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In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade, ushering in an era of limitless, clean propulsion for a new breed of fuelless transport systems
- & weapons beyond our imagination. Of course it never happened. Or did it? Forty years on a chance encounter with one of the engineers who made that prediction forces a highly sceptical aerospace & defence journalist, Nick Cook, to consider the possibility that America did indeed crack the gravity code
- & has covered up ever since. His investigations moved from the corridors of NASA to the dark heartland of America's classified weapons establishment, where it became clear that a half century ago, in the dying days of the Third Reich, Nazi scientists were racing to perfect a Pandora's Box of high technology that would deliver Germany from defeat. History says that they failed. But the trail that takes Cook deep into the once-impenetrable empire of SS General Hans Kammler
- the man charged by Adolf Hitler with perfecting German secret weapons technology
- says otherwise. In his pursuit of Kammler, Cook finally establishes the truth: America is determined to hang onto its secrets, but the stakes are enormous & others are now in the race to acquire a suppressed technology.

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What would have happened had America not dropped the atom bomb at the end of the Second World War? How long would the US government have been able to hold on to the secret of one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century & retain its atomic weapons monopoly? The bomb programme was the culmination of a huge, multi-billion research development project involving thousands of personnel across the States. But what if, at almost exactly the same time, America had discovered another strand of weapons science even more powerful than the bomb
- the creation of a weightless aircraft which needs no fuel but can fly at 170, 000 miles per second ? How would the US have constructed such a programme
- & held on to the secret for so long? Defence journalist Nick Cook enters the labyrinth of a 50-year conspiracy to suppress a technology based on anti-gravity way ahead of its time.

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Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner & lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbellière is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. One evening he overcomes his own excruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, & install her in the large, ornate apartment he is caretaking downstairs. He already has an unlikely flatmate, the foul-mouthed, talented working-class young chef, Franck, who is made more obnoxious by guilt about the beloved grandmother he's had to put in a home. Together, this curious, damaged little quartet may be able to face the world.

Gorgeously original, full of wry humour & razor-sharp observation, redolent of Paris, its foibles, its food & its neglected corners, Hunting & Gathering is a universal story about despair, love & the virtues of ensemble-playing in a naughty world.

It's a big novel that you will not want to put down.

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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history
- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann & Klaus Barbie
- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.

The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided & abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, & were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, & daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.

Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, & what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, travelled the 'rat lines', & poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic & vivid life.

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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history
- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann & Klaus Barbie
- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.

The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided & abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, & were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, & daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.

Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, & what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, & poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic & vivid life.

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In HURLING'S TOP 20 bestselling author & broadcaster Colm Keane profiles 20 of the greatest hurling legends to grace the game: from Christy Ring, Mick Mackey, Jack Lynch & Tony Reddin to more recent heroes such as Nicky English, Joe Cooney, Brian Whelahan & D J Carey. Tipperary's John Doyle & Jimmy Doyle, Kilkenny's Eddie Keher & Noel Skehan, along with Cork's Ray Cummins & Jimmy Barry-Murphy recall their glory years. Offaly's Joe Dooley together with Wexford's Billy Rackard & Tony Doran describe how their countries beat the odds turning the tables on the traditional hurling powers, while Waterford's glory years in the 1940s & '50s are recalled through career profiles of John Keane & Tom Cheasty. Jimmy Smyth describes Clare's fallow years. HURLING'S TOP 20 chronicles over half a century of hurling history, as seen through the eyes of those who have played at the highest level of the game. Incorporating amusing anecdotes, first-hand match descriptions & behind-the-scenes analysis, HURLING'S TOP 20 is a 'must' for hurling fans. ...

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Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence & instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary democracy, outbreaks of fascist violence & fears of communist subversion in industry & the Empire ran through the entire period.

Fascist organizations may have failed to attract the support they achieved elsewhere but fascist ideas were adopted from top to bottom of society & by men & women in all parts of the country. This book will demonstrate for the first time the true spread & depth of fascist beliefs
- & the extent to which they were distinctly British. Like the Continental movements, fascism in the UK encompassed the corporate state, charismatic leadership & youthful rejection of the decadent rule of the older generation. But was it less anti-Semitic? Was it readier to adopt a feminist agenda? & was the fact that Britain finally repudiated fascism more a matter of timing & chance than of fundamental obstacles in British society & politics?

Hurrah for the Blackshirts!, rich in anecdotes & extraordinary characters, shows us an inter-war Britain on the high-road to fascism but never quite arriving at its destination.

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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus Barbie - not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.

The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided and abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic,
with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.

Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, and what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, travelled the 'rat lines', and poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic and vivid life.

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