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Operation Biting - The 1942 Parachute Assault To Capture Hitler's Radar (Paperback): Max Hastings Operation Biting - The 1942 Parachute Assault To Capture Hitler's Radar (Paperback)
Max Hastings
R480 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R52 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations. A company of the newly-formed Airborne Forces was committed to the operation, which took place on the night of 27/28 February. Amid heavy snow 120 men landed, some of whom were misdropped almost two miles from their objective. They nonetheless launched the assault, dismantled the German radar, and after three nail-biting hours in France and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time by landing-craft across stormy seas to Portsmouth.

Max Hastings recounts this cliffhanging tale in a wealth of previously unchronicled detail. He portrays its remarkable personalities: the ‘boffin’ RV Jones; the peacock Mountbatten; the troubled husband of Daphne Du Maurier, Gen. ’Boy’ Browning, who commanded the Airborne Division; ‘Colonel Remy’, the French secret agent whose men reconnoitered Bruneval at mortal risk; Major John Frost, who led the paras into action; Charlie Cox, the little RAF technician who stripped the Würzburg and became an unexpected hero; Wing-Commander Charles Pickard, a legendary bomber pilot who led the drop squadron. Seldom have so many fascinating personalities been brought together to fulfil a mission that became a front-page triumph in a season of British defeats.

Recounted in Hastings’ familiar best-selling blend of top-down and bottom-up action detail, Operation Biting tells a story that has become almost forgotten yet deserves to rank among the epic tales of courage and daring that took place in the greatest conflict in history.

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.

High Note Level 2 Student's Book & eBook with Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback): Bob Hastings, Stuart McKinlay,... High Note Level 2 Student's Book & eBook with Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback)
Bob Hastings, Stuart McKinlay, Rod Fricker, Dean Russell, Beata Trapnell
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wider World 2 Students' Book & eBook with MyEnglishLab & Online Extra Practice (Miscellaneous printed matter): Bob... Wider World 2 Students' Book & eBook with MyEnglishLab & Online Extra Practice (Miscellaneous printed matter)
Bob Hastings, Stuart McKinlay
R1,648 Discovery Miles 16 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
High Note Level 1 Student's Book & eBook with Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback): Catrin Morris, Rod Fricker, Bob... High Note Level 1 Student's Book & eBook with Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback)
Catrin Morris, Rod Fricker, Bob Hastings
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
High Note Level 4 Student's Book & eBook with Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback): Rachael Roberts, Caroline... High Note Level 4 Student's Book & eBook with Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback)
Rachael Roberts, Caroline Krantz, Lynda Edwards, Catherine Bright, Bob Hastings
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
High Note Level 2 Student's Book & eBook with Online Practice, Extra Digital Activities & App (Digital product license... High Note Level 2 Student's Book & eBook with Online Practice, Extra Digital Activities & App (Digital product license key)
Bob Hastings, Stuart McKinlay, Rod Fricker, Dean Russell, Beata Trapnell
R1,873 Discovery Miles 18 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wider World 2 Students' Book & eBook (Paperback): Bob Hastings, Stuart McKinlay Wider World 2 Students' Book & eBook (Paperback)
Bob Hastings, Stuart McKinlay
R1,231 Discovery Miles 12 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
High Note Level 3 Student's Book & eBook with Online Practice, Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback): Daniel... High Note Level 3 Student's Book & eBook with Online Practice, Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback)
Daniel Brayshaw, Bob Hastings, Lynda Edwards, Catherine Bright, Rod Fricker, …
R1,873 Discovery Miles 18 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
High Note Level 1 Student's Book & eBook with Online Practice, Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback): Catrin Morris,... High Note Level 1 Student's Book & eBook with Online Practice, Extra Digital Activities & App (Paperback)
Catrin Morris, Rod Fricker, Bob Hastings
R1,873 Discovery Miles 18 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies Route A Workbook (Paperback): Elena Haste Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies Route A Workbook (Paperback)
Elena Haste
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Build the confidence, knowledge and skills your students need to succeed in Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies Route A. This time-saving, write-in workbook can be used be flexibly for classwork or homework, throughout the course or for revision and exam practice. - Improve understanding through a range of activities that enable students to review, reinforce and apply their knowledge across each component of the course - Prepare for assessment with exam-style questions to help students practice and perfect their technique - Encourage independent study and progression with the answers available online This workbook covers: - Component 1: Religious, Philosophical and Ethical Studies in the Modern World - Component 2: Study of Christianity - Component 3: Islam

