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Duncan Barrett

    Tento autor zkoumá hluboké otázky lidské zkušenosti prostřednictvím své literární tvorby. Jeho práce jsou ceněny pro svůj pronikavý vhled a podmanivý styl. Ponořte se do jeho příběhů, které vás zaujmou a donutí k zamyšlení.

    The Reluctant Tommy
    The Sugar Girls of Love Lane
    The Girls Who Went to War
    Men of Letters
    Hitler's British Isles
    When the Germans Came
    • 2024

      The Sugar Girls of Love Lane

      • 400 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení
      3,5(2)Ohodnotit

      A warm and nostalgic social history of the women who worked at the Tate & Lyle factory on Love Lane in Liverpool

      The Sugar Girls of Love Lane
    • 2019

      When the Germans Came

      • 432 stránek
      • 16 hodin čtení
      4,5(25)Ohodnotit

      True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII.

      When the Germans Came
    • 2018

      True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII.

      Hitler's British Isles
    • 2015
    • 2014

      Men of Letters

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      4,4(17)Ohodnotit

      Using the personal stories and letters of the men who joined the Post Office Riffles, this is a moving account of how the war touched the lives of ordinary men - how it changed communities, how women took up men's working roles, and, of course, the vital role the mail played in winning the war.

      Men of Letters
    • 2013

      GI Brides

      • 361 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      3,8(56)Ohodnotit

      The Sunday Times bestsellerFrom the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience.

      GI Brides
    • 2012

      Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten.

      The Sugar Girls
    • 2011

      The Reluctant Tommy

      • 324 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      3,4(6)Ohodnotit

      The Reluctant Tommy is hailed as an extraordinary memoir of the First World War, described as an instant classic and deemed "absolutely perfect" by James Delingpole from the Mail on Sunday.

      The Reluctant Tommy