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I just loved this book. Full of surprises and twists and turns!" --Amazon reviewer, five stars A woman of humble origins fights to overcome every obstacle to pilot a plane in World War I Britain, in a novel by the author of The Fuhrer's Orphans . . . Being female means that Charlotte Dovedale's dreams are likely out of reach. Her mother is eager to support Charlotte's brother in his quest to join the newly formed Royal Flying Corps, but Charlo...

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A researcher seizes an opportunity to find out what happened to her grandfather during WWII-and discovers a present-day threat as she retraces his steps . . . Munich, 1938: Two men successfully infiltrate the notorious conference at which Prime Minister Chamberlain will hand Czechoslovakia over to Hitler. One is an American radio correspondent determined to stop the gullible and dangerous act with a dramatic protest. But the other pulls a gun,...

Did Sir Francis Drake really claim Monterey for Queen Elizabeth? What does it take to win the world's worst car show? Why did the new nation of Argentina attack the port of Monterey? Monterey County is known nationwide for its agricultural bounty, a bay bursting with marine life, world famous golf courses, annual displays of automobile extravagance, and Big Sur, one of the top ten scenic road trips in the nation, but what about the stories and...

Could you find hope during the darkest time?In an overgrown industrial area of wartime Munich, 27 children hide from the Gestapo scared and hungry. Their parents have been sent to concentration camps and they have nowhere else to go.Teacher Claudia Kellner discovers the group when she first takes in two homeless victims, risking her own safety by giving them shelter.Meanwhile, Commando Peter Chesham, a spy working for the British, succeeds in ...

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An out-of-favour journalist tracks down a ring of spies bent on sabotaging Britain's 'Exit Day'. A senior Minister leaks Cabinet secrets to Brussels. An assassin stalks the Prime Minister. When an old lover turns up on Harry Topp's doorstep, she brings with her an explosive 'gift': a list of deeply buried secret agents in Britain. And top of the list is the Cabinet Minister. Harry is shocked to discover that a friend is also one of the spies a...

Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener is most famous today as the face of the poster that led country's recruitment drive during the early part of the First World War. But in recent years, with the recent release of records by the government, it has been the nature of his death that has stirred up passions long forgotten. At the beginning of the campaign he had been appointed the Secretary of State for War by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. A contro...

Munich, 1938: An American foreign correspondent gatecrashes the pre-war Munich Conference to protest against British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's surrender to Hitler - more than 70 years later it's like the incident never happened - hushed up with the man disappeared, never to be seen again. Now his granddaughter demands to know the truth of what really happened. Britain, 2015: Emma Drake, a history researcher at Cambridge, has aways b...

This is the frank, acerbic and often funny account of the historic coalition between the Lib Dems and Conservatives, as told by the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury - a post he held for only 17 days.

Leading Liberal Democrats re-examine traditional Liberal ideas and come up with fresh - and surprising - ideas for the LibDem revival. In this stimulating collection, the next generation of Liberal Democrat leaders, including MPs and MEPs David Laws, Edward Davey, Vince Cable, Steve Webb, Chris Huhne, Nick Clegg and Mark Oaten, proposes a vigorous future for the party and its policies. Building on traditional Liberal values and principles, the...

An insider account of the historic Conservative-Lib Dem coalition, from its birth in 2010 through to its demise in May 2015. The author took part in the negotiations that brought about the coalition, and was its first Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

22 Days in May is the first detailed Liberal Democrat insider account of the negotiations which led to the formation of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government in May 2010, along with an essential desription of the early days of the government.

Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of firsthand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The book examines street level democratic processes through the experiences of planning and city governance practitioners in c...

An insider's account of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government from 2010 through to its demise in 2015. Highlights key decisions and divisions between both parties, from an author who was at the heart of government and took part in the negotiations to form a coalition government.

Innovation has emerged as a central concern in sustainable development and related policy arenas such as climate change. The book explores the implications for policy practice of this new emphasis and the challenges it creates for public, private, and civic actors who want to foster technological innovation as a way to promote sustainable development. We present a set of case studies of success and analyze their implications for practice. We e...