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Escape from Camp 14
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 8.95Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete control district,' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. Inmates work 12 to 15-hour days in the camp ? mining coal, building dams,... more...
Embers of War
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 40.00WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR ? A GLOBE AND MAIL ?BEST READS? SELECTION ? LONGLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades,... more...
The Wall
Birlinn 2012; US$ 9.29In The Wall, Alistair Moffat's fascination shines through as he captures the enormous endeavour of the builders along with the captivating human stories the stones still tell after nearly two millennia.' The Scotsman Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches... more...
A History of the Modern Middle East
Westview Press 2012; US$ 52.00This definitive history of the modern Middle East includes significant new material covering major transformative developments over the past four years. more...
The Future
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 30.00NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything?a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he... more...
The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 26.00This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands. more...
Bunker Hill
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 12.99Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower , brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution. Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish... more...
Traitors of the Tower
Random House 2010; US$ 2.60More than four hundred years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? Alison Weir's gripping book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the... more...
Orpheus
Random House 2011; US$ 20.01For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search... more...
The Long Walk
Constable & Robinson 2010; US$ 11.65Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19th November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags. After a three month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with six companions, realising that to stay in the camp meant almost certain death. In June 1941... more...









