Tag: Two

Reading Claudius A Memoir in Two Parts


Free Download Caroline Heller, "Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts"
English | 2015 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0385337612 | EPUB | 6,4 mb
A stunning elegy to a vanished time, Caroline Heller’s memoir traces the lives of her parents, her uncle, and their circle of intellectuals and dreamers from Central Europe on the eve of World War II to present-day America.

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Gasping For Airtime Two Years In The Trenches Of Saturday Night Live


Free Download Jay Mohr, "Gasping For Airtime: Two Years In The Trenches Of Saturday Night Live"
English | 2005 | pages: 303 | ISBN: 1401308015 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
Now in paperback, the revelatory and surprising memoir of life behind the scenes at Saturday Night Live, by former cast member Jay Mohr his insider account of the inner workings of Saturday Night Live provides the scoop on quirky guests, pitch meetings, fake pitch meetings, rehearsals, cast members, live broadcasts, and of course, getting airtime. Refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny, this book will appeal to fans of Jay Mohr, devotees of Saturday Night Live, and young comics yearning for stand-up stardom.

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Forty-Two Months in Durance Vile Prisoner of the Japanese


Free Download R. Keith Mitchell, "Forty-Two Months in Durance Vile: Prisoner of the Japanese"
English | 2014 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0709060041 | EPUB | 9,2 mb
This is a first-hand account of life as a Japanese prisoner during the Second World War. It reveals how R. Keith Mitchell was taken to Japan as part of an overseas force and set to work levelling agricultural land for an airfield, before being moved to work at the furnaces of a foundry, and then to a coal mine. This remarkable account, based on diaries hidden from the Japanese, portrays day-to-day life in astonishing detail and is a truly compelling story.

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