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  • SOE's Mastermind

    The Authorised Biography of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins KCMG, DSO, MC

    by Brian Lett ...
    The first complete biography of Britain's WWII spymaster presents an intimate look at his life and career, as well as an insider's look at the SOE.Major General Sir Colin Gubbins was the driving force behind Britain's Special Operations Executive, the secret military organization established by Winston Churchill in 1940. First as its Operations and Training Director, and then its Commander, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER

    The Top Secret Story Behind 007

    by Brian Lett ...
    The true story of the force of "licensed to kill" secret agents who became the basis for the James Bond spy series.Brigadier Colin Gubbins was M. The Special Operations Executive was his Secret Service. Professor Dudley Newitt was Q. Capt. Gus March-Phillips commanded "Maid of Honor Force," the team of "James Bonds" who, in a daring operation, sailed a ship to West Africa and stole three enemy ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Small Scale Raiding Force

    by Brian Lett ...
    The triumphs and tragedies of the British special operations group that performed missions against Nazi Germany during World War II.The Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) was formed in February 1942 by Gus March-Phillips with Major General Gubbins's SOE European chief's approval. March-Phillips and his Maid of Honor Force had just had complete success with their operation (POSTMASTER) off West ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler's Hangmen

    The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill, December 1944

    by Brian Lett ...
    This WWII history exposes a shocking episode of treason among the highest levels of British leadership in a conspiracy with Nazi High Command.At the outbreak of the Second World War, a number of Fascist groups were active in Britain, all plotting to overthrow the British government. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, he had the leaders of these groups arrested, including Member ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Extraordinary Italian Imprisonment

    The Brutal Truth of Campo 21, 1942–3

    by Brian Lett ...
    This WWII history reveals the shocking conditions and brutal treatment endured by Allied soldiers at a notorious Italian POW camp.Between August 1942 and September 1943, Camp PG21 in Chieti, Italy, was grossly overcrowded, with little running water, no proper sanitation, and no winter heating. Conditions for POWs were so bad that they were debated in the House of Commons.Tunnels were dug, and the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • S.A.S. in Tuscany, 1943–1945

    by Brian Lett ...
    While always dangerous and daring, SAS operations are by no means invariably successful and when they go wrong, they do so very badly. The first of the three operations covered in this book, SPEEDWELL 2, saw six men drop blind into Northern Tuscany on 8 September 1943, by chance the day of the Italian Armistice. But with no radios or air/ground support their courageous three week operation ended ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Six Characters in Search of an Author & other plays

    Three Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions

    by Luigi Pirandello ...
    Narrated by Maurice Denham, Martin Jarvis, Mary Wimbush, Cherie Lunghi, Charles Grey, Kevin McNally, Sarah Badel, Francis Matthews, James Goode, Ken Cumberlidge, Brian Hewlett, Full Cast, Pauline Letts ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 49 min

    Four plays by the award-winning Italian playwright and innovator Luigi PirandelloLuigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer and winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. In the first performance of Six Characters in Search of an Author**,** an enraged Rome theatre audience yelled abuse at the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello and chased him out of the ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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  • Ian Fleming's Commandos

    The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII

    by Nicholas Rankin ...
    In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men who would go in hard with the front-line troops and steal enemy intelligence?Known as '30 Assault Unit', they took part in the major campaigns of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Operations Most Secret

    SOE: The Malayan Theatre

    by Ian Trenowden ...
    Little is known and much less has been written about the Malayan theatre of operations of SOE from 1942-45. In this, his second book, Ian Trenowden, working closely with the wartime commander of Force 136, Group B, has built up a surprisingly complete picture of those operations and traces the evolution of the local SOE headquarters from a single desk in London’s Baker Street to the independent ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Life of Bletchley Park

    The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There

    by Sinclair McKay ...
    Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’ s 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications were couched.It was home to some of Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains, such as Alan Turing, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Knights Templar

    by Mark Naples ...
    Mystery surrounds virtually every aspect of the Templar story, from their origins in the aftermath of the First Crusade, through their rise to supreme wealth and power - dominating medieval Europe for nearly two centuries - to their abrupt and dramatic suppression. Ferociously punished for alleged heresy and depravity at the beginning of the 14th century, their story is believed to have ended ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Casual Vacancy

    by J. K. Rowling ...
    A big novel about a small town...When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils.. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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