In June 1952 a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocrat & his wealthy Jewish wife she would become one of Britain's most daring & highly decorated special agents. Having fled to Britain on the outbreak of war she was recruited by the intelligence services long before the establishment of the SOE & took on mission after mission. She skied into occupied Poland served in Egypt & was later parachuted into occupied France. Her quick wit courage & determination won her release from arrest more than once & saved the lives of several fellow officers including one of her many lovers just hours before he was due to be executed by the Gestapo. More importantly perhaps the intelligence she smuggled to the British hidden inside her gloves was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort & in recognition of her success she was awarded the George Medal the OBE & the Croix de Guerre. Charismatic difficult & fearless Christine was an extraordinary woman & exercised a mesmeric power of those who knew her. ...

In June 1952 a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocratic & his wealthy Jewish wife she would become one of Britain's most daring & highly decorated secret agents. Having fled Poland on the outbreak of war she was recruited by the intelligence services long before the establishment of the SOE & took on mission after mission. She skied over the hazardous High Tatras into Poland served in Egypt & North Africa & was later parachuted into Occupied France where an agent's life expectancy was only six weeks. Her courage quick wit & determination won her release from arrest more than once & saved the lives of several fellow officers including one of her many lovers just hours before their execution by the Gestapo. More importantly perhaps the intelligence she gathered was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort & her success was reflected in the fact that she was awarded the George Medal the OBE & the Croix de Guerre. ...

' You take a wrong step play the wrong card in Fate's game & you're lost in a world you had never imagined against which you have no weapons. No compass.' Vivienne Michel is running away
- from pain from rejection from humiliation. When she stumbles into a criminal plot her life seems over.. .until a chance encounter with James Bond turns her world upside down. Ian Fleming's tenth 007" novel is a unique view of Bond through the eyes of a woman who loves him."
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Whether youre just a bit nosy or you want to launch a full-scale investigation of your neighbours this handbook teaches you everything you need to know. There are practical sections on codes ciphers invisible ink & signalling as well as guidance on drops & safe houses. The handbook teaches you how to spot when somebody is lying & how to lie effectively youself. There are sections on successful disguise & how to structure a spy ring including pyschological recruitment strategies psychic surveillance & spotting moles. There is also technical advice about constructing bugging devices & setting traps. Herbie Brennan interlaces the facts with anecdotes about real-life spies making this handbook an entertaining armchair read as well as an essential tool for any budding (or currently serving) MI6 operative. ...

After Dunkirk the British Army was broken the country isolated & invasion imminent. German Military Intelligence was sat the task of recruiting collaborators from among Welsh nationalists to sabotage military & civilian installations ahead of the landing. Strategic deception was one of the few weapons left. To fool the Germans into believing Britain was ready & able to repel invaders when in fact it had only the weapons salvaged from Dunkirk MI5 invented an imaginary cell of Welsh saboteurs led by a retired police inspector. ...

For programmers analysts & database administrators SQL in a Nutshell is the essential reference for the SQL language used in today's most popular database products. This new edition clearly documents every SQL command according to the latest ANSI standard & details how those commands are implemented in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Oracle 11g & the My SQL 5.1 & Postgre SQL 8.3 open source database products. You'll also get a concise overview of the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) model & a clear-cut explanation of foundational RDBMS concepts -- all packed into a succinct comprehensive & easy-to-use format. This book provides: * Background on the Relational Database Model including current & previous SQL standards * Fundamental concepts necessary for understanding relational databases & SQL commands * An alphabetical command reference to SQL statements according to the SQL2003 ANSI standard * The implementation of each command by My SQL Oracle Postgre SQL & SQL Server * An alphabetical reference of the ANSI SQL2003 functions as well as the vendor implementations * Platform-specific functions unique to each implementation Beginning where vendor documentation ends SQL in a Nutshell distills the experiences of professional database administrators & developers who have used SQL variants to support complex enterprise applications. Whether SQL is new to you or you've been using SQL since its earliest days you'll get lots of new tips & techniques in this book. ...

For programmers & database administrators who use SQL in their day-to-day work this popular pocket guide is the ideal on-the-job reference. It uses numerous examples to address the languages complexity & covers key aspects of SQL used in Oracle DB2 SQL Server My SQL & Postgre SQL. That

Includes:: the syntax for querying managing transactions & making changes to data as well as SQL functions type conversion functions & formats & regular expression syntax. The third edition covers important database changes including: * Oracles support of the recursive WITH syntax & addition of PIVOT & UNPIVOT operators * Functions new to Oracle such as LISTAGG NTH_VALUE & more * Postgre SQLs support of recursive WITH & some window functions * DB2 syntax & datatypes some for compatibility with Oracle * My SQL features such as the TIMESTAMP type & the TO_SECONDS function

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Includes: three stories
- all action-packed & perfect for football fanatics! Follow the fun adventures of the Angel

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The Squad have been summoned to the deadly & frozen land of the Arctic Circle by the British Prime Minister who has heard of their growing reputation as brilliant young spies. An unknown criminal is trying to hijack a world conference about the precious & much fought-over fuels that lie below the arctic ice. To prevent an international war breaking out Lily Lesh Hatty Adnan & Kester go undercover to find out who it is & stop them. But the beauty of the icy mountains & deep fjords hide some dangerous secrets & someone will do anything to make sure that the Squad dont discover them... ...

Tommy Broom was one of the RAF's most legendary & popular heroes of World War II. He joined the service at eighteen years of age in 1932 & after service in the Middle East he first saw action against Germany in a Fairey Battle during 1939 with No 105 (B) Squadron. He continued to serve with 105 Squadron until November 1940 a period that included the disastrous Battle of France & the low-level attacks on the Channel ports to destroy the invasion barges in both of which actions the squadron suffered severe losses. Having completed more than his share of front-line flying he was transferred to 13 Operational Training Unit at Bicester to teach the influx of newly-trained navigators the additional skills required for combat situations. He returned to 105 (B) Squadron in January 1942 to complete a further tour. In August of the same year he was again posted to the educational role this time at 1655 Mosquito Training Unit where he stayed until May 1944. He then returned to front-line flying until the end of the war belonging to numbers 571 (B) 128 (B) & 163 (B) Mosquito Squadrons. Tommy completed 83 operations during the war & teamed up with a namesake as his pilot Ivor Broom
- they became known as the ' Flying Brooms' & completed 57 operations together. The citation for one of his Distinguished Flying Crosses reads: ' Flight Lieutenant Broom DFC was a navigator in a Mosquito aircraft of 128 Squadron detailed to place a 4000 lb bomb up to the mouth of a railway tunnel in the region of Kaiserslautern on the morning of the 1st of January 1945. This operation required great skill determination & the utmost precision. By hisassistance to his pilot this attack was carried out most successfully. Flight Lieutenant Broom has completed 73 operations against German targets the majority of which were heavily defended & including 15 against Berlin. He has at all times shown consistent keenness & skill.' During 1942 his aircraft crashed into an electricity pylon near Antwerp at over 250mph. Both he & his pilot miraculously escaped back to the UK. This book is full of exciting flying & dangerous escapes but the good nature & quite confidence of this brilliant navigator has drawn praise from the pilots he flew with & those he trained. Tom Evans lives in the small West-country town of Portishead near Bristol & is a firm friend of Tommy Broom. This book was first published in 1999 as 'A Posset Lad' & was printed privately for a mostly local readership.
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