Publication date: 1990-10
Dewey code: 791.430232092
Price: £13.41
Review Clown Prince of Hollywood: The Antic Life and Times of Jack L. Warner / Mcgraw-Hill:
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Dewey code: 358.414092
RRP: £27.50
Price: £26.96
Review Stuka Pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel (Schiffer Military History) / Schiffer Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-24
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £11.99
Price: £10.34
Review Journal of the Campaign of 1815: the Experiences of an Officer of the Royal Horse Artillery During the Waterloo Campaign: The Experiences of an Officer ... Horse Artillery During the Waterloo Campaign / Leonaur Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-06-01
RRP: £7.65
Price: £16.95
Review Fifty Dead Men Walking / Blake Publishing:
Creator: Victoria Brittain
Publication date: 2006-02-27
RRP: £18.99
Price: £18.99
Review Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back / Free Press:
Publication date: 2006-12-14
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.33
Review The Adventures of Colonel Daffodil / Pen & Sword Military:
Publication date: 2008-04-24
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £14.00
Price: £7.80
Review The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud / Potomac Books Inc:
Publication date: 2001-11-01
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.23
Review Behind Enemy Lines: An Australian SAS Soldier in Vietnam / Allen & Unwin:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2001-12-20
Dewey code: 200
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.99
Review Mary Ward / Continuum International Publishing Group - Burns &:
Creator: David Johnston
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-09-09
RRP: £27.50
Price: £25.87
Review My Command Operations: Memoirs of Hitler's Most Daring Commando (Schiffer Book for Hobbyists and Carvers) / Schiffer Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-09-13
Dewey code: 959.704342092
RRP: £12.50
Price: £7.74
Review Land With No Sun: A Year in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne (Stackpole Military History) / Stackpole Books,U.S.:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-11-17
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £7.99
Price: £10.00
Review One Up: A Woman in the SAS / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-09-30
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99
Review Wings Aflame (Fighter Pilots) / Crecy Publishing:
Creator: John Brownjohn
Publication date: 2002-12-19
Dewey code: 941.084092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.07
Review Churchill (Life & Times) / Haus Publishing Limited:
Authors
- Joseph E. Persico
- Colin Powell
RRP: £20.00
Price: £9.95
Review A Soldier's Way: An Autobiography / Hutchinson:
Publication date: 2003-12
RRP: £9.95
Price: £9.95
Review An Erk's Eye View of WW2: A Former 'instrument Basher' Remembers Life on a Bomber Squadron in WW2 / Woodfield Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-02-18
Dewey code: 940.548641
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.49
Review Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park / Channel 4 Books:When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" arrived at Bletchley Park in 1939 no-one would have guessed that by 1945 the guests would number nearly 10,000 and that collectively they would have contributed decisively to the Allied war effort. Their role? To decode the Enigma cypher used by the Germans for high-level communications. Their work has already inspired Robert Harris's novel Enigma and now a Channel 4 series has been produced, which this book accompanies. It is an astonishing story. A melting pot of Oxbridge dons (including Alan Turing, the father of the modern computer), maverick oddballs and more regular citizens worked night and day at Station X, as Bletchley Park was known, to derive intelligence information from German coded messages. Bear in mind that an Enigma machine had a possible 159 million million million different settings and the magnitude of the challenge becomes apparent. That they succeeded, despite military scepticism, supplying information that led to the sinking of the Bismarck, Montgomery's victory in North Africa and the D-Day landings, is testament to an indomitable spirit that wrenched British intelligence into the modern age, replacing false beards and dodgy accents with a technological precision that was to be fundamental as the Second World War segued into the Cold War. Michael Smith constructs his absorbing narrative around the reminiscences of those who worked and played at Bletchley Park, and their stories add a very human colour to what was a highly cerebral activity, remote as it was from the blood and loss of the battlefield, but with such direct bearing. The code breakers of Station X did not win the war but they undoubtedly shortened it, and the potential lives saved on both sides stand as their greatest achievement. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 2004-12-15
Dewey code: 940.545973
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.41
Review Sea of Sharks: A Sailor's World War II Shipwreck Survival Story / Naval Institute Press:
Publication date: 1997-03-13
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.92
Review Terminal Velocity: His True Account of Front-line Action in the Falklands War and Beyond / Smith Gryphon:
Publication date: 2007-07-05
Dewey code: 070.5092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.50
Review William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years 1911-1951 / OUP USA:
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Clown Prince of Hollywood: The Antic Life and Times of Jack L. Warner, Stuka Pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel (Schiffer Military History), Journal of the Campaign of 1815: the Experiences of an Officer of the Royal Horse Artillery During the Waterloo Campaign: The Experiences of an Officer ... Horse Artillery During the Waterloo Campaign, Fifty Dead Men Walking, Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back, The Adventures of Colonel Daffodil, The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud, Behind Enemy Lines: An Australian SAS Soldier in Vietnam, Mary Ward, My Command Operations: Memoirs of Hitler's Most Daring Commando (Schiffer Book for Hobbyists and Carvers), Land With No Sun: A Year in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne (Stackpole Military History), One Up: A Woman in the SAS, Wings Aflame (Fighter Pilots), Churchill (Life & Times), A Soldier's Way: An Autobiography, An Erk's Eye View of WW2: A Former 'instrument Basher' Remembers Life on a Bomber Squadron in WW2, Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park, Sea of Sharks: A Sailor's World War II Shipwreck Survival Story, Terminal Velocity: His True Account of Front-line Action in the Falklands War and Beyond, William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years 1911-1951 |
