In the closing days of World War II, a motley assortment of Allied agents are assembled for one of the conflict's last and most unusual missions: to find Adolf Hitler's huge, secret hoard of looted European art. Undercover and behind enemy lines in the heart of Nazi Austria, will the Operation Jackdaw team be able to save the masterpieces of western civilization, before the defeated Fuhrer orders the collection destroyed, rather than let it fall into non-Aryan hands? A rip-roaring adventure in the tradition of Where Eagles Dare; Operation Jackdaw hurls the reader relentlessly towards a climactic showdown deep beneath the Austrian Alps, with plenty of action to spare on the way.

Existing global frameworks for development cooperation are heavily dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. However, emerging economies have begun to accelerate their development cooperation with other developing countries, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation. This expert and topical volume explores the development cooperation policies of China, India, Brazil and South Africa and compares them with those of Mexico and Western actors. In exploring the motivation and execution of these countries' development policies, the volume will analyze how South-South cooperation has evolved, and where it differs from traditional development cooperation. This vital new collection brings together first-hand experience from a range of national experts from these countries, to provide a forward-looking analysis of global frameworks and the evolution of a possible convergence of traditional and emerging development actors.