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True Ghost Stories
There is absolutely nothing to compare with the spine-chilling sensation of seeing a ghost. The shock and, all too often, the distress are better read about than experienced. Britain's No.1 collector of ghost stories presents a new anthology of persistent hauntings. Harry Ludlam, master story-teller, recounts his tales from all quarters of the ghost world. Read about Princess Diana trying to exorcise a ghost which was troubling her father, or about Lord Ree-s Mogg and the banshee haunting his family, or about the ghost of Elvis Presley that was chased by a clergyman from a council flat in Britain. Improbable, yes. But who knows?
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The Rescue Ships and the Convoys
The Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of heavy losses of ships and lives, no hospital ships, which had to be lit, could accompany the convoys as they would betray a convoy’s position. The solution was to create a fleet of 30 small Merchant Navy vessels of about 1,500 gross tons, mostly from coastal trade. These ‘Rescue Ships’, commanded and manned by Merchant Navy personnel, carried medical teams, and life-saving equipment including operating theaters, hospital beds, ‘Carley’ floats, and hoists. Undeterred either by either enemy action or atrocious weather conditions, these vesse...
