Books from Memoirs Publishing
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A Long Way To Tipperary?: Bombs, Bullets and Bravery in the Trenches of WWI
By Maurice Graffet NealTry and imagine a city resembling Arras – say Salisbury - with every man, woman and child gone, without cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, dogs, etc. Just a few cats who have stayed and live wild. The beautiful, tapering cathedral spire and ...
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Going for a Spin: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF AN AEROSPACE DOCTOR
By Gordon SharpThere was Moran Hughesas my deputy, who withBill Smith,Ernie Jamieson and Ron Pearson, formed themainstay of the aeromedical team.Gerry Murphy, a Royal Australian AirForce exchange officer, joined us, and he waslater replaced bya fellow ...
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The 500 Year War: In the land where his ancestors fought before him, an English officer faces an agonising conflict...
By Edward ToveyThe other wasThe Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James,which he knew nothing about. ... He wasn't yet sure whether he was stayingat their houseor atthe officers' mess,butin any case he would almost certainly be enjoying someof their ...
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You're in The Navy Now: A Teenage Recruit Sees Front Line Action in WW2
By Alan HigginsThe captain was Harry Collinge, Lieutenant RNVR and a Sub-Lieutenant, RNVR. We did a few courses with the US Navy such as 'How to dress in the dark' and 'How to swim at sea through fire and flames'. Best of all was practising firing the ...
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The Price of Trust: How Companies and People are Destroyed by White Collar Crime
By Dr Brian WarringtonLEARNING FROM FRAUDSTERS Martin Gill, in his paper Learning from Fraudsters, reports on his interviews with jailed offenders. He interviewed perpetrators who had stolen between £65,000 and an estimated £25 million.
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Hooray!: We Have Found Our Hero!
By Barbara FlemingHere is a book to open your eyes and lift your spirits as you meet with this 'hero of heroes', General Charles Gordon.
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I Couldn’t Even Boil An Egg: A Western Woman's Story of 30 Years in the Middle East
By Elisabeth LindesayWe visited the amphitheatre in Carthage where General Montgomery had harangued his troops. The whole area was steeped in history, from Punic civilisations to the modern day. There is little of Carthage standing now, ...
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Another Yin Oan a Wan Way Tickut: A personal diary documenting the rise from Belisha Boy signalman to the giddy...
By Brian BrownShe was a particularly harsh critic of ladies' hats. He loved it! After Cable came Organisation and Methods, O&M for short, over which presided the W.W.1 Earl Haig lookalike, complete with cavalry moustache and riding boots.
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How They Broke Baxter: The Manager's Move In
By John S G Blair9 781861 510822 ISBN 978-1-86151-082-2 THE MANAGERSMOVE IN brokebaxter THE MANAGERS MOVE IN John S.G. Blair How They broke baxter A consultant surgeon tells his story of his appointment, his successful years in his hospital, ...
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Merely Players
By Mrs Margaret FordRomance followed, and the story continues with their subsequent move to the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, following David's promotion to the post of Medical Superintendent in Clatterbridge hospital which had recently been converted from a ...
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Swimming Against the Tide: The Diary of an Essex Copper - 1953-1983
By George P Ravenand important people such as Lord Hunt (Henry Cecil John Hunt, first Baron of Llanvair Waterdine) which I didn't find so useful. Lord Hunt was at that time Chairman of the Parole Board. It was he and his colleagues who decided which ...
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A Small House In France
By Brenda BarringtonA magical holiday to rural France with their children some years before had sowed the seeds of a daring plan for Brenda and Ray Barrington – to spend the early years of their retirement buying and restoring a cottage in the French ...
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Cheating Death Twice: Confessions of a Soldier
By Michael PageWhat exactly is the Human Mind?
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Tea And Me: An Englishman Abroad in India
By Rod BrownThisenabled the workers togrow at least some of their own food and the amount ofland allocated to them depended on the ... son Donald who was nicknamed Big Mac, and Ronald Ross Mackenzie, who was not related but whowas known as Wee Mac.
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Love in the Midst of Grief
By Satenham JohalGurjit please come back to us,don't leave!' Such overwhelming pleadingwasso afflicting, forthere was no liberation that could be brought,no matter how much itwas longed for. Love's protectiveness could notundo whathad happened, ...
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The Cloth Elephant: When War Shatters a Young Soldiers Life, Can Love and Loyalty Survive?
By David FawkesIt is 1927, and young German diplomat Peter von Saloman and his family are posted to Canton in China, only to find themselves caught up in vicious political turmoil which soon leads to a violent encounter with rebel communists.
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Thank You Mister Bosh, That’s Close Enough: Extracts From Letters Home from The Somme 1915-16
By Herbert R HoskinsWe have had an officer and 25 men come up from the Reserves. I do not believe Cyril has come as I have not heard so. ... It needs someone to take them over all the same as a Sergeant cannot get things done like an officer can.
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The Chessman Enigma
By M S KollObviously, the lunatic detective had tamperedwith it. It was finehalf an hour or less ago. He would reportthis wilful damageofpolice property to the Chief Constablehimself. “Doyou see the oil puddle, Sandy?
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Twice A Hero: From the Trenches of the Great War to the Ditches of the Irish Midlands 1915-1922
By Phil Tomkins(The Book of Wisdom) 'We need heroes. We have always needed heroes. It is part of the human condition to yearn towards selfless nobility, to idolise the men and women who can make of us, more than the stick figures surrounding the ...
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Whisper of Truth
By Mary VaudoyerMary Vaudoyer was scarcely out of childhood when she observed to her mother that the only things that really mattered in life were clothes and philosophy. That statement proved to define the course of Mary's extraordinary life.