New Books - History & Biographies
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| Title: |
Hong Kong Prisoner of War Camp Life |
| Author: |
Lieut. A. V. Skvorzov |
| Summary: |
This book contains an extraordinary and unique visual record of the conditions in which the prisoners of war of the Japanese lived in Hong Kong. Alexander Skvorzov, risking his life, secretly sketched and hid his work during his imprisonment in Shamshuipo and Argyle Street camps ... |
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Foreign Babes in Beijing |
| Author: |
Rachel Dewoskin |
| Summary: |
Between 1994
and 1999, American Rachel Dewoskin
worked as a PR consultant in Beijing.
Soon after she arrived she was also
picked to star in a long-running Chinese
television drama series Foreign Babes
in Beijing ... |
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| Title: |
Fantastic: The Life of
Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Author: |
Laurence Leamer |
| Summary: |
Arnold Schwarzenegger's
success story keeps on getting better
- from a childhood in an Austrian
Village to one of the world's most
famous bodybuilders and actors, before
embarking on an already respected
political career ... |
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| Title: |
Desert Rose |
| Author: |
Weijun Collins |
| Summary: |
Weijun was 10
years old when her father was taken
to a labour camp during the Cultural
Revolution ... |
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| Title: |
Lance Armstrong: Tour
de Force |
| Author: |
Dan Coyle |
| Summary: |
The undisputed
King of the Tour de France will be
back in action again this summer to
challenge for an unheralded seventh
consecutive title ... |
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| Title: |
The Historian |
| Author: |
Elizabeth Kostovo |
| Summary: |
In an electrifying
debut, this is a dark tale concerning
the legends of Vlad the Impaler ...
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