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  Twilight of the Gods - A Swedish...

  Thorolf Hillblad

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  A rare account of a non-German, Erik Wallin, who fought in the Nazi Party’s Waffen-SS during World War II—a no-holds-barred narrative of the Eastern Front.   This is the exciting true story of Erik Wallin, a Swedish soldier who volunteered for the Waffen-SS during World War II. Wallin served in the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion of the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division “Nordland,” a unit composed largely of men from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Sent to the Eastern Front, the 11th SS fought in the Courland Pocket in late 1944 and then battled the Red Army along the Oder River and in Berlin, where the Soviets destroyed the division.   Few memoirs of non-Germans in the Waffen-SS exist, and Twilight of the Gods ranks among the very best.  “Provides an insight into how a Waffen-SS soldier reflects on the recent past . . . [and] how the SS myth was created . . . direct and raw.” —Samuel de Korte, Traces of War

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  One Shot - One Kill - American...

  Craig Roberts, Charles W. Sasser

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  They are the lone wolves of the battlefield. Tracking the enemy, lying in wait for the target to appear—then they shoot to kill. Armed with an unerring eye, infinite patience and a mastery of camouflage, combat snipers stalk the enemy with only one goal . . . In World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Beirut, American snipers honed the art of delivering a single deadly shot from nowhere—and devastating enemy morale. They met the enemy on his own turf, picking off officers, unwary soldiers, and even other snipers from extraordinary distances of up to 1 ½ miles. Now, these uncommon men tell their stories: of the emotions felt when a man's face came into their crosshairs and they pulled the trigger, of the nerve-wracking hours and days of waiting, motionless, for the enemy, of the primal savagery of a sniper duel.Often trained haphazardly in wartime, and forgotten in times of peace, combat snipers were officially recognized after the Vietnam War, when the Marine Corps became the first military branch to start a full-time sniper school. One Shot-One Kill is their powerful record of desperate trials and proud victories.

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  Postcards from Santiago - The...

  Spencer Vignes

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  Long before Erling Haaland, Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona, there was George Robledo, the first overseas star of English football. Abandoned by his father as a child in Chile, Robledo came to the UK, where he was raised in a Yorkshire mining village, serving underground as a 'Bevin Boy' during the Second World War prior to making his name with Barnsley. During the 1951–52 season, his thirty-three goals for Newcastle United in what is now the Premier League were the most goals scored in a single season by an overseas registered, foreign-born player, a record that has stood unbroken for over seventy years – despite what the record books might say.
  Postcards from Santiago is the poignant, inspiring story of Robledo's remarkable journey from the moon-like wastes of the Atacama Desert to the cover of John Lennon's 1974 album Walls and Bridges, via Wembley glory and the 1950 World Cup in Brazil. Where, in England's first ever World Cup match, Robledo became the first Football League player from outside the British Isles to face England in an official international.
  Featuring interviews with family, friends and admirers, this fascinating biography is the definitive account of a man who overcame immense hardship and heartache to become a sporting trailblazer in his adopted homeland and a national hero in his native Chile.

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  Gather the Fragments - My Year...

  Maureen O'Brien

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  Reviews for “Gather the Fragments”: 
  “Stunning.” 
  “Exquisite and engaging prose.” 
  “A celebration of the sacredness found in our regular old lives.”  
  In this uplifting audiobook narrated by the author, internationally published writer Maureen O’Brien creates “intimate portraits of everyday miracles” by encountering people and events in today’s world through the miracle of the loaves and fishes. From the Outer Banks to New England, from New York City to Assisi, Italy, these “timely, funny, sad, beautiful” reflections offer hope with the three words of Jesus: gather the fragments. Listeners reflect on the shards of their own lives, finding healing beyond despair, and mystery in the ordinary. O’Brien shares, “The fragments of love are not lost, scattered things, but are within us as we drive down the S-shaped roads we’ve driven hundreds of times before.” Gather the Fragments turns us together toward grace in a fragmented but still beautiful world. 

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  Stephen Hawking - The...

  Chris McNab

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  Explore the life and scientific legacy of Stephen Hawking - the brilliant theoretical physicist who changed the way we look at time and space. 
   
  Stephen Hawking's contributions to physics and cosmology literally changed our understanding of the universe. This captivating biography introduces his life and greatest scientific contributions, with accessible explanations on his theories surrounding general relativity, quantum mechanics, the science of black holes, and his pursuit of the 'Theory of Everything'. With black and white photographs throughout, this biography is gives wonderful insight into Hawking's extraordinary achievements and how his attitude to life and work were the true driver of his success.

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  Death of an Ordinary Man

  Sarah Perry

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  WINNER OF THE NERO NON FICTION AWARD 2026 
  LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026 
  LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION 
  A spectacularly original memoir that’s at once an elegy for a beloved family member and a deeply moving meditation on what it means to be a mortal creature, from one of our greatest novelists. 
  Death of an Ordinary Man opens on a charming, merry seaside scene in late August. Perry, her husband, and her father-in-law David are at the Yarmouth carnival they’ve gone to every summer for decades. The day was fine, Perry tells us, and the shining tide was going out. The next time Sarah sees David three weeks later, watching him approach across the market, she knows instantly and with a certainty she’s never had before: David is dying. He’ll be dead in less than three months’ time from a rare and swiftly moving cancer. 
  What follows is Perry’s intimate account of sitting at David’s bedside across the final days of his life. She lays out in plain and scientific detail what the end of a human life looks like, and invites readers into the most mundane and extraordinary moments of a devastating stretch of days. Throughout, she interweaves her own experience with accounts of death throughout the ages, as well as the poetry and philosophy humans have created and turned to for comfort in the face of loss. Her trademark blend of the scientific and factual with the spiritual and artistic captures the fact that, ultimately, dying is the most human thing any of us will do. Perhaps most importantly, she tells us who David is and was—the way he drank his tea and the sections of the newspaper he always read first, the things that made him laugh and the people and animals that he loved. She mourns all that will be lost forever with his passing, even as she celebrates that he was here in the first place. 
  Written in Perry’s inimitable style and riveting from its opening pages, Death of an Ordinary Man is both abundantly human and marvelously transcendent, and reminds us again and again that there are no ordinary men.

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