<p>This is a colorful and insightful book...Sympathy and compassion flow from the human story de Villiers tells, not from a preconceived bias.  It is impossible not to feel for the common folk he describes who have lost all hope, or for the Stalingrad veterans who declare bitterly that the cause for which they fought and others died has proved to be rotten to the core.</p>

Down the Volga in a time of troubles: A journey revealing the people and heartland of post-perestroika Russia

History

DE VILLIERS, Marq

Russia

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Tapestry of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great War

Tapestry of war: A private view of Canadians in the Great War

Gwyn, Sandra

Military

Witchcraft has always intrigued the imagination, sparking visions of Macbeths hags, complete with heathland and bubbling cauldrons. But throughout European history, particularly from the 14th- to the 17th-century, ordinary people were tried and put to death for witchcraft, often in a brutal and grotesque manner. So who were the witches? What were their practises? Who believed in them? What was their place in society? Why were they so feared? How were they accused, tried and executed? Robin Briggs attempts to answer these questions, broadening his scope as he looks beyond the persecutions themselves, to concentrate upon the society they illuminate. Between 1560 and 1660, more people were tried for witchcraft than at any other time in history. The detailed records of many of the trials have allowed the author to build up a description of life among the European peasantry some 400 years ago: the minutiae of social life, daily activities, neighbourhood and kinship ties, the pervasive force of superstition and family relationships.

Witches & neighbours: The social and cultural context of European witchcraft

Briggs, Robin

Europe

G.M.Trevelyan, as well as being a best-selling historian, was Regius Professor of History and Master of Trinity College Cambridge, Chancellor of the University of Newcastle, he was awarded the Order of Merit and was offered, but refused, the Presidency of the British Academy. This book provides a study of the man and an account of his generation. David Cannadine is the author of "The Pleasures of the Past".

G.M. Trevelyan: A life in history

CANNADINE, David

Betjeman's Parish Churches

BETJEMAN, John / KERR, Nigel

Gregory Martyn returns to his estate in County Mayo to find his wife has died giving birth to Elinor, their fourth child. His hatred towards Elinor is undiminished by the passing years and is shared by his other daughter, Esther. As Elinor grows up she seeks refuge amongst the servants.

The house of mirrors

Mullen, Michael

Light in the company of women

Keith Maillard

Stone Angels

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mike Jefferies

Fantasy

Growing Rich

Literature & Fiction

Weldon,Fay

Contemporary

Coelestis

Park, Paul

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