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Blood and Sand(2014) GARDNER, FRANKIt was on 6 June 2004 that BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen in a quiet Riyadh back street. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figuVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Speed Kings(2016) BULL, ANDYAnd Eddie Eagan, a heavyweight boxer and brilliant lawyer, remains the only man to win gold at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. This is their story, of loose living, risk-taking and hell-raising in an age of decadence, and of their race against theVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Unreturning Army(2015) GORDON, HUNTLYIn the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Alicia(2014) APPLEMAN-JURMAN, ALICIAEven the sight of her mother's brutal murder could not quash this remarkable child's faith in human goodness - or her determination to prevail against overwhelming odds. After the war, Alicia continued to risk her life, leading Polish Jews on an undVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
I Dared to Call Him Father – The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman`s Encounter with God(2003) SHEIKH, BILQUIS,SCHNEIDER, RICHARD H.A first-person account of a wealthy Muslim woman in Pakistan who, through a succession of supernatural events, came to know God as her Father.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
This Road I Ride(2016) BUHRING, JULIANAA story of endurance and stamina, and the will power it takes to set a cycling world record against all oddsVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Koba The Dread(2003) AMIS, MARTINKoba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Reckoning(2002) NICHOLL, CHARLESThe circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as dubious. For the first time tracing Marlowe's shadowy political and intelligence dealings, Charles Nicholl uncovers critical new evidVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
All in a Doctor’s Day: Memoirs of an Irish Country Practice(2019) GANNON, LUCIAStep into the surgery of Dr. Lucia Gannon. Arriving in the small village of Killenaule, Co. Tipperary 20 years ago – husband Liam (also a GP) and children in tow. Journey with her as she builds a life in this tight-knit community, and discover what it meaVezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Choice(2018) MCMAHON, PHILLYRaw, vivid and intensely moving, Philly McMahon's inspirational memoir is many things - an epic story of triumph in the face of adversity and loss, a family saga, a tribute to the redemptive power of sport - but above all it's a stirring meditation on theVezava: Mehka19,62 €
