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If you met Lewis in the street, you might guess that he was a lawyer or a kindly geography teacher. In fact, he was one of the most efficiently deadly men in the British services.
Ant Middleton • First Man In: Leading from the Front
He enters the forest.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Mr Smith, a sea-officer of the small, trim, brisk, round-headed, portwine kind, once shipmates with Stephen in the Lively and now second in the Goliath, rode by on a camel, with his legs folded negligently over the creature’s neck to the manner born:
Patrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
quality of their friendship.
Dr Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
Joe Hudson
soundcloud.comStand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
Alderman Sir Thomas Smythe,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Charles Bosman’s classic short story The Rooinek opens with two ragged Boers lying in hiding, shooting with smokeless Mausers at smart British officers riding out openly on horseback. The last British regiment ever raised by a Highland clan chief, the Lovat Scouts, were formed in response to such guerrilla marksmen in South Africa. The original
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