The Riddle Of The Sands
Category: Author:Erskine Childers
The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction.
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Category: Author:Erskine Childers
The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction.
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Category: Author:G.K. Chesterton
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies' victory ...
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Category: Author:novel
Peter Mostyn had been \"on the beach\" for nearly six months. In other words, he was out of a berth. Not that it was any fault of his that a promising and energetic young wireless officer should be without a ship for such a protracted period. An unprecedented slump in British shipping—when hundreds of vessels flying the Red Ensign were...
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Category: Author:novel
I prayed for peace; God, answering my prayer, Sent down a grievous plague on humankind, A black and tumorous plague that softly slew Till nations and their armies were no more— And there was perfect peace ... But I awoke, wroth with high God and prayer. I prayed for peace; God, answering my prayer, Decreed the Truce of Life:—Wings in ...
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Category: Author:D. H. Lawrence劳伦斯
The tale relates the story of two sisters, daughters of an Anglican vicar, who return from overseas to a drab, lifeless vicarage in the post-First World War East Midlands. Their mother has run off, a scandal that is not talked about by the family. Their new home is dominated by a blind and selfish grandmother along with her mean-spirit...
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Category: Author:D. H. Lawrence劳伦斯
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, Lawrence's firstcollection of short stories, was published in England in 1914 andin the USA in 1916. It contains some of the greatest stories heever wrote: 'Odour of Chrysanthemums', 'Daughters of the Vicar','The Prussian Officer', and 'The White Stocking', with settingsranging from the mining co...
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Category: Author:novel
No More Parades is the second novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regarded tetralogy about the First World War, Parade's End. It was published in 1925, and was extraordinarily well-reviewed.
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Category: Author:John Buchan
It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, to which there are many other referenc...
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Category: Author:novel
During the second world war, a British plane shot down by German when flying over the Sahara desert, on the plane of pilots body severe burns, local people will be sent to the Allies after he saved the field hospital.Due to injury, the pilots lost memory, can not think of who you are, so just be called "the English patient".
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Category: Author:Anthony Trollope
Jim Lovelock is an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. This is his definitive authorised biography. Lovelock is best known as the 'father' of Gaia theory, which is now established as the most useful way of understanding the dramatic changes happening to the environment of the Earth. But few peo...
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