ENDURANCE (GREATEST ADVENTURE STORY EVER TOLD), LIKE THE ROMAN (THE LI

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ENDURANCE (THE GREATEST ADVENTURE STORY EVER TOLD)
BY ALFRED LANSING (Hardback) £10

Endurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book, based on first-hand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, the diseases which they developed, and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable.

LIKE THE ROMAN – THE LIFE OF ENOCH POWELL BY SIMON HEFFER £5

The definitive, controversial, authorised biography, of one of the defining political figures of post-war Britain. There have been many biographies of Enoch Powell. This book was written with full access to all his personal and public papers. This book covers all aspects of Powell's life - his Midlands childhood, his teaching by A.E.Housman, his appointment at the age of 25 as professor of Greek at the University of Adelaide, his writing of poetry, his love for an aristocratic Irish woman, his resignation from Macmillans cabinet, the Rivers of Blood speech, and his spiritual Godfathering of Margaret Thatcher. It will also, effectively, be a history of post-war British politics from Powell's perspective.

CHURCHILL BY ROY JENKINS £5

From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the World has ever seen. Roy Jenkins faithfully presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character In depth analysis and brilliant historical research make this a magnificent one-volume biography of an extraordinary life. In some ways a companion piece to his excellent biography of Gladstone, Churchill is packed with insights that only a fellow politician could convey.

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