Agents of S.U.I.T. (Paperback): John Patrick Green Agents of S.U.I.T. (Paperback)
John Patrick Green; As told to Christopher Hastings; Illustrated by Pat Lewis
R250 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Save R23 (9%) View more sellers Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From John Patrick Green, the creator of the side-splitting InvestiGators series, comes Agents of S.U.I.T. - the first in a full colour, laugh-out-loud graphic novel series perfect for fans of Bunny vs Monkey! Meet Cilantro the Chameleon! Newly appointed Agent of S.U.I.T!* Cilantro finally has a chance to prove herself . . . but her first big case is OUT OF THIS WORLD. As she begins to uncover a sheep-led worker's rights revolt and an alien invasion conspiracy, can Cilantro earn her V.E.S.T.** and catch the bad guys? Created by John Patrick Green with cowriter Christopher Hastings and artist Pat Lewis, join the Agents in this standalone but complementary series. *Special Undercover Investigation Teams **Very Exciting Spy Technology

Wider World 1 Students' Book & eBook (Digital product license key): Bob Hastings, Stuart McKinlay Wider World 1 Students' Book & eBook (Digital product license key)
Bob Hastings, Stuart McKinlay
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sword - D-Day Trial By Battle (Paperback): Max Hastings Sword - D-Day Trial By Battle (Paperback)
Max Hastings
R440 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R91 (21%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years.

Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit summer England to face within hours a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes, above all of sudden death, such as no exercise had prepared them for.

In Sword, veteran chronicler of war Max Hastings explores with extraordinary vividness the actions of the Commando brigade, Montgomery’s 3rd Infantry and 6th Airborne divisions on and around a single British beach. He describes their frustrations, hopes, loves and fears through the apparently interminable years training and preparing in England, then their triumphs and tragedies on the beach and beyond. Here are the airborne assaults on the Caen Canal bridge and Merville Battery, the battles on the shoreline and against the German strongpoints inland, narrated and explained with all the insights that Hastings’ decades of study, veterans’ interviews and new archive research enable him to deploy. The book offers a searching analysis of why British troops did not reach Caen on 6 June, as Montgomery had promised Churchill that they would – and the story of the brigadier who was sacked for that failure. There is also a host of personal portraits of key figures from commando leader Lord Lovat, famously brave but supremely arrogant, to tank colonel Jim Eadie, whose tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry repulsed a panzer division in the last hours of 6 June, and some of the humbler participants to whom extraordinary things happened.

This is D-Day as you have never read the story told before, with the blend of narrative, analysis and human insight that made Max Hastings’ last book Operation Biting, like many of his earlier works, a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller.

Wedded to His Enemy Debutante (Original ed.): Samantha Hastings Wedded to His Enemy Debutante (Original ed.)
Samantha Hastings
R186 R175 Discovery Miles 1 750 Save R11 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home (Paperback): Jessa Hastings Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home (Paperback)
Jessa Hastings
R482 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

HOW MANY LOVES DO YOU GET IN A LIFETIME? AND ARE MAGNOLIA AND BJ EACH OTHER'S? It's been nearly a year since everything happened between Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine on the steps of the Mandarin Oriental, and it seems like everything since then has changed. Magnolia has a life in New York now and BJ appears to have finally let go and moved on. But when they both wind up back to London and are thrust together once again, they find themselves asking their age-old question: how many loves do you actually get in a lifetime, and most importantly - are they each other's? READERS LOVE THE MAGNOLIA PARKS UNIVERSE 'I was so wrecked by the ending I considered pulling a Joey from Friends and putting the book in the freezer.' (FIVE STARS) 'I never want to leave the Magnolia Parks universe! The obsession is real!' (FIVE STARS) 'If you want to obsess over a world and the gut wrenching love story that it revolves around - this book is for you.' (FIVE STARS)

