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The Bomb - South Africa's Nuclear Program (Paperback): Nic Von Wielligh, Wielligh-Steyn von The Bomb - South Africa's Nuclear Program (Paperback)
Nic Von Wielligh, Wielligh-Steyn von
R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

South Africa's Bomb kept the world guessing for years. Six-and-a- half nuclear bombs had been secretly built and destroyed, former South African President F.W. de Klerk announced in 1993. No other country has ever voluntarily destroyed its nuclear arsenal.

From 1975 Nic von Wielligh was involved in the production of nuclear weapons material, the dismantling of the nuclear weapons and the provision of evidence of South Africa's bona fides to the international community. The International Atomic Energy Agency declared South Africa's Initial Report to be the most comprehensive and professional that they had ever received. In this book the nuclear physicist and his daughter Lydia von Wielligh-Steyn tell the gripping story of the splitting of the atom and the power it releases. It is an account of ground-breaking research and the scientists responsible; it deals with uranium enrichment, the arms race and South Africa's secret programme.

The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Programme is a story of nuclear explosions, espionage, smuggling of nuclear materials and swords that became ploughshares.

The Poisoners - On South Africa's Toxic Past (Paperback): Imraan Coovadia The Poisoners - On South Africa's Toxic Past (Paperback)
Imraan Coovadia
R320 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Poisoners is a history of four devastating chapters in the making of the region, seen through the disturbing use of toxins and accusations of poisoning circulated by soldiers, spies, and politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Imraan Coovadia’s fascinating new book exposes the secret use of poisons and diseases in the Rhodesian bush war and independent Zimbabwe, and the apparent connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States; the enquiry into the chemical and biological warfare programme in South Africa known as Project Coast, discovered through the arrest and failed prosecution of Dr Wouter Basson; the use of toxic compounds such as Virodene to treat patients at the height of the Aids epidemic in South Africa, and the insistence of the government that proven therapies like Nevirapine, which could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, were in fact poisons; and the history of poisoning and accusations of poisoning in the modern history of the African National Congress, from its guerrilla camps in Angola to Jacob Zuma’s suggestion that his fourth wife collaborated with a foreign intelligence agency to have him murdered.

But The Poisoners is not merely a book of history. It is also a meditation, by a most perceptive commentator, on the meaning of race, on the unhappy history of black and white in southern Africa, and on the nature of good and evil.

Abyss - World On The Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (Paperback): Max Hastings Abyss - World On The Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (Paperback)
Max Hastings
R330 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R35 (11%) In Stock

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 current attack 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.

Nuclear War - A Scenario (Hardcover): Annie Jacobsen Nuclear War - A Scenario (Hardcover)
Annie Jacobsen
R766 R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Save R123 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.

Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made. Nuclear War: A Scenario examines the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch. It is essential reading, and unlike any other book in its depth and urgency.

Revolver - Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Paperback): Jim Rasenberger Revolver - Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Paperback)
Jim Rasenberger
R509 R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Two-Seat Spitfires - The Complete Story (Hardcover): Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold Two-Seat Spitfires - The Complete Story (Hardcover)
Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold
R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Spitfire a " there have been many hundreds, maybe even thousands, of books written about this beautiful R.J Mitchell designed, elliptically winged areoplane. But there has yet to be a book published, which has focused solely on the lesser-known two-seat variant of graceful Spitfirea |Until now! In two-seater spitfires, Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold trace the history of this iconic aircraft a " from its initial design through to those still taking to the skies today.

Edward Webbe, Chief Master Gunner, His Trauailes. 1590 (Paperback): Edward Arber Edward Webbe, Chief Master Gunner, His Trauailes. 1590 (Paperback)
Edward Arber
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shells and Shell-Guns (Paperback): John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren Shells and Shell-Guns (Paperback)
John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Also a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons (Paperback): Charles Boutell Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Also a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons (Paperback)
Charles Boutell
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Dreyse Military Needle-Ignition System 2019 - An illustrated history (Paperback): Leonard Alston-Roberts-West The Dreyse Military Needle-Ignition System 2019 - An illustrated history (Paperback)
Leonard Alston-Roberts-West; Illustrated by Guy Alston-Roberts-West
R1,648 Discovery Miles 16 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Needle-Ignition System of the Modele 1866 `Chassepot' - an illustrated history (Paperback): Guy A-R-West, Leonard... The Needle-Ignition System of the Modele 1866 `Chassepot' - an illustrated history (Paperback)
Guy A-R-West, Leonard A-R-West; Illustrated by Guy A-R-West
R1,627 Discovery Miles 16 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Flying Boats, Fathers & Fate - A Tale of Two RAF Pilots in the Far East During World War II and the Remarkable Coincidence That... Flying Boats, Fathers & Fate - A Tale of Two RAF Pilots in the Far East During World War II and the Remarkable Coincidence That Connected Them (Paperback)
Trevor Richter
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Horse Mobilization (Paperback): War Office Horse Mobilization (Paperback)
War Office
R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
SS192 - The Employment of Machine Guns, Part II - Organization and Direction of Fire (Paperback): War Office SS192 - The Employment of Machine Guns, Part II - Organization and Direction of Fire (Paperback)
War Office
R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Salvage - SS640 (Paperback): War Office Salvage - SS640 (Paperback)
War Office
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Detail of the Sets of Harness Required for the Various Natures of Service Pattern Vehicles (Paperback): War Office Detail of the Sets of Harness Required for the Various Natures of Service Pattern Vehicles (Paperback)
War Office
R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Notes on Identification of Aeroplanes (Paperback): War Office Notes on Identification of Aeroplanes (Paperback)
War Office
R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
R.L. Handbook of Ammunition (Paperback): War Office R.L. Handbook of Ammunition (Paperback)
War Office
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
SS192 - The Employment of Machine Guns, Part 1 - Tactical (Paperback): War Office SS192 - The Employment of Machine Guns, Part 1 - Tactical (Paperback)
War Office
R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Unshackled Spirit: - The Secret Purchase of a Spitfire by RAF Prisoners of War (Hardcover): Colin Pateman Unshackled Spirit: - The Secret Purchase of a Spitfire by RAF Prisoners of War (Hardcover)
Colin Pateman
R635 R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Save R74 (12%) Out of stock

