Peace Work
10 best books like Peace Work (Spike Milligan): English Journey, The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo, Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences, The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop, The Big Red Train Ride, A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole, The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy, The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain, Thatcher Stole My Trousers, Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic
In 1934, JB Priestley published an account of his journey through England from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North East and Newcastle, to Lincoln, Norfolk and Norwich. In capturing and describing an English landscape and people hitherto unconsidered, he influenced thinking and attitudes...
| Author | Roy A. Adkins |
| ISBN | 0670038644 |
A brutal, action-packed account of the sea battles of the Napoleonic War by the author of the bestselling Nelson's Trafalgar
Roy Adkins (with his wife Lesley) returns to the Napoleonic War in The War for All the Oceans, a gripping account of the naval struggle that lasted from 1798 to 1815, a...
| Author | Dennis Skinner |
| ISBN | 1782061592 |
Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions...
| Author | Bill Jones |
| ISBN | 1845966066 |
The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared.
A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid...
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 1888173890 |
The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes. In 1977 Eric Newby set out with his wife, an official guide and a photographer...
| Author | Diana Preston |
| ISBN | 0618002014 |
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just...
| Author | Frances Stonor Saunders |
| ISBN | 0060777303 |
A vibrant history of Italy in the cataclysmic fourteenth century as seen through the life of a brilliant military strategist and bandit lord
At the dawn of the Renaissance, hordes of mercenaries swooped down on the opulent city-states of Italy and commenced to drain them dry. The greatest...
| Author | Christopher Somerville |
| ISBN | 0857523635 |
“In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again – a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. It was walking that first caused rifts between us in my sulky teenage years,...
| Author | Alexei Sayle |
| ISBN | 1408864533 |
In 1971, Alexei Sayle, raised by communist parents in 1950s Liverpool, set out to find his fortune in London. It was a city where punk was in its infancy, unemployment was high, the weekly meetings of the Communist Party of Britain took place in the Bellman bookshop, a young Margaret Thatcher was just...
| Author | Paul Fussell |
| ISBN | 0316290610 |
In this highly praised autobiographical work, the author of "The Great War" and "Modern Memory" recounts his own experience of combat in World War II and how it became a determining force in his life. "Doing Battle" is at once a summing-up of one man's life and a profoundly thoughtful portrait of America's...
A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI
| Author | Graham Chapman |
| ISBN | 0413740900 |
Graham Chapman reveals what it was like to be part of the revolutionary and zany Monty Python teamRequired reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual. The book equals Joe Orton's famous Diaries in providing...
| Author | Mark Steel |
| ISBN | 0743208048 |
The memoirs of 25 years of political activism, albeit minor and mostly unsuccessful! Deciding to dedicated his life to eradicating injustice Mark Steel has: tried to persuade his mates to change their sexist attitudes - only to be called a poof; innocently wandered into the heat of battle during the...
Scotland's Jesus: The Only Officially Non-racist Comedian
Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her exploding brain.
It's a funny book about the news, partly...
| Author | Stewart Lee |
| ISBN | 0571279848 |
Following his hugely acclaimed TV come-back Comedy Vehicle, Lee finds himself in search of ideas for a new Edinburgh show. On a long walk across London, he endures a coffee shop humiliation involving a loyalty card which suggests itself as a framing device. Later that month, thanks to Jeremy Clarkson's...
Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With The Hidden War he provided the world its first glimpse inside the Soviet military machine, capturing the soldiers' terror, helplessness, and despair at waging war in a foreign land against an unseen...
| Author | Patrick Bishop |
| ISBN | 0006532047 |
In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story.
The Battle of Britain is one of the most crucial battles ever fought, and the victory of Fighter Command over the Luftwaffe has always been...
Spoken From The Front: Real Voices From the Battlefields of Afghanistan
| Author | Andy McNab |
| ISBN | 0552160806 |
Spoken from the Front is the story of the Afghan Campaign, told for the first time in the words of the servicemen and women who have been fighting there. With unprecedented access to soldiers of all ranks, as well as pilots, reservists, engineers, medics, Royal Military police, mechanics, cooks and...
| Author | Max Arthur |
| ISBN | 0091897343 |
The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly acclaimed "Forgotten Voices of the Great War", Max Arthur and his team of researchers will spend hundreds of hours digging deep into...
Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk
| Author | Joshua Levine |
| ISBN | 0091932211 |
It could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British army was successfully evacuated, and "Dunkirk spirit" became synonymous with the strength of the British people in adversity. On the same day that Winston Churchill...
| Author | Alan Coren |
| ISBN | 1847673201 |
One of the great humourists, Coren brightened my life when I was a young, aspiring writer. This compendium of his work can only be faulted on two counts. The first being that some of the material has dated (who remembers Idi Amin these days?), and the second being that his children, who edited the book,...
A Brief History of the Human Race
| Author | Michael A. Cook |
| ISBN | 0393326454 |
Why has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role of the West in shaping the world we currently live in? This witty, intelligent hopscotch through human...
How To Shoot An Amateur Naturalist
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0006370101 |
A BBC television series based on Durrell's book The Amateur Naturalist features the author and his wife, Lee, as narrators. After a year's work on that program, covering 49,000 miles, the film crew had learned a lot of natural history, and Durrell had a new appreciation of filmmaking. This story of the...
| Author | W.G. Hoskins |
| ISBN | 0340770201 |
'No one before has ever brought out with quite the same vividness the historical background of the country all around us' - "Guardian" - a classic of English landscape history, reissued in its fiftieth anniversary year. First published in 1955 by Hodder, "The Making Of The English Landscape" is a classic...
