Presents the military history of the rise of America's armoured forces from their humble beginnings in borrowed tanks on the battlefields of France in World War I to a thundering crescendo of tactical prowess & lethal power as they spearheaded the liberation of Western Europe in World War II. ...

Eva Patterson's life is forever altered by the devastating discovery of her mother, Flora, dead in the bath leaving only a note: ' Forgive Me'.

Until Flora's suicide, Eva's world had been secure
- but overnight everything changes. For when Flora leaves Eva a London artist's studio in her will, she finds her mother had a secret past.

In the studio's attic are Flora's paintings & diaries, & Eva learns her mother was a popular artist in the swinging sixties. Eva's hunt for answers uncovers clues to a shocking crime which led Flora to hide her past.

But will discovering the truth destroy Eva's belief in everything she holds dear? & will this journey lead her & those she loves into danger?

From the author of international bestseller, Stolen, Forgive Me is an intense & gripping story of love & forgiveness.

This paperback book has 496 pages & measures: 18 x 11 x 3cm










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This is Claudia Winters’s last chance for a fresh start.

Changing her name & leaving her old life behind, she has

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The Blake family can only live in security if the truth about the conspiracy threatening their lives is brought into the full

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Romulus & Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman. At thirteen years old they are sold
- Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome.
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Based on the hugely popular Forgotten Skills courses at Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery School, this timely reveals the lost art of making creamy butter & yogurt, keeping a few hens in the garden, home-curing & smoking bacon, & even foraging for food in the wild. So many of our happiest childhood memories are connected to food in the wild. So many of our happiest childhood memories are connected to food. Rediscover the flavours of all-time favourites such as traditional stuffed roast chicken, figgy toffee pudding & freshly baked scones & strawberry jam. Darina also offers lots of thrifty tip for using up leftovers in delicious ways. Essential reading for urban & rural dwellers alike, this is the definitive modern guide to traditional cookery skills. ...

From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2
- the Burma Campaign. In 1941 the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese
- an enemy more prepared, better organised & more powerful than anyone had imagined. Yet in 1944, following key battles at Kohima & Imphal, & daring operations behind enemy lines by the Chindits, the Commonwealth army were back, retaking lost ground one bloody battle at a time. Fighting in dense jungle & open paddy field, this brutal campaign was the longest fought by the British Commonwealth in the Second World War. But the troops taking part were a forgotten army, & the story of their remarkable feats & their courage remains largely untold to this day. The Fourteenth Army in Burma became one of the largest & most diverse armies of the Second World War. British, West African, Ghurkha & Indian regiments fought alongside one another & became comrades. In Forgotten Voices of Burma
- a remarkable new oral history taken from Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive
- soldiers from both sides tell their stories of this epic conflict.



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6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel & began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Initiated by airborne units & covered by air & naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were the most ambitious combined airborne & amphibious assault ever attempted. Their success marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. Drawing on thousands of hours of eyewitness testimony recorded by the Imperial War Museum, Forgotten Voices of D-Day tells the compelling story of this turning point in World War 2. Hearing from paratroopers & commandos, glider pilots & landing craft crewmen, airmen & naval personnel, we learn first-hand what it was like as men waited to go in, as they neared the beaches & drop zones, & as they landed & met the enemy. Accounts range from memories of the daring capture of ' Pegasus' bridge by British glider-bourn troops to recollections of brutal fighting as the assault forces stormed the beaches. Featuring a mass of previously unpublished material, Forgotten Voices of D-Day is a powerful & important new record of a defining moment in modern history. ...

It could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British Army was successfully evacuated, & ' Dunkirk spirit' became synonymous with the strength of the British people in adversity. On the same day that Winston Churchill became Prime Minister, Nazi troops invaded Holl&, Luxembourg & Belgium. The eight-month period of calm that had existed since the declaration of war was over. But the defences constructed by the Allies in preparation failed to repel a German army with superior tactics. The British Expeditionary Force soon found themselves in an increasingly chaotic retreat. By the end of May 1940, over 400, 000 Allied troops were trapped in & around the port of Dunkirk without shelter or supplies. Hitler's army was just ten miles away. On 26 May, the British Admiralty launched Operation Dynamo. This famous rescue mission sent every available vessel
- from navy destroyers & troopships to pleasure cruisers & fishing boats
- over the Channel to Dunkirk. Of the 850 ' Little Ships' that sailed to Dunkirk, 235 were sunk by German aircraft or mines, but over this nine day period 338, 000 British & French troops were safely evacuated. Drawing on the wealth of material from the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk presents in the words of both rescued & rescuers in an intimate & dramatic account of what Winston Churchill described as a 'miracle of deliverance'.

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Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, Joshua Levine brings together voices from both sides of the Blitz & the Battle of Britain to give us a unique, complete & compelling picture of this turbulent time. In June 1940, British citizens prepared for an imminent German onslaught. Hitler's troops had overrun Holl&, Belgium & France in quick succession, & the British people anticipated an invasion would soon be upon them. From July to October, they watched the Battle of Britain play out in the skies above them, aware that the result would decide their fate. Over the next nine months, the Blitz killed more than 43, 000 civilians. For a year, the citizens of Britain were effectively front-line soldiers in a battle which united the country against a hated enemy. We hear from the soldiers, airmen, fire-fighters, air-raid wardens & civilians, people in the air & on the ground, on both sides of the battle, giving us a thrilling account of Britain under siege. With first-hand testimonies from those involved in Dunkirk & the Battle of Britain, Black Saturday on 7th September 1940 when the Luftwaffe began the Blitz, to its climax on the 10th May 1941, this is the definitive oral history of a period when Britain came closer to being overwhelmed by the enemy than at any other time in modern history. ...