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...guides to introduce some key works of fiction for you to download and read on your prefered device. ...The Introduction collection In this collection of free eBooks you will find new extended introductions to some classic works of fiction, looking at the creation, themes and characters of the works - Charles Dickens' Great Expectations; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein;...

In the second episode, the whole population is enlisted to turn an unprepared Britain into a war machine...[Jeremy Paxman stands in a recreated battlefield trench] In the second part of his landmark series on how the First World War affected the lives of the British people, Jeremy Paxman describes the crisis facing the country as it becomes clear it is fatally...

How Germany's attempts to starve Britain into submission edged the nation close to defeat...[Jeremy Paxman with war rations] Jeremy Paxman tells the story of how Britain edged close to defeat in the worst conflict it had ever known. Unearthing the wreck of a German U-boat in the Medway, he describes Germany's attempt to starve the country into submission—could the Win...

Jeremy Paxman concludes the series by describing how the country came to the very brink of defeat...[Jeremy Paxman stands outside 10 Downing Street] Jeremy Paxman describes how the country came to the very brink of defeat in the last year of the war. Grieving parents held seances to contact their dead sons, surgeons battled to rebuild the faces of the wounded, and a...