Alexander Baron

Harryboy Boas is a gambling man who loves the dogs. He lives in the quietly respectable streets of Hackney and keeps himself to himself. Until, that is, a new family moves into his building. Step by step, the ordered - if faintly disreputable and financially rackety - life he has led begins to unravel. He is drawn into a murky underworld where violence and revenge are the inevitable payback for those who can't come up with the money. A brilliant portrayal of a way of life in its last days in the 1960s.

The Lowlife

King Dido

New Nazi Lie Or New Inquisition? : a Defence of Free Inquiry and the Necessity of Rewriting History

Holocaust Denial

Orpheus Descending

The True, Unsanitised Story of "Searchlight" Mole Ray Hill : with a Critique of The Other Face of Terror

Liars Ought to Have Good Memories

Alan Jeffreys

January 1944, the south coast of England. The Fifth Battalion, Wessex Regiment wait patiently and nervously for the order to embark. There is boredom and fear, comedy and pathos as the men - all drawn from different walk of life - await their order to move. With an economy of language that belies its emotional impact, From the City, From the Plough is a vivid and moving account of the fate of these men as they embark for Normandy and advance into France, where the battalion suffers devestating casulaties.

From the City, From the Plough

'An unqualified masterpiece ... as acute a study of the psychology of war as fiction offers us' Guardian It's 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, an exhausted British battalion marches into the searing summer heat of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men emerging form the bomb shelters. Yearning for some semblance of domestic life, the men begin to fill the roles left by absent husbands and fathers. Unlikely relationships form, tender, exploitative even cruel, but all shaped by the exigencies of war. Centred around a love story, between Graziela, a young mother, and Sergeant Craddock, whose rough attempts at seduction are vindicated by his sympathy and the care he shows for her malnourished child, There's No Home offers an unerringly humane and authentic portrayal of the emotional impact of war.

There's No Home

Life story of a Hungarian Jew born before WWI, who's life gets destroyed by the Holocaust. The rebuilt family business gets destroyed by the Communists in 1948, causing him to restart life the second time. Life then gets disrupted by the Hungarian uprising, causing a move to Israel to start over again for the third time, establishing a modest life, destrupted by the early death of his beloved wife. He lived to age 96 with all his faculties intact and a memory as brilliant as ever.A REVIEW:- Wonderfully written, unique and lucid style, with an enthusiastic, child-like personality.- It's an old-fashioned love story.- His first employment sounds amusingly Dickensian.- A picture of life in those dramatic periods, from an everyman's point of view.- An added perspective as to why the Jews of Europe fell victim to the Holocaust.- It shows what one needs to survive and flourish in such trying times: intelligence, resourcefulness, a supportive family, a lot of luck, and a passion for life.

Rainbows Among the Ruins

John Williams

A Novel

A fictional re-creation of how it was to taste the blood, sweat and tears of France in 1944.

From the City, from the Plough

Follows the lives of a group of British soldiers during the Second World War. Its scenes lay bare the natures of both men and women suffering the cruel ordeal of war. Cruelty and cynicism taint the world, hopes are betrayed and seeds of later conflicts are sown. Yet the last note sounded is one of hope for human kind.

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