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Dark Shadows Falling
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In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from their tent. He was filmed in his last hours for a television feature. Why did onlookers not hold the dying man's hand & comfort him? The answer appals Joe Simpson, who was himself left for dead in a cervasse in Peru in 1985
- 'because it might compromise their summit bid'. It is an ethical question that Joe is forced to confront as he climbs a hazardous route on Pumori. Now that Everest has become the playground of the rich, where commercial operators offer guided tours to the top, camping admist the detritus & unburied corpses of previous less fortunate climbers, Joe wonders if the noble instincts that once characterised mountaineering have been irrevocably displaced
- as in politics, in business, in the media & in other facets of society.

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Dark Side Of The Moon:
The Magnificent
Madness Of
The American Lunar
Quest
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For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck. Every boy dreamed of being an astronaut; every girl dreamed of marrying one. But despite the best efforts of a generation of scientists, the almost foolhardy heroics of the astronauts, & 35 billion dollars, the moon turned out to be a place of 'magnificent desolation', to use Buzz Aldrin's words
- a sterile rock of no purpose to anyone. In Dark Side of the Moon, Gerard De Groot reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans' thirst for heroes in an age of discontent & became obsessed with putting men in space. Landing on the moon, it was argued, would be good for the economy, for politics, & for the soul. It could even win the Cold War. Drawing on meticulous archival research, De Groot cuts through the myths constructed by the Eisenhower, Kennedy & Johnson administrations & sustained by NASA ever since & exposes the truth behind one of the most revered fictions of American history.
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Dark Side Of The Sun
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Growing up under the spell of the captivating Harding family, Mary Fox knows she will never share their good looks, wealth or easy charm. For beautiful Godfrey, outrageous Nettie & the twins Jonathan & William, the worlds is theirs for the asking. But when the idyll is shattered by the outbreak of war, it is Mary's brains that really count
- while Nettie finds a much more unusual way of helping the brave boys fighting Hitler.
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Dark Times In The City
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2009

Danny Callaghan is having a quiet drink in a Dublin pub when two men with guns

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Dark Side Of The Moon: The Magnificent Madness Of The American Lunar
Quest

For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck. Every boy dreamed of being an astronaut; every girl dreamed of marrying one. But despite the best efforts of a generation of scientists, the almost foolhardy heroics of the astronauts, and 35 billion dollars, the moon turned out to be a place of 'magnificent desolation', to use Buzz Aldrin's words - a sterile rock of no purpose to anyone. In Dark Side of the Moon, Gerard DeGroot reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans' thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men in space. Landing on the moon, it was argued, would be good for the economy, for politics, and for the soul. It could even win the Cold War. Drawing on meticulous archival research, DeGroot cuts through the
myths constructed by the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations and sustained by NASA ever since and exposes the truth behind one of the most revered fictions of American history.
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For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck. Every boy dreamed of being an astronaut; every girl dreamed of marrying one. But despite the best efforts of a generation of scientists, the almost foolhardy heroics of the astronauts, & 35 billion dollars, the moon turned out to be a place of 'magnificent desolation', to use Buzz Aldrin's words
- a sterile rock of no purpose to anyone. In Dark Side of the Moon, Gerard De Groot reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans' thirst for heroes in an age of discontent & became obsessed with putting men in space. Landing on the moon, it was argued, would be good for the economy, for politics, & for the soul. It could even win the Cold War. Drawing on meticulous archival research, De Groot cuts through the myths constructed by the Eisenhower, Kennedy & Johnson administrations & sustained by NASA ever since & exposes the truth behind one of the most revered fictions of American history.

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