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Whilst the war raged across Flanders fields, an equally horrifying and sometimes more dangerous battle took place underground.Beneath Flanders Fields tells the story of the tunnellers war, which still remains one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of the Great War.A wealth of personal testimonies reveal the engineering, technology and science behind how this most intense of battles was fought and won. They speak of how the tunnellers lived a relentless existence in the depths of the battlefield for almost two and a half years, enduring physical and mental stresses that were often more extreme than their infantry counterparts. Their lives were reduced to a complex war of silence, tension and claustrophobia, leading up to the most dramatic mine offensive in history launched on 7 June 1917 at Messines Ridge. Yet, Messines was not the end of their story, which continued with the crafting of a whole underground world of headquarters, cookhouses and hospitals, housing the innumerable troops who passed through this part of the Western Front.Here, this extraordinary, hidden world is revealed and the fragile legacy it has left behind on Flanders fields is brought to light.

A Forever War: Israel and Palestine achieves something quite extraordinary. At a time when passions run high and the Israel-Gaza war intensifies, so much coverage is based on prejudice, fear and ignorance. Colin Shindler, Professor of Israel Studies at SOAS, presents a calm, scholarly and dispassionate view of the past and of what might lie ahead.Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Middle East has been thrown into conflict. Shindler reflects on the key questions: How did this state of affairs come about? Is it even possible to write an impartial account? Could all the conflict have been avoided? How is it that Israel itself is a divided nation and even other Arab nations treat the Palestinians so badly?On both sides are the extremists terrorists and ultra-nationalist religious Jews who are determined to seize land from Palestinians and dream of a new Jewish theocracy based on a Greater Israel but A Forever War strives for objectivity and asks how we can best approach the truth in a time of such complex division.

Published ahead of the centenary of the Queens birth, this beautifully illustrated book uncovers the hidden history of the Crown and how it survived a tumultuous era and two world wars. **Features over 100 sumptuous images**From the birth of the house of Windsor in 1917, its leading women - Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II - faced abdication and assassination, revolution and the rise of fascism, the threat of invasion and all-out war. Their sartorial decisions, alongside those of their royal husbands, projected power and perpetuity, diplomacy and defiance. In this cinematic story of espionage and exquisite couture, Justine Picardie reveals the undercover lives of the creators behind the facade - including Hardy Amies, Cecil Beaton, Norman Hartnell and Edward Molyneux - and traces the ways in which visual iconography safeguarded the monarchy even when their reign seemed to be hanging by a thread.Drawing on original research in the Royal Archives and her own experiences at Balmoral, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, Picardie explores the family feuds and international conflicts that challenged the Crown, and how royal fashion is wielded as a weapon.

This nationally important book reveals the untold story of the Irish tricolour: its true origins, a forgotten heroine, and the emblems it replaced. For the first time, a fully referenced history corrects long-standing myths and slurs surrounding Irelands national flag. It also reinterprets iconic Irish symbols from the harp and shamrock to the tri-spiral placing them within the broader journey toward Irish nationhood and national identity. Along Irelands road to a republic, key figures are restored to their rightful place from Owen Roe ONeill and Wolfe Tone to Thomas Meagher and Padraig Pearse.The book explores crucial turning points the rise of green as Irelands colour, the rebellions of 1642, 1798, 1848, and 1916, Catholic Emancipation, and the flags later use and misuse. A bold, insightful retelling of Irelands story through its symbols.

During the golden age of science, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a dedicated drive to accurately categorise nature and explain the natural world. Many enthusiastic naturalists, amateur and professional, set off to collect and classify plants and animals across the New World, and many of these finds still bear the names of those who discovered them today.The Noble Quest, previously Sightseers & Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Discovery, features a new introduction that considers the growing catastrophic trend in species extinction today. The nine important individuals featured in the book encompass early naturalists William Bartram and Alexander von Humboldt; inquisitive aristocrats Charles Waterton and Prince Maximilian of Wied; professional collectors David Douglas, John Kirk Townsend and John Richardson; and the last of the field naturalists Henry Walter Bates and John Wesley Powell. All faced great adventures and hardship as they undertook their groundbreaking work, which makes for great armchair travel today.

London had a special place in Agatha Christies heart. In her childhood, she would visit the capital to stay with her Auntie Grannie; as an adult, she owned several homes in the city. A re-occurring location in her stories, London is where Poirot and Hastings, and Tommy and Tuppence reside, and even Miss Marple cannot resist a trip up to town to do shopping in its department stores.With this refreshing take on the Queen of Crimes connections to the city in both her life and writing, Tina Hodgkinson follows in Christies footsteps, visiting her former homes, fashionable restaurants, luxury hotels and other London locations that she and her characters frequented. Discover the Apothecaries Hall in the City of London, where Agatha sat her medical exams, the hospital she worked in during the Second World War, the former headquarters of the Detection Club and the theatres, where her plays were performed.Christie wrote about the capital in every decade of her extensive literary career, and this detailed but accessible compendium will delight Christie fans both old and new.

