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'A typical day on the 4 to 12 shift, as I am at present, so that the sheer agony of it may be placed on record for me to look back on, perhaps one day in the far distant future when this period may be seen like a nightmare and be mercifully semi-observed in oblivion so that I shall remember only the glory of my position as the first and only woman on the watch and holding the most responsible position of any woman in the Hut.' October 12th 1942. When Elisa Segrave uncovered a cache of wartime diaries written by her mother, she had no idea that she would be brought face to face with a character utterly different from the troubled woman who had become so reliant on her. Now, on the pages befor...
The Segrave Trophy was inaugurated by the Club in 1930 in memory of fighter pilot, grand prix winner and holder of both land and water speed records, Sir Henry Segrave. This award is presented on the basis of merit, rather than annually, to the British national who has displayed a?spirit of adventure? in keeping with that of Segrave himself? whether on land, sea or air.
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During nine months of treatment following the discovery of a lump in her breast, the writer Elisa Segrave kept a diary, on which she based this book. It records her successful fight against cancer and evokes her disintegrating family, her eccentric literary friends, and long-suffering NHS patients.
This is the eighth edition of the classic work on the royal ancestry of certain colonists who came to America before the year 1700, and it is the first new edition to appear since 1992, reflecting the change in editorship from the late Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. to his appointed successors William and Kaleen Beall. Like the previous editions, it embodies the very latest research in the highly specialized field of royal genealogy. As a result, out of a total of 398 ancestral lines, 91 have been extensively revised and 60 have been added, while almost all lines have had at least some minor corrections, amounting altogether to a 30 percent increase in text. Previous discoveries have now been inte...