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." ...

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.' Damage Josephine Hart's debut novel an international bestseller filmed with Jeremy Irons & Juliette Binoche now takes its proper place as a Virago Modern Classic. Here is one of the most chilling explorations of physical passion & dark obsessive love ever written. 'A remarkable first novel of awesome accomplishment & quite startling psychological insight' Ruth Rendell ...

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'. ...

' 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... ...

Things have been going too well for Daisy Lane. Her murdered lover Eddie Lane has left her comfortably off & his son little Eddie is adorable & a constant reminder of his father. The new man in her life South London gangster Roy Kemp looks out for her & is kind to little Eddie. But someone is watching Daisy's every movement like a predator choosing the perfect moment to pounce. He is a man with murder in his heart
- a man obsessed with Daisy & enraged that she turned to Roy Kemp for love instead of him. He plans to teach Daisy a lesson she will never forget. Set in 1966 DAMAGED GOODS re-acquaints us with several memorable characters from the previous books
- notably Daisy's friend Vera queen of her massage parlour & the best mate a girl ever had & Gosport policeman DS Vinnie Endersby who puts his job on the line for Daisy.

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The North-West Frontier 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the Highlander sets out alone with dagger in hand to rescue his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesmen who are slowly torturing him to death. Over a dozen years later the backwash of this tragedy threatens to engulf Joe Sandilands. On secondment from Scotland Yard Joe is spending a fortnight with his old army friend James Lindsay commander of the front line fort at Gor Khatri. An uneasy peace is in operation with the Afghans but into this already-delicate situation is injected an ill-assorted group of visitors to the fort. After a skirmish which results in the death of a Pathan prince & the taking of hostages Joe & his companion James are given seven days in which to identify arrest & execute the killer before the frontier erupts into war. Drawing on all his courage & detective skills Joe must find out who the murderer is before more bloody deaths occur the legacy of a bitter feud with its roots hidden deep in the past. ...