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Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in American - and world - history. Whatever the conclusions of the US official Warren Report - that the President had been assassinated by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald - many people doubt that to be true. Indeed, President Nixon later admitted on tape that the report was 'a hoax committed on the American...

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A cracking good read... I will recommend this book to anyone' - Professor Richard Holmes, CBE 'The Falklands, Yom Kippur, Tet and Pearl Harbor? Avoidable intelligence blunders or much worse? Altogether a compelling read from someone who knows the business' - Nigel West This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's - and controversial insider's - view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes ...

The Inside Story of Our Dangerous Nuclear World. US President Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Leading military historian, John Hughes-Wilson exposes just how close we've come to genuine nuclear disaster - military and civilian, on many occasions. This book records the facts - many of them...

Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in American - and world - history. Whatever the conclusions of the US official Warren Report - that the President had been assassinated by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald - many people doubt that to be true. Indeed, President Nixon later admitted on tape that the report was 'a hoax committed on the American...

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Leading military historian, John Hughes-Wilson exposes just how close we have come to genuine nuclear disaster, military and civilian, on many occasions.

The Battle of Hamel's pivotal importance in the course of World War One is reflected on in this historical study, with attention to the well-executed tactical feats performed over the course of the fighting which have seen Hamel frequently used as an educative example at Sandhurst.

The secret mission to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918 is addressed in this pacy historical novel, exploring the unexamined areas of the story such as the plot's connection to undercover complications and aircrew heroics.

From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence and its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, author of the highly successful Military Intelligence Blunders, gives an extraordinarily broad and wide-reaching perspective on espionage and intelligence, providing an up-to-date analysis of its imp...

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A general history which sheds important light on current political affairs.

The latest book to explore the earth-shattering event that was the assassination of JFK in 1963. This detailed and insightful book does not shy away from controversy in its attempt to explain who really shot JFK, and more important still, why he was shot. Backed by a substantial marketing campaign including extracts in the "Sunday Times".

An insider view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history.

The secret world of military intelligence - written by a senior intelligence officer

The definitive history of the British soldiers executed by their own Army during the First World War

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From one of the country's foremost experts on military history, an insider view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history.

A powerful narrative and visual treatment of the "war to end all wars.

New to paperback, Hughes-Wilson tells the true story behind the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Following massive amounts of research, he concludes that the murder wasn't the work of a lone gunman but part of a deadly plot to remove a president who threatened vested interests at home and abroad.