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Absolute friends

Le Carré, John, 1931-20202004
Books, Manuscripts
Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in the shining-new Republic of Pakistan, is friends with Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass world of Cold War espionage a...
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The African Queen

Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-19662006
Books, Manuscripts
As the impact of the First World War reaches the depths of the African jungle, Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer, a disreputable cockney mechanic and a spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by chance. Fighting heat, malaria and bullets, they make their escape down the Ulanga river on a...
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After

Gleitzman, Morris2012
Books, Manuscripts
Following a heartbreaking struggle to survive as a Jewish child in Germany, Felix faces perhaps his greatest challenge; to find hope when he's lost almost everything. As Europe goes through the final agonizing stages of the war, Felix struggles to reconcile hatred and healing.
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Alone in the trenches

Cross, Vince2014
Books, Manuscripts
'Alone on the Trenches' tells the incredible true story of a young girl lost in the trenches and how the soldiers she met there helped her find her family. Brilliantly reimagined by 'My Story' author, Vince Cross, readers aged 7+ will love this vivid first-hand account of a child's experience of ...
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The amazing tale of Ali Pasha

Foreman, Michael, 1938-2015
Books, Manuscripts
On 6th May 1915, Henry Friston, a 21-year-old seaman, rejoined his battleship after ten days in Hell, otherwise known only as 'X Beach', Gallipoli. Henry, ferrying the wounded from the battlefield, had not slept or eaten for three days. Somehow, in the midst of the bombardments he met an unlikely...
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