including the first gas attack, life in the trenches, Gallipoli, the war at sea, aerial dogfights and life as a prisoner of war. It is a record by those who were there at...(read more) |
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When the World Closed Its Doors |
 Ida Piller-Greenspan, Susan M. Branting
ISBN: 159451254X
Struggling to Escape Nazi-Occupied Europe. |
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