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Paul and Charlotte Bondy were refugees from Hitler caught up in
Churchill's policy of mass internment. Paul was detained at the
Alien Internment Camp at Huyton, near Liverpool, from late June to
early December 1940. During this time his only contact with his
wife and young daughter was by post. As this young married couple
struggled to overcome the vicissitudes of war and exile to maintain
some semblance of family life, they wrote to each other regularly.
The letters, postcards and telegrams reproduced here are a unique
example of a complete WW2 Internment Correspondence.
With an introduction by author Anne Enright. Shortlisted for the
Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's
unbreakable bond. How you see a country depends on whether you are
driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on
whether or not you can leave it, if you have to. As the daughter of
white settlers in war-torn 1970s Rhodesia, Alexandra Fuller
remembers a time when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun
as a satchel. This is her story - of a civil war, of a quixotic
battle with nature and loss, and of a family's unbreakable bond
with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them.
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Alexandra Fuller's
classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter
and warmth even amid disaster. Unsentimental and unflinching, but
always enchanting, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is the story
of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.
In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill
approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the
most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating
the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and
inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil
and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely
because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful. In this
bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his
incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently
declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony
collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that
spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the
developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist
system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal
extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of
Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.
I have found that there are many people who do not have any
knowledge of the Great War. But we should remember it, as nearly a
million people died. Their names are written on memorials all over
England, as well as France and Belgium. Do not forget them and the
sacrifice they made.
A gripping first hand account of how Soviet Communism impacted on
those who had to live their daily lives under its rule.
Two days after Christmas 1944, during the harshest winter in living
memory, 33 SAS troops parachuted into the valley of Rossano,
Northern Italy. Carried out in broad daylight, the parachute drop
was intended to deceive observing enemy forces into believing that
a full parachute brigade of 400 men had landed behind them. Drawing
on post-op reports and memoirs, this book is a fictionalised
account written from the perspective of one of the rank and file
parachutists who took part in the operation: the author's father.
Scrupulously researched and richly illustrated, Hann's personal
narrative brings to life the co-ordinated attemptsof the SAS and
local partisans to engage and evade the enemy. For the first time,
Hann provides a detailed account of some of the devastating
setbacks and triumphs of Operation Galia: one of the hardest fought
and most successful operations of the Second World War.
This work explores the value of the motorcycle to communications,
and how the despatch rider helped prevent German victory.
This manual lists the different types of fuzes fitted to both
British and German artillery and trench mortar projectiles and
details how 'safe' they are to handle.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER WHSmith NON-FICTION BOOK OF
THE YEAR 2018 'The best book you will ever read about Britain's
greatest warplane' Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter
Boys 'A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic British
machine' Rowland White, bestselling author of Vulcan 607 'As the
RAF marks its centenary, Nichol has created a thrilling and often
moving tribute to some of its greatest heroes' Mail on Sunday
magazine The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early
days of World War II. But what happened to the redoubtable fighter
and its crews beyond the Battle of Britain, and why is it still so
loved today? In late spring 1940, Nazi Germany's domination of
Europe had looked unstoppable. With the British Isles in easy reach
since the fall of France, Adolf Hitler was convinced that Great
Britain would be defeated in the skies over her southern coast,
confident his Messerschmitts and Heinkels would outclass anything
the Royal Air Force threw at them. What Hitler hadn't planned for
was the agility and resilience of a marvel of British engineering
that would quickly pass into legend - the Spitfire. Bestselling
author John Nichol's passionate portrait of this magnificent
fighter aircraft, its many innovations and updates, and the people
who flew and loved them, carries the reader beyond the dogfights
over Kent and Sussex. Spanning the full global reach of the
Spitfire's deployment during WWII, from Malta to North Africa and
the Far East, then over the D-Day beaches, it is always accessible,
effortlessly entertaining and full of extraordinary spirit. Here
are edge-of-the-seat stories and heart-stopping first-hand accounts
of battling pilots forced to bail out over occupied territory; of
sacrifice and wartime love; of aristocratic female flyers, and of
the mechanics who braved the Nazi onslaught to keep the aircraft in
battle-ready condition. Nichol takes the reader on a hair-raising,
nail-biting and moving wartime history of the iconic Spitfire
populated by a cast of redoubtable, heroic characters that make you
want to stand up and cheer.
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General Sir Gordon MacMillan's five children decided to write this
life of their father to learn more about what he had done, and so
allow their children and grandchildren to draw inspiration from the
great man from whom they are descended. Fascinating details came to
light about his bravery in the First World War, his successes in
command in the Second World War, his good fortune in surviving
three assassination attempts during the last years of the British
Mandate in Palestine, and his disagreement with Churchill over the
handling of delicate issues in Gibraltar. But this is not just a
tale of a soldier and his military exploits, and of his subsequent
engagement in civilian and Clan activities in Scotland. It is a
story that is placed in the broader family setting within which his
children feel fortunate to have been brought up.
'Absolutely extraordinary ... Findlay reveals a vast, hidden
European story that few nations have ever been brave enough to
confront' Keith Lowe' 'Beautifully written, poignant and acutely
perceptive' Sinclair McKay 'Moving and powerful' Julia Samuel
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In My Grandfather's Shadow is an unflinching, thought-provoking
fusion of memoir and history, and an exploration of the hidden
scars left across generations by the conflict and horrors of the
Second World War. In a quest to discover the truth about her German
grandfather, first a proud Wehrmacht General serving on the Eastern
front, then a broken POW on trial for Nazi war crimes, Angela
Findlay travels across Europe and Russia to uncover the untold
story of millions of Germans long buried not only in guilt and
shame but also trauma. Carefully breaking the silence surrounding
so many of World War Two's perpetrators, she challenges widespread
binary narratives and offers a way forward that allows the
intergenerational wounds to heal and us all to grasp the urgent
lessons of the darkest episode in modern history. Brave, profoundly
insightful and moving, In My Grandfather's Shadow is a courageous
look at a taboo subject and raises important questions about how
and why we should remember the past.
Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the land, but
often those who labour in nature have the least control over what
happens there. Starting with Rebecca Smith's own family history -
foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in
Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship
Canal - Rural is an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and
the people whose labour has shaped it. Beautifully observed, these
are the stories of professions and communities that often go
overlooked. Smith shows the precarity for those whose lives are
entangled in the natural landscape. And she traces how these rural
working-class worlds have changed. As industry has transformed -
mines closing, country estates shrinking, farmers struggling to
make profit on a pint of milk, holiday lets increasing so
relentlessly that local people can no longer live where they were
born - we are led to question the legacy of the countryside in all
our lives. This is a book for anyone who loves and longs for the
countryside, whose family owes something to a bygone trade, or who
is interested in the future of rural Britain.
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