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  • Beau Geste

    In the first place, there was the old standing trouble about the Shuwa Patrol; in the second, the truculent Chiboks were waxing insolent again, and their young men were regarding not the words of their elders concerning Sir Garnet Wolseley, and what happened, long, long ago, after the battle of Chibok Hill. Thirdly, the price of grain had risen to six shillings a saa, and famine threatened; ... Read more

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  • Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom

    Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution

    The myth and the reality of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont—a “surprising and interesting new account…useful, informative reexamination of an often-misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution” (Booklist).In the “highly recommended” (Library Journal) Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American ... Read more

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  • Beau Geste

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • The War Diaries of Louis E. Wren

    One Man's Journey in the British Merchant Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF) in WWII

    After my father passed away, we discovered two handwritten journals that he had painstakingly maintained during the six years he spent in WWll. When the war broke out he was an engineer aboard an oil tanker in the British Merchant Navy. The first diary describes harrowing convoy trips across the Atlantic Ocean in severe weather while zigzagging to avoid U-boat attacks. Losses of ships and merchant ... Read more

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  • Beau Geste

    'Beau Geste' is a rollicking adventure story of the French Foreign Legion. Set in the period before World War I it has captured the imagination of generation after generation. ... Read more

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  • Concise Guide to Pediatric Arrhythmias

    Concise Guide to Pediatric ArrhythmiasWritten by one of the foremost pediatric cardiologists in the UK, this essential new book is a clear, practical, highly visual guide to the recognition of arrhythmias and their management. This innovative new reference:Covers the full range of arrhythmias encountered in pediatric patientsPresents each arrhythmia – from identification to management options – as ... Read more

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  • Beau Geste

    Enriched edition. Courage, Loyalty, and Sacrifice in the Sahara: A Classic Adventure Tale

    In "Beau Geste," Percival Christopher Wren crafts a compelling adventure novel that takes readers on a journey into the heart of the French Foreign Legion. Infused with themes of honor, bravery, and sacrifice, the narrative revolves around the valorous acts of the titular character and his brothers, who are bound by loyalty and an indomitable spirit. Wren's vivid prose and meticulous attention to ... Read more

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  • Walking to Vermont

    From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure

    A distinguished former foreign correspondent embraces retirement by setting out alone on foot for nearly four hundred miles, and explores a side of America nearly as exotic as the locales from which he once filed.Traveling with an unwieldy pack and a keen curiosity, Christopher Wren bids farewell to the New York Times newsroom in midtown Manhattan and saunters up Broadway, through Harlem, the ... Read more

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  • Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

    The narrative likely weaves together the stories of individuals from diverse backgrounds and walks of life who cross paths under unusual circumstances. It may explore themes of fate, chance encounters, human connections, and the impact of these chance meetings on the characters' lives.Wren's writing style often featured adventurous and dramatic plots, and "Driftwood Spars" might reflect his knack ... Read more

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  • Driftwood Spars: The Stories of A Man, A Boy, A Woman and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

    Truth is stranger than fiction, and many of the coincidences of real life are truly stranger than the most daring imaginings of the fictionist. Now, I, Major Michael Malet-Marsac, happened at the moment to be thinking of my dear and deeply lamented friend John Ross-Ellison, and to be pondering, for the thousandth time, his extraordinary life and more extraordinary death. Nor had I the very ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom

    Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    In Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Christopher S. Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. They were ruffians who joined the rush for cheap land on the northern frontier of the colonies in the years before the American Revolution. Allen did not serve in ... Read more

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  • Cupid in Africa

    There never lived a more honourable, upright, scrupulous gentleman than Major Hugh Walsingham Greene, and there seldom lived a duller, narrower, more pompous or more irascible one. Nor, when the Great War broke out, and gave him something fresh to do and to think about, were there many sadder and unhappier men. His had been a luckless and unfortunate life, what with his two wives and his one son; ... Read more

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