Unshackled Spirit was a unique 'Spitfire' fighter aircraft purchased by allied prisoners of war whilst imprisoned in Germany; the book explains how this remarkable achievement was possible using previously restricted and secret material. In addition, accounts are compiled from a collection of original YMCA personal wartime logs as issued to RAF prisoners of war in 1944. 'Unshackled Spirit' draws out the story of each aviator, how they became a prisoner of war and life in the various camps across occupied Europe. Extensive and amazingly detailed pieces of artwork are taken from the logs and illustrated in the book. The balance of fact and inspired drawings makes for an impressive collection from a number of incarcerated aviators. The hardship of POW's and the extraordinary means adopted to escape are touched upon, but more importantly the aspect of how agencies helped by supplying all manner of equipment to the thousands of men behind barbed wire. The role of MI9 is revealed and how it participated in those agencies exploring the efforts taken to smuggle escape material into the prisoner of war camps without breeching the Geneva Convention and finally the extraordinary measures taken to secure intelligence during the process of prisoner repatriation.

Catechism of Animal Management, Etc. (Paperback): War Office Catechism of Animal Management, Etc. (Paperback)
War Office
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Notes on German Fuzes and Typical French and Belgian Fuzes - SS306 (Paperback): War Office Notes on German Fuzes and Typical French and Belgian Fuzes - SS306 (Paperback)
War Office
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Instructions on Bombing, Parts I & II - SS182 (Paperback): General Staff Instructions on Bombing, Parts I & II - SS182 (Paperback)
General Staff
R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Hiroshima Men - The Quest To Build The Atomic Bomb, And The Fateful Decision To Use It (Paperback): Iain MacGregor The Hiroshima Men - The Quest To Build The Atomic Bomb, And The Fateful Decision To Use It (Paperback)
Iain MacGregor
R470 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R105 (22%) Pre-order

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret Manhattan Project and delivered by a B-29 Superfortress, a revolutionary long-range bomber, the weapon destroyed large swaths of the city, instantly killing tens of thousands. The world would never be the same again.

The Hiroshima Men's unique narrative recounts the decade-long journey towards this first atomic attack. It charts the race for nuclear technology before, and during the Second World War, as the allies fought the axis powers in Europe, North Africa, China, and across the vastness of the Pacific, and is seen through the experiences of several key characters: General Leslie Groves, leader of the Manhattan Project alongside Robert Oppenheimer; pioneering Army Air Force bomber pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets II; the mayor of Hiroshima, Senkichi Awaya, who would die alongside over eighty-thousand of his fellow citizens; and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Hersey, who travelled to post-war Japan to expose the devastation the bomb had inflicted upon the city, and in a historic New Yorker article, described in unflinching detail the dangers posed by its deadly after-effect, radiation poisoning.

This thrilling account takes the reader from the corridors of the White House to the laboratories and test sites of New Mexico; from the air war above Nazi Germany and the savage reconquest of the Pacific to the deadly firebombing air raids across the Japanese Home Islands. The Hiroshima Men also includes Japanese perspectives - a vital aspect often missing from Western narratives - to complete MacGregor's nuanced, deeply human account of the bombing's meaning and aftermath.

Paths are Made by Walking (Paperback): Ian Hartley Paths are Made by Walking (Paperback)
Ian Hartley
R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1985 Jennifer and Ian Hartley left their home, bought a caravan and moved to Cambridgeshire to witness against the sighting of Cruise missiles at RAF Molesworth. This memoir recounts their day to day life living in this unusual place and the dialogue they had with MPs, the military, police, peace campaigners, the local community and the church.

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