Dirty Tricks: British Airways' Secret War Against Virgin Atlantic

Biographies & Memoirs

Gregory, Martyn

Professionals & Academics

Little,Brown & Co

This book reveals the extraordinary story of one of the most intensely fought battles in British commercial history - the fight between "the world's favourite airline", British Airways, and its rival, Virgin Atlantic. It is the story of a bitter rivalry between two companies and two men: Richard Branson, the unorthodox entrepreneur who is arguably Britain's best-known businessman as the head of Virgin; and John King, the Thatcherite Lord, ex-Chairman of British Airways. The book charts how the rivalry turned to obsession and finally to paranoia, until BA - one of the country's biggest blue-chip companies, was forced to admit that it waged a two-year dirty tricks campaign against Branson which went dramatically wrong. Based on extensive research and the hundreds of pages of documents prepared for the libel action between BA and Virgin, this reveals how an undercover war was fought between the two airlines. It draws on Richard Branson's diary of events, beginning with the first entries he made when he became convinced that Virgin was the victim of a dirty tricks campaign; and on the testimony of a number of key players in the drama that unfolded, many of whom typify corporate Britain today.

Dirty Tricks : Inside Story of British Airways' Secret War Against Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Little, Brown, UK

Diana: The Last Days

AUTHORITATIVE STUDY DEBUNKING THE MYTHS SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES As soon as the world heard the news of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a crash in Paris on 31 August 1997, many questions began to be asked by people who believed it was a conspiracy and not an accident:. was she pregnant with Dodi's child?. why did the ambulance take so long to get to the hospital?. what were the roles of the 'blinding white flash' and the Fiat Uno?. were the blood samples taken from the driver switched before testing? Gregory answers all of these questions and more in an authoritative, exhaustively researched and utterly compelling book that reveals what really happened in Diana's last hours.

Leaders & Notable People

Virgin Pub

Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic was valued at over GBP1.2 billion when he sold a 49% stake to Singapore Airlines in 1999. This was an extraordinary achievement for an airline that began life in 1984 with one plane. Virgin Atlantic became one of the world's top airlines only after surviving an incredible dirty tricks campaign by British Airways. Award Winning investigative jounalist Martyn Gregory exposed BA's secret war, and he reveals the full story in Dirty Tricks.

Diana the Last Days

Virgin Paperbacks

The definitive account of what really happened, updated to include a new chapter on operation Paget, the report into the “allegation of conspiracy to murder” Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed. In the early hours of August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed set out from the Ritz Hotel in Paris for an apartment on the rue Arsène-Houssaye. They never made it. Martyn Gregory pieces together the evidence—from the exhaustive Operation Paget to the French investigation—and, with exclusive access to Diana’s bodyguards and some of her closest confidants, paints a compelling, accurate and unbiased picture of Diana’s final hours. Was Diana pregnant with Dodi’s child, and were they engaged to be married? Why did the ambulance take so long to get to the hospital? What were the roles of the “flash before the crash” and the white Fiat Uno? Were the blood samples taken from the driver switched before testing? Diana: The Last Days answers all these questions and more in a compelling account of what really happened on that fateful date.

Virgin Books

The definitive account of the last days and death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

The Diana Conspiracy Exposed: The Definitive Account

History

Olmstead Pr

As soon as the world heard the news of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a crash in Paris on 31 August 1997, many questions began to be asked by people who believed it was a conspiracy and not an accident: was she engaged to Dodi Fayed? was she pregnant with Dodi's child? why did the ambulance take so long to get to the hospital? what were the roles of the 'blinding white flash' and the Fiat Uno? were the blood samples taken from the driver switched before testing? Martyn Gregory has interviewed close friends of Diana, the bodyguards who were with her and now for this revised and updated edition the head of the French investigation to delve into the real truth behind the crash. He answers all of these questions and more in an authoritative, exhaustively researched and utterly compelling book that reveals what really happened in Diana's last hours.

The Diana Conspiracy Exposed

Community & Culture

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Dirty Tricks: British Airways' Secret War Against Virgin Atlantic

Dirty Tricks : Inside Story of British Airways' Secret War Against Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic

Diana: The Last Days

Dirty Tricks: British Airways' Secret War Against Virgin Atlantic

Diana the Last Days

Diana: The Last Days

The Diana Conspiracy Exposed: The Definitive Account

The Diana Conspiracy Exposed

Diana: The Last Days

Diana: The Last Days