London: Vintage, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships Lomax suffered for years until, with the help..... More
New York: Other Press, 2006. Jeremy Diamond (cover design). First English Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk–it is part of being a moral adult." –Susan Sontag In the late 1990s..... More
New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2017. Rainer J. Hanshe (tr.), Stuart Kendall (intro.). First Edition. Paperback. Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel's Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra Mundum Press is proud..... More
London: 4th Estate, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. ‘The Things They Carried’ is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it..... More
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