What better way of travelling the world than by crewing on a yacht? The Hitchiker`s Guide to the Oceans is ideal for crew pre-planning, & for skippers seeking crew. It is packed with practical information from how to find a crew position, what to expect from different kinds of skipper, how to be in the right place at the right time, where the yachts gather & when, to rally locations, how to maximise your chances of being taken on as crew, what will be expected of you as crew, & job opportunities along the way. Unique yacht migration maps show where the seasonal bottlenecks occur, & help pinpoint the best places & times of year to gain a crew place. This sixth edition with fully updated information & website addresses as well as a new colour section will be welcomed by all aspiring yacht crew, & also as a skipper`s reference. ` Packed with all the information you`d need to find a crewing position...an invaluable guide to crewing anywhere in the world.` Yachting Monthly ` Valuable for the first-timer & useful for skippers & their potential crew.` Classic Boat ...

Hitchin in 1898 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map is double-sided to give maximum coverage of the town. The main map covers the town centre, extending westward to Foxholes, & northward to Butts Close. Features include St Mary`s church, The Priory, Windmill Hill, The Grove, Holy Saviour`s church, Whinbush Grove, Lavender Distillery, Leather Dressing Works, engine shed, Market Place, High Street, Rosenburg, Infirmary, Workhouse, cemetery, etc. On the reverse is a portion of adjacent sheet 12.02 extending coverage eastward to include the station. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Heinrich Hoffman was a key part in the making of the Hitler legend, the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. Hoffmann published his first book of photographs in 1919, following his work as an official photographer for the German army. In 1920 he joined the Nazi Party, & his association with Hitler began. He became Hitler`s official photographer & travelled with him extensively. He took over two million photographs of Hitler, & they were distributed widely, including on postage stamps, an enterprise that proved very profitable for both men. Hoffmann published several books on Hitler in the 1930s, including The Hitler Nobody Knows (1933). Hoffmann & Hitler were very close, & he acted not only as a personal confidante
- his memoirs include rare details of the Fuhrer
- but also as a matchmaker
- it is Hoffmann who introduced Eva Braun, his studio assistant, to Hitler. At the end of the war, Hoffmann was arrested by the US military, who also seized his photographic archive, & was sentenced to imprisonment for Nazi profiteering. This edition of a classic book

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This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period`s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important & influential aspects of Ian Kershaw`s research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections: Hitler & the ` Final Solution`, popular opinion & the Jews in Nazi Germany, & the ` Final Solution` in historiography. Kershaw provides an introduction & a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism. Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third Reich, & he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on the societal causes & consequences of Nazi policy. His work has brought much to light concerning the ways in which the attitudes of the German populace shaped & did not shape Nazi policy. This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership & of the attitudes & behaviour of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide. ...

Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement & The Times Despite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in his rise to power & his methods of leadership than in Hitler the person: some have even declared that the Fuhrer had no private life. Yet to render Hitler as a political animal with no personality to speak of, as a man of limited intelligence & poor social skills, fails to explain the spell that he cast not only on those close to him but on the German people as a whole. In the first volume of this monumental biography, Volker Ullrich sets out to correct our perception of the Fuhrer. While charting in detail Hitler`s life from his childhood to the eve of the Second World War against the politics of the times, Ullrich unveils the man behind the public persona: his charming & repulsive traits, his talents & weaknesses, his deep-seated insecurities & murderous passions. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected or unavailable sources, this magisterial study provides the most rounded portrait of Hitler to date. Ullrich renders the Fuhrer not as a psychopath but as a master of seduction & guile
- & it is perhaps the complexity of his character that explains his enigmatic grip on the German people more convincingly than the cliched image of the monster. This definitive biography will forever change the way we look at the man who took the world into the abyss.
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Hitler`s Atlantic Wall: Pas de Calais tells the history of how & why the giant batteries were built, the origins of their weaponry & the ingenious engineering & military operations that defeated them finally. The book describes the massive effort that the occupying Nazi forces put into the construction of the Eastern section of the Atlantic Wall. While the D-Day invasion was unaffected by the fortifications in this area, they still posed a significant threat from the mighty gun batteries (such as Batteries Todt & Lindemann) that threatened Channel shipping & the South Coast of Engl&. While isolated from the main Allied advance, the Festung ports of Calais, Boulogne & Dunkirk were denied to Allied use. This was of major strategic significance as the lines of supply were becoming ever longer & more vulnerable. Using rare archive material, the book takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the coast that Hitler was wrongly convinced would be the site of the Allied landings. The acclaimed “ Battleground” series from the renowned military publishers Pen & Sword provides an extensive range of titles describing specific battles, particularly during the two World Wars. Well written & illustrated with contemporary photos, drawings & maps, the books give much more detailed & vivid descriptions than found in more general titles, bringing the battlefields alive for visitors as well as informing & entertaining readers at home. Where appropriate, the guides include recommendations for visiting the memorials, cemeteries, monuments & museums by local walks and/or car tours & include recommendations for further reading. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied & fascinated by Germany`s great capital city. In this vivid & entirely new account of Hitler`s relationship with Berlin, Thomas Friedrich explores how Hitler identified with the city, how his political aspirations were reflected in architectural aspirations for the capital, & how Berlin surprisingly influenced the development of Hitler`s political ideas. A leading expert on the twentieth-century history of Berlin, Friedrich employs new & little-known German sources to track Hitler`s attitudes & plans for the city. Even while he despised both the cosmopolitan culture of the Weimar Republic & the profound Jewish influence on the city, Hitler was drawn to the grandiosity of its architecture & its imperial spirit. He dreamed of transforming Berlin into a capital that would reflect his autocracy, & he used the city for such varied purposes as testing his anti-Semitic policies & demonstrating the might of the Third Reich. Illuminating Berlin`s burdened years under Nazi subjection, Friedrich offers new understandings of Hitler & his politics, architectural views, & artistic opinions. ...

