Biography: adventurers and explorers Books
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Trotsky The Passionate Revolutionary
Book SynopsisTrotsky, The Passionate Revolutionary is a new biography that illuminates the love-life and literary career of Leon Trotsky as never seen before.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Trotsky The Passionate Revolutionary
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Final Wicket
Book SynopsisWhile cricket remains popular today, at the beginning of the 20th Century it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today. When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men, including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other theatres did not discriminate and many hundreds of these star performers perished alongside their lesser known comrades. The author has researched the lives and deaths of over 200 top-class cricketers who made the ultimate sacrifice. He includes not just British players but those from the Empire. The enormity of the horror and wholesale loss of life during The Great War is well demonstrated by these moving biographies.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Covert Radar and Signals Interception
Book SynopsisThe enthralling biography of Wing Commander Eric Ackermann, a man who, according to R.V. Jones, the Scientific Advisor to Winston Churchill, 'made the world tick a little faster'.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Men Who Flew the Halifax
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Wavell
Book SynopsisAcclaimed biography of one of the great military leaders of WW2 and the penultimate Viceroy of India.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Arctic Genius
Book SynopsisParry's life began two hundred and twenty years ago. The Revolutionary Wars against France and Napoleon were just beginning. His naval career started in wartime and lasted throughout the next fifty years during which significant changes took place in the Royal Navy. He pioneered Arctic exploration, led a memorable albeit unsuccessful expedition to reach the North Pole, reformed and improved the operations of the Hydrographers office, and oversaw the difficult transition from sail to steam power in British warships. Throughout his career he strove to improve the educational standards and living conditions of all lower deck sailors. He was knighted by William IV alongside his close friend John Franklin in 1829. Both survived years of hardship and became national and international celebrities. Tragically though it was Parry and his in laws, the aristocratic Stanley family, who were partly responsible for Franklin's death in 1846 commanding one more expedition to complete the Northwest P
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Vladimir Putin
Book SynopsisA new and unique insight is now offered into the mind of Putin, one which has not previously been advanced.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Pug Churchills Chief of Staff
Book SynopsisThis overdue biography describes how an officer who fought tribesmen in India and Dervishes in North-East Africa, thereby playing no significant role in The Great War, found himself as Winston Churchill's Chief of Staff throughout the Second World War.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Casanovas Life and Times
Book SynopsisGiacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century''s greatest men and women, from Frederick the Great to Catherine the Great, from Voltaire to Albrecht von Haller, from Pope Benedict XIV to Pope Clement XIII. It was a fame that had little to do with his romantic exploits. This was to come later, following upon the posthumous publication of his magnificent History of My Life. An adventurer and a man of learning, his was an extraordinary life whose story was intertwined with the story of eighteenth-century Europe. To try to understand this fascinating character we need also to try to understand the period in which he lived. This is the aim of Casanova''s Life and Times.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Desiderius Erasmus
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd How Walt Disney Changed Animation Forever
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Untold Story of Captain James Cook RN
Book SynopsisThe explosive findings within this book are history-changing. They discount the age-oldbelief that Captain James Cook, the great circumnavigator, left no modern direct descendants.Using compelling, detailed and verifiable evidence, Colin Waters completely unravels, for thefirst time, the full fascinating story concerning the mysterious supposed 18th centurydrowning of his son, James Cook junior. The author also presents genealogical evidence tosupport old rumours that after faking his own death, James travelled to North Yorkshirewhere he joined his wife & son, leaving behind him a scandal that resulted in him beingvirtually expunged from all official naval records. The Royal Navy cover-up that resultedmatches any modern-day conspiracy theory and gives credence to all those who today claimto be direct descendants of the famous Captain James Cook R.N.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Faces of HMS Royal Oak
Book SynopsisProvides a description of the events surrounding the sinking of HMS Royal Oak in October 1939. Written with the full support of the HMS Royal Oak Association.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Emperor Septimius Severus
Book SynopsisExcellent analysis of the organization, tactics and equipment of the Roman army of the period, as well as of their major enemies, and the impact of Severus' reforms.
£24.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Florence Nightingales Sister
Book SynopsisA fresh examination of Frances Parthenope Verney: novelist, journalist, activist and sister of Florence Nightingale.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Henry V A History of His Most Important Places
Book SynopsisNew title exploring the life of Henry V through the places he lived and visited.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd William Adams His Life and Locomotives
Book SynopsisFirst book dedicated solely to the life and work of William Adams. 2023 commemorates the 200th anniversary of Adams' birth. Publication date coincides with Swanage Railway's hopes to complete the restoration and return to steam of LSWR T3 class no 563 in 2023.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Sir Garnet Wolseley
Book SynopsisField Marshal Lord Wolseley was aneminent Victorian, one of a handful of latenineteenth-century military men whosereputation transcends his age. He servedthe British empire in Burma, India, China,the Crimea, Canada, Asante, Egypt, SouthAfrica and the Sudan. He excelled as aregimental soldier, staff officer, armycommander and reformer and eventuallycommander-in-chief. Yet there has beenno substantial work on Wolseley for ageneration and a reassessment based upon afresh look at the man and his achievementsis long overdue. That is why StephenManning's perceptive military biography,which sets Wolseley firmly in the context ofhis period and seeks to strip away the legendthat developed during his lifetime, is sotimely and important.Each of Wolseley's campaigns is examinedin vivid detail and there are graphicdescriptions of the major battles in which hetook part, either as an officer or a general.His performance as a commander, from hisgreat success during the expedition againstthe Asante to
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Epicurus and His Influence on History
Book SynopsisFirst biography of Epicurus in 60 years.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Imperial Brothers
Book SynopsisOriginal dual biography of the brothers Valentinian and Valens allows comparison of their achievements and contrasting reputations.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Crusading General
Book SynopsisFirst biography of this major military figure of the Second World War (C-in-C Home Forces, C-in-C 21st Army Group and C-in-C Middle East Forces).
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Fixer and Fighter
Book SynopsisFirst full-length popular biography of Hubert de Burgh.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Forgotten Heroes of the Battle of Britain
Book SynopsisThe author explores the lives and contribution made by a five of The Few who stories are less well known.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Charles Is Private Life
Book SynopsisA detailed examination of the life of Charles I.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd In Command at St Nazaire A Reluctant Hero
Book SynopsisDramatic tales of seamanship and courage.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Man Who Built the Berlin Wall
Book SynopsisThe first ever English language biography of Erich Honecker, covering his entire life and career. Never before published details of Honecker's first marriage, his exotic private life and fractious relationship with Walter Ulbricht.
£19.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Cardinal Wolsey
Book SynopsisUsing fresh research and new information, Phil Roberts brings a new perspective on the life of Thomas Wolsey.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Forgotten Giant of Bletchley Park
Book SynopsisHarold Liberty's biography shines light on a man whose contribution was essential to Britain's survival and triumph in the Second World War.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Air Power Supremo
Book SynopsisComprehensive biography of John Slessor, one of the most remarkable British airmen of the twentieth century.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Private Life of Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell was King Henry VIII's most faithful servant, the only man the king ever openly regretted executing. But Thomas Cromwell came to royal prominence late in life, and had 45 years of family, friends and experiences behind him before catching Henry's eye. Born a common boy at a time of significant change in England in 1485, Cromwell grew up in a happy, close-knit family, before heading to Europe for dramatic adventures. Returning to England a decade later, Cromwell emerged with the skills of a lawyer and merchant, with the European language skills and connections to match. Marriage, children, friends, family and manor homes all furnished Cromwell's life, a man happy and settled in London. But more beckoned for the Italian-Englishman, when a special friendship with Cardinal Thomas Wolsey grew, along with the attention of the king. Tragic personal loss affected Cromwell, hidden behind the more-recorded professional accolades. But friendships remained throughout time, changes in allegiance and even religion. Men who had met the young Cromwell stuck close to him through the years, and Cromwell never forgot a single loyal friend. Cromwell's desire to support his son saw Gregory become brother-in-law to the king himself, only for more tragedy to harm the ever-growing Cromwell family. Far from the seemingly dour, black-clad, serious man, Cromwell lavished those around him with gifts, parties, extravagant games, entertainments, animals and outfits. But the glamour and beauty of Cromwell's life would come to a sudden end, leaving a trail of devastated men and women, and an extraordinary manor home, Austin Friars, scattered to the wind. Using a wide variety of primary material, this exciting biography weaves a new narrative on the indefatigable Thomas Cromwell, illustrating him more vividly than we've known him before.
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Edinburgh University Press The Duke of Lennox 15741624
Book SynopsisA biography of the second Duke of Lennox, the most consequential person in the Jacobean court in Scotland and EnglandTrade Review"Ludovic Stuart, Duke of Lennox, has long been known as a ubiquitous Jacobean courtier and cousin of the king, but our knowledge of him has been limited by the absence of any scholarly biography. This thoroughly-researched book at last brings him out of the shadows." -Julian Goodare, Professor of History, University of Edinburgh
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Edinburgh University Press Rev. James Fraser 16341709
Book SynopsisThis book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634?1709), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveller and minister. It examines Fraser?s self-presentation and situates him within his locality, Scotland, the British Isles and Europe, also incorporating recent historiography to provide a more comprehensive presentation of the social, economic and cultural trajectories of the early modern Highlands. David Worthington focuses on the Scottish Highlands? strong engagement with Europe and early entanglement with empire. He challenges the assumption that the north Highlands, in particular, was sealed off from the rest of the world before Culloden and he identifies the agency, vitality and resilience of the people of the Highlands prior to the peripheralisation, depopulation and under-development that then occurred.
