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Chapters: Highland Light Infantry Officers, Royal Scots Fusiliers Officers, Winston Churchill, David Niven, Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, Charles Burnett, Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet, William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, Daniel Marcus William Beak, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, Patrick Ferguson, Jack Churchill, Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes, Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet, Alastair Pearson, David Murray-Lyon, George Murray, Philip Margetson, Alec Ewart Glassey, Deneys Reitz, Willie Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, Jonathan Peel, Roy Urquhart, Archibald Campbell, Wyndham Halswelle, Herbert Waddell, Thomas Gore Browne, Robert Kingscote, Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, John Alexander Fraser, Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet, Charlie Adamson, James Grant, Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, John Campbell of Stonefield, William Mitchell, Kenneth Strong, George Swinton, Thomas Cameron, George Roos-Keppel, Daril Watson, Henry Leask, Frank Gerald Blaker, Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet, James Fitz-Morris, Frank Keith Simmons, William Herbert Anderson, Angus Macvicar, Richard Carnac Temple, Lord William Paulet, George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford, Lord Evelyn Stuart, Sir James Stronge, 3rd Baronet, Ronald Bramwell Davis, Granville Proby, 4th Earl of Carysfort, David Fleming, Lord Fleming, Gerald Goodlake, Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse, Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers, Frederick Cockayne Elton, Lord Arthur Lennox, Claude Maxwell Macdonald, Lord William Paulet/temp, Edmund Hakewill-Smith, Norman Porteous, William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan, Edward Coke, William Mordaunt Marsh Edwards, William Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton, Walter Lorrain Brodie, Christopher Helm, Stanley Henry Parry Boughey, Lyde Browne, Archibald Kennedy, 7th Marquess of Ailsa, Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet, George Cadogan, Robert Law, John Manson Craig, William Cornwallis Symonds, Angus Macdonell, G...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33265 ... Read more

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Chapters: Michael Ventris, David Niven, Richard Branson, Rainier Iii, Prince of Monaco, Michael Grade, Edward Hardwicke, George Monbiot, Peregrine Worsthorne, Crispian Mills, Leonard Cheshire, Nicholas Winton, Stowe School, Gavin Maxwell, Henrik Takkenberg, Roger Hodgson, John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, George Melly, Henry Cavill, Howard Goodall, Christopher Robin Milne, Peter Howson, Marc Koska, Richard Boston, David Shepherd, Simon Digby, John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood, Peter Rees, Baron Rees, Noel Annan, Baron Annan, Nicholas Lyell, Karan Thapar, Peter Vanneck, Nicholas Henderson, Peter Coke, Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, Jack Hayward, Chelsy Davy, Colin Graham, Robin Kinahan, Toby O'brien, Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-Under-Heywood, Graham Riddick, Mathew Thorpe, Andrew Croft, George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, Iain Moncreiffe of That Ilk, George Zambellas, James Burnell-Nugent, Ben Howgego, Bernard Gadney, Graeme White, John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, David Moores, Donough O'brien, Julian Budden, Mark Nelson, Barry Henderson, Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley, Michael Alexander, John Cornford, Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, Lorne Welch, Sir George Dick-Lauder, 12th Baronet, Rollo Weeks, Richard Carr-Gomm, Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, John Thompson Mckellar Anderson, James Reeves, John Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee, John de Courcy, 35th Baron Kingsale, Nigel Broackes, Adam Alexander Dawson, David Fanshawe, Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington, Oliver Bertram, Oscar Humphries, Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, Robin Devereux, 19th Viscount Hereford, David Sanctuary Howard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 348. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=93759 ... Read more

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Chapters: George Orwell, Graham Greene, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, David Niven, Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, Diana Mitford, Laurence Sterne, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Edward Frederic Benson, Dirk Bogarde, Squire Bancroft, Nick Hornby, Algernon Blackwood, Terry Waite, George Grossmith, Edward Viii of the United Kingdom, Colley Cibber, Darren Matthews, Geoffrey Pyke, Simon Cowell, Alec Guinness, Piers Morgan, J. R. Ackerley, Rupert Everett, Leigh Hunt, Cherie Blair, Anthony Powell, Pool Group, Denys Val Baker, William Ellis, William Green, Fanny Kemble, John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, Leonard Woolf, Vera Brittain, Simon Napier-Bell, John Haden Badley, Basil Clarke, V. S. Pritchett, Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, Benjamin Randell Harris, Edward Blishen, Bryher, Effie Bancroft, Robert Drury, Anne Askew, Harold Acton, L. T. C. Rolt, Nancy Price, Lady Diana Cooper, Osbert Sitwell, Muriel Box, Cathleen Nesbitt, Winston Graham, Jane Tomlinson, Blake Morrison, Anne Halkett, Joey Deacon, Louisa Anne Meredith, Susanna Moodie, Allan Warren, Gillian Baverstock, John Moray Stuart-Young, Tim Guest, George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine, Gerald Graham, James Lees-Milne, Geoffrey Cox, Alan Caillou, Anthony Powell Society, Mark Barrowcliffe, Hilary Du Pré, Evelyn, Princess Blücher, Elinor Mordaunt, Mary Delany, Alfred Noyes, Ralph Bates, Keith Speed, Charles Butler, George Pearson, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Robert Sherard, Lisa St Aubin de Terán, Mary Vivian Hughes, Gerald Hamilton, Augustus Hare, David Herbert, Lucy M. Boston, Sheila Mercier, Lady Helena Gleichen, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, Barbara Skelton, Peter Lawrence, Margaret Durrell, Helen Forrester, Dorothy Ripley, Richard Bulstrode, Alexandra Fuller, Sydnam Poyntz, Thomas Ellwood, Winifred Foley, W. F. Harvey, Caitlin Davies, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Diana Holman-Hunt, Caroline Vernon, Suzanne Portnoy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 574. Not illustrated. Fr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11891 ... Read more

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Chapters: David Niven, Charles Burnett, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, Patrick Ferguson, Jack Churchill, Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes, Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet, Alastair Pearson, David Murray-Lyon, George Murray, Alec Ewart Glassey, Willie Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, Jonathan Peel, Roy Urquhart, Archibald Campbell, Wyndham Halswelle, Herbert Waddell, Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, John Campbell of Stonefield, William Mitchell, George Swinton, Thomas Cameron, Daril Watson, Frank Gerald Blaker, James Fitz-Morris, Frank Keith Simmons, William Herbert Anderson, George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford, Granville Proby, 4th Earl of Carysfort, David Fleming, Lord Fleming, Lord Arthur Lennox, Claude Maxwell Macdonald, William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan, William Mordaunt Marsh Edwards, Walter Lorrain Brodie, Christopher Helm, George Cadogan, Robert Law, William Cornwallis Symonds, Angus Macdonell, John Maitland, Sir David Baird, 3rd Baronet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 165. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 29 July 1983), known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Litton, a.k.a. "the Phantom," in The Pink Panther. He was awarded the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor in Separate Tables. David Niven was born in London, England. He was the son of William Edward Graham Niven (18781915) and Henrietta Julia Degacher. He was named David for his birth on Saint David's Day. Niven often claimed that he was born in Kirriemuir, in the county of Angus in 1909, but after his death, his birth certificate showed this was not true. Henrietta was of French and British ancestry. She was born in Wal...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=53762 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 - 29 July 1983), known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom," in The Pink Panther. He was awarded the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor in Separate Tables. ... Read more

