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A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul; Patrick Marnham (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
Army of the Night: Jean Moulin and the French Resistance by Patrick Marnham
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Category: History | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured to death by Klaus Barbie, the infamous ''Butcher of Lyon'', is revered alongside Voltaire and Victor Hugo. But Moulin s s ...Show more
Darling Pol: Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967 by Patrick Marnham
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Category: Biography & Memoir
`They met by chance in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel on the evening of 26 October 1944. By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzance two days later they had fallen in love and Eric had declared that he was determined to marry her...' Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biog ...Show more
Darling Pol - Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967 by Mary Wesley; Patrick Marnham (Editor)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'They met by chance in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel on the evening of 26 October 1944. By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzance two days later they had fallen in love and Eric had declared that he was determined to marry her...' Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham be ...Show more
War in the Shadows - Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham
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Category: History
In 1962 the young Patrick Marnham set off by car for a small village in central France. There he was taught French by an imperious countess, who he later discovered had fought in the Resistance until, betrayed, she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. On the very same day that his hostess's netwo ...Show more
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham
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Category: History
'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a person who claimed to have worked for British Intelligence during the war. The ex-spy praised his book ...Show more
Wild Mary : A Life of Mary Wesley by Patrick Marnham
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The authorised, and astonishing, biography of Mary Wesley. Mary Wesley famously began writing at the age of 70. Her ten best-selling novels won her thousands of fans, and described a world that she had known in her youth - the world of war-time London, with its fear and high-spirits and casual sex. The ...Show more
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