From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie & Tornado Down comes this powerful & deeply moving account of Bomber Command's 1944 Nuremberg Raid
- the RAF's bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the total RAF aircrew losses during the whole of the four-month-long Battle of Britain. This is the story of the air raid intended to be the climax of Sir Arthur ' Bomber' Harris's relentless campaign to defeat Nazi Germany. The target was Nuremberg: 795 aircraft set out nearly 700 men did not return. In ' The Red Line' we meet the young aircrew who flew on the night of 30 March 1944. John Nichol has interviewed the few surviving veterans British & German in the air & on the ground to record the voices of a diminishing generation. While the airmen of Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the conflict their contribution & sacrifice has until recently been sidelined in the face of post-war criticism of Bomber Command's tactics. Yet they were among the best of their generation. John Nichol's dramatic tribute to the men who flew on the RAF's bloodiest raid has provided the surviving veterans with the chance to tell the story of that terrible night
- the night they flew to Nuremberg.

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The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinsons massively successful & lavishly praised Mars trilogy. The ultimate in future history Daily Mail Mars
- the barren forbidding planet that epitomises mankinds dreams of space conquest. From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth & saw a small blue star to the first colonists
- h&-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert
- Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet factions are forming tensions are rising & violence is brewing...for civilization can be very uncivilized.


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Red Men" is a unique & exhaustively researched history of Liverpool Football Club. The key figures of the club are featured including the side's first great manager Tom Watson; Elisha Scott the darling of the Kop in the 1920s; & of course Bill Shankly who won that elusive first FA Cup in 1965. The recent tragedies that have shaped the club's contemporary identity are covered here as are the new Continental influences at Liverpool & of course the glory of Istanbul in 2005 & the return to the club as manager of Kenny Dalglish in 2011. " Red Men" is the definitive history of a remarkable football club from its formation in 1892 to the present day told in the wider context of the social & cultural development of the city of Liverpool & its people." ...

Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender & the mother of a vicious & diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out
- she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings but who is behind them & why? As she learns more Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy & potential terrorism on an international scale. & she is the only one who can stop it...
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Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender & the mother of a vicious & diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out
- she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings but who is behind them & why? As she learns more Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy & potential terrorism on an international scale. & she is the only one who can stop it...
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Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender & the mother of a vicious & diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out
- she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings but who is behind them & why? As she learns more Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy & potential terrorism on an international scale. & she is the only one who can stop it...
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As Hitlers forces smash into Soviet territory annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger is the seemingly inconsequential painting of a hyalophoria cecropia otherwise known as a red moth. Military Intelligence dismisses the picture as insignificant but in the state of emergency Stalin suspects a German plot. He summons his old adversary Inspector Pekkala
- the elusive Finn who was once Tsar Nicholas IIs personal detective
- to discover the real significance of this strange wartime cargo. As the storm gathers around them Pekkala together with his assistant from the shadowy Bureau of Special Operations soon find themselves on the path of the most formidable art thieves in history. Those real target is a secret & prized possession of the Romanovs once considered to be the eighth wonder of the world. But as the Soviet Union crumbles in the face of the advancing cataclysm & the chaos of war is everywhere Pekkala realizes that to protect the Tsars treasure he must break through enemy lines. His desperate mission is to outfox the German invaders or face the wrath of Stalin himself.

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The story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza; Tetu the dwarf his friend & mentor; Sido unloved daughter of a foolish Marquis; & Count Kalliovski Grand Master of a secret society who has half the aristocracy in thrall to him & wants Yann dead. Yann is spirited away to London but three years later when Paris is gripped by the bloody horrors of the Revolution he returns charged with two missions: to find out Kalliovskis darkest deeds & to save Sido from the guillotine. With a tangle of secrets a thread of magic & a touch of humour the follies of the aristocracy & the sufferings of ordinary people are unfolded as their lives move relentlessly towards the tragic & horrific days of the Terror. THE RED NECKLACE is not only a tremendous adventure story but a vibrant & passionate picture of Paris in turmoil & of a large cast of memorable characters. ...

So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion all life all stories the script we write in the language we speak the gods the legends & the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's greatest & most sustained creator. In this dazzling idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. Along the way we meet crocodiles & caliphs nineteenth-century adventurers & twentieth-century novelists biblical prophets & classical lovers dam-builders & crusaders. As he navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river he plucks the most intriguing colourful & dramatic stories
- truly a Nile red in tooth & claw. The result is both an epic journey through the whole sweep of human (and pre-human) history & an intimate biography of the curious life of this great river overflowing with stories of excess love passion splendour & violence.
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Deep beneath the English Channel a small army of vicious terrorists has seized control of the Eurostar to Paris taken 400 hostages at gunpoint
- & declared war on a government that has more than its own fair share of secrets to keep. One man stands in their way. An off-duty SAS soldier is hiding somewhere inside the train. Alone & injured he's the only chance the passengers & crew have of getting out alive. Meet Andy Mc Nab's explosive new creation Sergeant Tom Buckingham as he unleashes a whirlwind of intrigue & retribution in his attempt to stop the terrorists & save everyone on board
- including Delphine the beautiful woman he loves. Hurtling us at breakneck speed between the Regiment's crack assault teams Whitehall's corridors of power & the heart of the Eurotunnel action Red Notice" is Mc Nab at his devastatingly authentic pulse pounding best. " Red Notice": You have been warned..."

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