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Authors: Christopher Robbins
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Kindle ISBN: 978-1-908556-29-5
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First published in Great Britain in 1988 by Bantam Press
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About the author
Christopher Robbins is the author of six non-fiction books:
The Test of Courage
is the biography of Michel Thomas, concentration camp survivor, French Resistance fighter, and Nazi hunter;
The Empress of Ireland
is a memoir of his friendship with the Irish film director Brian Desmond Hurst, and won the Saga Award for Wit; the travelogue,
In Search of Kazakhstan
, was short-listed for the Author’s Club Travel Award in the UK, and the Geographica award in the US.
The Ravens
, a companion to
Air America
, charts the history of the men who flew in the secret air war in Laos.
Christopher Robbins lives in London and France.
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