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  • Churchill's Last Wartime Secret

    The 1943 German Raid Airbrushed from History

    de Adrian Searle ...
    It’s been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened – but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during World War Two (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service.Churchill’s Last Wartime Secret reveals the remarkable story of a mid-war seaborne enemy raid on an Isle of Wight ... Leer más

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  • The Infamous Sophie Dawes

    New Light on the Queen of Chantilly

    de Adrian Searle ...
    A biography of the British woman who left behind life in a brothel to become a baroness in a French chateau, and perhaps a killer.She was the daughter of an alcoholic Isle of Wight smuggler. Much of her childhood was spent in the island's workhouse. Yet Sophie Dawes threw off the shackles of her downbeat formative years to become one of the most talked-about personalities in post-revolutionary ... Leer más

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  • The Quintinshill Conspiracy

    The Shocking True Story Behind Britain's Worst Rail Disaster

    It was the railway's Titanic. A horrific crash involving five trains in which 230 died and 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network.The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915. Amongst the dead and injured were women and children but most of the casualties were ... Leer más

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  • The Spy Beside the Sea

    The Extraordinary Wartime Story of Dorothy O'Grady

    de Adrian Searle ...
    Dorothy O'Grady is uniquely placed in the annals of espionage. She was the first Briton condemned to death under the Treachery Act of 1940 after she was frequently spotted on the outskirts of Sandown (a prohibited area on the Isle of Wight), insisting time and again that her dog had strayed. Had her appeal not saved her from the gallows, she would have been the only woman of any nationality to ... Leer más

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  • Behind Enemy Lines

    The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero

    With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a L�gion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army.Yet for 65 years the Highlander's story has remained untold. Few know how, aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers of the feared Das Reich tank column to surrender, or how Tommy ... Leer más

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  • Rescue at 2100 Hours

    de Tom Trumble ...
    February 1942. The Japanese invasion of Timor has begun and attempts to evacuate a group of 29 Australian airmen, charged with keeping an airfield operational until the last moment, are thwarted.Under the leadership of Bryan Rofe, a 24-year-old meteorological officer, the airmen make for remote jungle along the northwest coast. All attempts to rescue the group fail. Malaria-ravaged and starving, ... Leer más

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  • D-Day Plus One

    Shot Down and on the Run in France

    A World War II RAF veteran tells the dramatic story of D-Day, his survival after being shot down by the Germans, and his journey back to Allied lines.The day after D-Day, the most momentous day of the Second World War, Frank Holland was an RAF pilot whose Typhoon aircraft had just been hit by German antiaircraft fire during a low flying attack on a marshaling yard in Normandy.He managed to take ... Leer más

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  • The Long Way Home

    The Other Great Escape

    de John McCallum ...
    The first-hand account of three Scotsmen and their dramatic escape from Nazi Germany's Stalag VIIIB prison camp during World War II.At the age of nineteen, Glasgow-born John McCallum signed up as a Supplementary Reservist in the Signal Corps. A little over a year later, he was in France, working frantically to set up communication lines as Europe once more hurtled towards war. Wounded and captured ... Leer más

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  • Uncommon Soldier

    Brave, compassionate and tough, the making of our modern Diggers

    de Chris Masters ...
    Chris Masters, the country's foremost investigative journalist, turns his penetrating gaze on the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from our ongoing fascination with Anzac story, he looks at the rich and illuminating present to write a character study of the modern Australian soldier - war fighter, peacekeeper, street-level diplomat and aid worker.Having been taken into their ranks in a way ... Leer más

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  • Fighting Rommel

    Captain Mike Sadler

    de Sean Rayment ...
    Series Libro 1 - Tales from the Special Forces Shorts
    This is Mike Sadler’s story, one of five true-life recollections from the Second World War in Tales From The Special Forces Club.The Special Forces Club is a fabled gentlemen’s club, based in the heart of London. It has a closely guarded secret: you have to be a genuine hero to be a member.Mike Sadler was in Rhodesia working on a farm when he decided to join up and fight Hitler. He would become ... Leer más

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  • Ghost Platoon

    The critically acclaimed Vietnam War bestseller

    de Frank Walker ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    'thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' - The Sun HeraldAn eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now.In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn't even have an officer or sergeant in charge. A rugged ex-Royal Marine stepped forward to take the lead. Jim Riddle was only an acting ... Leer más

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  • The Hell of Burma

    Sergeant Harry Verlander

    de Sean Rayment ...
    Series Libro 2 - Tales from the Special Forces Shorts
    This is Harry Verlander’s story, one of five true-life recollections from the Second World War in Tales From The Special Forces Club.The Special Forces Club is a fabled gentlemen’s club, based in the heart of London. It has a closely guarded secret: you have to be a genuine hero to be a member.Harry had volunteered aged 16 in 1942. By 1944, he was parachuting into France on D-Day as part of the ... Leer más

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