What makes a talented female tarot artist, writer, and storyteller, convert from mysticism to Catholicism, dying in penury in Cornwall? The mysterious Pamela Colman Smith worked with creatives like actress Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker, and W. B. Yeats. Why did she turn her back on London bohemian life to work on a challenging Cornish religious ......
The Secret Espionage War of the Radio Security Service 1938-1946
During World War Two German Intelligence deployed spies throughout occupied Europe. Monitoring of their wireless transmissions fell to a small and secretive unit manned almost exclusively by volunteers. It became known as the Radio Security Service and was at the core of the signal's intelligence production effort at Bletchley Park.
Captain Marendaz, pilot with the RFC, was a controversial manufacturer of record-breaking sports cars and aircraft between the wars, his cars being driven by Kaye Don, Gwenda Stewart and the parents of Stirling Moss. He was detained by the Government under 18B Regulations in 1940, later emigrating to South Africa for a number of years.
Bruce Springsteen: Song by Song takes a close look at each track on all of his twenty studio albums, starting with Springsteen's 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to his latest Letter to You released in 2020.
Delve into the photographic history of one of the world's most famous tanks; the T-34. Explore the technical innovations that kept the tank above the cream of the Wehrmacht. Never before has such a detailed study of the T-34 been conducted through the use of photographs, most of which were taken by those who opposed the tank on the battlefield.
Volume 5 in Blaine Taylor's photographic history of Hermann Goering sees the Reichsmarschall at his most powerful: commander-in-chief of the fearsome Luftwaffe and the Fuhrer's named successor. Victories for the Luftwaffe in Spain and Poland cover him in glory, and yet he is fearful of what's to come and uncertain whether his nation will survive.
Celia Sandys' charming autobiography paints a remarkable picture of her exceptional life. It also includes a unique window on the life and death of her grandfather, Winston Churchill. Married three times during an eventful life, she became a renowned author and presenter of stories of the incredible Churchill dynasty.
Frontkampfer I: Blitzkrieg 1939-1942 is a collection of rare photographs, many never before published, highlighting the German war machine in the early years of the Second World War, beginning in Poland in 1939, crossing Europe and North Africa in 1940-1942, and culminating in February 1943 with the surrender of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad.
This book covers Bomber Command from creation in 1936 to 1945. In parallel with Fighter Command's initial defensive fallibility, the means to hammer the Axis industrial base into oblivion was totally lacking and had to be painfully built up to the point where the Force decisively added its weight to bring about an ultimate Allied Victory.
