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When BOAC Flight 480 disappears from the radar screens over the Mediterranean, passengers and crew are soon posted missing. Three months later what seems to be the same aircraft reappears and lands on an Ionian holiday island. Gathered there are the world's media, agog to discover what has happened to the Boeing.There are, though, more questions than answers from the captain and crew of the vanished flight, and the passengers are more interest...

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1946. Britain is occupied by the Nazis. Hitler is assassinated triggering a struggle for power among the Nazis, revolt across the Occupied Continent, and schism in Washington. A thriller and literary cryptogram that numbers Princess Elizabeth, Churchill, Edward and Wallis, Roosevelt, the Kennedys and sundry Forces Chiefs in its Tolstoyan cast.

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A significant reappraisal of the importance of sea power in the First World War, accessible to the general reader and naval specialist alike, exploring how Britain's naval might deterred potential invaders, and blocked off trade to Germany.

From the Fall of France in June 1940 to Hitler's suicide in April 1945, the swastika flew from the peaks of the High Savoy in the western Alps to the passes above Ljubljana in the east. This title tells the story of how the war was conceived and directed from the Fuhrer's mountain retreat, and how all the Alps bar Switzerland fell to Fascism.

In a mountain resort in the Alps, Hitler built his 'Eagle's Nest' from which he conceived and directed the war. Storming the Eagle's Nest brings together these stories of the definitive account of this crucial arena of the Second World War, in which Europe's exclusive playground became a battlefield.

Follows the careers of six Royal Navy submariners from their graduation from Dartmouth's Britannia Royal Naval College in 1963, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This book explains the nuclear threat and its beginnings in the last days of the Second World War.

The Riviera has inspired countless novelists and artists, attracted as much by its visitors as by its location. This title corrals an array of vignettes of the Cote d'Azur's most famous habitues from the Romans to the Rolling Stones.

Immortalized as the author of "The Riddle of the Sands", Erskine Childers led a life quite as enigmatic and adventurous as his classic novel. This is the biography of Childers.

Tells the story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings with the Romantic movement, through the great days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing.