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In the last months of 1944, a group of elite Australian and British commandos was selected for the biggest Allied behind-the-scenes operation of the Pacific War. Their mission: to devastate the enemy's shipping by destroying the Japanese ships at anchor in Singapore Harbour.

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Over forty years Thomas Jefferson and William Short forged a deep and intense relationship that both characterized in paternal and filial terms. Heir through Hope examines this relationship and its impact on Jefferson's moral and political judgments--on revolutionary violence, the economics of slavery, the value of marriage--central to his wider thought.

"Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of World War II, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies such as the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management, and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. Recounting the apocalyptic visions of chemical death that circulated in interwar Germany, he argues that while everyday encounters with the gas mask tended to exacerbate fears, the mask also came to symbolize debates about the development of military and chemical technologies in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He underscores how the gas mask was tied into the creation of an exclusionary national community under the Nazis and the altered perception of environmental danger in the second half of the twentieth century. As this innovative new history shows, chemical warfare and protection technologies came to represent poignant visions of the German future"--

The German protest song from the 1960s through the 1990s and how it carried forth traditions of earlier periods.

The period before World War Two was often referred to as the ?phoney war?. In that troubled time, an agent for the Home office was sent to Germany under cover to try to find out what Hitler and his allies planned, the group later called the Axis of Evil.Zain Bridges finds to his horror that Hitler was worried about America being drawn into the new world war that was about to start. His scientists were working on a scheme to weaponise the bubonic plague so that it could be used against America, being released over their cities from the sky.It is also said that an Israeli agent fired a pistol into one of the tanks as the Hindenburg came in to land at the New Jersey field. Sailors from the nearby Lakehurst naval base ran to help passengers as the airship burned. However, nothing was left of the sixteen tanks and there was no way to prove that the airship was about to spread the plague.Was America that lucky, and is that why they are such good allies these days with the Jews?

The road to the stars was paved with danger while he existed, yet my need drove me on to first find a young woman stolen from me and my heart. Pit, the intelligent virus had taken her along with her battleship. Now, after five years, a drone had found it and now I followed with a vengeance in my heart, and perhaps my death at the end. One of us had to die; I could not let Pit escape again. My mission and the lives of every human man, woman and child depended on me completing this. The Stacci, a benevolent alien race had changed my body so much that although I looked human and thought of myself as human, it ended there. I was almost as much a machine as Pit and only one of us could survive once we met again, and that time had almost arrived. There was no going back now.

AT LAST the full story of Diana, Princess of Wales with moving accounts of her life from those who knew her best - what made her laugh, what made her cry. Princes William and Harry say that not a day goes by without them thinking of their beloved mother as they do their best to draw a veil over her acrimonious marriage to their father, Charles, Prince of Wales, England's next king. Even before Lady Diana Spencer married into the most revered family on earth, she had her suspicions that the kith and kin of Prince Charles were not all they seemed-to-be. No sooner had she become the Princess of Wales and moved into Kensington Palace than her fears were confirmed: the House of Windsor constituted a flawed dynasty. She found herself trapped in a world of scandal, deceit and treachery.Diana Always There reveals the previously untold secrets Diana discovered about her royal relatives. This book exposes how intensely Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles contrived to exclude her, it reveals the Queen was angry and bitter at her family's indiscretions, how the Queen Mother's indifference was matched only by Prince Philip's blind range over Diana's determination to find her own path, what really went on between the Duke and Duchess of York and how Prince Edward witnessed Diana's tantrums at Balmoral.In short, this is Diana's own secret life told in intimate detail.Parts of this book were included in an earlier edition - Diana' Nightmare: The Family

It was a war-weary Lord Brutus that set off home in atrocious weather; rain, heavy and cold, blasted the dry lands and turned most of it to mud. An unearthly voice echoed inside the head of Lord Brutus, the Underworld was again bragging that they had captured his pregnant wife. How could she be pregnant? A riding accident had put paid to having a family life. Yet fear tugged at his heart, what if it was true? A baby produced by him would give Lord Baal and his minions a method of breaking the spell and freeing the twenty-seven dragons held in magic misery. No homecoming for him. He had to find out just what the Underworld and Baals minions were up to again before this green and pleasant land turned back to the cesspit it once was.

Even before Lady Diana Spencer married into the most revered family on earth, she hadher suspicions that the kith and kin of Prince Charles were not all they seemed-to-be. Nosooner had she become the Princess of Wales and moved into Kensington Palace thanher fears were confirmed: the House of Windsor constituted a flawed dynasty. Diana'sNightmare reveals the previously untold secrets Diana discovered about her royal relatives.This book exposes how intensely Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles contrived to excludeher, it reveals the Queen was angry and bitter at her family's indiscretions, how theQueen Mother's indifference was matched only by Prince Philip's blind range over Diana'sdetermination to find her own path, what really went on between the Duke and Duchessof York and how Prince Edward witnessed Diana's tantrums at Balmoral . . . Diana'sown secret life. And much much more . . .

IT SEEMS that almost every week Sarah Ferguson - the Duchess of York, known to one and all as Fergie - makes headlines with her efforts to re-brand herself and explain her troubles. There are the weight-loss problems, the ongoing differences with the Royal Family and her financial difficulties. But how did it all start? It seemed like a fairy-tale come true when Sarah married the Queen's favourite son, Prince Andrew, and became one of the best-known women in the world. She was feted wherever she went - and she went everywhere. But the Duchess's world was to come crashing down in spectacular fashion.We all heard the rumours, now here's a book that sets out the facts about all the scandals. Finally, the explosive truth from two experts - CHRIS HUTCHINS, the writer who broke the palace-rocking story of Fergie's risqué liaison with handsome Texan Steve Wyatt, and PETER THOMPSON, a former editor of London's Daily Mirror, the paper that ran the sexy St. Tropez stories of Fergie and her "financial advisor" Johnny Bryan. The book also details her often-tempestuous relationship with Princess Diana and how both women decided to end their marriages.

Opinionated and profoundly undeferential, taverngoers did more than drink; they forced their political leaders to consider whether and how public opinion could be represented in the counsels of a newly independent nation.

The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of $3600 per head of population

Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian, and critical history, this book examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989. It also looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists).

Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalism, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists).