Walter H. Thompson was Churchills bodyguard from 1921 until 1945 brought back from retirement at the outbreak of war. Tom Hickmans authorised biography draws heavily on extracts from a manuscript recently discovered by his great-niece in which Thompson gives a unique insiders account of a number of occasions on which Churchills life was put seriously at risk & his intervention was needed. After the war Thompson married one of Churchills secretaries & her recollections as well as those of surviving family members are interwoven to tell the revelatory inside story of life beside the Greatest Briton. ...

This is the compelling story of the 10 000 Germans & Austrians who fled Nazi persecution & joined the British forces in their fight against Hitler during the Second World War. Known affectionately as the Kings most loyal enemy aliens many were Jews but a significant number were political opponent of the Nazi regime & so-called degenerate artists. With one or two exceptions these refugees in uniform did not receive British nationality until 1946-47. At the end of the War they returned in their thousands to Germany & Austria to begin the reconstruction of their homelands & the hunt for Nazi war criminals. Helen Fry documents the stories of those who fought for King & adopted country drawing on a rich vein of archive material & personal accounts to bring this little-known aspect of British wartime history to light. ...

Being able to make a correct diagnosis is one of the key aspects of every medical students & junior doctors clinical training. Problem-based learning is increasingly being used to focus on the causes behind the presentation of a clinical feature. The Third Edition of this best-selling book is packed full of information to help the reader move from a presenting problem to an accurate diagnosis. ...

Churchill is a pig with a big personality who couldnt be prouder of his perfect tail. Until one day it goes missing... So Churchill tries on a whole host of other tails
- tails that make his personality even more colourful. But along the way Churchill forgets what really matters most to him
- his friends. Can Churchill learn to value his friendships & solve the mystery of his missing tail?

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Forest Yeo-Thomas GC was one of the bravest of the brave. A fluent French-speaker he joined SOE & was parachuted into occupied France three times to work with the Resistance. Appalled by the lack of help the British were providing he managed to arrange a five-minute meeting with Winston Churchill during which he persuaded him to do more. On his third mission he was betrayed & captured by the Gestapo; he suffered horrendous torture before being sent to Buchenwald concentration camp from where he eventually managed to escape making it back to Allied lines shortly before the end of the war. Sophie Jacksons biography reveals new information about how the torture affected Yeo-Thomas the state of SOE-Resistance co-operation Gestapo typhus experiments at Buchenwald & how White Rabbit Yeo-Thomas provided the inspiration for Ian Flemings famous secret agent James Bond. ...

Just over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious frontier war against Pashtun tribeman on the North West Frontier -- the great-great-grandfathers of the Taliban & tribal insurgents in modern-day Afghanistan. Winston Churchill then a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a vivid account of what he saw during his first major campaign. The Story of the Malakand Field Force published in 1898 was Churchill's first book & a hundred years later is required reading for military commanders on the ground both British & American. In Churchill's First War acclaimed author & foreign correspondent Con Coughlin tells the story of that campaign a story of high adventure & imperial success which contains many lessons & warnings for today. Combining historical narrative interviews with contemporary key players & the journalist's eye for great colour & analysis Churchill's First War is not only a dramatic piece of military history but affords us a rare insight into both the nineteenth-century ' Great Game' & the twenty-first-century conflict that has raged longer than the Second World War & taken more lives than the Falklands. ...

'A carefully researched book on a long-neglected subject which fills a major gap in our Second World War knowledge'
- Norman Longmate
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Throughout his six decades in the public eye Winston Churchill understood & wielded the power of words. In his speeches books & newspaper & magazine articles he expressed his feelings & laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings & speeches in particular have fascinated generation after generation with their powerful narrative style & thoughtful reflection. In this book Martin Gilbert has skillfully selected 200 extracts from Churchills entire oeuvre of books articles & speeches that reflect his life story career & philosophy. They range from intimate memories of his childhood & schooldays to his contributions to more than 50 years of debates on social policy & on war & his efforts after 1945 to see the world a better place. In them we see how he used words for different purposes: to argue for moral & political causes to advocate courses of action in the social national & international spheres & to tell the story of his own life struggles setbacks & achievements. As Churchills official biographer Martin Gilbert is uniquely qualified to select from Churchills own inimitable words not only those that describe the main adventures of his life & the crises of his career but also those passages that express the essence of Churchills thoughts & personality. Gilberts informed & subtle choice of extracts together with his illuminating introductory & explanatory text linking them together create a fascinating & compelling biographical narrative of Churchills life as recounted in the great mans own words. They provide an invaluable insight into Churchills character & how he made his mark on Britain & the world stage. ...

There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough
- soldier of genius restless empire-builder & cuckolder of Charles II
- onwards the Churchills have been politicians gamblers & profligates heroes & womanisers. The Churchills is a richly layered portrait of an extraordinary set of men & women
- grandly ambitious regularly impecunious impulsive arrogant & brave. & towering above the Churchill clan is the figure of Winston
- his failures & his triumphs shown in a new & revealing context
- ultimately our greatest Briton.




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After taking a serious beating whilst engaged in unofficial undercover work in London's 19th century slums Constable Tom Churchyard takes himself to Cornwall. Here in spite of his injuries he becomes right-hand man to Amos Hawke now a senior Cornish policeman. His knowledge of the London rogues proves invaluable as Amos seeks to foil a gang of city thieves. Then a brutal murder is committed during their investigations. Churchyard & Hawke" is an exciting & insightful novel of the years when the Cornwall Constabulary was in its infancy." ...