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The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on 6 June 1944 - the long-awaited D-Day - was not only the greatest amphibious military operation of all time, it was also the decisive turning point of the Second World War. Its success opened the way for the liberation of western Europe from Nazi tyranny, and for the downfall of Hitler's criminal regime. Yet it could all have gone horribly wrong.An opposed seaborne landing on a fortified and heavi...

The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on 6 June 1944 - the long-awaited D-Day - was not only the greatest amphibious military operation of all time, it was also the decisive turning point of the Second World War. Its success opened the way for the liberation of western Europe from Nazi tyranny, and for the downfall of Hitler's criminal regime. Yet it could all have gone horribly wrong. An opposed seaborne landing on a fortified and heav...

Aimed at millions of drinkers around the world who are interested in taking a break from alcohol, WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS reveals the secret of how drinkers can free themselves from alcohol's control. Where the standard willpower method fails, this unique and easy-to-follow approach is proven to succeed. It shows how by quitting drinking you can transform your body, mind, life and find true happiness. It's the story of how a 50-something...

Aimed at millions of drinkers around the world who are interested in taking a break from alcohol, WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS reveals the secret of how drinkers can free themselves from alcohol's control. Where the standard willpower method fails, this unique and easy-to-follow approach is proven to succeed. It shows how by quitting drinking you can transform your body, mind, life and find true happiness. It's the story of how a 50-something...

The first factual history of Salon Kitty, the story of a Berlin brothel used by the SD Nazi secret service as a listening post wired for sound to spy on its VIP clients, and staffed by specially selected and trained sex workers who doubled as secret agents.

There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of Cabaret. But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by women agents specially selected by...

It is tempting, but wrong, to designate some events documented in scripture as just historical records. That is not the purpose of any part of the Bible. The birth and life of Samuel may seem remote, being more than three thousand years ago in a land and culture very different from ours today, but it would be a mistake to treat them as just events in history. Samuel, the Boy is a story of heartache, rejection, ridicule, and divided loyalties-j...

It is tempting, but wrong, to designate some events documented in scripture as just historical records. That is not the purpose of any part of the Bible. The birth and life of Samuel may seem remote, being more than three thousand years ago in a land and culture very different from ours today, but it would be a mistake to treat them as just events in history. Samuel, the Boy is a story of heartache, rejection, ridicule, and divided loyalties-j...

A regional pottery industry flourished in Buckley, Flintshire, from the medieval period to the mid-20th century. This book, based on recent research and excavations, identifies over 30 production sites. It considers the factors that influenced siting and development, how it changed through time and the reasons for its eventual demise.

The story behind the blockbuster film Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise.

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The Home Design Yearbook has been devised to save you from hours of endless internet searching, bringing together many of Devon's best companies to help you achieve your home design aims.

Hailed by Churchill as one of "England's noblest sons", Brooke has been mythologised since his death in the First World War. This revisionist biography shows him to have been sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and paranoiac, but also one of the most gifted spirits of his age.

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Comprises over 1300 definitions and articles to provide a useful ready-reference work on solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, including information on the scenes of production of many fuels, such as major coal reserves and large oil and gas fields. This dictionary is useful for undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in fuel technology.

A candid and sometimes shocking biography of Rupert Brooke, revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy facade of an English literary icon. This revised edition of the iconoclastic portrait contains a new chapter on a previously unknown affair. Now in paperback.

1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war, suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue, and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia expressed in a rash of ¿invasion scare' literature. Then when shots rang out in Sarajevo on 28 June, they set in train a tumble of diplomatic dominos that led to Britain declaring war on Germany....

A candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke reveals that the very different reality behind the golden-boy facade of this English literary icon.