Forget 1066 the making of England began over a century earlier.When Viking armies first over-wintered in England, they opened a century of conflict and ambition. In Norway, Harald Fairhair rose from a regional chieftain to become its first king, while in England Alfred the Great preserved Wessex from conquest and laid the foundations for unity. His successors, Edward the Elder and Athelstan, extended that vision, leading to the creation of a single English kingdom after Athelstans decisive victory at Brunanburh in 937.Meanwhile, Haralds heirs struggled for Norway. Eric Bloodaxe briefly claimed the crown before being overthrown by his brother Hakon, fostered at Athelstans court. Exiled to Britain, Eric ruled in York until his violent death in 954, ending Norse kingship in England.This is the turbulent century when kings rose and fell, and when England and Norway first took shape amid rivalry, warfare and shifting alliances.

Examines the barbarians from Europe and beyond who harassed, eroded and eventually caused the disintegration of the Roman Empire. It includes the Huns, Mongolian horsemen who swept into Europe to form a short-lived empire from the Urals to the Rhine; the Visigoths, or western Goths, who sacked Rome in 410 and ruled Spain from Toledo until the Moorish conquest in 711; the Ostrogoths, or eastern Goths, who ruled Italy from 493 until the Emperor Justinian drove them out in 534; the Franks, a group of Germanic tribes who came to rule France under the Merovingians; and the Vandals, fierce Arian Christians who invaded Gaul and Spain around 400 and sacked Rome in 455. As the authors show, some, such as the Vandals in North Africa, had shortlived periods of supremacy and relatively insignificant effect on the areas they settled; others, such as the Franks, adapted to Roman ways to create the strong foundations of medieval and later nations. Throughout the text, the authors reconstruct the volatile world of pitched battle and invasion.

Paying for a peerage - an illegal practice - feels like a very modern form of corruption, one that both the Labour and Conservative parties have been happy to indulge in at times during the early twenty-first century. Except, of course, it was happening almost a century ago.Meet Maundy Gregory, actor, journalist, publishing proprietor, conman, embezzler, MI5 spy - and the man you went to see if you had the money to pay for a peerage in the post-First World War years.Cutting a dash across high society of the 1920s - he was in attendance at the wedding of the future George VI - the immaculately oiled and overdressed Gregory would happily pockets thousands for playing Mr Fixit for wannabe knights and lords, and swell the coffers of Lloyd Georges Liberal Party to millions of pounds.Business was brisk, and business was brazen. Visitors to his lavish office on Parliament Street, with a direct line to Number 10, would be wined and dined and, after paying up, leave satisfied that they would be next on the list for a knighthood or barony. Nothing could be guaranteed, of course, and it was a strictly no refunds business.But Gregory was also suspected of being something else, to add to his impressive list of accomplishments: a murderer. As the political winds changed, the debts mounted up and the walls closed in around him, he somehow managed to inherit his mistresss not inconsiderable savings when she scribbled a new will on the back of a menu and was suddenly taken ill ...In The Man Who Sold Honours, Stephen Bates lifts the lid on the truth about this long-forgotten character who remains the only person ever to be successfully prosecuted under the sale of honours act of 1925. A powerful preview of the scandals to come in Britain in recent years, this is the story of the original honours tout - a riches-to-rags tale of greed, corruption and murder in the interwar years.

In 1945, for the first time in history, women joined the ranks of the Royal Society, the UKs premier scientific academy. Over the following decade, eleven women would break through its barriers to become Fellows of the Royal Society. Few of these women are well known, yet they all made extraordinary contributions to science, helping shape the post-war world.From Dame Honor Fell, whose research laid the foundations for IVF, to Dorothy Hodgkin, who worked out the structure of penicillin, these women battled prejudice and hardship but ultimately made cracks in the glass ceiling of science, paving the way for later generations of women to enjoy careers in areas traditionally dominated by men.Breaking the Glass Ceiling of Science pays tribute to these remarkable women and their achievements and asks why many have slipped from our memories, even though their legacies have endured.

