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Themis grows up during the brutal German occupation of Greece. In the subsequent Civil War, the country is polarised between Right and Left and Themis' family is bitterly divided. During the violent five-year struggle for control of the country, she fights for Communists and is seduced by the leader of her rebel band. Captured and sent to the notoriously cruel islands of exile, Makronisos and Trikeri, Themis gives birth to a son, Angelos.
3) Vicksburg
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Publisher
Verulam [distributor]
Pub. Date
2001
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This is the fifth book in this series featuring the Brannon family. The focus turns to the west and the southern stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, where Cory Brannon is working to keep the town supplied by wagon train and railroad from Texas.
4) Copperhead
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Harper
Pub. Date
2013
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Nathaniel Starbuck is a Copperhead - a northerner fighting for the rebel South in America's Civil War. Aided by his spymaster Allan Pinkerton, General McClellan is convinced he can lead the northerners to the gates of the rebel capital of Richmond.
7) Rebel
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
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In the summer of 1861 the armies of North and South stood on the brink of America's civil war. 'Rebel' tells how a northern boy, Nathaniel Starbuck, came to be fighting for the Southern cause.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
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A gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history, from Charles Townshend. The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country.
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2020.
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That September 2, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser Bruguera, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. When opportunity to seek refuge in Chile arises,...
10) Traitor
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Pub. Date
2024
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A year after his older brother made the ultimate sacrifice, Sergeant Major Luke Carter, decorated hero of 22 SAS, is sent to Perth on a recruiting job. His orders: select two candidates from the SASR for a highly sensitive mission on foreign soil. But when a sudden crisis threatens to derail the plan, Carter and his new colleagues find themselves forced into action on a high-stakes operation. One that has the potential to change the course of the...
11) Cavendon Hall
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Series
Cavendon Hall volume 1
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Lady Daphne Ingham is the most beautiful of the Earl's daughters. Being presented at Court and then a glittering marriage is her destiny. But in the summer of 1913, a devastating event changes her future forever, and puts the House of Ingham at risk. Life as the families of Cavendon Hall know it - Royal Ascot, supper dances, grouse season feasts - is about to alter beyond recognition as the storm clouds of war gather. Sweeping from the glamorous Edwardian...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Most accounts of Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence. Christopher Phillips argues instead that the international dimension was never secondary but that Syria's war was, from the very start, profoundly influenced by regional factors, particularly the vacuum created by a perceived decline of U.S. power in the Middle East. This precipitated...
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Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2014
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Independent-minded journalist Seffy Blake falls instantly in love with the mysterious Amyas Troy when they meet on an idyllic beach in Cornwall in 1937. But Amyas runs off to fight in Spain before he can fulfill his promise to marry her. Heartbroken, Seffy returns to work at a national newspaper, working as assistant to Charlie Bradford, a renowned foreign correspondent. As her work takes her to Berlin and war-torn Spain, her path crosses with Amyas...
Author
Publisher
Haus
Pub. Date
2014
Description
How did Syria's revolution lose its way? 'My House in Damascus' illuminates the darker recesses not just of Syria's history and politics, but also of its society and secrets. Diana Dark's firsthand experience of Syria's many diverse communities explains why Syria was always a special case and why the Assad regime was never likely to collapse.
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This is a history of the English Civil War using first-hand contemporaneous accounts to bring the period and its characters to life. As well as the most famous documents, diaries and court cases of the period, the author has uncovered less known sources which offer a fresh perspective on the subject.
17) The stolen baby
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Pub. Date
2021
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The story of one baby boy, forgotten by his family after an air raid in WW2 Plymouth, who then disappears. Based on a true story.
19) Jackdaws
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Pan Books
Pub. Date
2019
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Felicity Clairet, more commonly known as Flick, is English, and the beautiful wife of Michel, the leader of the Reims-based Resistance circuit, codenamed Bollinger. By day, Flick is a first-aider, by night, she plays a vital role in the Resistance.
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Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist escaping his life in England. Arriving in Freetown in the wake of civil war, he struggles with the heat and with the secrets the country hides. 'The Memory of Love' is a tale of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, addressing the indelible effects of the past on our lives.