The ministry of ungentlemanly warfareIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completely new kind of warfare, recruiting a band of eccentric free thinking warriors to become the first 'deniable' secret operatives to strike behind enemy lines. This book tells the story of the daring victories for this small force of 'freelance

But as the hours pass and day gives way to night

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A few good things on a plate

Aboard the USS Orbis as it embarks from Boston and surges south to round Cape Horn

those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography

Who could possibly have it in for a hedgehog

Bosch is investigating the death of 15-year-old Daisy Clayton

An accompanying audio app of the birdsong and calls of over 200 key birds help identify a bird even when it is hard to spot

In a single generation

the potential financial ruin and the thrill of harvesting their own olives - especially when they are discovered to produce the finest extra-virgin olive oil

the affairs

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest