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When the Pipers Play is a fascinating account of the bagpipe as an instrument of war, packed full of remarkable stories. Based on the author Patrick Kings award-winning films, the book combines historical research with exclusive interviews and traces the crucial role of the military piper from the Highlander at Culloden to the carnage of Waterloo and from the trenches of the Great War to the beaches of Normandy.The author reveals how the use of music in war, including drums, bugles and pipes, has for centuries controlled the battlefield. His analysis of the pipes ranges from regulating the soldiers day in camp to a role in wartime propaganda films and how the instrument remains the one primal element in the sophistication of modern warfare. The regimental piper is the real hero of this book. A must read for anyone who enjoys stories of courage and adventure.

LONGLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITINGA master of the landscape and a celebration of a life lived with the wild Dan Kieran, author of The Idle Traveller[Parr] writes beautifully ... gentle, often elegiac ... There is much pleasure to be taken from this book - Tom Fort, *Gamefisher *Yet, sitting here at the beginning of that journey, I realise there is a different path I must follow. This entails not a simple exploration of a single river, or the fish I might catch from it, but an understanding of what it is that makes someone an angler what it is that makes me an angler. Although I dont always need a rod in my hand to feel as if I belong by the riverside, it was angling that helped open my eyes. And as I sit here, I can hear the river calling me, bubbling up from deep underground, sharing its secrets.From childhood memories of an Exmoor stream and of the Itchen during difficult teenage years, to finding solace on the banks of the Kennet and the catharsis of a storm on the Jurassic Coast, Rivers Run is a love letter from Kevin Parr to the rivers and waterways that shaped him. It is a book about fishing. But its also a book about living, surviving the difficult times and remembering to breathe.A moving treatise on the way we deal with the dark things that life throws at us - BBC Countryfile magazineI very much enjoyed this book ... thoughtful and interesting - Mark Avery, author of Inglorious

The definitive biography of the celebrated naval hero who brought down a Prime Minister.Roger Keyes was one of the most inspiring and controversial military figures Britain produced in the twentieth century, pursuing a distinguished career in the Royal Navy.In 1918, his leadership of the Zeebrugge and Ostend raids became the stuff of legend, earning eleven Victoria Crosses and transforming him into a national hero who symbolised Britains fighting spirit.Passed over for the position of First Sea Lord due to his opposition to naval disarmament, in 1934 Keyes entered Parliament, where he campaigned fiercely against appeasement alongside Churchill. It was his decisive, fiery intervention in the 1940 Norway debate that broke the back of Neville Chamberlains government and cleared the path for Churchill to become Prime Minister.Just months later, Churchill restored him to command as the first head of Combined Operations. Keyes created and championed the Commandos, forging the elite special forces unit that terrorised Hitlers coastal defences.A hero in two world wars, Keyes was revered by the men under his command and frequently compared to Nelson, but his abrasive style also made him powerful enemies. Cutting through the controversy that surrounds his name, this definitive, warts-and-all biography aims to restore Keyes to his rightful place in British history.

Glasgow, 1855. When handsome Pierre Emile LAngelier, a marauding Jerseyman with a passion for ferns, sets his cap at twenty-year-old debutante Madeleine Hamilton Smith, its not the first time hes had ideas above his station. For Madeleine, bored and wayward, he is an exciting distraction, and they embark on a clandestine affair. But Emile treacherously hoards her letters and when she throws him over for a more eligible suitor, he threatens to send them to her father.When Emile is found dead of arsenic poisoning, Madeleine is arrested, her explicit correspondence exposed at a trial that scandalized Victorian society. But was she a victim of her class, gender, and the expectations of women? And what if someone else had a motive for murder and revenge...?Based upon meticulous research, this dramatic re-telling of one of the most notorious murder cases of the Victorian era offers an ingenious, chilling and brilliantly plausible solution to a devious killing that has baffled true crime fans for 170 years.

Ein Blick hinter die glanzenden Fassaden des Kolonialreichtums8. Juni 1708, Hochphase kolonialer Gewalt in der Karibik und Sudamerika: Der britische Commodore Charles Wager greift mit seiner Flotte die San Jose an, eine der letzten groen Galeonen. Denn er wei, das Flaggschiff der Silberflotte ist bis unters Deck mit Silber, Gold und Edelsteinen beladen. Beim Versuch, die San Jose zu entern/kapern, gelangt jedoch eine Kugel in die Pulverkammer mit einer gewaltigen Explosion sinkt das uberladene Schiff samt seiner Besatzung und seinem Schatz. Ein Zeitalter der Seefahrt geht zu Ende.Erbitterter WettstreitKnapp 300 Jahre spater: Der Unterwasserarchaologe Roger Dooley stot in einem Archiv auf Informationen zum Untergang der sagenumwobenen San Jose. Mit Feuereifer macht er sich auf die jahrzehntelange Suche nach dem Wrack und seinem milliardenschweren Schatz. Doch der vom Erfolg besessene Dooley ist nicht der Einzige, der alles auf eine Karte setzt der Wettlauf um die Bergung beginnt Hightech-SchatzsucheMit modernsten archaologischen Techniken und ausgefeilter Kartierung kommen Dooley und seine Rivalen dem Wrack immer naher. Doch wem gehort der Schatz heute uberhaupt? Es entfacht ein politischer und ethischer Konflikt um Eigentum und Kulturerbe, der bis heute rechtlich ungeklart ist.Das Gold der Karibik ist ein Drama aus dem echten Leben, ein maritimes Ratsel, ein wagemutiges Abenteuer und vor allem eine fesselnde Geschichte. Susan Casey, NY-Times-Bestsellerautorin von The Underworld

Tras su aparición en el tradicional formato de papel durante el verano de 2014, esta publicación de la versión digital (que se ha dividido en dos partes para hacerla más cómoda al lector) puede parecer tardia e innecesaria, pero en modo alguno lo es. Su caracter de novela profetica hace oportuno revisar acontecimientos que en su dia se predijeron, y en los que muchos creyeron ver excesos de una mente calenturienta con demasiada imaginacion. Revisar los acontecimientos de Francia, de Oriente Medio, de Cataluña, incluso de Estados Unidos, y el sangriento crecimiento del radicalismo islamico, mantienen la actualidad de esta historia, en una sociedad (la española) que desde entonces no ha avanzado hacia la estabilizacion, sino hacia la creciente amenaza de una explosion en fragmentos ideologicos, geograficos, religiosos y culturales, dominados por el materialismo, la rapiña y la mediocridad. La extensa y variada galeria de personajes que aparecen en el relato son personas normales de nuestra sociedad de hoy, que trabajan, aman, sueñan y luchan por la felicidad de una vida pacifica. Pero todos se ven atrapados en el devenir de estos acontecimientos, cuyos hilos estan expuestos siempre a las maniobras de ambiciosos, fanaticos y desalmados. Esto hace mas inquietante, tras revisar lo que ya ha sucedido, preguntarse que va a suceder con el resto. ¿Aun nos queda por sufrir lo que no ha sucedido, la peor parte de la historia? No, no es inoportuno ni trasnochado releer La Barca del Portugues.

Tras su aparición en el tradicional formato de papel durante el verano de 2014, esta publicación de la versión digital (que se ha dividido en dos partes para hacerla más cómoda al lector) puede parecer tardia e innecesaria, pero en modo alguno lo es. Su caracter de novela profetica hace oportuno revisar acontecimientos que en su dia se predijeron, y en los que muchos creyeron ver excesos de una mente calenturienta con demasiada imaginacion. Revisar los acontecimientos de Francia, de Oriente Medio, de Cataluña, incluso de Estados Unidos, y el sangriento crecimiento del radicalismo islamico, mantienen la actualidad de esta historia, en una sociedad (la española) que desde entonces no ha avanzado hacia la estabilizacion, sino hacia la creciente amenaza de una explosion en fragmentos ideologicos, geograficos, religiosos y culturales, dominados por el materialismo, la rapiña y la mediocridad. La extensa y variada galeria de personajes que aparecen en el relato son personas normales de nuestra sociedad de hoy, que trabajan, aman, sueñan y luchan por la felicidad de una vida pacifica. Pero todos se ven atrapados en el devenir de estos acontecimientos, cuyos hilos estan expuestos siempre a las maniobras de ambiciosos, fanaticos y desalmados. Esto hace mas inquietante, tras revisar lo que ya ha sucedido, preguntarse que va a suceder con el resto. ¿Aun nos queda por sufrir lo que no ha sucedido, la peor parte de la historia? No, no es inoportuno ni trasnochado releer La Barca del Portugues.

Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century Scotland and of truly landmark significance in the long history of the Gael. In this book individual chapters investigate his emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldoms challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his extraordinary invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his violent death at Renfrew in 1164. Perhaps most impressive is the books demonstration of how almost everything that is known of or has been claimed for Somerled reflects the same characteristic fusion of Norse and Celt which binds the cultural roots of Gaeldom. It is this recognition which has led its author to his proposal of Somerleds wider historical importance as the personality who most represents the first fully-fledged emergence of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian cultural province from which is directly descended the Gaelic Scotland of today.

What if your best friend turned out to be a master of deception? In 2005, Jim Phillips co-founded a marketing company with an old friend. Business boomed, contracts poured in and their client list expanded to include high-profile international brands.But as his partners behaviour became increasingly erratic, Jim began to wonder: did he really know the man he had built his business with? Then, in 2013, everything fell apart when he found himself in front of a judge at the Old Bailey, trapped in a living nightmare.From impersonating bank officials and a Chinese government minister to fabricating multi-million-pound contracts and feigning cancer, his business partner had orchestrated an elaborate con with devastating consequences.In this raw and unflinching cautionary tale, Phillips unravels a mind-boggling web of lies and offers a blow-by-blow account of how he uncovered the shocking truth about a man he once trusted.

El testimonio íntimo y político de Javiera Parada que, desde la tragedia personal hasta el centro del debate público, cuestiona las certezas de una generación y propone repensar el Chile actual.En Sin nada que perder, Javiera Parada reconstruye su itinerario politico e intimo desde una herencia marcada por la dictadura, el asesinato de su padre y la militancia temprana, hasta convertirse en una de las voces mas libres e incomodas de su generacion. Estas no son solo memorias: son el relato de una mujer que ha estado en el centro de los momentos decisivos del Chile reciente y que ha hecho de la libertad el eje que ordena su vida publica y privada.La autora crecio entre el compromiso politico, el arte y la tragedia. Milito en las Juventudes Comunistas, rompio con ellas cuando comprendio los limites del dogma, vivio la efervescencia cultural en Barcelona, trabajo en el Estado, impulso el proceso constituyente desde la sociedad civil y participo en los debates mas asperos del ultimo tiempo. A lo largo de ese trayecto fue revisando sus propias certezas, enfrentandose a sus aliados, cruzando fronteras ideologicas y pagando costos personales por sostener sus convicciones.Este es el testimonio de una generacion que quiso cambiarlo todo y hoy debe preguntarse como seguir. Un libro valiente, lucido y necesario para comprender las tensiones del Chile contemporaneo y para imaginar, mas alla de las trincheras, un nuevo nosotros.

During the London Blackout, in February 1942, RAF cadet Gordon Cummins unleashed a brutal killing spree, attacking six women in five days and murdering four. His victims ranged from a chemist to sex workers, leaving a trail of horror across darkened streets.Detective Chief Inspector Edward Greeno, aided by fingerprint pioneer Fred Cherrill, meticulously tracked Cummins down. Evidence piled up and despite his familys pleas of innocence, Cummins was convicted and hanged.Loved by his wife, popular with his superior officers, Cummins was a multi-layered enigma. However, crucial statements given by one woman who fought him off and another who survived his attack give chilling insight into the monstrous side of this affable, well-liked young psychopath.Robin Jarossi explores this extraordinary, frequently shocking and disturbing narrative, encompassing the harrowing stories of victims, survivors and the police work of the time, to offer insights into a society facing wartime upheaval and under siege, as gender roles and societal norms were cast aside.

Visit any settlement in the land and there will be ancient buildings hidden in plain sight. Behind a Victorian façade is a Tudor house. Underneath a Georgian frontage is a mediaeval cottage. What is now a modern farm may once have been a castle. We know relatively little about the ancient buildings that surround us, yet buildings archaeology can offer us so many clues for discovering secret hidden historic houses. This book looks at the ways in which ancient buildings have been studied and conserved, the puzzling ways that some buildings became listed whereas others were overlooked, and how we can really understand the age and development of a structure.With over a quarter of a century of field experience, James Wright uses case studies drawn from his career to explain the fascinating, enigmatic, and frequently surprising world of The Buildings Archaeologist.

Hatched in the UK in August 2017, Sparky is a captive-bred barn owl. Raised by humans, living with them, she accepts them as essential to her life, benefiting from the security they can provide, but suffering under the uncertainty they can inflict.And here, thanks to her current human, t-raay-cee, Sparky recounts her unique story. By turns heart warming and disturbing, Sparky offers an owls-eye view of her relationship with her human mates and her search for a special human to bond with lifelong.A mesmerising and ambitious work that crosses genres and raises important questions about how we can connect deeply with the more-than-human world.

Often, they appeared just once, tucked away in the corner of a lavish stand at one of the big international motor shows; some were never shown in public, confined to technical conferences and seminars. Not flashy dream cars, rather, these are the real concept cars, produced less for show and eye-catching magazine covers, and more to demonstrate technological prowess of their makers.Ray Hutton delves into the archives to remember forty of these fascinating one-offs created through the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, a time of rapid development for everyday cars and growth in sales for the premium brands. Between them, they predicted almost all of the features of todays production cars. And, just as important, are the ambitious failures and the purposely provocative that led nowhere.Most of these cars are long forgotten. They are, in a sense, the cars that never were, and they represent milestones in that development as well as being fascinating in their own right. This book brings them briefly back to life.

