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Author : Eddie Brazil
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445665313
Explore High Wycombe's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Author : Eddie Brazil
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781445697635
Discover the architectural gems and history of High Wycombe in this fascinating exploration of 50 of its buildings from across the centuries.
Author : Colin Philpott
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526735485
The secret military facilities hidden across Great Britain are revealed and investigated in this fascinating WWII history. During the Second World War, thousands of facilities across Britain were requisitioned to support the war efforts. Beyond that, countless others were built from scratch. Often the purpose of these locations was a closely guarded secret, even from those living close by. In Secret Wartime Britain, Colin Philpott has compiled a fascinating collection of sites that still exist in some form today. They include underground factories, storage sites and headquarters; spy and communication centers; interrogation and POW camps; dummy sites; research facilities such as the sinister Porton Down; treasure stores in stately homes and even royal retreats in the event of invasion, such as Madresfield Court. Where were these sites and why were they needed? How successfully were they kept secret? What has happened to them since? Were they returned to their owners? Answers to these and other questions make Secret Wartime Britain a riveting and revealing read.
Author : Peter B. Gunn
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780750955218
Set in the north Norfolk countryside, Sculthorpe was the hub of offensive operations until its closure in 1944 for upgrading as a base for heavy bombers, its runway ideal for US Strategic Air Command bombers like the B-29. By 1951, it was formally handed over to US control and became a prime front-line nuclear bomber base as well as a centre of intelligence gathering via secret surveillance flights over Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. There are many unanswered questions about the base during this period, not least regarding the 'RAF Special Duties Flight' which carried out two overflights of the Soviet Union in 1952 and 1954. After 1962, the airfield once again became a standby base used by the USAF, the RAF and the Army.
Author : Jim Keith
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781936239412
An underground sensation, Secret and Suppressed confronts the reader with disquieting revelations on mind control, secret societies, media disinformation, cults and elite cabals.
Author : Muriel Jakubait,Monica Weller
Publisher : Constable
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472106940
The secret double-life of Ruth Ellis and the Establishment cover-up that led to her unjust hanging Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, was convicted fifty years ago for shooting her lover David Blakely. The case became a notorious part of British criminal history and was turned into the film, Dance with a Stranger. The story that has been perpetuated ever since is that of a peroxide tart who killed in a fit of passion. Yet, crucial questions were left unasked in the original trial. Ruth Ellis's sister, Muriel Jakubait, knew her longest of all. She has never given up her search for justice. Now after fifty years she has decided to reveal the hard facts about their shared upbringing, and seek to piece together the full true story of her sister. As she is at pains to point out, the jealous killer tag has never been substantiated. This is a story of power, espionage, lies, loyalty, poverty, sex and betrayal. It suggests a third man may have pulled the trigger for the fatal shots. And that he belonged to a web of espionage into which Ruth Ellis fell long before the shooting. Above all, it indicates that Ruth was being run by Stephen Ward, at least a decade before his name became public in the Profumo Scandal. Muriel's motive is about more than proving her sister Ruth's innocence. It's about reclaiming the right to tell the story of her own family, stripped bare of the many tabloid myths that have accrued over the decades. She shows that Ruth was somebody damaged at a very early age - who strove to make something of herself, only to be caught up in something much bigger and end up paying with her life.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021926576
Author : Victoria Summerley
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780711239661
‘The Secret Gardeners is a WONDERFUL book. Just beautiful. It will live, page open, on my coffee table.’ Prue Leith (one of the Secret Gardeners) The Secret Gardeners is a captivating photographic portrait of the private gardening passions of 25 of the UKs foremost artists, designers, actors, producers, composers, playwrights, sculptors and musicians. It includes composers Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh; oligarch Evgeny Lebedev; entrepreneur Richard Branson; architect Anish Kapoor; actors Jeremy Irons, Rupert Everett, Griff Rhys Jones and Terry Gilliam; chef Prue Leith; musicians Ozzy Osbourne,Nick Mason and Sting; playwright Julian Fellowes; film director Paul Weiland; and designers Kirstie Allsopp and Cath Kidston. Accompanying meaty essays explaining the owners' inspiration and passion are stunningly-reproduced photographs revealing the beautiful gardens that the public rarely see. Amongst these gardeners you'll find the plantaholics, the scene-changers, the view makers, the weeders, the hot-colour fanatics and those who use their garden to retreat from public life.
Author : Charles Carrington
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850520811
It was certainly not through the foresight of his senior officers that Charles Carrington, a veteran of the First World War, was enabled to put his experience in that earlier conflict to good use in the Second, as readers of this remarkable book will soon learn. However, by great good fortune, he found himself in a position where his experience of things past could be adapted to the needs of a virtually untried aspect of warfare- that of Army/Air Force Co-operation. As an Army Officer in a world of high-ranking Airmen, it was his task to walk the tightrope between the two Services in an effort to persuade both parties that neither could win the war without the other and that co-operation was preferable to self-interest. The words 'prima donna' crop up frequently in the story and one is not surprised when the author remarks 'while we were organising signal exercises..and such necessary menial chores, at which the Services worked together without a hitch, our problem was to get the Great Chiefs to stop quaralling. Although he describes his experiences with cheerful modisty, it is clear that this unsung 'armchair soldier' played a vital role in the back room battle that had to be resolved before the war proper could be waged with efficiency Apart from his being privy to much information that remained 'Top Secret' for many years after the war. Readers will soon see that his views on some of the Top Brass might have had unpleasant repercussions had they been aired too soon! But those who have read his earlier works, as well as those who come afresh to the work of this fluent and clear-sighted writer will surly agree that the wait has been worthwhile,
Author : Paul Brown,Edward Herbert
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750962773
A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began, ' Q Central' attracted a dozen other clandestine operations set up to defend the country or designed to confuse and undermine enemy morale. The headquarters of radar, RAF Group 60, also came to Leighton Buzzard to be hidden from German attack and to be close to the telephone and radio communications needed to run its vast chain of radar stations. These directed the defending fighters that saved the country in the Battle of Britain and then took the bombing war to Germany. Close by, for the same reasons of secrecy and safety, were the satellite stations of Bletchley Park, the now famous code-breaking centre; the Met Office at Dunstable, which gave the all clear for the D-Day landings; Black Ops units that set up false radio stations and wrote propaganda to confuse the enemy; and airfields used for dropping agents behind enemy lines. At Q Central itself was the largest telephone exchange in the world, with more than 1,000 teleprinters communicating with all the armed services in every theatre of war and directing the operations of the secret services. Now the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act have been lifted, enabling eight members of the Leighton Buzzard and District Archaeology and History Society to piece together this compelling story for the first time.
Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781607652489
This alternative tour of Britain offers more than 150 fascinating and beautiful, yet obscure and less-visited places that receive little coverage in more conventional guides.
Author : Edward Smithies
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474603393
When we remember the Second World War in the air, we think of fighter pilots and bomber crews. But what was it like for the men and women working as ground crew and in the aircraft factories who also played a crucial role in defeating Hitler? What was it like making history? What sense did these individuals have of what they were doing, either at the time or later? Did they feel they were caught up in the tide of great events? Or were they simply doing their demanding and often dangerous duty?
Author : Ian St John
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843318736
This book is a comprehensive review of the political career of Benjamin Disraeli, providing a thorough critical analysis of one of the most ambitious and controversial leaders in British history. 'Disraeli and the Art of Victorian Politics' is a major addition to our understanding of the dynamics of nineteenth-century politics.
Author : Sir Samuel Ford Whittingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Generals
ISBN : UCAL:$B746794
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Animal industry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071554996
