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Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life -- until a murder is committed in his flat, just days after the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring Britain to the brink of war. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland, where he must use all his wits to stay one step ahead of the game -- and...
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In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enroll as a volunteer nurse with the armed forces. She served in London, Malta, and on the Western Front in France, witnessing the destruction and suffering of the fighting at first hand. By 1918, her life--like so many of her generation--had changed beyond recognition. Testament of Youth, one of the most famous memoirs of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those...