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1 D-Day By Antony Beevor Penguin, Pounds 16.99 May 6, 1944, was the long awaited day on which Allied troops at last landed in France to begin their difficult journey to eventual victory in Berlin. Antony Beevor's narrative skill, backed as usual by unfaultable research, brings it all back to life, so we get a wonderful feel of the times and of the principal characters involved; the nicotine- stained Eisenhower, the unbearably cocky Montgomery, Churchill with his 'obsessive desire to be close to the centre of action' and so on.

Easily the best account I've read of those earth-shaking weeks. NicHolas BagNall 2 Harold Larwood Movado Replica Watch By Duncan Hamilton QuercuS, Pounds 8.99 Larwood was the great England fast bowler who was central to the Bodyline controversy that rocked the game in the 1930s. Schoolboys would remind each other that his bowling had given him distressingly blackened feet, and speak in hushed tones about how many pair of boots he got through. Duncan Hamilton expertly brings him to life, and reminds us of the high feelings that marked our relationship with Australia at that time. NB 3 The Parthenon By Mary Beard Profile, Pounds 8.99 Surely no other building in the world has aroused as cheap ugg much passion as this. Here Mary Beard recounts the astonished reactions through the centuries of those who have seen it (though there have been exceptions - 'the bloody Parthenon' William Golding called it after a good lunch in Athens). Now, tourist- overrun as it is, it continues to amaze even the most rubbernecked of its visitors. There's an excellent account of Lord Elgin's acquisition of the Marbles. NB 4 The White Woman on the Green Bicycle By Monique Roffey Simon &SchuSter, Pounds 7.99 Equal love and attention go into the marriage and the country at the heart of this Orange Prize shortlisted novel. Ex-pat couple George and Sabine have been living in Trinidad for 50-odd years and the story teases out the gradual disintegration of their relationship and pseudo- assimilation into Trinidadian life. It's a book packed with meaty themes, from racism and corruption to passion and loyalty, and the odd moment that doesn't quite ring true is easily forgiven because the rest is so utterly convincing. Holly Kyte 5 Heartland By Anthony Cartwright tindal Street PreSS, Pounds 7.99 Set in the West Midlands in 2002 Balenciaga Handags Replica as the BNP is gaining support and England face Argentina in the World Cup, Heartland follows the travails of several characters but centres on Rob, the failed pro footballer whose childhood friend Adnan has gone missing after 9/11. Cleverly structured around football matches and making good use of the region's heavy dialect, it's an ambitious, authentic - and occasionally bleak and alienating - slice of modern Britain. HK 6 The Junior Officers' Reading Club By Patrick Hennessey Penguin, Pounds 9.99 Trained at Sandhurst, the author (a hell of a guy) has served with the Grenadiers both in Iraq and in Afghanistan. There are no frills in his prose - what he has given us is a frank, man-to-man, few-details-spared account of what hell it all was, with not many heroics but plenty of sodden sleeping bags, dismembered limbs and the like. Don't join the Army, is the clear message, unless you're prepared to experience such horrors. NB

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