When Harry Barnett is anonymously informed that his son is languishing in hospital in a diabetic coma, he is certain there must be some mistake, since he does not have a son. But he soon discovers that he does. David Venning is a brilliant mathematician, whose illness is taken to be either a tragic accident or a suicide attempt. But, oddly enough, his notebooks are missing from the hotel room in which he was found. & Harry discovers that two other scientists employed, like David, by Globescope Inc., an American forecasting institute, have died in mysterious circumstances. Perhaps David is actually the victim of attempted murder. & perhaps the deaths of other Globescope staff are not the coincidences they seem.

Pursuing the truth in Engl&, Denmark & the United States, Harry finds himself entangled in several different kinds of conspiracy, none of which he should
- in theory
- be able to defeat. But as before in his life, Harry finds that circumstance & theory are not necessarily the same thing.



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1963 saw Labour's emergence from its 'wilderness years' in Opposition, & the election of Harold Wilson following the unexpected death of Hugh Gaitskell. In the first Wilson government of 1964 Benn was made Postmaster General & became known as an innovator for his introduction of the Giro & arguing for a radical broadcasting policy. After Labour's landslide victory of 1966 he was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister of Technology, but Labour's honeymoon came to an abrupt end in 1967 with the introduction of devaluation, leading to disilliusionment with the Government.

Tony Benn's account on his relations with the industrialists, television & press chiefs, the Palace & the diplomatic world as well as trade unionists, civil servants, & his Cabinet colleagues, reveals the workings of our political & economic systems at the highest level.

Out of the Wilderness is a unique political record of the 1960s, told by a man who served in five Labour administrations & who today is one of the most experienced figures both in & out of the House of Commons.

' No-one interested in the political influence of the Crown, the intrigues of the civil service or the highly traditionalist character of Harold Wilson can afford to ignore it' The Observer





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In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events
- the accidental death of a child,
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11:15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months: Britain is at war with Germany. Seventy years on from that historic day, this is the definitive history of the build-up to, outbreak & first few months of World War Two, from the events of early 1939, right through to the first war-time Christmas.

Drawing on the Imperial War Museum

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11:15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months: Britain is at war with Germany. Seventy years on from that historic day, this is the definitive history of the build-up to, outbreak & first few months of World War Two, from the events of early 1939, right through to the first war-time Christmas.

Drawing on the Imperial War Museum

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Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that's being mined there. They soon realise that the people living in the village near the mine are frightened & it doesn't take long for Ben & his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill, & no one seems to be doing anything to help.

As Ben's father falls ill, it's up to Ben & his new friend from the village, Halima, to try & tell the government what's going on so the village can be isolated before the sickness spreads further. Will they be able to prevent disaster?

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Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that's being mined there. They soon realise that the people living in the village near the mine are frightened & it doesn't take long for Ben & his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill, & no one seems to be doing anything to help.

As Ben's father falls ill, it's up to Ben & his new friend, Halima, to try & tell the government what's going on so the village can be isolated before the sickness spreads further. Will they be able to prevent disaster?

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Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that's being mined there. They soon realise that the people living in the village near the mine are frightened & it doesn't take long for Ben & his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill, & no one seems to be doing anything to help.

As Ben's father falls ill, it's up to Ben & his new friend from the village, Halima, to try & tell the government what's going on so the village can be isolated before the sickness spreads further. Will they be able to prevent disaster?

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