En noviembre de 1863, en Los Llanos de La Rioja, la historia argentina alcanza uno de sus momentos más brutales. Ángel Vicente "el Chacho" Peñaloza, un caudillo clave del federalismo, es derrotado, perseguido y asesinado de forma salvaje por las fuerzas que buscaban imponer el nuevo orden nacional. Su muerte lanceado, degollado y su cabeza exhibida para escarmiento no fue solo el final de un hombre, sino el simbolo de una epoca que se cerraba con sangre. En El Chacho. El mas humano de los caudillos, el historiador riojano Victor Hugo Robledo reconstruye con minuciosidad historica y potencia narrativa la vida y el destino de aquel lider popular que, desde Los Llanos riojanos, desafio al proyecto politico que comenzaba a organizar el Estado argentino. Gauchos, montoneras, traiciones y persecuciones componen el mosaico de una tragedia nacional. Este libro devuelve al Chacho su dimension humana: un caudillo amado por su gente, respetado por sus enemigos y finalmente convertido en martir de un conflicto mas profundo entre civilizacion y poder, entre provincias y centralismo. "Su historia no es solo la de una derrota. Es tambien la memoria de un pais que se construyo entre guerras civiles, silencios y disputas por el sentido de la Nacion. El Chacho es una investigacion solida y conmovedora que interpela el relato oficial y que nos convoca a revisar los cimientos de la Argentina. Se trata de un libro imprescindible para comprender como se construyo este Estado y a que costo humano. El caudillo riojano y sus gauchos fueron asesinados para terminar de imponer un sistema politico, economico y social que se denomino proceso de organizacion nacional. Quizas no tenian ese fin sus ejecutores, pero si sus autores intelectuales" (Henan Brienza).

Betrayal charts the dramatic collapse of the post-1945 international system. Ours is now a world in which Trumps America has effectively endorsed Putins land-grab in Ukraine and painted Europe as an enemy. Meanwhile, an anti-western alliance has taken shape featuring China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Countries find themselves in an uncertain and dangerous era. It is a return to nineteenth century imperialism and spheres of influence - but with withering modern firepower.Written in thrilling style, this vital and clear-eyed book reports from the frontlines of a new age of conquest. Luke Harding visits villages in eastern Ukraine under Russian bombardment, talks to Greenlanders about a US takeover, tours the divided Korean peninsula and sits down with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Betrayal tells the story of presidents and ordinary people, caught up in conflict and war. Harding offers an essential guide to brutal Great Power politics and how it came back.

Warmth, truth and wisdom live on every page...this profoundly generous book tells the deeper story of all our lives. It will leave you feeling more human Chris Cleave, author of The Other HandAs beautiful as it is heartbreaking... Perfect for fans of Cathy Rentzenbrink and Joan Didion Juliette Bottomley, Mr Bs EmporiumA beautiful memoir that will make you contemplate life and all the joy and grief in it. Simply stunning Georgina Moore, author of The Garnett GirlsThis is hands down the book anyone grieving needs to read, or better still to gift a loved one who may be navigating the awful, lonely path of grief Sarah Gwonyoma, @whatsarahreadnextHannah Richell was lost in writing her new novel when the outside world finally broke in to tell her that her husband, Matt, had been killed in a surfing accident. This is the story of the grief journey she travelled over the first two years of loss, but it is also an account of what happens beyond those early years, when time and distance have offered some perspective and healing.Not just a love letter to her late husband, but a love letter to the country that stole her heart, to motherhood, and to the healing power of creative endeavours. More than anything, its a story of recovery and hope.

Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then began undermining this by treating witchcraft as a topic of ridicule; threatening magic was replaced by harmless folklore. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750. It places literary witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for witchcraft in this dark period of Scotlands past. It turns out that literary witches are often very different from historical ones: most are comical characters, and some are not even human. The phrase weird sisters, familiar from Shakespeares Macbeth, originated in Scotland, and there is a detailed discussion of the meaning of the phrase and connections between the Scottish play and Scotland itself. Many of Scotlands famous Renaissance poets and dramatists wrote about witches, including William Dunbar, Sir David Lindsay and Alexander Montgomerie, and their work is also explored. By the end of the book, the discussion turns to Robert Burnss Tam o Shanter (1791) in which literary witches are fantasy fiction as they have remained.

In the stillness, my breathing steadies. I feel myself coming up as if from deep water, and I have the strongest feeling that I can ride this storm.As a farmers daughter from Irelands largest landlocked county, Marie Gleeson chose a path few could imagine a career with the Irish navy. From the punishing trials of military bootcamp to commanding high-stakes missions, including a daring drug interdiction that seized 700 million worth of cocaine, Marie proved herself a leader in one of the most demanding environments on earth.The ocean taught Marie many things the art of reading the tides, adjusting to shifting winds and embracing change when lifes storms hit hardest. When her personal world was upended, those lessons became her lifeline. Be Like the Sea is at once an extraordinary story and an inspiration to anyone seeking to overcome adversity and navigate a course towards a life of possibility.