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  • Dunkirk, D-Day, Kohima and The Death Railway

    The Royal Norfolk Regiment in the Second World War

    by Neil R Storey ...
    The Royal Norfolk Regiment’s Second World War record spans major battles, medals, massacres, and prisoner hardship.The Royal Norfolk Regiment had a fighting record second to none. Five members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross, the greatest number to any Line Infantry Regiment during the Second World War.1st Battalion landed on Sword Beach on D-Day and fought with distinction through ... Read more

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  • The Blackout Murders

    Homicide in WW2

    Nostalgic recollections of wartime Britain often forget that when the blackout was enforced at night in an attempt to foil Nazi bombers a crime wave, cloaked by the inky black darkness, ensued on many of our streets. There were petty crimes, robberies, sexual assaults and, as The Blackout Murders reveals, some horrific murders took place on our home front during the Second World War. Some of them ... Read more

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  • A Grim Almanac of Jack the Ripper's London 1870-1900

    by Neil R Storey ...
    DID YOU KNOW?When the police seemed to make no progress in the hunt for Jack the Ripper it was suggested some of the East End's best-trained boxers should be dressed in women's clothes and walk the streets in an attempt to lure the killer into making an attack. At the time of the Ripper murders it was estimated that 80,000 prostitutes worked the streets of London. Living conditions in tenement ... Read more

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  • Faces of the Home Front, 1939–1945

    An account of the lives of the British people and wartime organizations during WWII, with photographs and remembrances from the author's personal archives.Faces of the Home Front presents fascinating insight into the people, organizations and events on the British Home Front during the Second World War. This is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times told through an array of previously ... Read more

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  • Beating the Nazi Invader

    Hitler's Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940

    "A compelling examination of an aspect of World War II that always has a rapt audience: espionage . . . With a cast of colorful characters." — Library Journal (starred review)Beating the Nazi Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and "Fifth Columnist" saboteurs in Britain, and the extensive top-secret countermeasures taken before and during the ... Read more

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  • The Murder of PC Gutteridge

    Britain's Underworld in the Roaring Twenties

    PC George William Gutteridge was a well-liked and respected village policeman for Stapleford Abbotts in rural Essex, where he lived with his wife and two young children. While on his beat out on a lonely country road in the early hours of the morning of 27 September 1927, he was gunned down in one of the most horrific and callous killings of a police officer in the history of British law ... Read more

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  • The King's Men

    The Sandringham Company & Norfolk Regiment Territorial Battalions, 1914–1918

    "An absorbing account of the Norfolk Territorials who fought at Gallipoli and created a legend" from the author of Beating the Nazi Invader (Firetrench).The 4th and 5th Battalions, the Norfolk Regiment were formed in the early days of The Great War as part of the Territorial Force and deployed with 54th (East Anglian) Division to Gallipoli in 1915. Most significantly the 1/5th Battalion was unique ... Read more

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  • Norfolk Murders

    by Neil R Storey ...
    Series series True Crime History
    Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Norfolk's history. The cases covered here record the county's most fascinating but least known crimes as well as famous murders that gripped not just Norfolk but the whole nation. From the Burnham Poisoners of 1835 to the Yarmouth Beach Murders, from the Costessey Horror to the 'last judicial ... Read more

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  • Wartime Industry

    Series Book 892 - Shire Library
    An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft.During the Second World War (1939–45), Britain stretched every sinew of its industrial might to fend off a Nazi invasion. As the nation stood alone against Fortress Europe, it harnessed, coordinated ... Read more

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  • Nazi Spies & Collaborators in Britain, 1939–1945

    "...reveals the climate of fear along with the identities and case studies of suspected collaborators in key invasion areas." —ARGunners.comThe true extent of Nazi secret agent activity in Britain during the Second World War has received little attention. In large part this is due to the highly classified nature of the subject. This fascinating book uses recently released documents to explore how ... Read more

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  • UFOs Over Britain

    The first reported UFO sightings in Britain during modern times date back to the early years of the twentieth century and have continued through two World Wars up to the present day. Cases include mystery airships of 1909 at Peterborough and the eastern counties, the Burton Dassett ghost lights of 1923, RAF gremlins in the Second World War, the Newbiggin abduction in 1942, Dorothy Kilgallen and ... Read more

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  • Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula

    An Illustrated Biography

    Previously unpublished research sheds new light on how Bram Stoker researched and wrote Dracula and the people who inspired his characters. Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature. Based on decades of painstaking research in libraries, museums, ... Read more

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