From the author of ' Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population
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Do your grandparents moan on about what life was like in the war? Want to know if they're telling the terrible truth? Read on to explore the horrible hardships the Blitzed Brits suffered while bombs dropped out of the sky! Find out what really happened in Dad's Army! See how to make a rude noise with a gas mask! Learn why the Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers & nutty!

Faint at the thought of spending seven years without TV! Plus there's heaps of spiffing slang, foul food facts about rotten rationing, awful evacuation tales, & the terrible truth about London's bloodthirsty blackout murders! So there's plenty of gore
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Perfect for children.

This paperback book has 140 pages & measures: 20 x 13 x 1cm approx.






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in 24 June 1948 the Soviet Union abruptly closed all land & water access to the Western Sectors of Berlin. Over 2 million civilians, dependent on the surrounding territory & the West for food, fuel, & other basic goods, were suddenly cut off from all necessities of life. The Western Allies had the option of either withdrawing their garrisons & allowing the Soviet Union to take control of the entire city, or of trying to supply the city by air. Never before in history had 2 million people been supplied exclusively by air. None of the senior military commanders believed it could be done. But the political leadership in London & Washington insisted that it must be done. A withdrawal from Berlin would discredit the West at a critical moment in history, when the Soviet Union was expanding aggressively across Europe. Worse, it would endanger the political stability & economic recovery of all of Europe. So one of the largest & most ambitious humanitarian efforts in history was set in motion. It began without the West really knowing what the Berliners needed in order to survive ...

Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart & Will Quartermain find themselves

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Books Thriller Books The last thing Jack Baxi expected when a detective rang his doorbell in the middle of the night was that he'd be tortured & left for dead, with a young woman he's never met before. Now, running for their lives, Jack & Aisha frantically try to discover why the detective was so convinced they both have information on a missing person. Jack is a Sikh corner shopkeeper with a criminal record. Aisha is a Muslim medical student from a wealthy family. What could possibly connect them? Their desperate hunt for answers will take them on a perilous journey, from the sprawling underground markets & dangerous red-light district of Delhi all the way to the most militarized zone in India. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781804994559 •†Author: A. A. Dhand •†Publisher:   Penguin •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 352 •†Dimensions: 16 x 3 x 24.1 cm   ...

When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in a crashed car, it's a shock to everyone.

Because Bell died two years ago.

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Having left the Faroes as a child, Jan Reyna is now a British police detective, & the islands are foreign to him.

But

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The fourth volume of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series on the American Civil War & featuring rebel Nathaniel Starbuck.

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The Bloody Mary is one of the most universally-loved drinks.

In The Bloody Mary, author Brian Bartels
- beverage director

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Following his investigations in " The Holy Thief", which implicated those at the very top of authority in Soviet Russia, Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself decorated & hailed as an example to all Soviet workers. But Korolev lives in an uneasy peace
- his new-found knowledge is dangerous, & if it is discovered what his real actions were during the case, he will face deportation to the frozen camps of the far north. But when the knock on the door comes, in the dead of night, it is not Siberia Korolev is destined for. Instead, Colonel Rodinov of the NKVD security service asks the detective to look into the suspected suicide of a young woman: Maria Alexandovna Lenskaya, a model citizen. Korolev is unnerved to learn that Lenskaya had been of interest to Ezhov, the feared Commissar for State Security. Ezhov himself wants the matter looked into. & when the detective arrives on the set for " Bloody Meadow", in the bleak, battle-scarred Ukraine, he soon discovers that there is more to Lenskaya's death than meets the eye
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