True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. ` An absolutely fascinating account of life under German rule in the Channel Islands during the war. As a Guernsey girl I grew up with these stories & recognise family & friends in these pages. Duncan Barrett has done a brilliant job of reflecting the peculiar challenges that existed for those living under occupation. It is an under-told story of an extraordinary time in recent British history.`
- Sarah Montague, The Today Programme presenter.** The new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sugar Girls** In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg, & Hitler`s sights were set on the English coast. & yet, following the success of the Battle of Britain, the promised invasion never came. The prospect of German jackboots landing on British soil retreated into the realm of collective nightmares. But the spectre of what might have been is one that has haunted us down the decades, finding expression in counterfactual history & outlandish fictions. What would a British occupation have looked like? The answer lies closer to home than we think, in the experiences of the Channel Islanders
- the only British people to bear the full brunt of German Occupation. For five years, our nightmares became their everyday reality. The people of Guernsey, Jersey & Sark got to know the enemy as those on the mainland never could, watching in horror as their towns & villages were suddenly draped in Swastika flags, their cinemas began showing Nazi propaganda films, & Wehrmacht soldiers goose-stepped down their highstreets. Those who resisted the regime, such as the brave men & women who set up underground newspapers or sheltered slave labourers, encountered the full force of Nazi brutality. But in the main, the Channel Islands occupation was a `model` one, a prototype for how the Fuhrer planned to run mainland Britain. As a result, the stories of the islanders are not all misery & terror. Many, in fact are rather funny
- tales of plucky individuals trying to get by in almost impossible circumstances, & keeping their spirits up however they could. Unlike their compatriots on the mainl&, the islanders had no Blitz to contend with, but they met the thousand other challenges the war brought with a similar indomitable spirit. The story of the Channel Islands during the war is the history that could so nearly have come to pass for the rest of us. Based on interviews with over a hundred islanders who lived through it, this book tells that story from beginning to end, opening the lid on life in Hitler`s British Isles.


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Hitler`s British Traitors is the first authoritativeaccount of a well-kept secret: the British Fifth Column & its activitiesduring the Second World War. Drawing on hundreds of declassifiedofficial files
- many of them previously unpublished
- Tim Tate uncovers thelargely unknown history of more than 70 British traitors who were convicted, mostly in secret trials, of working to help Nazi Germany win the war, andseveral hundred British Fascists who were interned without trial on evidencethat they were working on behalf of the enemy. Four were condemned to death;two were executed. Thisengrossing book reveals the extraordinary methods adopted by MI5 to uncover British traitors & their German spymasters, as well as two serious wartime plots bywell-connected British fascists to mount a coup d`etat whichwould replace the government with an authoritarian pro-Nazi regime. The book also shows how archaicattitudes to social status & gender in Whitehall & the courts ensured thatjustice was neither fair nor equitable. Aristocratic British pro-Nazisympathizers & collaborators were frequently protected while theless-privileged foot soldiers of the Fifth Column were interned, jailed or evenexecuted for identical crimes.

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It`s April 1940 & German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark. 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down & stay out of trouble. But Bamse & his daring friend Anton can`t resist playing the occasional practical joke on the invading soldiers. When it becomes clear that the trouble isn`t just going to pass them by, the people of Denmark decide to take action & Bamse & his eccentric family are about to take part in one of history`s most dramatic rescues
- smuggling Denmark`s Jewish population, across the water to Sweden, & safety. Many of the characters are based on Sandi`s own family, including her father, Bamse, & the book was inspired by the stories her told to her.
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