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Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim

Russell Miller

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

House of Getty (Coronet Books)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Prepared for any situation from averting interrogation through suicide to derailing a train with nothing but an overcoat—and supplied with such useful items as expertly forged documents, exploding rats, and invisible ink—the men and women of the O.S.S. and the S.O.E. were sent behind enemy lines to cause mayhem, often alone, with an average life expectancy of six weeks. These are their stories in their own words.

Behind the Lines: The Oral History of Special Operations in World War II

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Secker Warburg

Body and How to Succeed in Business and Change the World Roddick, Anita and Miller, Russell

Body And Soul

Anita Roddick

Business & Money

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Magnum

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

PIMLICO (RAND)

WW2, 1st edition 1st printing trade paperback, fine, true In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Pimlico

The house of Getty

Literature & Fiction

M.Joseph

Synopsis We all know that Florence Nightingale was the great angel of mercy who saved thousands of lives by tending to the wounds of Crimean War soldiers, but in reality, her hospital was a much more serious threat to their health than that war's brutal front line. Any school child can tell you that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but in fact another prolific inventor, Hiram Maxim, beat him to it. And forget about Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, Italian American tinkerer Antonio Meucci bested him by at least four years in transmitting voices over a wire. Nearly all historians have conceded that the Vikings made it to America's shores 500 years before Columbus. But did you know he was likely to have been preceded by two Chinese explorers - the first in A.D. 458? Most history books say that successive waves of invading barbarians caused the Roman Empire to crumble, but actually that mighty power was brought low by a much humbler intruder: the mosquito. Legend has it that Cleopatra was a ravishing beauty, but all the evidence points to a woman who was plain, short, and dumpy - albeit one with a charming personality. And she couldn't have killed herself with an asp because it was unknown in Egypt at the time. What she probably used was a cobra. Lucrezia Borgia, on the other hand, has probably been unjustly maligned by history writers - because of her family's notorious reputation - for there is no evidence at all that she ever poisoned anyone. Other stories often dismissed as unreliable folklore may very well be authentic. For centuries, the faithful have venerated the bones in a coffin in Padua, Italy, as those of the gospel writer Luke. Now, DNA testing shows that they are likely to be right. And the bedtime tale of the Pied Piper seems to be rooted in the real disappearance of 130 children from the German town of Hameln on June 26, 1284.

The Truth About History: How New Evidence Is Transforming the Story of the Past

READER'S DIGEST ASSOCIATION

Unknown

The House of Getty

Leaders & Notable People

Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

An account of resistance groups, members, and activities in Nazi-occupied Europe is illustrated throughout with scores of photographs, many taken by resistance fighters themselves

The Resistance (World War II series)

Military

Time-Life, Incorporated

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