Auntie F. came in announcing dramatically that Hitler is coming tomorrow at which my father remarked that he would now that he's just finished papering upstairs. At the outbreak of World War Two May Smith was twenty-four. She lived in a small village near Derby with her parents & taught at the local elementary school. The war brought many changes: evacuees arrived in the village; nights were broken by the wail of the siren as bombers flew overhead; the young men of May's circle donned khaki & disappeared to far-flung places to 'do their bit'. But a great deal remained the same: May still enjoyed tennis parties holidays to Llandudno & going shopping for new outfits
- coupons & funds permitting. & it was during these difficult times that May fell in love. These Wonderful Rumours! gives a unique & surprising insight into life on the Home Front. Through May Smith's observant witty & sometimes acerbic diary we gain a new understanding of how the people of Britain coped with the uncertainty the heartbreak & the black comedy of life during wartime.
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In 1995 Vianna Stibal a mother of three young children was diagnosed with a serious health condition. Everything she had tried using conventional & alternative medicine had failed until she employed a simple technique that she used in her work as an intuitive reader. Amazed that she had cured herself instantaneously Vianna started to use this technique in her sessions with clients & saw person after person miraculously heal. Theta Healing is essentially applied quantum physics. Using a theta brain wave which until now was believed to be accessible only in deep sleep or yoga level meditation the practitioner is able to connect with the energy of All That Is
- the energy in everything
- to identify issues with & witness healings on the physical body & to identify & change limiting beliefs. Discover: the belief & feeling work that can instantly change the thinking within you that creates illness; the 7 Planes of Existence a concept that means that you can connect to the highest level of love & energy of All That Is; & how to develop the ability to change on all levels: physically mentally emotionally & spiritually using the Creator of All That Is.

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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

On 1 June 1939 His Majestys Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life. The disaster became an international media event mainly because the trapped souls aboard were so near to being saved after they managed to raise her stern about 18ft above sea level. Still the Royal Navy-led rescue operation failed to find the submarine for many hours only to rescue four of all those trapped. Very little is known about what actually happened as the only comprehensive book written on the subject was published in 1958. Many years have now passed since the Thetis & her men died for which no one was held to be ultimately accountable. However a great deal of unpublished information has come to light in archives throughout the United Kingdom & beyond. After four years of painstaking research Thetis; The Slow Death of a Submarine explores in minute detail a more rounded picture of what really happened before during & after her tragic loss. In doing so Tony Booths book also takes a fresh look at culpability & explores some of the alleged conspiracy theories that surrounded her demise. The result is the first definitive account what happened to HMS Thetis
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- a fitting tribute as the seventieth anniversary of her loss will be on 1 June 2009. Len Deighton -Some said that Thetis was an unlucky ship. Just how unlucky Tony Booths painstaking research will tell you.

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During more than thirty years in a variety of houses Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to valet & butler. As a boy he had to kill pheasant chicks boil rabbits for the estate dogs carry the wood up & down stairs every day for thirty fires & sleep on the floor outside his masters room. He cleaned shoes ironed underwear & socks & once had to stand all night in the hall waiting for a late visitor to arrive. But as a butler he was the best paid servant in the house waited on feared & respected by the other servants. Bob Sharpe knew the real world of upstairs downstairs & the secrets of the landed gentry
- even to the point of incest & attempted murder! They Also Serve shows you life below stairs as it really was & is perfect for fans of Downton Abbey & nostalgia memoirs.
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The third battle of Ypres culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge & little village of Passchendaele was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. In this masterly piece of oral history Lyn Macdonald lets over 600 participants speak for themselves. A million Tommies Canadians & Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917 mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King & Country. This book tells their tale of mounting disillusion amid mud terror & desperate privation yet it is also a story of immense courage comradeship songs high spirits & bawdy humour. They Called It Passchendaele" portrays the human realities behind one of the most disastrous events in the history of warfare." ...

Agatha Christies international mystery thriller reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers concerned but not convinced about the development of an as yet unidentified & undescribed secret weapon. Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of this fantastic secret weapon
- a British agent named Carmichael. Unfortunately the criminal organisation responsible for the weapons development will stop at nothing to prevent him entering Baghdad & presenting his proof to the assembled delegates. Can Carmichael enter the city against such odds? Into this explosive situations appears Victoria Jones a girl with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded Carmichael dies in her arms in her hotel room. Now if only she could make sense of his last words.. . Lucifer... Basrah... Lefarge...
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Over seventy merchant ships sailed in the Task force sent by Britain to recapture the Falkland islands in 1982. Some were Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels but the majority were STUFT-ships taken up from trade-and the officers & crew of these merchant vessels all volunteers suddenly found themselves thrust into a war zone in the South Atlantic. Remarkably little has been written about the part played by the Merchant navy summarised by the official history of the campaign as an impenetrable mystery girt about by seasickness This book lifts the curtain on that mystery to reveal something of the experiences of the merchant seamen & women who made possible the retaking of the Falkland islands. John Johnson-Allen maritime historian & former merchant naval officer combines personal accounts documents & comment to bring to life the events of the Falklands War as seen from the merchant ships that played such a vital role in that conflict. ...

A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home
- but someone else dies... Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living
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