On 1 June 1943 Flight 7777 a Douglas DC-3 en route from Lisbon to Britain was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German aircraft. Among the dead was the actor Leslie Howard who had returned from Hollywood to England to help the British war effort. Also on board was Howard's tax adviser Alfred Chenhalls who smoked cigars & looked remarkably like Winston Churchill. Did the Germans believe that Churchill was on board Flight 777? Other aircraft flying that route went unmolested by the Luftwaffe in spite of the German air presence over the Bay of Biscay. These flights were operated by Dutch crews flying aircraft of KLM which were on charter to BOAC & it was an experience Dutch crew that was lost that day. Ian Colvin carried out an exhaustive investigation into the incident including interviewing former Luftwaffe personnel & this book first published in 1957 is the result of his endeavours. ...

It is the bitterly cold winter of 1944/45. The Red Army is advancing on Eastern Prussia the easternmost province of Germany at the start of its inexorable advance towards Berlin. Millions of East Prussians are desperate to flee but the Nazis order them to stay & fight. Finally with the Russian guns in earshot they are allowed to leave. They soon realise that they are surrounded cut of f from the rest of Germany. Many of them take the perilous route over a frozen lagoon the only route left open. With them are thousands of the most superb horses in the world the Trakehner bred over the past two centuries in East Prussia. They flee in large herds or are harnessed to wagons or sleighs & face the same dangers as their guardians & owners. With little to eat the target of Soviet bombers & tanks many of them die on the way. Only a few hundred reached the West. They had saved their owners & their owners had saved them rarely has there been such a bond between men & horses. But the story is not over. Given the harsh conditions the hunger deprivation & poverty of the immediate post-war years can the breed be built up again? ...

On the Appalachian Mountains above her home a young mother discovers a beautiful & terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? Flight Behaviour" is a captivating topical & deeply human story touching on class poverty & climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet & explores the truths we live by & the complexities that lie behind them." ...

The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell & his Burmese elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission. In the summer of 1942 Gyles Mackrell
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Born in the United States but separated since they were boys twin brothers Max & Harry Kelso found themselves fighting on opposite sides when the Second World War broke out Max as one of the Luftwaffes most feared pilots Harry as a Yank ace in the RAF! Two brothers united by blood -- divided by war In the early days of World War Two nations were forced to choose sides in the epic battle that would change history forever. But for two brothers fate had already made the choice. Separated as boys Max & Harry Kelso have grown up to become ace fighter pilots -- Max as one of the Luftwaffes most feared pilots & Harry as a Yank with the RAF. Now the machinery of war has set in motion an intrigue so devious so full of danger that they will be forced to question everything they value: their lives & ultimately their loyalties. Against impossible odds it is their courage alone that will decide the course of the war itself! ...

The first book in the Darkwar series from world-wide bestselling author of Magician Raymond E. Feist. The Conclave of Shadows the undercover organisation charged with the protection of Midkemia have problems: the evil magician Leso Varen is still at large & thousands of portals to a parallel dimension inhabited by the cruel & fiendish Dasati have been discovered in Novindus. Leso Varen a powerful & malign magician with the power to possess & transport himself from body to body & his Nighthawk assassins are plotting chaos & annihilation in the royal house of Kesh. The Nameless One is awakening & needs Varen to help him re-emerge completely & tip the balance of good & evil in the world plunging Midkemia into darkness & ruin. But when the Conclave attempt to warn the Emperor it becomes clear that many of the truebloods
- nobles related by birth to the Emperor
- are already Varen's slaves both willing & unwitting & the Conclave are forced into a race against time to save Great Kesh before evil engulfs the l&. ' Flight of the Night Hawks' begins a brand new series from the master of fantasy set on a grand scale; revisiting the exotic political-intrigue of Great Kesh (touched upon in the classic Riftwar books) & carrying the reader into a dark underworld of crime & black magic.

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The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour the idiot had been assaulted hands bloodied & broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; & Babe Laurie was found murdered. The young stranger who had preceded all of these events was sitting in a jail cell... That stranger is Kathy Mallory. Having left her detectives badge back in New York she has made her way to Dayborn a small town in the wetlands of Louisiana. There seventeen years earlier an unspeakably brutal act had changed her life forever. Now she is back to take a very personal revenge... ...

When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father hes looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he & his friend Tom discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints it takes them to another world.. .a world of dinosaurs. The boys return to the land of the dinosaurs & set off to explore around the beach & the lagoon. They spot a Quetzalcoatus the biggest of the Pterosaurs flying high above them & the boys decide to find its nest. Suddenly a baby Quetzalcoatus falls off the high cliff next to them then another then another! Theyre not hurt just learning to fly. Jamie & Toms dino friend Wanna goes to play with the babies but when their mother swoops down to collect them she takes Wanna away too! How are the boys ever going to rescue their little friend? Will he be food for the Quetzalcoatus? Or will the mother decide to push him off the top of the cliff? ...

Welcome to the Cretaceous! It's full of the coolest creatures that ever walked the Earth! & Jamie & Tom have found a secret gateway that will take them there for adventures whenever they want. Today the boys & their wannanosaurus pal Wanna are on the hunt for a quetzalcoatlus
- one of the biggest flying reptiles ever. It's not long before they spot the creatures gliding through the air & as one swoops down the boys are amazed at how huge it is. But when it picks up Wanna & flies away with him it's time for the boys to launch a rescue mission & find their little friend. This is the fourth book in the hugely popular Dinosaur Cove series which has now sold over a million copies. This new edition

Includes:: a set of Cretaceous collector cards.


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In this compelling sequel to Final Flights aviation archaeologist Ian Mc Lachlan has reconstructed the dramatic last flights of Second World War airmen including the first Fortress to fall in combat from the USAAFs 447th Bomber Group; the final flight of an intruder Mosquito pursuing a German night fighter; the courage of a Lancaster pilot responsible for six lives aboard a burning aircraft; the story of a Spitfires last flight & its heroic Belgian pilot. Exciting stories are also recounted of those whose misdirected courage saw them serve under the swastika. In reconstructing long-forgotten wartime events often from buried wreckage eyewitness accounts & contemporary documentation aviation archaeologists can bring recognition to the individual flyers involved & shed new light on the air war over Britain & Europe during the Second World War. Even the discovery of small fragments can be significant. They provide evidence or prompt new research revealing stories that offer a uniquely human dimension & reveal the hopes fears aspirations & pleasures of the aircrew involved. Ian Mc Lachlan & other aviation archaeologists have now done them justice. ...