Una guía comprobada para escapar de las prisiones ocultas de la vida. Shaka Senghor autor bestseller de The New York Times y experto en resilienciaTodos vivimos en prisiones ocultas: el duelo, la ira, la verguenza, el trauma, la inseguridad, la ansiedad. Incluso virtudes como el amor, el honor, el deber y la lealtad, pueden convertirse sigilosamente en murosque nos encierran. Pero no importa cuan imponente sea la prision, siempre hay una puerta de salida.Inspirado por su extraordinaria historia, desde el encarcelamiento hasta convertirse en autor bestseller experto en resiliencia y empresario, Shaka Senghor revela la mentalidad y las practicas que transformaron su viday que pueden ayudarte a construir tu propia libertad.Guiado por las obras transformadoras de autores como Brene Brown, Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle y James Allen, y combinando sabiduria ancestral con experiencias en carne propia, Shaka propone una audaz hoja de ruta hacia una nueva filosofia de libertad y un plan claro para cambiar tu vida.No tengo que esperar a ser libre. Soy libre ahora mismo. Soy libre del peso de mi pasado. No debo mi futuro a antiguos errores.

Un viaje fascinante por la vida, las ruinas y las controversias del Partenón, de la mano de la gran divulgadora del mundo clásico, Mary Beard.Desde hace más de dos mil años, el Partenón domina la Acropolis de Atenas como uno de los simbolos universales de la civilizacion clasica. Pero, ¿que sabemos realmente de este edificio? ¿Como ha llegado a representar ideales tan diversos democracia, arte, imperio, identidad nacional a lo largo de los siglos?En este libro, Mary Beard reconstruye con rigor y agilidad narrativa la historia del templo de Atenea: desde su construccion en el siglo V a.C. hasta sus multiples transformaciones como iglesia bizantina, mezquita otomana, ruina romantica y epicentro de uno de los debates culturales mas encendidos de nuestro tiempo.Con la lucidez, el humor y la profundidad que la caracterizan, Beard nos guia por los significados cambiantes del Partenon y sus esculturas, las polemicas sobre los marmoles de Elgin, y las tensiones entre patrimonio, nacionalismo y museo universal. Una mirada reveladora sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de un monumento que sigue generando admiracion, orgullo, polemica y lagrimas.

During the Civil War, when Ernie OMalley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some of his notes were smuggled out. Most of all, he wrote, I would have liked to talk about the rank and file where I found solace. Raids and Rallies, an account of various offensives against the British in 1920 21, is his tribute to that rank and file. It was a peoples war. That is why we fought so well from November 1920.What helps to make these memoirs notable is that OMalley writes more than a documentary in his constant awareness of nature in the background. Sunday Press;Entrancing reading for those who seek an insight into the mentality of the men who took on the might of the British Empire. Sunday Independent;Where OMalley differs from virtually all others who have published their recollections of those years is that he was a writer and an intellectual who was constantly weighing and analysing all that was happening. The Irish Post

Todas las reinas de Cristina Morató reunidas en este estuche. Porque los mejores reyes de la Historia fueron reinas.Cristina Morató es periodista, escritora, fotógrafa y una incansable exploradora de vidas femeninas olvidadas por la historia oficial. A lo largo de su extensa obra ha revindicado un espacio central para las mujeres, ya fueran viajeras intrepidas, actrices inolvidables o reinas inmortales como las que protagonizan este estuche especial compuesto por dos titulos emblematicos de la autora: Reinas malditas y Reinas de leyenda.Reinas inmortales nos invita a descubrir las vidas de once mujeres cultas y valientes que alcanzaron el poder en un mundo de hombres: La Emperatriz Sissi, Alejandra Romanov, Cristina de Suecia, Eugenia de Montijo, Victoria de Inglaterra, Maria Antonieta, Catalina de Aragon, Isabel I de Inglaterra, Catalina la Grande, Carlota de Mexico y la emperatriz Cixi.

Un recorrido apasionado y entretenido por los grandes musicales de nuestra era en el que descubriremos lo que realmente nos cuentan sobre raza, género, poder y deseo.¿Qué tienen en común Wicked, Cats o West Side Story? Que no solo nos han hecho cantar, sino tambien repensar el mundo (aunque no nos hayamos dado cuenta).Cantar la historia es una historia cultural muy poco convencional: una que se canta, se baila y se analiza con tanta pasion como ironia acida. A traves de nueve musicales que han marcado la historia reciente, Javi Alonso, brillante divulgador y amante del teatro musical, nos invita a un viaje en el que nos mostrara como estas obras reflejan temas como las masculinidades, el racismo, lo queer o la memoria historica. Desde la violencia mal dirigida de West Side Story hasta la catastrofe digital de la pelicula de Cats, pasando por la moral de las protagonistas de Wicked, el autor mezcla analisis cultural, anecdotas personales y un afilado humor para desmontar la idea de que los musicales son solo evasion y fantasia.El resultado es un ensayo pop que reivindica el teatro musical como uno de los grandes narradores de nuestro tiempo. Porque si, a veces la historia se canta, hasta ocho veces por semana en cada teatro.

