Unleashed by Hitler in 1942 the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank ever built at the time. The 60-ton monster could destroy any Allied tank from more than a mile away & it soon became the most feared tank in the world. Desperate to discover the secret technology used in the Tiger's manufacture Winston Churchill close a brilliant young army engineer Major Doug Lidderdale as his special agent. In a late-night briefing in the subterranean War Rooms under Whitehall he ordered him: ' Go catch me a tiger'. Doug did not hesitate & by February 1943 was facing Rommel's desert army. After several unsuccessful & hair-raising efforts to bag a Tiger on the battlefields of Tunisia Doug & his team put their lives on the line in a terrifying close-hand shoot-out with the five-man crew of a Tiger capturing the tank intact. The morale boost to the Allies was such that both Churchill & King George VI flew to Tunis to examine the Tiger first h&. But the Germans were not finished with Doug. They did not want the secrets of the Tiger benefitting the Allies' sabotage attempts & constant attacks by the Luftwaffe & U-boats pursued Doug & his men on every step of the journey back to Engl&. But eventually by October 1943 the Tiger
- number 131
- was delivered to London & gifted to Churchill who had it placed on London's Horse Guards Parade. Lidderdale went on to use some of the Tiger technology to develop war machines for the D-Day landings & was promoted to Colonel. Tiger 131 is now kept at Bovington Tank Museum & is the only working Tiger in the world.

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If you are about to study for a degree in the life or medical sciences you will need to understand some core facts & concepts in chemistry. You do not need to be a budding chemist but you do need to be comfortable with chemical terms & principles. Catch up Chemistry second edition will bring you up to speed with the subject & will lay the foundations of chemistry in those topics that will underpin your studies such as:
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Explosive subversive wild & funny 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic & furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy
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At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel first published in 1961 is a satirical indicement of military madness & stupidity & the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. ...

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The Catcher in the Rye" is J. D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society & the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood behind " The Catcher in the Rye" explores the world with disarming frankness & a warm affecting charisma which has made this novel a universally loved classic of twentieth-century literature. J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 & died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City & wrote short stories from an early age but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in The New Yorker of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". " The Catcher in the Rye" was his first & only novel published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated taught & reprinted texts & has sold some 65 million copies. His other works include the novellas " Franny & Zooey" " For Esme with Love & Squalor" & " Raise High the Roof Beam" " Carpenters" published with " Seymour
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When Jimmy OConnell took a job as chauffeur for 007 producers Eon Productions it would not just be Cubby Broccoli Roger Moore & Sean Connery he would drive to James Bond
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After winning the brutal Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen returns to her district hoping for a peaceful future. But Katniss starts to hear rumours of a deadly rebellion against the Capitol. A rebellion that she & Peeta have helped to create. As Katniss & Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour the stakes are higher than ever. Unless Katniss & Peeta can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other the consequences will be horrifying. This is the terrifying sequel to The Hunger Games"." ...

After winning the brutal Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen returns to her district hoping for a peaceful future. But Katniss starts to hear rumours of a deadly rebellion against the Capitol. A rebellion that she & Peeta have helped to create. As Katniss & Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitols cruel Victory Tour the stakes are higher than ever. Unless Katniss & Peeta can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other the consequences will be horrifying. This is the terrifying sequel to The Hunger Games"." ...