2001, ISBN: 9789781847394

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Pocket Books, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. New. 5th or later Printing. 332 pages. This book is BRAND NEW. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly f… Plus…

Pocket Books, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. New. 5th or later Printing. 332 pages. This book is BRAND NEW. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose uses Band of Brothers to tell the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from gruelling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day, where a dozen of them turned German cannons into dynamited ruins resembling "half-peeled bananas", on to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of part of the Dachau concentration camp, and a large party at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest", where they drank the his (surprisingly inferior) champagne. Of Ambrose's main sources, three soldiers became rich civilians; at least eight became teachers; one became Albert Speer's jailer; one prosecuted Robert Kennedy's assassin; another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic CO who first trained Easy Company (and to whose strictness many soldiers attributed their survival of the war) wound up a suicidal loner whose own sons skipped his funeral. The Easy Company survivors describe the hell and confusion of any war: the senseless death of the nicest kid in the company when a souvenir Luger goes off in his pocket; the execution of a GI by his CO for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war ... the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle". --Tim Appelo Quantity Available: 1. Category: World War II, United States; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781847397591. Inventory No: 0001676. ., Pocket Books, 2001<

2010, ISBN: 9789781847394

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Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 2010. 1st Edition. Trade paperback. New. 2nd Printing. 362 pages. This book is BRAND NEW. Items are in stock and shipped same day… Plus…

Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 2010. 1st Edition. Trade paperback. New. 2nd Printing. 362 pages. This book is BRAND NEW. Items are in stock and shipped same day or next business day from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school's scapegoat. Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents' house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. She's just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. "Something horrible has happened," Val tells Addie, "and you're the only one who can help." Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. It's about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Contemporary; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781847390233. Inventory No: 0001695. ., Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2010<

2007, ISBN: 9789781847394

Pocket Books, paperback, 2007, 327 pages. A very unusual biography - of an abused child who finds refuse and even life in a local funeral business and who eventually gets to drive the he… Plus…

Pocket Books, paperback, 2007, 327 pages. A very unusual biography - of an abused child who finds refuse and even life in a local funeral business and who eventually gets to drive the hearses. The highs and lows of life, the happiness and the gloom, encapsulated in this story of one young woman's life. Very good clean copy. ISBN 9781847390745.<

2007, ISBN: 9789781847394

Pocket Books, London, 2007. Paperback. Very Good . Size: 7" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: True Crime; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781847390356. Inventory No: 006100. ., Pocket … Plus…

Pocket Books, London, 2007. Paperback. Very Good . Size: 7" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: True Crime; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781847390356. Inventory No: 006100. ., Pocket Books, 2007<

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