A true story based on a false storyLate one night in February 2018, the award-winning Irish journalist Olaf Tyaransen returned home to find his name trending on Twitter.To his horror, he discovered that Brooke Magnanti - controversial author of the Belle de Jour books - had published an article accusing him of physically and sexually assaulting another woman a few years earlier.Tyaransen had never met Magnanti, and the woman in question had recently died in tragic circumstances. While the allegation was completely untrue, it was already going viral. Hundreds of people were rushing to judgement and sharing Magnantis article.In a painfully honest and compelling memoir, Tyaransen details the emotional, social and professional impact of that false accusation.His lacerating, unflinching account highlights the importance of due process, the mindless cruelty of crowds and the potentially fatal consequences of online vigilantism

"Pierces startling candour makes for tough but cathartic reading, particularly for those whove lost family members too early. The results are both brutal and beautiful" - Publishers WeeklyIn 2017, Sophie Pierces world changed forever when her twenty-year-old son Felix died suddenly and unexpectedly. Thrown into this new reality, she had to find a way to keep on living. By writing a series of letters to Felix - composed during walks and swims taken close to his burial place by the River Dart - Sophie gradually learned how to dwell in the landscape of sudden loss, navigating the weather and tides of grief.The Green Hill collects these letters alongside Sophies account of the years following Felixs death, into which she weaves poignant memories of his life. What results is a deeply moving, beautifully captured record of how - amid the plants and rivers of Dartmoor, and in the sea off the South Devon coast - Sophie was able to hold on to and nurture her bond with Felix, both in her mind and through a physical engagement with the landscape: actively mourning, rather than grieving.The book is a celebration of the natural world and the role it plays in our lives and relationships, as well as examining how beauty, a sense of place and the passing seasons can help us contend with our own mortality. Above all, though, The Green Hill is one womans story of navigating through trauma and loss, and towards a fragile, complicated kind of joy.

In 1939, when Ian Burumas epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, was soon to get unfathomably worse.By 1943, with the German defeat at Stalingrad, ordinary life in Berlin would acquire an increasingly desperate cast. The last three years of the war in Berlin are truly a descent into hell, with a deranged regime in desperate free fall, an increasingly relentless pounding from Allied bombers, and the mounting dread of the approaching Soviet army. The common greeting of Berliners was now not Auf wiedersehen or Heil Hitler but Bleiben Sie ubrig -Stay alive. And by wars end Berlins population had fallen by almost half.Among the people trying to stay alive in the city was Ian Burumas own father, a prisoner conscripted into forced labour in the war economy along with 400,000 other imported workers. Buruma gives due weight to his and their experiences, which give the book a special added dimension. This is a book full of tenderness and genuine heroism, but it is by no means sentimental: again and again we see that most people do not do the hard thing most of the time. Most people go along. Its a lesson that has not lost its timeliness.

Raised in a Yorkshire coal-mining town, Jeremy Granthams iconoclastic investment career was launched into the stratosphere by a few simple ideas: buy cheap, watch for bubbles, and stick to your guns when you know youre right.Grantham created one of the first index funds in the 1970s, pioneered quantitative investment in the 1980s, and embraced emerging markets before other firms saw their potential. He became famous when he accurately predicted and sidestepped a series of bubbles, and his firm skyrocketed to a peak of $155 billion in assets under management. But as his wealth grew, so did his concerns about the deficiencies of capitalism and the unfolding climate crisis. He decided - at the top of his game - to donate nearly all his wealth to environmental protection.With wit thats as cutting against himself as his critics, Grantham reveals how hunting for bargains requires understanding the inefficiencies of the market and the human behaviour that drives it. Ultimately, Grantham offers a deeply human, often heretical and quietly profound lens on investing today.

Paul Martins Grand Tour is the story of the life of the popular Flog It! presenter, from his life as a musician and antiques dealer on the Portobello Road to being the star of the BBCs daytime schedules.It is also a Grand Tour, as Paul takes the reader on a journey through many of Britains regions, uncovering and celebrating the most intriguing and often previously unknown places, stories and people across the country. Fully illustrated in colour, Paul Martin highlights, in his own distinctive and enthusiasts voice, the very best of the sites, subjects and stories featured in his six years of travels filming one of the most beloved daytime shows in Britain.