In July 1943 a series of heavy bombing raids virtually destroyed the North German city of Hamburg. In one night alone some 40 000 people were killed largely as a result of the terrible firestorm. To this day controversy rages as to the morality of these attacks & their consequences.rnrn With his trademark thoroughness Martin Middlebrook has delved deep into the archives to uncover the facts. As ever he draws on copious eyewitnesses & participants
- a total of 547 British American & German. The testimonies of the Hamburg survivors are particularly revealing & harrowing providing a first hand description of what it was like to be subjected to prolonged & intense air attack.rnrn Paradoxically while Hamburg was arguably Bomber Commands greatest achievement it remains its
- & Air Marshal Harris
- most criticised. Often overlooked was the USAAFs role & this together with the contribution to the failure of German air defences of a new device Window are fully covered.rnrn Firestorm Hamburg is a masterly description of a major air campaign & the Authors aim of achieving a better understanding of the background conduct & results is fully realised. He does not shirk from studying the moral dilemma.


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Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A girl held in police custody escapes & disappears without a trace. An unexpected blackout leaves half the country in darkness & when an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked
- somehow. As he searches for answers he gets dangerously involved with a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. The terrorists always seem to be one step ahead of the polices next move & only Wallander can be counted on to outsmart them.
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Stopping to use a cash machine one evening a man falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls who demonstrate a complete lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody & disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station he makes a grisly discovery... Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked
- somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team lonely & frustrated Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. & somehow these criminals seem always to know the polices next move.
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What Lila wants to be more than anything else in the world is.. .a Firework-Maker! But firework-making is not just about being able to make Crackle-Dragons & Golden Sneezes. There is also one special secret: every Firework-Maker must make a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire-Fiend! Not knowing that she needs special protection to survive the Fire-Fiend's flames Lila sets off alone. Her friends Chulak & Hamlet
- the King's white elephant
- race after her. But can they possibly reach her in time?

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Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960 experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman to Coltimore & Blink Bonney. The work was hard & conditions were tough but little did he know at the time that he was experiencing the last years of steam. He would never have imagined the romantic associations the period evokes today. Through a number of short accounts the past comes vividly to life via stories about train crashes pea-soup fogs & fires going out. From the beginning of a shift donning overalls & making up a packing & from shunting in the marshalling yard to flying along with an express train at 80mph
- Ken Issitt describes what life on the footplate was like across the last years of steam his tales beautifully brought to life by Chris Bates illustrations.
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