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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shen, Fan, PUBLISHER: Bison Books, In twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China's Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his compatriots had tortured and murdered a doctor whose house he'd helped raid and whose beautiful daughter he secretly adored. A story of coming of age in the midst of monumental historical upheaval, Shen's "Gang of One" is more than a memoir of one young man's harrowing experience during a time of terror. It is also, in spite of circumstances of remarkable grimness and injustice, an unlikely picaresque tale of adventure full of courage, cunning, wit, tenacity, resourcefulness, and sheer luck--the story of how Shen managed to scheme his way through a hugely oppressive system and emerge triumphant. "Gang of One" recounts how Shen escaped, again and again, from his appointed fate, as when he somehow found himself a doctor at sixteen and even, miraculously, saved a few lives. In such volatile times, however, good luck could quickly turn to misfortune: a transfer to the East Wind Aircraft Factory got him out of the countryside and into another terrible trap, where many people were driven to suicide; his secret self-education took him from the factory to college, where friendship with an American teacher earned him the wrath of the secret police. Following a path strewn with perils and pitfalls, twists and surprises worthy of Dickens, Shen's story is ultimately an exuberant human comedy unlike any other.

Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Koschorrek, Gunther K. / Koschorrek, Gunter K., PUBLISHER: Zenith Press, For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunther Koschorrek, a fresh young recruit, wrote his notes on whatever scraps of paper he could find and sewed the pages into the lining of his winter coat. Left with his mother on his rare trips home, this illicit diary eventually was lost--and did not come to light until some 40 years later when Koschorrek was reunited with his daughter in America. It is this remarkable document, a unique day-to-day account of the common German soldier's experience, that makes up the memoir that is Blood Red Snow.

Fist of Destiny - Memoirs of a Martial Artist

The authors journey from beginner to world champion and the real world of martial arts. Electronic download direct from http://payhip.com/b/6DrV

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Frankie Fraser - Mad Frank - Memoirs of a Life of Crime

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Memories of Aylsham: The Memoirs of William Frederick Starling - paperback

Memories of Aylsham: The Memoirs of William Frederick Starling Illustrated paperback with 104 pages, illustrated with black & white photographs Published by Aylsham Local History Society in ISBN: Description: This account of life in the small market town of Aylsham Begins in and closes in . The author, William Frederick Starling lived the whole of his life in the town And these reminiscences, written shortly before his death, recall events and people in the town from his early boyhood and throughout his life. The manuscript has been edited by Ron Peabody with added notes which help to identify many of the locations referred to by William Frederick. Condition: Book looks almost new, no creases or tears, no highlighting or underlining Ad ID: Delivery Services Consumer Credit

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Memoirs of a Counterspy: Through the Eyes of a Street-Level

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bradshaw, Donald, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, Memoirs, a historical novel, covers the first 15 years of Don Bradshaw's career as a raw, Army Counterintelligence Agent. During the course of his routine business, Don discovers his KGB nemesis, Ivan, and then follows his activities until their lives merge in Bangkok Thailand. The journey through this portion of Special Agent Bradshaw's life and his encounters with numerous questionable but talented characters, provides the backdrop for his Quixotic charges at the windmill, Ivan, and lays out the sequence of events, providing the groundwork for his personal and professional pitfalls and successes. The anecdotes described herein will tell the story of Don's attempts to rise above hierarchal constraints and the untimely, temporary reassignments away from "the action." In the end, the story requires the surprising cooperation of three separate US Government agencies to bring this episode to an end, and forms the basis for many more stories to come.

A King's Story: The memoirs of the Duke of Windsor

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Memoirs of Talleyrand

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Vallee, Leon, PUBLISHER: University Press of the Pacific, In the first rank of French statesmen and diplomats of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century stands Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, who for more than half a century, under the most opposite political regimes, was involved in all the important affairs of his country, and played a great part in all the contemporaneous history of Europe. The memoirs were collected from the French National Archives by Leon Vallee, Librarian of the Bibliotheque Nationale.

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Memoirs of Margaret Cook

A Slight and Delicate Creature - The Memoirs of Margaret Cook. Published in and explosive at the time. Hard back. Cost £. Read once but definitely worth reading! Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit

Memoirs of a Geisha

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Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne

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Memoirs of Mrs. L Titia Boothby...

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: William Clark Russell, PUBLISHER: BiblioLife LLC, NA

'Memoirs of a Fruitcake' Chris Evans

Sunday Times celebrity book of the year. Continuing the story of the hugely successful television and radio broadcaster, this sequel documents the remaining journey of self-discovery undertaken by Chris Evans. Picking up after the host’s purchase of the immensely popular Virgin Radio, the account depicts how Evans had become a media mogul in his own right, until his life took a darker turn. Hardback. Good condition. Read More

Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man

Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man: George Sherston - the 'I' of the book - is a shy, sensitive, and rather lonely boy living on the Kent/Sussex border in the early years of the 20th century. His great loves are sports, horses and hunting, and the story is told through his gentle and comic adventures at point-to-point races or village cricket matches in a privileged pre-War England. The picture he paints of the Garden of England in the age of pony carts, bicycles and very slow trains is enchanting.Rich in historical detail and resonance, Sassoon's semi-autobiographical novel is also a poignant coming-of-age tale with innocence and naivety abruptly crushed by the outbreak of War. George has to face a bleakly different world when he joins up and goes to the Front, to the mud and death and din of trench-life. Bit by bit it robs him of practically everything he values in life, and amidst the carnage he loses some of his dearest friends.

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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the land's most powerful men. Good condition. Ad ID:

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Code-47: Memoirs of a Hip Hop Heist

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thomas, Justin, PUBLISHER: Ancient-Art-Of-Facts, Keith Joseph is a confidence man, a young 24-year old Black schemer with confidence. He's always had a method to his madness, a point to his sharp intellect. Now, he's about to add rhyme to his reason. Keith Joseph plans to steal the entire genre of Hip Hop. And to do this, he's going to assemble a crew of fellow confidence men, pranksters, a retired beat maker, and a poet to break into the toughest, most well concealed, heavily guarded place on the planet...... The Music Industry. From the author of 12 Stories High and The Ronin Poetz comes Code-47: Memoirs of a Hip Hop Heist.

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Deluxe version of ' the political memoirs of Nero ', by Marc Sleen and Lieven de Guzman.Published by Standard publishing house in .Edition of 500 numbered copies of which 300 were destroyed roads a bad gold imprint on the cover.However, this is one of the 26 authors copies, numbered from A to z. This is number C.Cardboard album in green (synthetic) leather.New condition. Read More

Marc Sleen-the political memoirs of Nero-leatherette luxury

Deluxe version of ' the political memoirs of Nero ', by Marc Sleen and Lieven de Guzman.Published by Standard publishing house in .Edition of 500 numbered copies of which 300 were destroyed roads a bad gold imprint on the cover.This is number 379.Cardboard album in green (synthetic) leather.New condition. Read More

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