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As part of the AHT guidebook series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated on the area of Norfolk. The growing importance of the 'electronic war' in the air in 1943 caused the creation of 100 Group to fly both defensive and offensive sorties employing highly secr...

This text describes the story of the May 3, 1945 Royal Air Force attack on a fleet of ships carrying 10,000 survivors of the Neuengamme concentration camp, the reasons behind the attack, and the tragic results of that devastating event.

In 1956, everything changed. Britain and France occupied Suez, and the Soviet Union invaded Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev's 'secret speech' exposed the crimes of Stalin. Suddenly the left found itself homeless, as the Communist Party became uninhabitable. The Royal Court Theatre unveil...

In August 2005, while conducting a secret mission off the coast of Kamchatka, a Russian Navy submarine became snared in thick cables. Without power, the stricken boat sunk to the seafloor, and the clock began to tick on a rescue mission to save the crew. '72 Hours' tells the story o...

Hugo Kendal and his wife Margaret finally receive a royal pardon and are permitted at last to return to their beloved homeland. Most of the family warmly welcome the couple and the news that they are soon to become three. However, despite the smiles Hannah Kendal cannot help but dwell o...

Alan Brown examines the deployment of foreign air crews from the ten occupied countries of Europe during World War Two. The author uncovers the hitherto secret and often hypocritical attitude of the British command to their uninvited allies.

When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway, with the gift of a white elephabt for the Sultan, little does he anticipate the journey on which he is about to embark. Whispers in the palace gardens and secret journeys through Istanbul lead him to Mihrimah, the beautiful pr...

One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He managed to escape with the regalia and crown before being apprehended. Yet he was not executed for treason. Instead, the king granted him a generous income and he became a...

This is the true and fascinating story of how in 1940 British scientists discovered the existence of invisible beams along which German bombers flew to accurately drop their bombs on target.

1928. In British-ruled India, headstrong Sita longs to choose her own path, but her only destiny is a good marriage. After a chance meeting with the Crown Prince leads to a match, her family’s status seems secured and she moves into the palace, where peacocks fill the gardens and tapestries...

France, July 1944, a month after the Allied landings in Normandy and the liberation of Europe is underway. In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations Executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband Owen Quinn,...

The Allies have landed, the liberation of Europe has begun.In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations Executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears.In London, her husband Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, disco...

France, July 1944, a month after the Allied landings in Normandy and the liberation of Europe is underway. In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations Executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband Owen Quinn,...

'The Bird King' is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. G. Willow Wilson's debut novel 'Alif the Unseen' established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. 'The Bird King' tells the sto...

From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition.G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen established her as a vital American Muslim literary v...

With the young Queen Elizabeth newly established on her throne, Lucifer Box Esq. is now 'by Appointment to Her Majesty'. But the secretive Royal Academy seems a very different place and, approaching retirement, Box decides to investigate one last case.

This volume gives the inside story of the Special Boat Service and its secret operations. It gives details about undercover operations in Gibraltar and Northern Ireland and covers the Falklands, Middle East and Scandinavia.

Rebellion and danger on the high seas… The gripping third Matthew Quinton adventure1665: plague stalks the streets of London, the country is at war and conspiracies against King Charles II are rife. When given command of a vast and ancient Man-of-War, Captain Matthew Quinton finds himself...

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding the Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is ...

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well-known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the ...