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Nicholas Shakespeare
Birth date: March 03, 1957
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markk
markk rated it 6 years ago
The selection of Winston Churchill as Neville Chamberlain's successor in May 1940 is regarded today as one of the most pivotal moments of the 20th century. With his elevation to the premiership Britain was committed to a course of action in the Second World War that ended with victory over Nazi Germ...
Sheila's Reads
Sheila's Reads rated it 9 years ago
Interesting read as the author tries to recreate his aunt's life beginning before WWII through the end of her life. While there were people to talk with and diaries left that explain the time before the war and the time after the war, there were few sources available to reconstruct accurately her li...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: published-2013, radio-4, winter-20132014, nonfiction, biography, wwii, women, under-20, france, fradio, next Read from January 12 to 17, 2014 BOTW R4BBC description: Nicholas Shakespeare writes about his aunt, a glamorous English woman whose life in Paris during the German Occupatio...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 15 years ago
Somerset Maugham dramatisations, narrated by Dirk BogardeHave to agree with Inder's summing up - 'You can't read just one - these stories are like delicious, but strangely mysterious, potato chips. Just the thing when you need a smart escape.'
tien
tien rated it 16 years ago
A riveting story told by Colonel Augustin Rejas to a foreign correspondent, John Dyer, of his investigation and capture of a Peruvian guerrilla leader.Dyer was pursuing a different man for an interview when by chance, he met Colonel Rejas. Just like Dyer, I was completely sucked in by the story Rej...
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