Autumn 1940: the Front Line is now Britain itself. Cities are blitzed night after night and even after the bombers have turned for home, a deadly menace remains: thousands upon thousands of UXBs. Buried underground, their clocks ticking remorselessly, unexploded bombs blocked supply routes, emptied hospitals and left families refugees. Dealing with this threat soon became Churchill's priority. This desperate struggle became a battle of wits that pitted German ingenuity against British resourcefulness, including such extradinary figures as Robert Davies GC, who saved St Paul's Cathedral, and John Hudson, the modest horticulturalist who mastered the V1.

Danger Uxb: The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams

James Owen

Abacus Software

A Study Of Siouan Cults

Dorsey

The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts the course of the central event of the twentieth century using the diaries, letters and memoirs of those who were there, from Russian women fighter pilots to the prisoners of the Japanese to Londoners enduring the Blitz. Their first-hand accounts place us on the ramparts of Colditz, in the hiding places of the Warsaw Ghetto, aboard a dive bomber at Pearl Harbor, with Rommel in the desert and by Churchill's side in Downing Street. Unrivalled in the immediacy, range and power of the experiences it contains, it includes writing by, among others, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Christabel Bielenberg, Noel Coward, Robert Capa, Airey Neave, George Patton, Hermione Ranfurly, Arthur Koestler, James Lees-Milne, Martha Gellhorn, Sophia Loren and Primo Levi. Ambitious, instructive and entertaining, this is the definitive portrait of a world at war.

The Voice of War : The Story of World War Two in the Words of Those Who Fought It

History

Military

Viking Adult

A poor boy of diverse heritage from the hills of rural Jamaica embarks on a journey through university in America, marriage, professional training in Italy and subsequent assignment as a manufacturing executive with a multi-national Fortune 500 American Corporation. He lives and works in the Caribbean, North America and Africa and accepts American citizenship without losing his Jamaican identity or compromising his commitment to his adopted country. He survives the murder of his father in a Jamaica on its way to becoming the murder capital of the world, confronts endemic bias in corporate America, witnesses a coup and endures cultural isolation and work permit woes in Kenya. He works through the early years of dramatic social and economic dislocation in Zimbabwe. Jamaican by Birth American by Choice explores interpersonal, institutional, and political relationships across the Caribbean, North America and Africa and examines the resurgence of brazen bigotry in post Obama America.

Jamaican by Birth American by Choice

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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