On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of Russia’s most illustrious institutions into scandal.

In Bolshoi Confidential, renowned musicologist Simon Morrison shows how the attack, & its torrid aftermath, underscored the importance of the Bolshoi to the art of ballet, to Russia, & to the world.

With exclusive access to state archives & private sources, Morrison sweeps us through the history of the ballet, from its disreputable beginnings in 1776 to the recent £450 million restoration that has returned the Bolshoi to its former glory, even as its prized talent has departed.

As Morrison reveals, the Bolshoi has transcended its own fraught history, surviving 250 years of artistic & political upheaval to define not only Russian culture, but also ballet itself.

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• ISBN: 9780007576630
• Author: Simon Morrison
• Publisher: 4th Estate
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 507
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3.5cm













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Since 9/11, the door between the pilots & the passengers on an airliner must be locked & impossible to break down. But what if the pilots are dead? Tristie Merritt leads & renegade band of ex-soldiers. Their daring scam will take millions from a furious British government & give it to veterans ...

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• ISBN: 9781838541521
• Author: Danilo Promotions Ltd
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• Format: Paperback
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Wives, mothers & teenage girls clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make the explosives, bullets, shells, bombs & war machines that would ensure victory.

It was a dangerous, dirty & exhausting job with many going home with acid burns, yellow skin or damaged hair.

This hidden army of nearly two million women toiled on regardless through the hardest years of the war, despite the bombing, rationing & heartbreak of loss or separation from their other halves.

Delve into the vivid wartime memories of the secret army of female workers as we republish to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of VE Day in May 1945!

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• ISBN: 9781789462050
• Author: Jacky Hyams
• Publisher: John Blake
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 232
• Dimensions: 20 x 12.7 x 1.5cm















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Adityaman Bhatt, a young boy from Ranchi, comes to Mumbai to study medicine at Grant medical college. What follows is familiar, yet unexpected; the ragging, the examinations & strikes, the moments of triumph & despair as he struggles, like the rest of his college to raech his final destination: graduation. ...

Jaume Sanllorente was a twenty-seven-year-old journalist leading an active & exciting life in Barcelona
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Lancaster pilot Victor Wood's aircraft arrived too early over Gelsenkirchen when the target was shrouded in darkness & the Main Force miles behind. His bomber was suddenly struck with terrifying force by flak & turned upside-down. Could Vic get his crew back to base safely? This book contains 19 similar stories. ...

Patrick Bishop looks at the lives & the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan Mc Gregor. They came from every corner of Britain & its Empire. They were the best of their generation…heading for one of the worst tasks of World War 2. Like RAF pilots, the thousands of brave young men who joined Bomber Command took to the air to help Britain triumph in World War Two. But in the glow of victory, the fighter pilots were lauded for their efforts while the Bomber Boys faded in national memory. Crucial in the heat of combat, they were politically awkward afterwards. Yet with an average life expectancy shorter than that of soldiers on the Western front in WWI, these men faced death, injury & capture time & again to send bombs through the shrieking flak onto enemy territory. ‘ Bomber Boys’ is a tribute to their strength, courage... ...

For Bomber Comm&, the term ' Phoney War' never really meant much. Five Blenheims of 107 Squadron were among the blood & bullets the day after war was declared & only one came back. On 14 December 1939, in a disastrous raid on shipping, 99 Squadron lost six Wellingtons with only three survivors out of thirty-six crew. Even worse, in the biggest air battle so far, 18 December, Wilhelmshaven, five Wellingtons of 9 Squadron went down, four of 37 Squadron & two of 149 Squadron. Bomber Command lost sixty-eight aircraft & crews in action in the four war months of 1939, & a further seventy-eight in accidents. In the months up to the French surrender, losses rose spectacularly as the Germans triumphed wherever they went. In a few hours on 14 May, resisting the Blitzkrieg, forty-seven Fairey Battles & Bristol Blenheims were shot from the sky. Through the Scandinavian defence, in France & Belgium, at Dunkirk &, at last, over Germany, for Bomber Command there was no Phoney War. It was real war from the start. ...