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The Bomber Mafia - A Tale of Innovation and Obsession (Paperback): Malcolm Gladwell The Bomber Mafia - A Tale of Innovation and Obsession (Paperback)
Malcolm Gladwell
R265 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R53 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday Times The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century 'The Bomber Mafia is a case study in how dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea drops from the heavens, it does not land softly in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, and shatters.' In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we could make the brutal clashes between armies on the ground a thing of the past? This book tells the story of what happened when that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafia follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, Winston Churchill's forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot who sang vaudeville tunes to his crew, and the bomber commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would order the bloodiest attack of the Second World War. In this tale of innovation and obsession, Gladwell asks: what happens when technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war? And what is the price of progress?

Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (Hardcover): Max Hastings Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (Hardcover)
Max Hastings
R798 R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Save R101 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. Max Hastings's graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro's Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev's Russia and Kennedy's America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned. Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twentieth century history. He is as shocked as are millions of us around the world, to discover that the rape of Ukraine gives this narrative a hitherto unimaginable twenty-first century immediacy. We may be witnessing the onset of a new Cold War between nuclear-armed superpowers. To contend with today's threat, which Hastings fears will prove enduring, it is critical to understand how, sixty years ago, the world survived its last glimpse into the abyss. Only by fearing the worst, he argues, can our leaders hope to secure the survival of the planet.

Locutores de Claves Navajos (Navajo Code Talkers) (English, Spanish, Paperback): Stuart A Kallen Locutores de Claves Navajos (Navajo Code Talkers) (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Stuart A Kallen
R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Facemaker - One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (Paperback): Lindsey Fitzharris The Facemaker - One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (Paperback)
Lindsey Fitzharris
R295 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R64 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they deserved. In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction in Sidcup, south-east England. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of doctors, nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had been torn apart. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. Meticulously researched and grippingly told, The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the poignant stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine and art can merge, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.

German Classics - Lessing, Goethe, Schiller; Volume V (Hardcover): C. A. Buchheim German Classics - Lessing, Goethe, Schiller; Volume V (Hardcover)
C. A. Buchheim
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Quiet Country Town - A Celebration of Westland at Yeovil (Paperback, 2nd edition): David Gibbings A Quiet Country Town - A Celebration of Westland at Yeovil (Paperback, 2nd edition)
David Gibbings
R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It has been 100 years since the first airfield was established in the country town of Yeovil. Since 1915, aircraft have been designed, manufactured and tested at Westland, including the Lysander, used to transport British agents to Europe during the Second World War. In 1948 the company focused solely on helicopters and its aircraft have been sent all over the world since then, used in lifesaving with Air Ambulance and Search and Rescue and deployed in warfare such as Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. To celebrate the centenary of the UK's only major helicopter manufacturer, David Gibbings has collated an anthology of writings that retell Westland's history and its special relationship with Yeovil, which has rarely been quiet since the first aircraft took off from the airfield that now lies at its heart.

I'll Take My Chances - Volume 2 (Hardcover): Gary Turner I'll Take My Chances - Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Gary Turner
R854 R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Save R153 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I'll Take My Chances - Volume 2 (Paperback): Gary Turner I'll Take My Chances - Volume 2 (Paperback)
Gary Turner
R523 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I'll Take My Chances - Volume 3 (Paperback): Gary Turner I'll Take My Chances - Volume 3 (Paperback)
Gary Turner
R446 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Nine - The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany (Paperback): Gwen Strauss The Nine - The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany (Paperback)
Gwen Strauss
R495 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R120 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stalin's Amazons - The Untold Story of the Red Army Female Snipers in Wolrd War Two (Paperback): Gianpiero Malinetti Stalin's Amazons - The Untold Story of the Red Army Female Snipers in Wolrd War Two (Paperback)
Gianpiero Malinetti
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The USSR was the only nation to employ women in battle.It has been written that, in what the Soviet historians called the Great Patriotic War, between 800,000 and a million women from all over the USSR took up arms, out of a total 10 million soldiers, sailors and aviators involved. What's more, 200,000 of them were decorated. The employment of such a quantity of women combatants by the Soviet Union was due, also in this case, to several factors: the equality between men and women sanctioned by communism; the multitude of paramilitary activities offered free to students and workers between the two world wars and in practice up until the fall of the Berlin Wall; an ardent patriotism diffused by omnipresent and incessant propaganda; the frightening losses incurred by the Soviet Armed Forces with the German invasion. The women combatants paid a high price in blood for the victory: many were wounded, remained invalid, were killed, taken prisoner and tortured by the Germans or disappeared and never returned home. However always very little is said about them. Still less has been written on the subject of this book, the women-snipers, an aspect that was totally exclusive to the Red Army in the last war. There amounted to be a little less than two thousand highly skilled markswomen that sowed panic among the German ranks and that killed (according to some estimates) 20,000 enemy soldiers. In the West very little has been published on these Red Army sniper women.

The Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Hardcover): Robert Sackville-West The Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Hardcover)
Robert Sackville-West
R776 R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Save R140 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

**Selected as a Book of the Year by the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph** 'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written' DAVID DIMBLEBY 'Utterly riveting' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and remembrance' GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES ______________________ By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed dead, lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders. In The Searchers, Robert Sackville-West brings together the extraordinary, moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives to the search for the missing. These stories reveal the remarkable lengths to which people will go to give meaning to their loss: Rudyard Kipling's quest for his son's grave; E.M. Forster's conversations with traumatised soldiers in hospital in Alexandria; desperate attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead; the campaign to establish the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior; and the exhumation and reburial in military cemeteries of hundreds of thousands of bodies. It was a search that would span a century: from the department set up to investigate the fate of missing comrades in the war's aftermath, to the present day, when DNA profiling continues to aid efforts to recover, identify and honour these men. As the rest of the country found ways to repair and move on, countless families were consumed by this mission, undertaking arduous, often hopeless, journeys to discover what happened to their husbands, brothers and sons. Giving prominence to the deep, personal battles of those left behind, The Searchers brings the legacy of war vividly to life in a testament to the bravery, compassion and resilience of the human spirit. 'Remarkable' JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES 'This is an outstanding book' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deeply moving' DAILY MAIL

Holocaust Child - Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival (Paperback): Amira Keidar Holocaust Child - Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival (Paperback)
Amira Keidar
R204 R115 Discovery Miles 1 150 Save R89 (44%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to do anything to keep her alive. They nickname her Lalechka. Just before Lalechka's first birthday, the Nazis begin to systematically murder everyone in the ghetto. Her father understands that staying in the ghetto will mean certain death for his child. In both desperation and hope, Lalechka's parents decide to save their daughter, no matter the cost. Zippa smuggles her outside the boundaries of the ghetto where her Polish friends, Irena and Sophia, are waiting. She entrusts their beloved Lalechka to them and returns to the ghetto to remain with her husband and parents - unaware of the fate that awaits her. Irena and Sophia take on the burden of caring for Lalechka during the war, pretending she is part of their family despite the grave danger of being discovered and executed. Holocaust Child is based on the unique journal written by Zippa during the annihilation of the ghetto, as well as on interviews with key figures in the story, rare documents, and authentic letters. It is a story of hope in the face of terror.

Normandy in the Time of Darkness - Everyday Life and Death in the French Channel Ports 1940-45 (Hardcover): Douglas Boyd Normandy in the Time of Darkness - Everyday Life and Death in the French Channel Ports 1940-45 (Hardcover)
Douglas Boyd 1
R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy (1940-44), and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940, Normandy formed part of the Reich's western border and its history for the next four years. On the coast, vast defenses were built up, and large numbers of German troops were stationed throughout the region, all in the midst of the local population. Much of the story is told in the words of French, German, and Allied participants, including last letters of executed hostages and resisters, accounts of everyday life and eyewitness reports of aerial, naval, and ground combat operations during the Liberation. When the Allies landed in Normandy in June 1944, all were witness to the greatest amphibious landing in history. This, then, is the story of the 51-month-nightmare that was Normandy's war, told while it is still possible to record the personal stories of survivors, which very soon will not be the case.

Band Of Brothers (Paperback, Reissue): Stephen E. Ambrose Band Of Brothers (Paperback, Reissue)
Stephen E. Ambrose
R321 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R109 (34%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rifle company in the US Army. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the dangerous parachute landings on D-Day and their triumphant capture of Hitler's 'Eagle's Nest' in Berchtesgaden. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. Repeatedly send on the toughest missions, these brave men fought, went hungry, froze and died in the service of their country. A tale of heroic adventures and soul-shattering confrontations, Band of Brothers brings back to life, as only Stephen E. Ambrose can, the profound ties of brotherhood forged in the barracks and on the battlefields. 'History boldly told and elegantly written . . . Gripping' Wall Street Journal 'Ambrose proves once again he is a masterful historian . . . spellbinding' People

The Battle of Turkey Thicket - The Journeys of an Orphan, Altar Boy, Runaway, and Teenaged Soldier from Washington, D.C.... The Battle of Turkey Thicket - The Journeys of an Orphan, Altar Boy, Runaway, and Teenaged Soldier from Washington, D.C. (Paperback)
Christopher Russell
R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Princess Spy - The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones (Paperback): Larry Loftis The Princess Spy - The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones (Paperback)
Larry Loftis
R479 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER "As exciting as any spy novel" (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS's most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and Code Girls. When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live "a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious" (Time). As the United States enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline's life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her join the Office of Strategic Services--forerunner of the CIA. With a code name and expert training under her belt, she is sent to Spain to be a coder, but is soon given the additional assignment of infiltrating the upper echelons of society, mingling with high-ranking officials, diplomats, and titled Europeans. Against this glamorous backdrop of galas and dinner parties, she recruits sub-agents and engages in deep-cover espionage. Even after marrying the Count of Romanones, one of the wealthiest men in Spain, Aline secretly continues her covert activities, being given special assignments when abroad that would benefit from her impeccable pedigree and social connections. "[A] meticulously researched, beautifully crafted work of nonfiction that reads like a James Bond thriller" (Bookreporter), The Princess Spy brings to vivid life the dazzling adventures of a spirited American woman who risked everything to serve her country.

