In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy. It marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations & changed the international balance of power for ever. This book deals with the story of Nixon, Mao & the week that changed the world. ...

Outpirating the pirates with one of the most interesting men alive: Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships & sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok. ...

For almost four desperate years, from 1939 to mid-1943, the British & American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German submarine wolfpacks. The Allies might never have turned the tide without an intelligence coup. The race to break the German U-boat codes is one of the greatest untold stories of World War II. Kahn expertly brings this tale to life in this newly-updated edition of his classic book. Soon after war broke out, Hitler s U-boats began to sever Allied lifelines. In the gray wasteland of the North Atlantic, submarines prowled; at night, the sky lit up with the flames of exploding tankers. To meet the growing crisis, ingenious amateurs joined the nucleus of dedicated professionals at Bletchley Park. As the Battle of the Atlantic raged, they raced to unlock the continually changing German naval codes. Their mission: to read the U-boat messages of Hitler s cipher device, the Enigma. Critical to their success was a series of raids at sea. U-110, captured intact in the mid-Atlantic, yielded the Enigma machine itself & also a trove of secret documents. The weather ship Lauenburg seized near the Arctic ice pack provided codesettings for an entire month. In the Mediterranean, two sailors rescued a German weather cipher than enabled the team at Bletchley to solve the Enigma after a year-long blackout. 23.4 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm, pages 387 ...

Details: Desiree White was walking through the fields of winter wheat & oilseed rape when she saw it. She picked the newspaper
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Secret Days is a meticulously researched account of life at Bletchley park during the Second World War. Asa Briggs, author of major academic works on the Victorians & the history of the BBC, was a code breaker in Hut Six & worked alongside Alan Turing & Gordon Welshman. He has never, however, written about his time at Bletchley Park. Briggs finds himself did not tell his wife about his wartime career until the 1970s & his parents died with ever knowing about their son ...

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely & spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys & trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 & her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty & wit. ...

This selection brings together thirty of Woolf's best essays across a wide range of subjects including writing & reading, the role & reputation of women writers, the art of biography, & the London scene. They are enchanting in their own right, & indispensable to an understanding of this great writer. ...

This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher & tragedian Seneca's letters currently available. In them Seneca advises his friend Lucilius on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. We learn too about Seneca's personal & political life in the time of Nero. ...

Keats's letters are 'the most notable & most important ever written by any English poet' (T. S. Eliot). This new edition revises & updates Robert Gittings's selection &

Includes:: 170 letters, a new introduction & notes, list of correspondents & full index

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A selection of Tony Harrison's poems, which

Includes:: sixty-three poems from his sonnet sequence The School

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