HMS Tally-Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington, was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it proved a very suitable one for a hunting submarine. In a single wartime commission, lasting from 15th March 1943 to 26th February 1945, she operated in the Malacca Strait. Here, surrounded by enemy air bases and in badly charted shallow waters - so shallow many experts considered them completely unsuitable for submarine operations - she took a heavy toll of enemy warships and supply vessels. The boat, her captain and her crew are all vividly portrayed in this exciting chronicle which is the fruit of wide and detailed research.
COPP (Combined Operations Pilotage Parties) were formed in December 1942, when the need for invasion beach reconnaissance and assault guidance for invasion fleets was officially recognized. COPPs were a revolutionary concept: independent teams, led by Lieutenants, Royal Navy, qualified Navigators or Hydrograhers capable of navigating cruisers or aircraft carriers teamed with Captains, Royal Engineers, preferably Commando and SBS trained: to carry out small-boat reconnaissance missions of heavily defended enemy beaches with full knowledge of proposed major offenses and where their capture could well compromise future strategy.
COPP (Combined Operations Pilotage Parties) were formed in December 1942, when the need for invasion beach reconnaissances was officially recognised. This is a history of COPP, and an attempt to correct misconceptions which have appeared in print.
HMS Tally-Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington, was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it proved a very suitable one for a hunting submarine. In a single wartime commission, lasting from 15th March 1943 to 26th February 1945, she operated in the Malacca Strait. Here, surrounded by enemy air bases and in badly charted shallow waters - so shallow many experts considered them completely unsuitable for submarine operations - she took a heavy toll of enemy warships and supply vessels. The boat, her captain and her crew are all vividly portrayed in this exciting chronicle which is the fruit of wide and detailed research.
Previously considered an avowed nationalist, this book explores how Ian Fleming's writing and his representational politics contain an implicit resistance to imperial rhetoric. Through an examination of Fleming's Jamaica-set novels Live and Let Die , Dr No , The Man with the Golden Gun, his short stories and the later film adaptations, Ian Kinane reveal's Fleming's deep ambivalence to British decolonisation and to wider Anglo-Caribbean relations. Offered here is a crucial insight into the public imagination during the birth of modern British multiculturalism that encompasses broader links between Fleming's writings on race and British-Jamaican culture and various race-related crises in Britain -- such as the Notting Hill Riots and the Brixton Riots. By exploring the effects of racial representation in these popular works, Kinane connects the novels to more contemporary conservative concerns regarding migration and the ways in which the misrepresentation of cultures, races, and peoples has led to fraught and contentious global geo-political relations."--
The following photographs give you a glimpse of Dr. Paisley's unusual and controversial life. This photographic life is in no way to be regarded as a conclusive biography. Instead, it offers, like any photographer's lens, a snapshot of some of the many moments caught on film, of Ian R.K. Paisley.
Major General John Hay Beith, (1876 – 1952), was a British novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. During the First World War, Beith served as an officer in the army in France. His good-humoured account of army life, The First Hundred Thousand, published in 1915, was a best-seller. He made a considerable career as a dramatist, writing light comedies, often in collaboration with other authors including P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. In this book: The First Hundred Thousand, All In It K(1) Carries On, A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand, The Willing Horse, A Safety Match, Happy-go-lucky, The Right Stuff, Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton, Getting Together
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On December 21 1988, 270 people died when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie. Finally, after 11 years of investigation, political stalemate and legal delays, two Libyan men prepare to face trial for the Lockerbie bombing. But many observers - including legal and law enforcement officials close to the case - say the trial may not produce a satisfying answer to the question of who bombed Pan Am 103.
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