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Edinburgh University Press Women Who Dared
Book SynopsisStories of resistance, power and defiance from the women who dared to make history.
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Orion Publishing Co Maybe Baby On the Mother Side
Book SynopsisThe honest, entertaining and brilliantly relatable Sunday Times bestseller.Kate Lawler has never been maternal. And yet here she is: mother to Noa, after years of going back and forth about having children at all. This is the story of her journey from parentally undecided to early motherhood, via raging hormones, sleepless nights, emergency hospital trips, mum guilt, unspoken regrets and post-natal depression.This book is not a parenting manual. It won''t tell you what to pack in your hospital bag, or how to get your baby to sleep. It may not help you with feeding or dealing with tantrums. But it will show you that you''re not alone - and that it''s perfectly possible, and maybe even normal, to love your child with all of your heart while also feeling lost, alone and resentful.Whether you''re an expectant parent, a new parent, firmly in the thick of it, or still parentally undecided, this book is for you, as Kate writes honestly and hilariously
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Orion Publishing Co The Orphanage
Book SynopsisThe heartbreaking and inspiring account of a young girl who suffered at the hands of nuns in the Nazareth House Convent. Frances Reilly and her sisters were abandoned by their mother outside Nazareth House Convent - a Belfast orphanage run by nuns. Little did they know the unimaginable cruelty they'd endure within its walls. Frances suffered horrifically at the hands of the Sisters: brutally beaten, worked like a slave, abused and molested, the convent regime stripped her of everything - education, innocence and childhood. But the hope of rescue or escape never left her. Years later, Frances would face her demons in court, bringing to account those who so viciously stole her youth. This is her gripping and moving story of one child's spirit of survival.Trade ReviewAs the true story of abuse in a convent upbringing, this is a particularly harrowing account...the pain and fear that Reilly felt during this period is almost tangible in her frank prose. * BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH *
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John Murray Press The Rebel and the Kingdom
Book Synopsis''Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it'' Ed Caesar''Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real'' Anna FifieldHOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A GLOBAL FUGITIVE?In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realised he had found a cause to which he could devote his life.Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety. Meanwhile, Hong''s secret organization, Cheollima Civil Defense (later renamed Free Joseon), began tracking the North Korean government''s activities, and its volatile ruler, Kim Jong-un.Free Joseon targeted North Korean diplomats who might be persuaded to defect, while drawing up plans for a goTrade ReviewA propulsive investigation into the wild adventures of a man determined to bring down the North Korean regime . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it -- Ed Caesar, author of THE MOTH AND THE MOUNTAINOne of the most harrowing and inspiring stories I've ever read. This book left me in tears. Hope tells this inconceivable and heart-wrenching story with compassion, humanity, and integrity -- Yeonmi Park, bestselling author of IN ORDER TO LIVEThe engrossing inside story of two recent events that are jaw-dropping even for North Korea, and the obsessive man behind them . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real -- Anna Fifield, author of THE GREAT SUCCESSORMesmerising -- 5 star review, Sunday TelegraphA mystery story about an elusive human rights activist - and it reminds us all of the essential evil weirdness of the North Korean regime. Adrian Hong has disappeared, a fugitive from the FBI - but I'd wager that someday we will hear from this quixotic young man again -- Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of THE OUTLIERThrilling, edifying, funny, and profound. Reading this book, I couldn't help but feel uplifted to learn that, even in our disaffected age, there are people who are willing to give their life to a cause, whatever the personal cost -- Kit Chellel, co-author of DEAD IN THE WATEROnly Bradley Hope could take us so deep into this world of diplomats, dictators, and would-be spies and achieve a book that is both utterly gripping and darkly funny. Not since Bill Browder's Red Notice have I gone on such an exhilarating trip into the geopolitical underbelly -- Zeke Faux, investigative reporter, Bloomberg News and BusinessweekA fast-paced, true-life thriller pitting a merciless North Korean state against a band of high-tech, courageous activists . . . thoroughly engaging . . . a page-turner of a spy-vs.-spy tale -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A riveting saga of one man's unlikely crusade to free North Korea . . . This is the stuff great political thrillers are made of -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)An expertly crafted thriller that makes you turn the page. What makes it all the more remarkable is that it's all true. Bradley Hope is a first-rate reporter and writer, and he has found a subject worthy of his skills in Adrian Hong, a Korean American idealist who set out, improbably enough, to topple the North Korean regime -- Max Boot, author of THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
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John Murray Press In Search of Sheba
Book SynopsisIntroduced by Lois Pryce, author of Lois on the Loose, Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride.In 1959 Barbara Toy, famous for her solo overland travels in North Africa and Arabia, set out in her trademark Land Rover to drive from Libya to Ethiopia.Alone, she crossed the Sahara Desert and the equatorial forests of the Congo before ascending the highlands of Haile Selassie''s empire. Her Ethiopian travels took her from modern Addis Ababa to the ancient ruins of Aksum, through bandit-ridden countryside to the summit of Mount Wehni - where male heirs to the emperor were traditionally imprisoned for life - on a quest to explore the legend of the Queen of Sheba. Full of good humour and grit, In Search of Sheba chronicles a remarkable feat of endurance and adventure by one of the twentieth century''s greatest travellers.Trade ReviewToy's descriptions of her travels are as relevant now as they ever were . . . a gripping read * Classic Land Rover Magazine *
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Random House USA Inc Thomas Jefferson The Art of Power
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HarperCollins Focus The Last Adieu
Book SynopsisA Hero Returns to a Young Country in Turmoil. A story about the promise in the Declaration of Independence, about revolution, in America and elsewhere, about journeys up and down great rivers, and through wilds. It is a story of memory and union. Above all else it is a story of the American people.
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Johns Hopkins University Press FDR in American Memory
Book SynopsisHow was FDR's image constructedby himself and othersas such a powerful icon in American memory?In polls of historians and political scientists, Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the top three American presidents. Roosevelt enjoyed an enormous political and cultural reach, one that stretched past his presidency and across the world. A grand narrative of Roosevelt's crucial role in the twentieth century persists: the notion that American ideology, embodied by FDR, overcame the Depression and won World War II, while fascism, communism, and imperialismand their ignoble figureheadsfought one another to death in Europe. This grand narrative is flawed and problematic, legitimizing the United States's cultural, diplomatic, and military role in the world order, but it has meant that FDR continues to loom large in American culture. In FDR in American Memory, Sara Polak analyzes Roosevelt's construction as a cultural icon in American memory from two perspectives. First, she exaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Roosevelt and the Making of an IconChapter 1. "I am a juggler": FDR's Public Image–Making 00Chapter 2. The Collective Rhetorical Production of FDR, 1932–1945Chapter 3. Negotiating FDR RemembranceChapter 4. The New Deal Depoliticized in Cultural MemoryChapter 5. FDR's Disability in Cultural MemoryChapter 6. Understanding FDR as a Cultural IconConclusion. A Rooseveltian Century?NotesBibliographyIndex
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B&H Books Katharine Barnwell
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Outskirts Press Russia Becomes You
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Authorhouse UK Trampships Tankers and Polite Conversation
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Union Square & Co. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an
Book SynopsisBorn on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglass-born Frederick Baily-doesn't know the year of his birth. Separated from his mother in infancy, he sees her only a few times, always at night, before she dies.
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Simon And Schuster Group USA Last Words
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Hodder & Stoughton Survivor Auschwitz the Death March and my fight
Book SynopsisNow in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds.Trade Review'This vivid memoir'. * Peter Condradi, Sunday Times *Sixty-seven years after the end of the war, by which point the extent of Hitler's death camps have been fully exposed, we've heard it all before, read the book, seen the movie. Yet we haven't. That's the thing about human stories: each is unique. Sam's is remarkable. Not just the death camps, but his escape from them. And that he could build a life afterwards. * The Big Issue *'The tale is frank, brutal and horrifying...The fear seems real, and smells real'. * Good Book Guide *Powerful, absorbing and - tragically - entirely truthful, Hollocaust survivor Sam Pivnik is a remarkable storyteller. -- Daniel Wittenberg * Ham & High *Frank, brutal and horrifying. * The Good Book Guide *
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Hodder & Stoughton The Great Escaper
Book SynopsisThe thrilling true story of the real Great Escape, published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the escape.Trade Review'This gripping biography... Pearson has done uncommonly well in this, his first book, to unearth so much.' -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times *'Told with wonderful relish by Simon Pearson, who has undoubtedly produced the definitive biography of Bushell.' * Daily Express * 'The Great Escaper is a compelling narrative, one which paints a convincing picture of a true war hero.' -- Allan Mallinson * The Times *'Pearson's biography of Roger Bushell is as gripping as it is informative and wonderful.' * Huffington Post *This is a most readable and carefully researched book about a truly remarkable man and is a must for all readers of history of the Second World War. * Geoffrey Wellum, author of First Light *Simon Pearson has at last done justice to [Roger Bushell's] memory in this enthralling book, an astounding story of honour and resilience. * Sunday Times *What a read. Pearson's research is absolutely on the ball and the book is so descriptive I felt as if I were actually flying a Spitfire in 1940...The whole book was fascinating, I could not put it down. Rare you to read it - you will not fail to be moved. * Scotland on Sunday *
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