Results for 'robert graves'

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  1. Goodbye to All That
    1. Robert Graves

    Goodbye to All That

    In 1929 the author went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This book is an account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life.

    € 14,95
  2. Mrs Mahoney's Secret War
    1. Claudia Strachan

    Mrs Mahoney's Secret War

    The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Young Woman's Resistance Against the Nazis

    Gretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her cellar and passed to the resistance secrets learned from her work on the Enigma encryption machine. Finally arrested in 1945, she was liberated as the British Army advanced towards Hamburg. After the war, Gretel fell in love with a British officer.

    € 13,95
  3. Alone
    1. Pip Granger

    Alone

    The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.No strangers to the demon booze, her parents were deeply involved in a passionate relationship that rose to exciting highs and plunged to terrible and often frightening lows.

    € 21,95
  4. Goodbye to All That
    1. Robert Graves

    Goodbye to All That

    Tells the story of the author's experiences as a young officer in the First World War. This title describes life in the trenches and how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked.

    € 21,95
  5. Goodbye to All That
    1. Robert Graves

    Goodbye to All That

    Introduction by Miranda Seymour
    € 32,95