Animals in the First World War (Paperback): Peter Street Animals in the First World War (Paperback)
Peter Street
R194 R151 Discovery Miles 1 510 Save R43 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most people are familiar with the use of horses and their often-heroic actions in the First World War, but what about camels, monkeys and the mighty elephant? In this wonderfully illustrated title, learn about how animals were trained and used, the role pets had to play in the war, and the plight of animals on the farm, down the mine and in the street. Although animals were used heavily on the front line and in major battles such as the Somme, they also had a role to play at home and, indeed, in almost every aspect of wartime life. From their first use to how animals were treated when the war ended, and including the involvement of the RSPCA and Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, this volume contains stories that will shock, delight and move you.

The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary (Hardcover, Definitive Edition): Anne... The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary (Hardcover, Definitive Edition)
Anne Frank 3
R616 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive edition released to mark the 70th anniversary of the day the diary begins. '12 June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support' The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most celebrated and enduring books of the last century. Tens of millions have read it since it was first published in 1947 and it remains a deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. This definitive edition restores thirty per cent if the original manuscript, which was deleted from the original edition. It reveals Anne as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also veered between being a carefree child and an aware adult. Anne Frank and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two years with another family and a German dentist. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary. She movingly revealed how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with hunger, the daily threat of discovery and death and being cut off from the outside world, as well as petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners. The Diary of a Young Girl is a timeless true story to be rediscovered by each new generation. For young readers and adults it continues to bring to life Anne's extraordinary courage and struggle throughout her ordeal. This is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was born on the 12 June 1929. She died while imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen, three months short of her sixteenth birthday. This seventieth anniversary, definitive edition of The Diary of a Young Girl is poignant, heartbreaking and a book that everyone should read.

Radiant Illusion? - Middle-Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s (Paperback): Nicholas Deakin Radiant Illusion? - Middle-Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s (Paperback)
Nicholas Deakin
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Grant as a Soldier and Statesman - Being a Succinct History of his Military and Civil Career (Paperback): Edward Howland Grant as a Soldier and Statesman - Being a Succinct History of his Military and Civil Career (Paperback)
Edward Howland
R1,542 Discovery Miles 15 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Proving Ground - The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer (Hardcover): Kathy... Proving Ground - The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer (Hardcover)
Kathy Kleiman
R450 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R99 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing. As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the top-secret computing research started during World War II, among them six gifted mathematicians: a patriotic Quaker, a Jewish bookworm, a Yugoslav genius, a native Gaelic speaker, a sophomore from the Bronx, and a farmer's daughter from Missouri. Their mission? Programming the world's first and only supercomputer-before any code or programming languages existed. These pioneers triumphed against sexist attitudes and huge technical challenges to invent computer programming, yet their monumental contribution has never been recognised-until now. Over a decade, Kathy Kleiman met with four of the original six ENIAC Programmers and recorded their stories. Here, with a light touch and a serious mind, she exposes the deliberate erasure of their achievements and restores the women to their rightful place as revolutionaries, bringing to life their camaraderie, their determination, and their rapidly changing world. As big tech struggles with gender inequality and momentum builds in restoring women to history, the time has come for this engrossing story to be uncovered and celebrated.

Shooting Range - Photography & the Great War (Paperback): Inge Henneman Shooting Range - Photography & the Great War (Paperback)
Inge Henneman; Foreword by Elviera Velghe; Text written by Rein Desle, Johan Pas
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Poland 1939 - The Outbreak of World War II (Paperback): Roger Moorhouse Poland 1939 - The Outbreak of World War II (Paperback)
Roger Moorhouse
R515 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R118 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Operator - The Seal Team Operative And The Mission That Changed The World (Paperback): Robert O'Neill The Operator - The Seal Team Operative And The Mission That Changed The World (Paperback)
Robert O'Neill 1
R280 R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Save R72 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'A riveting, unvarnished and wholly unforgettable portrait of America's most storied commandos at war.' - Joby Warrick, author of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account of SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career. O'Neill describes his idyllic childhood in Butte, Montana; his impulsive decision to join the SEALs; the arduous evaluation and training process; and the even tougher gauntlet he had to run to join the SEALs' most elite unit. The Operatordescribes the nonstop action of O'Neill's deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, evoking the black humor of years-long combat, and reveals firsthand details of the most discussed anti-terrorist operation in military history.

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