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The Women Behind the Few
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Women Behind the Few

The courageous pilots of the Royal Air Force who faced the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, affectionately known as 'the Few', are rightly hailed as heroes. Recently, efforts have been made to recognise the thousands who supported RAF operations behind the scenes. And yet one group remains missing from the narrative: the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. WAAFs worked within the Dowding System, the world's most sophisticated air defence network. Throughout the Blitz, they used radar to aid Fighter and Bomber Commands in protecting Britain's civilians. WAAFs were also behind the discovery of the terrifying German V-weapons. Their work was critical ahead of the Normandy landings and they were present in their hundreds at Bletchley Park. In this thrilling book, Sarah-Louise Miller celebrates their wartime contribution to British military intelligence. Hidden behind the Few but vital to their success, WAAFs supplied the RAF with life-saving information. Here, for the first time, is their story.

The Lancaster Story
  • Language: en

The Lancaster Story

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The Lancaster Story
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

The Lancaster Story

A dramatic and vividly rendered account of the most successful RAF bomber of the Second World War - the Avro Lancaster - and the lives of the men and women who flew, designed, constructed, maintained it.

Women in Allied Naval Intelligence in the Second World War
  • Language: en

Women in Allied Naval Intelligence in the Second World War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-11-14
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Closely examining the work of women in the US and British naval services towards Allied naval intelligence during the Second World War, this book focuses on their contributions during the Battle of the Atlantic and Pacific Naval War, in order to shed new light on arenas of war from which women's narratives are almost always absent. Including personal testimonies from those involved, and surveying a wide cross-section of different roles, Sarah-Louise Miller analyses the work of women at every level and rank in the US and British naval services, and offers a much wider picture of how they assisted the Allied forces behind closed doors. With exploration of the work of the WRNS and WAVES on deve...

Women in Intelligence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Women in Intelligence

A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. And, back in Bletchley and Whitehall, women’s vital administrative work in MI offices kept the British war engine running. In this major, panoramic history, Helen Fry looks at the rich and varied work women undertook as civilians and in uniform. From spies in the Belgian network “La Dame Blanche,” knitting coded messages into jumpers, to those who interpreted aerial images and even ran entire sections, Fry shows just how crucial women were in the intelligence mission. Filled with hitherto unknown stories, Women in Intelligence places new research on record for the first time and showcases the inspirational contributions of these remarkable women.

Beyond Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Beyond Time

Mankind has ventured to every corner of the galaxy. No one expects another inch until Andre Martin, lab-rat genius social nerd, shows up with a plan to build a ship powerful enough to separate time and space. His goal: to explore and explain the Big Bang. No one likes Andre. No one trusts Andre. Permission denied, mission canceled; until impending planetary disaster reinstates priority under new leadership, prominent psychologist Karen Wellchild, entitled, independent, and hiding a desire to meet Jesus on the way home. The journey does not go well. The clock refuses to spin backward and a computer meltdown informs the crew that Karen secretly used dating software to match each of the 240 twenty-six-year-olds onboard with one perfect mate. Karen's closest friend comes up with a new plan. And who doesn't love a scary dinosaur tale, or ghost ship mystery to solve? The starship Explorer Seven rides imagination from one end of the universe to another, from the beginning of time to the next beginning of time. Hop on board, Andre and Karen are waiting.

The Bluebell Cliff Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1717

The Bluebell Cliff Series

Discover the beautiful, escapist Bluebell Cliff series from bestselling author Della Galton 'I haven’t read such a sweet book for years. I loved every page' Sue Moorcroft This boxset contains the complete Bluebell Cliff series from Della Galton Sunshine Over Bluebell Cliff Summer at Studland Beach Shooting Stars Over Bluebell Cliff Sunrise Over Pebble Bay Confetti Cover Bluebell Cliff Sunshine Over Bluebell Cliff Bluebell Cliff Hotel is a place to make your dreams come true... Clara King is left in sole charge of a fabulous new clifftop hotel for the summer. The owner has barely left the country when Clara realises that someone is hell-bent on putting the Bluebell Cliff Hotel out of busine...

Hanged!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Hanged!

From the critically acclaimed author of The Borden Murders comes the thrilling story of Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the US government, for her alleged involvement in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. A dubious distinction belongs to Mary Surratt: on July 7, 1865, she became the first woman to be executed by the United States government, accused of conspiring in the plot to assassinate not only President Abraham Lincoln, but also the vice president, the secretary of state, and General Grant. Mary Surratt was a widow, a Catholic, a businesswoman, a slave owner, a Union resident, and the mother of a Confederate Secret Service courier. As the proprietor of the boardinghouse where John Wilkes Booth and his allies are known to have gathered, Mary Surratt was widely believed, as President Andrew Johnson famously put it, to have “kept the nest that hatched the egg.” But did Mrs. Surratt truly commit treason by aiding and abetting Booth in his plot to murder the president? Or was she the victim of a spectacularly cruel coincidence? Here is YA nonfiction at its best--gripping, thought-provoking, and unputdownable.

A Fine Brother
  • Language: en

A Fine Brother

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-16
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  • Publisher: Alma Books

Shortlisted for the HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize 2012 "The only Western woman to enlist as a soldier in the First World War, the Englishwoman Flora Sandes became a heroine and a media sensation when she fought for the Serbian Army and pursued a distinguished career in its ranks. This account charts her incredible story: her tomboyish childhood in genteel Victorian England, her mission to Serbia as a Red Cross volunteer and subsequent military enrolment, her celebrity lecture tours, her marriage to a fellow officer, her survival in a Gestapo prison during the Second World War and her final years in Suffolk. A fascinating character of her times and an inspiration to women the world over, Flora Sandes is brought to life and restored to her rightful place in history by this biography, compiled with the help of her family, and using hitherto unpublished private papers and photographs."

Genealogy of the Waldo Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 602

Genealogy of the Waldo Family

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1902
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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