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The Leverage Principle
One definition of leverage is using something to maximum advantage. The goal for every software development project should be to utilize every asset - everything you've previously built, everything your team learned about the business needs and domain, and every skill and bit of expertise in a technology platform. Utilize these previous investments rather than creating them new every single time. Not only is it wasteful and expensive to rebuild assets that have already been created, it jeopardizes your company's success. Key questions addressed in The Leverage Principle: - How can I streamline our software development projects and decrease waste? - How can I quantify our technical debt? - Ho...
Special Operations Executive
A uniquely accurate and reliable assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). This new volume brings together leading authors to examine the organization from a range of key angles.
An Oath Betrayed
Growing up together in the early 1900’s in the London Docklands, Harry and Karl forge an unbreakable friendship. With their fathers working as dockhands, both families struggle to survive on low wages and poor living conditions. Facing unemployment and destitution following a dock strike in Germany, Karl’s parents moved to England for a better life, hoping to raise their son in an environment of love and security. However, Harry’s homelife is dominated by violence and drunken cruelty inflicted by his father. Shared dreams of a life far away from the grime and deprivation of the shipyards see the two friends swear a lifetime oath of allegiance to one another. As time passes, the boys grow ever closer until a horrific accident threatens to tear their friendship apart. Struggling to maintain their alliance and with the advent of war, Karl returns to Germany, while Harry joins the British Army. By a strange turn of events and with war raging across Europe, the two meet again. Will memories of their childhood pledge prove enough to overcome their differences, or has the bond between them been broken forever?
Operation Foxley
This is a colour reproduction of the secret dossier containing the plans for the assassination of Hitler. The dossier was opened to the public in July 1998 and contains: details of Hitler's daily routine and eating habits; aerial photographs, colour panoramas, maps and scale drawings of Hitler's Alpine retreat; details of assassination methods; and colour sketches of SS Guard uniforms, agents' disguises and guest workers.
Secret Agent's Handbook
Facsimile reprint of pages from two volumes of a catalogue compiled for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), issued in 1944 and 1945.
The Family Tree
Charlie Benton is studying Genealogy and English Local History at Leicester University. As part of his course work, he decides to research his own family tree and discovers his great-great-great-grandfather George Anderson, a local parish vicar, was murdered during a violent attack and robbery at his church in Kent. As Charlie delves deeper into his family's past, he becomes increasingly disturbed by a series of bizarre hallucinations and imaginings causing his thoughts and grip on life to veer dramatically between fantasy and reality. In an effort to rid himself of these strange visitations, Charlie journeys to Kent to discover more about this brutal episode in his family's history and of the circumstances leading up to the alleged murder of his long-departed ancestor. Can Charlie uncover the facts about what really happened on that fateful day, or is there something darker still to be revealed that will dramatically alter the course of his life forever?
Undercover Agent
The secret war of SOE's youngest agent at the heart of the French Resistance, Tony Brooks, who built a vast resistance organisation in Occupied France that defied the Nazis for two years until the liberation.
GARBO
Juan Pujol, a young Spanish antifascist, became agent GARBO, a master of deception and intrigue. His story contains all the hallmarks of classic spy adventure—enciphered messages, secret inks, items concealed in cakes—culminating in one of the greatest strategic deceptions in history. Through a ring of invented subagents, GARBO and his MI5 controllers succeeded in convincing the Germans that the DDay landings were only a diversionary tactic, thus safeguarding the Allied landings and hastening the end of the war in Europe. Secret History Files is an exciting series from The National Archives that puts covert history in readers’ hands. Dossiers previously classified as "Top Secret" are n...
Secret Agent's Handbook of Special Devices
This is a reproduction of the original catalogue used by SOE agents to select weapons, gadgets and disguises for their secret missions. Following Churchill's directive to set Europe ablaze, government scientists and inventors created a remarkable array of devices designed for sabotage missions.
Inside Conducting
Exactly what does a conductor do in front of an orchestra? Internationally renowned conductor Christopher Seaman offers lively and informative answers in this wise yet humorous book. What does a conductor actually do? How much effect does he or she have? Can the orchestra manage without one? Why don't the players look at the conductor more? Is it necessary for the conductor to play every instrument? What about interpretation? What happens at rehearsals? Why do some conductors "thrash around" more than others? Who's the boss in a concerto: the soloist or the conductor? These are some of the questions that receive lively andinformative answers in this book by renowned conductor Christopher Sea...
