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<p><b>One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - <i>Daily Express</i></b><br/><br/>In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completely new kind of warfare, recruiting a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first 'deniable' secret operatives to strike behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death.<br/><br/><i>The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare</i> tells the story of the daring victories for this small force of 'freelance pirates', undertaking devastatingly effective missions against the Nazis, often dressed in enemy uniforms and with enemy kit, breaking all previously held rules of warfare. Master storyteller Damien Lewis brings the adventures of the secret unit to life, weaving together the stories of the soldiers' brotherhood in this compelling narrative, from the unit's earliest missions to the death of their leader just weeks before the end of the war.</p>

<b>WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME<br/>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION<br/>SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION<br/>**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ROBERT DE NIRO**</b><br/><br/>'<b>A riveting true story</b> of greed, serial murder and racial injustice'<b> JON KRAKAUER</b><br/>'<b>A fiercely entertaining mystery</b><b> story </b>and a wrenching exploration of evil'<b> KATE ATKINSON</b><br/>'<b>A fascinating account </b>of a tragic and forgotten chapter in the history of the American West' <b>JOHN GRISHAM </b><br/><br/><b>From the bestselling author of <i>The Lost City of Z, </i>now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, <i>and the Number One international bestseller The Wager</i>, </b>comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI's first major homicide investigations.<br/><br/>In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.<br/><br/>Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. <b>As the death toll climbed</b>, <b>the FBI took up the case</b>. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose <b>one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history</b>.<br/><br/>'<b>David Grann has a </b><b>razor-keen instinct for suspense</b>' <b>LOUISE ERDRICH</b>

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<p><b>Eighty years on, <i>D-Day The Oral History </i>is a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century.</b><br/><br/>On 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soldiers, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold in Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. It was the largest combined air and seaborne invasion ever, involving over 150,000 Allied troops on the ground, and its eventual success became a critical turning point in the war, spelling the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.<br/><br/>As the events of that day fade from living memory, it's more important than ever to understand what it felt like to be there and to live through it, on both sides. In this definitive work, Garrett M. Graff, the bestselling author of <i>The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11, </i>compiles <b>over 600 US, Canadian, UK, French and German voices</b> to tell the full story of exactly how that historic day unfolded, in visceral detail - as well as the weeks and months leading up to it. From paratroopers to fighter pilots to nurses, generals, French villagers, German Defenders to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, this is the most intimate re-telling of D-Day published to date.<br/><br/><b>Praise for <i>THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: </i></b><br/><br/><i>"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read."</i><b><i> The Times</i></b><br/><br/><i>"Incredibly evocative and compelling." </i><b><i>The Washington Post</i></b><br/><br/><i>"A hugely powerful new book."</i><b> Dan Snow</b><br/><br/><i>"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real time by those who were there. I read it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish." </i><b>Piers Morgan</b></p>

<p>Pomerantsev is emerging as the pre-eminent war reporter of our time. <i>Observer</i><br/><br/><b>From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. </b><br/><br/>In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat the powerful Nazi propaganda machine, which crowed victory and smeared its enemies.<br/><br/>But inside Germany, there was one notable voice of dissent from the very heart of the military machine, Der Chef, a German whose radio broadcasts skilfully questioned Nazi doctrine. He had access to high-ranking German military secrets and spoke of internal rebellion. His listeners included German soldiers and citizens. American officials and even the President tried to to decipher what it meant for the future of the war. But what these audiences didn't know was that Der Chef was a fiction, a character created by the British propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer, just one player in Delmer's vast counter-propaganda cabaret, a unique weapon in the war.<br/><br/>As author Peter Pomerantsev uncovers Delmer's story, he is called into a wartime propaganda effort of his own: the global response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. This book is the story of Delmer and his modern-day investigator, as they each embark on their own quest to seduce and inspire the passions of supporters and enemies, and to turn the tide of information wars.</p>

Goodbye, Eastern Europe [Bok / Inbunden]

<p>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator `A masterful performance' Sunday Times `By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh's warriors. </p><p>Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed 2 million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. </p><p>While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners' victory in privation and oppression. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, Huey pilots from Arkansas. </p><p>No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings' readers know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle with so many lessons for the 21st century about the misuse of military might to confront intractable political and cultural challenges. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record.</p>