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Robert Leckie was born on December 18, 1920 in Philadelphia. After enlisting in the United States Marine Corps shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he worked in the 1st Marine Division as a machine gunner and as an intelligence scout during the Battle of Guadalcanal. He was later awarded the Purple Heart. Helmet for My Pillow received the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents' Annual Award in 1957. He died in December 2001.

Introduced by the author, this is a collection of vignettes about the romantic as well as the brutal aspects of espionage.

A remarkable story of the resilience of the human spirit, set against the backdrop of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A funny, moving and brilliantly original novel, which crosses all cultural boundaries with the skill and inventiveness of its storytelling. "If you read only one novel, make it this one" "Le Figaro".

Includes some of Maugham's most famous tales: "Flotsam and Jetsam", "The Man With The Scar" and "The Vessel of Wrath" among others.

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company¿s ¿Most Innovative Business People¿ and as a Forbes ¿Names You Need to Know, ¿ and is the seventh ¿most powerful¿ personality on Newsweek¿s Digital 100 Power Index. He is an early-stage tech investor and advisor, working with Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, and over fifty other organizations, and the author of three #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, ...

Can you forgive the past?It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straighforward, this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man's diary. What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander, a man responsible for the deaths of thousands, a man as yet unpunished.

Auf der Schönhauser Allee, die seit über zwei Jahren meine Heimat ist" - sagt Wladimir Kaminer - "ereignen sich ständig merkwürdige Geschichten. Jedesmal, wenn ich sie jemandem erzähle, denkt derjenige, ich spinne. Dadurch werde ich auch selbst unsicher - vielleicht ist das alles doch nur im Traum passiert? Das würde jedoch bedeuten, dass ich selbst auch eine imaginäre Figur bin, die mit dem wirklichen Leben nicht zu tun hat. Aus Angst zu vers...

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Scharfsinnig und unglaublich unterhaltsam." Isabel Duncan ist Wissenschaftlerin an einem Institut für Menschenaffen. Sie arbeitet mit Bonobos, einer Schimpansenart, die eine große Begabung für Sprache besitzt. Die Menschen versteht Isabel oft nicht. Wohler als unter ihresgleichen fühlt sie sich bei den ihr anvertrauten Affen. Als eines Tages im Institut eine Bombe explodiert, wird Isabel schwer verletzt. Die Affen flüchten in Panik. Eine Tragö...

This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and searingly memorable poems from many collections including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady's Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence an...

A collection of short stories from New York.

Prof Steve Peters is a consultant psychiatrist and has worked in the clinical field of psychiatry for over 20 years. He specialises in optimising the functioning of the mind and also holds degrees in mathematics and medicine. Prof Peters is Undergraduate Dean at Sheffield University Medical School and resident psychiatrist with Sky ProCycling. He is also the consultant psychiatrist for Liverpool FC and, from May 2014, for the England football ...

Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, which established his reputation and brought India to the British imaginationA Penguin ClassicIncluding the stories "Lispeth, " "Beyond the Pale, " and "In the Pride of His Youth, " this collection tells of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances and divided identities, creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society. Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore when Kipling w...

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