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 However a great deal of unpublished information has come to light in archives throughout the United Kingdom & beyond.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
- & her men
- 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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January 1941. Dark days for Britain standing alone against the menace of Nazi Germany & for four friends fighting their own personal battles.. . When Rose Taylor receives two proposals on New Year's Eve she has to face an agonising choice that threatens to separate her from all those she loves. Meanwhile Richard Stephens has to come to terms with his shattered dream
- the only thing that sustained him through the chaos of Dunkirk & the long months on the run as an escaped prisoner of war. For beautiful Felix badly burned when his Spitfire was shot down in flames there is the prospect of weeks of painful surgery watched by his anguished lover. But as the months go by each of them finds the courage to face danger. For it lurks on every side.. .
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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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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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A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form -- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design. ...

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your familys expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we are & how we behave. Nurture in effect shapes our very nature. James combines the latest scientific research with fascinating interviews to show that understanding your past is the first step to controlling your present. ...

The sixtieth birthday party of Silas Kane was marred by argument & dissension amongst his family. & then the morning after the celebrations Kane is found dead at the foot of a cliff. The theory that Silas accidentally lost his way in the fog is confirmed when the coroner returns a verdict of death by misadventure. But then Kanes nephew & heir is murdered & threats are made on the next in line to the fortune throwing a new & sinister light on Silas Kanes death. All clues point to an elderly lady of eighty as the killer. But as the redoubtable Superintendent Hannasyde delves further into the case he discovers that nothing is quite as it seems... ...

This is an introductory work which presents a profile of the relationship between American Indians & Europeans & later Americans from the early sixteenth century onward. Its intent is to provide college students & general readers a clear overview of significant aspects of the American Indian experience with those people who asserted their control over the continent. The story is generally told in this volume within the framework of white history -- first because Indian policy was formulated from the white perspective rather than from that of the First Nations & secondly because whites so influentially affected the American Indians -- their lives culture & history. ...