From the dangers of London streets during the Blitz to working on the high seas in the Merchant Navy during the Atlantic Convoy children were on the frontline of battle during the Second World War. In Sean Longdens gripping retelling of the conflict he explores how the war impacted upon a whole generation who lost their innocence at home & abroad on the battlefield & the home front. Through extensive interviews & research Longden uncovers previously untold stories of heroism & courage: the eleven year old boy who was sunk on the SS Benares & left in frozen water for two days; the teenage Girl Guide awarded the George Medal for bravery; the merchant seaman sunk three times by the age of seventeen; the fourteen year old who signed up for the army three times before finally seeing action in the Normandy campaign; the fourteen year old Boy Buglers of the Royal Marines on active service onboard battleships; as well as the harrowing experiences of the boy who was survived the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster; the horrors of being a child captive in the German Po W camps. Blitz Kids" will change forever the way one sees the relationship between the Second World War & the generation
- our grandparents & great grandparents- who bravely faced the challenge of Nazism. Allowing them to tell their stories in their own words Sean Longden brings both the horrors & the humour of young lives lived in troubled times. The book

Includes:: stories of: the seventeen year old boy who signed up 4 times before he made it onto the beaches at Normandy; the Girl Guide who saved a family during the blitz; the teenage merchant seaman who was sunk three times; & what it was like to be a teenage POW after the disasters of Dunkirk."


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This volume covers the first year of World War II the period from phoney war to total war: September 3rd 1939 to September 6th 1940. Beginning with endless air raid warnings & a sense of unreality it was a phase which was to culminate in Hitler threatening to raze Britains cities to the ground. As a direct source of the day-to-day effects of Luftwaffe operations over Britain at the time the book utilizes extracts from the 24-hour log compiled by the Ministry of Home Security & this provides a contemporary diary of events as they affected the Home Front. These entries ideally form the setting for a detailed record of the losses sustained by the Luftwaffe over Britain & within sight of land: a barometer of the air war showing clearly the changing climate of hostilities. Every German crash on land is listed with its crew & footnotes are included on all the crash sites which are known to have been investigated or excavated since the end of the war together with photographs of some interesting discoveries. Also featured are articles by historians & eyewitnesses that interspace the daily happenings. ...

She made her way down the cliff & on to the beach. At the edge of the waves she stopped shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person but far far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea. She led the way to safety out of the blazing hell of blitzed Coventry. People touched her for luck; feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went she changed lives... From her beginning to her end she never wavered. She was the Blitzcat. Westalls writing has always been strong & vivid but he has rarely written as confidently as this."
- " Times Literary Supplement"."
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Learn all about the BLITZED BRITS with all the nasty bits left in. Find out what really happened in Dads Army see how to make a rude noise with a gas mask & Learn why the Brits ate chicken-ruit sinkers & nutty!

Includes:: a grisly quiz to test your knowledge. These bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.

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The Fuhrers commands were simple
- forward to Moscow! & so the mighty Panzer regiments thundered into action
- killing raping

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Blodin the Beast stalks the land breathing fire & razing villages to ruins. Who or what can end this tyranny? Only wise old Shanga weaving his strange carpet knows how to destroy the monster
- but he is too old to cross the mountains that never end... Michael Morpurgos timeless story of a young boys quest to save his people illustrated with Christina Balits glowing mosaic-like paintings will entrance children of every age.
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With roughly 95 000 blogs launched worldwide every 24 hours (Blog Pulse) making a fledgling site stand out isn't easy. This authoritative handbook gives creative hopefuls a leg up. Joy Cho of the award-winning Oh Joy! offers expert advice on starting & growing a blog from design & finance to overcoming blogger's block attracting readers & more. With a foreword from Grace Bonney of Design* Sponge plus expert interviews this book will fine-tune what the next generation of bloggers shares with the world. Learn how to:
- Design your site
- Choose the right platform
- Attract a fan base
- Finance your blog
- Maintain work/life balance
- Manage comments
- Find content inspiration
- Overcome blogger's block
- Choose the right ads
- Develop a voice
- Protect your work
- Create a media kit
- Leverage your social network
- Take better photographs
- Set up an affiliate program
- Partner with sponsors
- Build community
- Go full-time with your blog
- & more!


















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' Protected Witness Unit (PWU): Designed to hold prisoners who are giving evidence or assistance to the police in cases of serious crime. All inmates are known to staff simply as ' Bloggs' followed by a number...' In December 1995 the bodies of three men were discovered in a Range Rover in a quiet country lane in the Essex village of Rettendon. All three were well-known villains & had each been blasted in the head with a shotgun at point-blank range. One member of the gang decided to break ranks & tell all. The story Darren Nicholls told at first seemed too incredible to be believed. But as the evidence to support his version of events began to mount up the motives behind the brutal murder became increasingly clear. The plot Nicholls eventually uncovered involved everything from Irish terror groups & European smuggling rings to prostitution & police corruption. Bloggs 19 chronicles the rise of some of Britain's most powerful & notorious villains & of the man whose betrayal led to their downfall
- arguably the most important supergrass since the time of the Kray Twins.
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A follow on to the bestselling Blokes Guide to Pregnancy" this pocket bite size guide book has all the crucial advice for expectant blokes & outlines 100 absolute need to know tips for surviving pregnancy. Written in his customary no nonsense straightforward style
- these 100 tips are taken from interviews with 100 blokes who have lived to tell the tale. This is the only guide to be reading for all expectant dads out there."
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A heart-warming tale of Armageddon from one of the funniest most original voices in comic fiction today.. . The third planet out from the star was blue with green splodges. Dirt. Oh the bomb thought. & then its courage determination & nobility-of-spirit subroutines cut in overriding everything else adrenalizing its command functions & bypassing its cyberphrenetic nodes. Here goes said the bomb to itself. Calibrate navigational pod. Engage primary thrusters. Ready auxiliary drive. It knew in that moment that its own doom was near; because it was giving itself orders & it wasnt putting in any thes. That was what you did apparently when the moment came. You could also turn on a flashing red beacon & a siren but mercifully these were optional. Oh /$+! thought the bomb & surged on towards Dirt like an avenging angel. ...