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Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell
Category: History
This is the true story of one of the most dramatic and mythologized moments of the Cold War - the famous spy swap in Berlin. "Bridge of Spies" is a gripping, entertaining, hair-raising and comical story, which moves effortlessly from the hardware of high-flying planes and new missiles to the geopolitics ...Show more
Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell
Category: History
The true story of one of the most dramatic and mythologized moments of the Cold War - the famous spy swap in Berlin
Snow - The biography by Giles Whittell
Category: Science & Natural History
Description: How many snowflakes does it take to build a snowman? Why does it feel so good to watch snow fall? Why is snow so quiet? Will it survive global warming and what was the greatest snowstorm in history? Snow has a lot in common with religion. It comes from heaven. It changes everything. It c ...Show more
Spitfire Women Of World War II by Giles Whittell
Category: Military
The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II – mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the U-boat blockades of the North Atlantic in the bitter winter of 1 ...Show more
Spitfire Women of World War 2 by Giles Whittell
Category: History
The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II -- mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the U-boat blockades of the North Atlantic in the bitter winter of ...Show more
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
Category: History
The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II -- mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the U-boat blockades of the North Atlantic in the bitter winter of ...Show more
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Whittell, Giles
Category: Military
For the 80th anniversary, the first popular account of Operation Chariot, the most daring British raid of WW2In the darkest months of WW2, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertoo ...Show more
The Greatest Raid - St Nazaire, 1942: the Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Giles Whittell
Category: History
'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . . a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times 'Absorbing . . . The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative' Patrick Bishop, Sun ...Show more
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