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Chapters: Mao Zedong, David Niven, Charles Mingus, Lead Belly, Derek Bailey, Henry A. Wallace, Harry Browne, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Lou Gehrig, Joyce Cary, Jacob K. Javits, Leonard Cheshire, Maxwell D. Taylor, Lane Smith, Jimmy Johnstone, Otis Chandler, Catfish Hunter, Peter Killworth, Don Revie, Ezzard Charles, Axel Jensen, Robert Webber, Joan Brosnan Walsh, Cecil J. Picard, Franz Rosenzweig, Jock Wallace, Jr., Walter Fremont, Hans Keller, Mike Gregory, Jörg Immendorff, Eddie Adams, Roy Walford, Willie Maddren, Cyril Cusack, Roberto Fontanarrosa, Bob Waters, Nick Scandone, Victor Emery, Dennis Day, Ephraim Shapiro, Pro Hart, Hans Vonk, Marilyn Pryor, George Yardley, Asa Baber, Kevin Hughes, Richard Allen, Heinz, Ian Trethowan, Raúl Sendic, Jesse Brown, Thomas Hetherington, James Kemsley, Allan Rosenfield, Robert Spinrad, Gianluca Signorini, Carolyn George, Gilberto Zaldívar, Payao Poontarat, Scott Brazil, Jarrod Cunningham, Michael Zaslow, Stanley Sadie, John Cushley, Ben Byer, Sam English, John Drury, Sean F. Scott, Rob Hindmarch, Mick Imlah, Larry Trask, Ginger Meggs, Marc Harrison, Sonny Horne, Carole Lynne, David Hallifax, Peter Levinson, Barry Flanagan, Franklin Otis Booth, Jr., Morrie Schwartz, Jeanne Dorsey Mandel, Dave Sharpe, Antoine "T.c.d." Lundy, Ed Sadowski, Winthrop Jordan, Diane Pretty, Brainhell, Glenn Montgomery, Ralph Gomberg, Krzysztof Nowak, John O'leary, Ian Crawley, Richard Morgan, Joe Mcguff, Matt Hazeltine, Peter Crill, Dave Ames, Ron Snidow, Wally Hilgenberg, Pauline Moore, Neil Mccarthy, Jill Tweedie, Scott Freeman, Gary Lewis, Skipper Bowles, Glyn Worsnip, Nicholas Bianco, Norman Kay, Neil Cherry, Enzo Matteucci, Stephen Heywood, Del Williams, Jon Blais, Sue Rodriguez, Michael Donnelly, Adriano Lombardi, Ingrid Hafner, Jenifer Estess, Sidney Preston Osborn, Jack B. Sowards, Gomer Hodge, Bruce Edwards, Barry Cockcroft, John Trevor Godfrey, Craig Cline. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 557. Not illu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19527 ... Read more

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Space Cadets - edited by Mike Resnick - 24 stories illiciting memories of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. The late Frankie Thomas, who died just as this book was going to press, thrilled a generation of future fans and writers as Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, in the early days of television. L.A. Con IV, the 2006 World Science Fiction Convention, selected Frankie as its Special Guest, and this book of stories about space cadets, each and every one of them inspired by Frankie's acts of derring-do on the small black-and-white screens of the very early 1950s, is the convention's - and Fandom's - tribute to him.In these pages you'll find stories by L.A. Con IV's Writer Guest of Honor Connie Willis, plus Mercedes Lackey, Harry Turtledove, Kevin J. Anderson, David Brin, Larry Niven, Mike Resnick, Gregory Benford & Elizabeth Malartre, Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith, Josepha Sherman, Todias Buckell, Craig Miller, Ralph Roberts, Kay Kenyon, Catherine Asaro, Stephen Leigh, Nick DiChario, Michael Burstein, Barry Malzberg, Brad Sinor, John DeChancie, and the book concludes with a novella by David Gerrold. Before he died, Frankie wrote down some of his experiences as a young actor portraying Tom Corbett, and they are included here as well.The cover art is by L.A. Con IV's Artist Guest of Honor James Gurney. ... Read more

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What's with this book cover?
I own GLORY LANE in paperback with this exact same cover.The central character's name is Seeth. Is this a web error or has the same cover art been used on two different books?It's great art; I really enjoyed finding the characters from the story.So why is it shown under this title? ... Read more

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Simply a great read.
David Niven was not always a star. He had to go away and learn his trade in "B" movies before being allowed to enter the big time. He learnt that trade well but, unlike some who were destined to become greats of Hollywood, he also put his entire acting career on hold whilst he served as an officer in a fighting unit throughout WW2.

This book tells the first half of his life's story and what a story it is. Like every biography ever written, the best bits do not happen at the beginning, so some readers, therefore, might find it slow going at first. Though many will not. But then we meet the rich and famous stars of Hollywood from another era and learn a little about each of these people and their various relationships as we move from one to another and sometimes back again.

Written in David Niven's own hilarious style, there is so much humour here that you "will" find yourself insisting others read this book. In fact, it is so funny - especially his descriptions of the wrong use of English words by foreign movie directors, one finishes the book in the knowledge that had David Niven not become an Oscar-winning movie star, he would easily have achieved great success as a writer.

The underlying theme, of course, is David Niven's life and, as one reviewer has already said, this book leaves you wishing you had met this man. Me too.

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