Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Douglas Botting

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

This is an account of Gerald Durrell, who was a world-famous naturalist and popular author who wrote some 37 yarns, including the bestselling My Family and Other Animals. His other books include Birds, Beasts and Relatives, The Bafut Beagles and A Zoo in My Luggage. Above all, he paved the way in print for the popular presentation of the natural world on television and presented 12 series himself - the early ones - of his own expeditions. Sir David Attenborough has said: He was responsible for changing people's attitudes to zoology and changing their agenda. He showed them small animals could be as interesting as apes and elephants... He was a pioneer.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Harpercollins Pb

Dr.Eckener's Dream Machine: The Historic Saga Of The Round-The-World Zeppelin

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

A classic account of Germany after her fall to the Allies in May 1945. Concentrates on the period between the collapse of the Reich and the foundation of the new Germanys, an unusual and little-charted time in history. Botting shows that the plan to bring democracy to Germany was far from straightforward.  Douglas Botting is the author of Nazi Gold (with Ian Sayer) and Hitler's Women.

In the ruins of the Reich

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Shadow in the Clouds: The Story of Airships (Explorer 16)

Puffin

Gavin Maxwell a Life

London: Harper-Collins, 1993

Humboldt and the Cosmos

Science & Math

Cardinal Books

First published in Britain in 1985, In the Ruins of the Reich is a classic account of Nazi Germany after her fall to the Allies in May 1945. Douglas Botting concentrates on the defining events that took place in the period between the collapse of the Third Reich and the foundation of the new Germanys to create the prevailing atmosphere of a most unusual and little-charted time in history. This was a period when four of the strongest industrial nations to emerge from the Second World War attempted to work together to govern the once strong Germany, now prostate, impoverished and devastated by war and defeat. Telling the story of the dynamics between occupiers and occupied, the crimes perpetrated by both and the Imperial tendencies of the occupiers, Douglas Botting shows that the plan to bring democracy to Germany was far from flawless or straightforward.

In the Ruins of the Reich

History

Methuen Publishing

A classic account of Germany after her fall to the Allies in May 1945. Concentrates on the period between the collapse of the Reich and the foundation of the new Germany, an unusual and little-charted time in history. Botting shows that the plan to bring democracy to Germany was far from straightforward.

From the Ruins of the Reich

Random House]

Pirates of the Spanish Main (Explorers)

Children's Books

Puffin Books

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