Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.
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Eddie Jaku OAM (1920 - 2021) always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom and living his best possible life. He believed he was the 'happiest man on earth'. -
Under Clarke's direction, Welfare and Fairley travelled five continents to interview witnesses of strange and unexplained phenomena: monsters from the depths of oceans and lakes; showers of fish and frogs; brilliantly lit unidentified flying objects in the night sky; the yeti and his cousin Bigfoot. Other, more threatening events are also evaluated in the hope that evidence can be gleaned which may prevent further catastrophe. Based on the Yorkshire Television series of the same name. Stonehenge photo by Adam Woolfit. Crystal skull, Museum of Mankind, London. -
Sometimes Hollywood gets it wrong - that's the popular belief. Sometimes, Hollywood got it right. But did early woman emerge from the caves in an animal skin bikini, a la Raquel Welch, in One Million Years B.C.? Is the great chariot race in Ben-Hur like the real thing? Was the relationship between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn portrayed fairly? This book is divided into the Seven Ages of Hollywood, from the Creation to the Vietnam War, comparing fact - insofar as it can be ascertained - with the versions presented in Hollywood. Cover shows Charlton Heston being epically (and hopefully accurately) Moses in The Ten Commandments.
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The star of stage, screen and Carry On gives us humourous pages from his diary, including his trip to Australia in 1983 (which he enjoyed very much) and his life long friendships with the other members of the Carry On gang. -
Here is a roistering view of Australian from the time of the First Fleet onward, as seen by men and women who expressed their opinions of the country and each other in language forthright, abusive, wistful or cheerful. Part One is devoted to popular (and uniquely Australian) sayings, jests, rhymes, anecodotes and yarns...The bushman recounted, 'When I was doin' a bit o' grave diggin' at Guyra, it so was so perishin' cold there one winter we were forced to demand two weeks' notice of anyone who was goin' to die. It took us that long to dig the hole.' Part Two is Australian Perspectives 1788 - 1918: Farmer's Pride and Prisoner's Hell; The Southern El Dorado (includes a recipe for damper and Black Swans as Table Birds...); An Album of Victoriana; Land of Hope and Glory. You won't get anything more dinki-di than this volume. -
Julia James was born in Australia and through sheer stubbornness, paid her fare to England to to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She worked in repertory theatre through the 1950s and more than a few good tales to tell of interesting lodging arrangements, 'borrowing' props and set dressings from obliging local businesses, mishaps on and off the stage and 'Barnaby Grudge' the troupe's cantankerous van. With moral support from her mother, sister and other family she trekked from agent to agent, small theatre to small theatre - but when still a minor, won a beginning in West End Theatre...and because she was still a minor, Mother did sign the contract. Handy glossary of theatre slang/terms in the back of the book. Well-written with economy, Julia James had an obvious readiness to laugh at life. -
Adolf Hitler emerged from World War I temporarily blinded from a gas attack, never having risen beyond the rank of lance corporal and showing no sings of the leadership that would make him feared throughout the world. Yet within months of the Armistice, he had begun building the Nazi Party with himself as its unassailable personification, the Führer. How did this change come about? The author reveals why Hitler was sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment for his 'blindness'; how the doctor who treated him, Edmund Forster, deceived his unusual patient and dramatically changed Hitler's personality; and how the man who unintentionally created a monster was finally destroyed by him. Illustrated with black and white photographs, -
Sir Alec Guinness (1914 - 2000) makes his observations on Britain, taken from his journal at the tumultuous times of Princess Diana's death, the election of Tony Blair and comments on his quintessentially English country life with Mrs Guinness. A follow up to My Name Escapes Me, this volume covers 1996 - 1998. Sir Alec offers frank and surprising reflections on appearing in Star Wars and hilarious reminiscences of Humphrey Bogart and Noel Coward. -
Published in 1940, Daphne du Maurier turned from fiction to write the true stories of everyday English people who, while following the common round of their daily lives, have given their best to their country and done deeds of gallantry in their respective spheres in a time of war. The mother who triumphed over bereavement, the London grocer who settled labor disputes at the pithead - all were able to turn the difficulties of war time into opportunities to spread a spirit of victory on the Home Front.
