"'I tell you what, we'll talk about it tomorrow. But if you know any unhappy people, we'll try to do something for them. Yo...

"For two days his company had been under the command of Nordbat, the Norwegian-Danish-Swedish battalion that had been billeted around T...

"I have been told though, by a friend who was watching in embarrassed disbelief in a house in Chelmsford, that I uttered words like ...

"Quangel stood up. 'There,' he laughed. 'You know perfectly well that the man behind bars is the decent one, and you on...

"Recently the belief that I was defeated by Father as a small boy and have since been prevented by pride from leaving the battleground,...

"Other napoleons came and went around him; in the middle of the lawn, where a patch of white mist now hovered, one of them peered into ...

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"'I'm going home,' I say. 'You cannot undo what you have done, even with your Welsh tongue.''I will, though,...

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The kind people at profile Books have given me a copy of the Decision Book to give away to a lucky reader of Insidebooks. Just tell me how m...

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The final dip into the Decision Book is a chance to note how thinking of the past has been gently challenged by the experiences of the prese...

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