The Daltons have escaped!A Words that all fans of Lucky Luke know well. But this is the story of the first time that the idiotic brothers break out of jail. Driven by Joes unshakable need to get revenge on Lucky Luke the outlaws terrorise several towns before hatching a genius plan: Get the Lonesome Cowboy his very own wanted poster. As the local populace begins turning on him Luke will display infinite patience in order to catch his quarry." ...

The night of May 16th 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire each with a huge 9 000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine. From the outset it was an almost impossible task a suicide mission: to fly low & at night in formation over many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters' capacity & drop a new weapon that had never been tried operationally before from a precise height of just sixty feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany. More than that the entire operation had to be put together in less than ten weeks. When visionary aviation engineer Barnes Wallis' concept of the bouncing bomb was green lighted he hadn't even drawn up his plans for the weapon that was to smash the dams. What followed was an incredible race against time which despite numerous setbacks & against huge odds became one of the most successful & game-changing bombing raids of all time. ...

On the night of 16/17 May 1943 a select group of young RAF Bomber Command airmen carried out one of the most audacious & daring low level raids of the Second World War. Nineteen aircrews of No.617 Squadron flying modified Avro Lancasters each armed with a 'bouncing bomb' were detailed to attack specific dams viewed as essential to Germany's war effort. Two were indeed breached in an extraordinary display of skill & courage but at a cost of eight Lancasters lost. Of the 56 airmen flying these aircraft 53 were killed & 3 were captured. In Dam Busters: Failed to Return Fighting High Publishing brings together notable Bomber Command historians to recount the lives of some of the Dam Busters who were lost that fateful night. Drawing upon family archives official documents wartime memoirs & letters flying logbooks & relative & witness recollections & illustrated throughout with colour & black & white photographs & documents the authors piece together the extraordinary gripping yet ultimately tragic stories of these select young men. ...

The famous dams raid in May 1943 was made possible only by the fusion of cutting-edge technology with the raw courage of a h&-picked squadron of RAF airmen. The incredible bouncing bomb used to devastating effect by 617 Squadron on the Ruhr dams was the vanguard of a whole train of technical developments that made this & other precision raids possible. Using the Haynes Manual" approach Iain Murray describes the technology behind the bouncing bomb as well as the heavily modified Lancasters that were used to deliver the weapons." ...

The raid on the great dams of western Germany by Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron in May 1943 is one of the best known most widely told stories of the Second World War. Led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson each Lancaster in the nineteen-strong force was equipped with the revolutionary bouncing bomb designed by the inventor Barnes Wallis. Two of the three main dams were breached & the unleashed floodwaters inundated the Ruhr valley below killing thousands & causing German industry to grind to a halt. In later years the strategic impact of the raid was deemed to be less than was thought at the time but the fillip it gave to civilian & Service moral in wartime Britain was incalculable. The Dam Busters Story" is a short but authoritative narrative account of the RAFs famous dam buster raid supported by a superb selection of colour & black & white photographs. Jonathan Falconers narrative covers the development of the bouncing bomb the planning of the raid its dramatic execution & aftermath. An appendix provides a definitive listing of all the Lancasters & crews that flew in the raid & their fates." ...

David Blake is a worried man. He should be enjoying the high life now he's Newcastle's ' Top Boy' the man who controls everything in the city that's worth controlling. He lives in exiled luxury while his brother Danny & trusted right-hand men Palmer & Kinane take care of business & make sure no one steps out of line. The money keeps on rolling in & Blake is sharing his life with the girl that he loves Sarah Mahoney. Shame he had to murder her father to save his own skin but at least she doesn't know anything about that. Blake never wanted to be boss but who else is savvy enough to deal with all of the firm's problems; like Braddock the rogue drug dealer who's keeping too much of the take & ' The Turk' Blake's new source of 'product' who's taken a million Euros down-payment on a shipment that never arrives. Newly-crowned Glasgow crime lord Alan Gladwell wants to do business with the firm & the deal makes sense but can Blake really trust the man whose brother he brutally murdered. Then there is his obsession with the beautiful but troubled Simone who chooses to work in one of the firm's massage parlours when she is so much better than that. When one of his men takes two bullets in the back & someone tries to kill him Blake struggles to stay in control. From the heroin-laced high rises of Newcastle to the seedy back streets of Bangkok in a world of contract killers corrupt politicians bent detectives coke snorting footballers fixers hookers & pimps Blake is in a race against time to find his potential assassin & discover the truth in ' The Damage'. ...

Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died or when you were badly hurt in an accident or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4 000 of those days in one big chunk. In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking & was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats & cockroaches are the only nutritious food & where the worst punishment is the khun deo
- solitary confinement Thai style. Fellows was certainly guilty of his crime but he endured & survived human-rights abuses beyond imagination. This is not his plea for forgiveness nor his denial of guilt; it is the story of an ordeal that no one would wish on their worst enemy. It is an essential read: heartbreaking fascinating & impossible to put down.
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' For almost all my life I've been the person you crossed the street to avoid...' Peter Woolf's life of drinking drug-taking & thieving had begun before most people leave school. Spending most of his adult life in prison made no difference to him: life itself offered him no hope. Today amazingly Peter is clean & has not reoffended since a life-changing meeting in 2002 when he came face to face with some of his victims. The Damage Done" is a searingly honest & gritty portrayal of a man ensconced in an endless cycle of drugs violence prison & depravity who one Tuesday afternoon in a glass room at Pentonville prison was forced to confront all that he had destroyed." ...

The Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller. Although Jodie is only eight years old she is violent aggressive & has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass... Cathy an experienced foster carer is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months but Cathy decides to take her on to protect her from being placed in an institution. Jodie arrives & her first act is to soil herself & then wipe it on her face grinning wickedly. Jodie meets Cathy's teenage children & greets them with a sharp kick to the shins. That night Cathy finds Jodie covered in blood having cut her own wrist & smeared the blood over her face. As Jodie begins to trust Cathy her behaviour improves. Over time with childish honesty she reveals details of her abuse at the hands of her parents & others. It becomes clear that Jodie's parents were involved in a sickening paedophile ring with neighbours & Social Services not seeing what should have been obvious signs. It's clear that Josie needs psychiatric therapy but instead Social Services take Jodie away from her & place her in a residential unit. Although the paedophile ring is investigated & brought to justice Jodie's future is still up in the air. Cathy promises that she will stand by her no matter what
- her love for the abandoned Jodie is unbreakable.
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Special Agent Maggie O' Dell has seen a lot in her career & amidst the killers psychos & criminals she has hunted she's delved deep into the darkest most shockingly evil recesses of the human mind. But when a cool box filled with body parts washes up on the shore of Florida's Pensacola Beach even Maggie isn't prepared for what she is about to get into. While across the state people brace themselves against the onslaught of a hurricane advancing across the Gulf of Mexico Maggie begins the laborious process of tracking down the cooler's origins. Tracing the butchered corpse back to a missing persons case weeks earlier Maggie uncovers the gruesome network of an underground cadaver trade. Little does she know that things are about to take an even darker turn... ...