The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings - Edited by His Daughter the Marchioness of Bute. in Two Volumes (Paperback):... The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings - Edited by His Daughter the Marchioness of Bute. in Two Volumes (Paperback)
The Marquess of Hastings
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Progress in Computing: Key Stage 3 (Paperback): George Rouse, Lorne Pearcey, Ben Barnes, Tristan Kirkpatrick, Graham Hastings,... Progress in Computing: Key Stage 3 (Paperback)
George Rouse, Lorne Pearcey, Ben Barnes, Tristan Kirkpatrick, Graham Hastings, …
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Reboot your Key Stage 3 classroom with this all-in-one textbook that will inspire you to deliver creative Computing lessons with confidence. > Boost knowledge and skills in bite-sized chunks: every double-page spread represents a lesson's worth of targeted content and activities > Build understanding of the principles of Computing and improve IT skills with a range of engaging activities > Challenge students to think creatively about what they are learning and how it can be applied in the real world > Empower students to check and drive their own progress through Key Stage 3 and to GCSE, Cambridge Nationals and BTEC, and beyond, with regular knowledge check-ins and activities > Ensure complete coverage of the National Curriculum, with an easy-to-follow Progression Framework We've listened to how you teach Computing at Key Stage 3 and designed our brand-new toolkit of digital and printed resources around you! Comprising of everything you will need to confidently deliver the National Curriculum in Computing and develop students' ICT skills, Progress in Computing: Key Stage 3 combines lesson plans, presentations, interactive resources, quizzes and assessments with a Student Book. The Progress in Computing digital and print 'toolkit' will be formed of 16 modules that can be used flexibly to suit a teacher's context. Our brand-new digital platform will also give you unparalleled flexibility in terms of choosing your own pathway through the resources, with the bonus of all elements being tagged clearly against the curriculum, our 2 and 3-year Scheme of Work and progression to Key Stage 4 qualifications. Digital resources include: - videos, animations, online self-marking coding challenges and worksheets - teaching and learning support and lesson plans including course planners for centres in England and Wales - a mixture of teacher-led, teacher-facilitated, plugged and unplugged activities - baseline assessment and an end of Key Stage 3 assessment, with auto-marked homework quizzes and end-of-module assessments track progress throughout the course.

Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Paperback): George Woodyatt Hastings Sir Ed Ryalls Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Paperback)
George Woodyatt Hastings Sir Ed Ryalls
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Paperback): George Woodyatt Hastings Andrew Pears Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Paperback)
George Woodyatt Hastings Andrew Pears
R902 Discovery Miles 9 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Spectator (Paperback): Hastings Etheredge and Bliss The Spectator (Paperback)
Hastings Etheredge and Bliss
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Zurich Letters - (Second Series) Comprising the Correspondence of Several English Bishops and Others With Some of the... The Zurich Letters - (Second Series) Comprising the Correspondence of Several English Bishops and Others With Some of the Helvetian Reformers, During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (Paperback)
Hastings Robinson
R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings (Paperback): Francis Rawdon-Hastings The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings (Paperback)
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford 1868 (Paperback): Sir Francis Hastings Charles Do (bart ) Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford 1868 (Paperback)
Sir Francis Hastings Charles Do (bart )
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Canterbury Guide; or Travellers Pocket Companion. by an Inhabitant E. Hasted. by a Late Inhabitant (Paperback): Edward... The Canterbury Guide; or Travellers Pocket Companion. by an Inhabitant E. Hasted. by a Late Inhabitant (Paperback)
Edward Hasted
R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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