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With All Despatch (The Bolitho Novels)
It is 1792, over ten years since Britain's defeat by the American colonies, and the bitter humiliation still sticks in the Admiralty's craw. Now brutal smugglers, many of them naval deserters, occupy the Channel, plying their trade between England and France. Richard Bolitho's mission: to take three speedy topsail cutters and fight the treacherous raiders off the coast of Kent. .
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Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider During the First World War
The Battle of Mons, The Battle of le Cateau, The Great Retreat, Over the Marne to the Aisne, The Battle of the Aisne, The Move to the North, Round la AssÉe, The Beginning of Winter 1914, St Jans Cappel, Behind the Lines.....etc.
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Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heart (BBC)
Fergal Keane is one of the BBC's best known foreign correspondents. His latest work for Radio 4 was "Letter to Daniel", an emotional message to his newborn son. This work contains a collection of his pieces and includes the "Letter to Daniel" and a similar despatch he wrote to his deceased father. The book also features many of his pieces for "From Our Own Correspondent" and articles written for the "Spectator", the "Guardian" and the "BBC Worldwide" magazine..
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A Week at Waterloo
One woman’s true story of war, love, and loss. Magdalene De Lancey fought to save her husband’s life on the edge of the battlefield at Waterloo American-born William was one of the first professional officers in the British army and the Duke of Wellington’s chief-of-staff. Magdalene’s heartrending account of her struggle to nurse her husband was written as a letter to her brother and has a striking immediacy. Any woman who has ever waited for a husband at war or nursed the man she loves will empathize with Magdalene’s fears, hopes, and sorrow. .
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