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Why do bad things happen to good people? The current battle between superstitious and prejudiced forces from the past, against more enlightened modern ones, began when Winston Churchill was appointed colonial secretary in 1920\. With the defeat of the shadowy Turkish Empire in 1918 by the Allies, he was challenged by three grim forces of menace and coercion: Communism, Fascism, and Islamist Fundamentalism. Each aimed to extinguish every spark ...

True account of the rise and fall of the American genius Robert Oppenheimer, chosen by the U.S. military to head a team of scientists to develop the first atomic bomb. Timed with the release of Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jnr

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John Harte is one of the nation's great scientific treasures. The Green Fuse demonstrates his broad understanding of ecology and the scientific method. More important, this work reveals his uncommon gift for translating complex scientific concepts into language that can be understood by all. His keen narrative describes how ecologists are coming to understand global environmental ills throughout the world. And his moving prose about the beauty...

John Harte is one of the nation's great scientific treasures. The Green Fuse demonstrates his broad understanding of ecology and the scientific method. More important, this work reveals his uncommon gift for translating complex scientific concepts into language that can be understood by all. His keen narrative describes how ecologists are coming to understand global environmental ills throughout the world. And his moving prose about the beauty...

An engaging firsthand account of growing up in London in World War 2, the appeasement of Hitler by the Government and the Foreign Office, the Munich Crisis, the Battle of Britain, and daily bombardment by drones and rocket projectiles, by a popular modern historian who specializes in describing what he knows, war.

As the basis for the popular James Bond stories, Sidney Reilly's true exploits were even more thrilling and fantastic than those of the fictional James Bond. Reilly was Britain's best spy?but was he also a Soviet double-agent? Author John Harte retells Reilly's story as it really was, in fast-moving prose with an eye for telling detail?and provides a twist: He tells us what really happened to Reilly after he vanished in Soviet Russia in 1925 a...

John Harte's Hollywood's 5 Reckless Women describes the rise and fall of Hollywood as seen through the turbulent lives of its five greatest stars, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Vivien Leigh, Rita Hayworth and Gene Tierney. Each was described by the media as the most beautiful woman in the world. They shared each other's directors, producers, lovers, husbands, and leading men, while struggling courageously to prevent the collapse of their career...

The Passionate Spies describes how Britain, in June 1916, attempted to end the slaughter of World War I by undermining Turkey (a German Ally). Three British spies, motivated by their aversion to the imperialism of the major powers and their own idealism, were able to spark a revolt among Arab tribes from the Turkish border to the Red Sea. With some help from British troops, they succeeded in overcoming Turkish forces and established Damascus a...

As the basis for the popular James Bond stories, Sidney Reilly's true exploits were even more thrilling and fantastic than those of the fictional James Bond. Reilly was Britain's best spy - but was he also a Soviet double-agent? Author John Harte retells Reilly's story as it really was, in fast-moving prose with an eye for telling detail-and provides a twist: He tells us what really happened to Reilly after he vanished in Soviet Russia in 1925...

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