Into the War (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Into the War (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as the author's own experiences as a teenager. It features such stories as: 'Into the War', 'The Avanguardisti in Menton' and 'UNPA

Road to San Giovanni (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a

Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Target: Italy - The Secret War Against Mussolini 1940-1943 (Bailey Roderick)(Paperback / softback)

The cloak-and-dagger war fought by British secret agents against Mussolini's Italy has been little known - until now. Target: Italy is the official history of the efforts of Britain's Special Operations Executive to strike at Fascist Italy in the Second World War and sever its alliance

Embers of War (Hall RJJ)(Paperback / softback)

Inspired by a passion for Italy, Embers of War is set in the dying days of the Second World War. This well-researched novel evokes the spirit and mores of the forgotten Italian

Day Of Battle - The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

Complete Cosmicomics (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all

@War (Harris Shane)(Paperback / softback)

A gripping and timely investigation into the rise of cyber

War Of Nerves (Shephard Ben)(Paperback / softback)

I cannot imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men.'A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century - an authoritative, accessible account drawing on a vast range of diaries, interviews, medical papers and official

Adua (Scego Igiaba)(Paperback / softback)

Set in Italy and spanning the years from before World War II to the present day, Adua is the unforgettable story of a father and daughter grappling with the implications of colonialism, immigration and racism that have bisected both of their

Hidden (Chamberlain Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Her heart died in the war - can she breathe new life into

Britain's War - Into Battle, 1937-1941 (Todman Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Mussolini's War - Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 (Gooch John)(Paperback / softback)

Why Read the Classics? (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's

Kingdom by the Sea (Westall Robert)(Paperback / softback)

The Guardian award-winning novel about courage, friendship and war. Reissued into the Collins Modern Classic

Under the Jaguar Sun (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

A couple on a journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the

Italian Folktales (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the

Waugh in Abyssinia (Waugh Evelyn)(Paperback / softback)

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. This title captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and

Men at Arms (Waugh Evelyn)(Paperback / softback)

Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his

Our Ancestors (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master

King John (Shakespeare William)(Paperback / softback)

Under the rule of King John, England is forced into war when the French challenge the legitimacy of John's claim to the throne and determine to install his nephew Arthur in his place. And as the desire to cling to power dominates England's paranoid and weak-willed king, his country is threatened

Hermit in Paris (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of

Search (Dyer Geoff)(Paperback / softback)

'If Raymond Chandler and Italo Calvino had collaborated on a road movie script the result might have been somewhat similar' Sunday