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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.
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.
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
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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
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
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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.
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)
Reboot your Key Stage 3 classroom with this all-in-one textbook
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Empower students to check and drive their own progress through Key
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