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In Defense of Radical Empiricism

Essays and Lectures

By: Roderick Firth,John Troyer

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In Defense of Radical Empiricism

Essays and Lectures

By: Roderick Firth,John Troyer

Roderick Firth's writings on epistemology amount to an exceptionally careful and cogent defense of an account of perceptual knowledge in the tradition Firth called "radical empiricism". This important book collects all of Firth's major works on epistemology; it also contains his only publication in ethics, the extremely influential essay on "Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer". In addition, the book includes a number of important previously unpublished essays. Together, these writings constitute the most finished and compelling version of traditional empiricist epistemology. This book will be of value to students and scholars of epistemology, phenomenalism, and ethics.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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084768766X

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9780847687664

Pioneers of Scottish Christianity

Ninian, Columba and Mungo

By: Roderick Graham

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Pioneers of Scottish Christianity

Ninian, Columba and Mungo

By: Roderick Graham

How did Christianity come to Scotland? A sixteen-hundred-year-old fog of mystery separates us from the dawn of Christianity in Scotland - but there are some intriguing signposts. Roderick Graham's thorough research challenges the myths. He reveals what Scotland was like before Ninian, Columba and Kentigern and explores the nature of the Christianity that they brought. He seeks answers to the question of Ninian's existence and the arrival of Christianity at Whithorn, why Columba came to Iona, who the mysterious Culdees were, the fate of Kentigern's mother and why Kentigern met with Columba in Paisley - and he unveils the pivotal role of the synod at Whitby in 664.

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Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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0715209655

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9780715209653

Primitive Arts and Crafts

An Introduction to the Study of Material Culture

By: Roderick Urwick Sayce

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Primitive Arts and Crafts

An Introduction to the Study of Material Culture

By: Roderick Urwick Sayce

Originally published in 1933, this book examines the material culture of various 'primitive' peoples, not only as evidence of migration but also as a window onto that culture's beliefs and customs. Sayce, using a variety of examples from all over the world, details the way in which objects can accrue different meanings through their lifetimes. This book will be of value to anthropologists, folklorists, and anyone with an interest in the evolution of material culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107622077

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9781107622074

Murchison in Moray

A Geologist on Home Ground : with the Correspondence of Roderick Impey Murchison and the Rev. Dr. George Gordon of Birnie

By: Michael Collie,Sir Roderick Impey Murchison,George Gordon,John Diemer

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Murchison in Moray

A Geologist on Home Ground : with the Correspondence of Roderick Impey Murchison and the Rev. Dr. George Gordon of Birnie

By: Michael Collie,Sir Roderick Impey Murchison,George Gordon,John Diemer

In non-technical language, explains not so much the theory and legal aspects of environmental regulations, but the hands-on methods for preventing pollution and complying with both the paperwork and the technical requirements. Includes such details as how to select drums for shipping acid waste, the differences between a well managed and a poorly managed storage areas, and preparing the Discharge Monitoring Report for a wastewater treatment plant. Addressed to nonexpert generalists such as personnel managers, plant engineers, and maintenance superintendents. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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American Philosophical Society

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0871698536

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9780871698537

Literature of Scotland

The Twentieth Century

By: Roderick Watson

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Literature of Scotland

The Twentieth Century

By: Roderick Watson

Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country's languages - Gaelic, Scots and English. In this extensively revised and expanded new edition, Roderick Watson traces the lives and works of Scottish writers in a beautiful and rugged country that has been divided by political and religious conflict but united, too, by a democratic and egalitarian ideal of nationhood. The Literature of Scotland: The Twentieth Century provides a comprehensive account of the richest ever period in Scottish literary history. From The House with the Green Shutters to Trainspotting and far beyond, this companion volume to The Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century gives a critical and historical context to the upsurge of writing in the languages of Scotland. Roderick Watson covers a wide range of modern and contemporary Scottish authors including: MacDiarmid, MacLean, Grassic Gibbon, Gunn, Robert Garioch, Iain Crichton Smith, Alasdair Gray, Edwin Morgan, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Kathleen Jamie and many, many more! Also featuring an extended list of Further Reading and a helpful chronological timeline, this is an indispensable introduction to the great variety of Scottish writing which has emerged since the start of the twentieth century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137067438

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9781137067432

The Road to Hel

A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature

By: Hilda Roderick Ellis

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The Road to Hel

A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature

By: Hilda Roderick Ellis

This 1943 book uses a variety of evidence from archaeology and literature concerning Norse funeral customs to reconstruct their conception of future life.

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Cambridge University Press

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110763234X

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9781107632349

Post-School Education

By: Michael D. Stephens,Gordon W Roderick

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Post-School Education

By: Michael D. Stephens,Gordon W Roderick

First published in 1984, Post-School Education attempts to compare development of post-school education in America and England in nineteenth century. Divided into eight chapters, it discusses themes like traditions and attitudes; systems of school education; middle class initiatives prior to 1850; educational provision for adults in the 19th century; the growth of technical education; the development of university education; and the role of government, to showcase the extent to which England influenced America and differences between the two experiences. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of history of education, American education, British education and education in general.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000592316

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9781000592313

The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England

Its Archaeology and Literature

By: Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson

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The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England

Its Archaeology and Literature

By: Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson

This study concerns the importance of the sword in Anglo-Saxon and Viking society, with reference to surviving swords and literary sources, especially Beowulf.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0851157165

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9780851157160

Statistical Analysis with Missing Data

By: Roderick J. A. Little,Donald B. Rubin

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Statistical Analysis with Missing Data

By: Roderick J. A. Little,Donald B. Rubin

* Emphasizes the latest trends in the field. * Includes a new chapter on evolving methods. * Provides updated or revised material in most of the chapters.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118625889

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9781118625880

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Truth or Lies

By: Roderick Graham

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Bonnie Prince Charlie

Truth or Lies

By: Roderick Graham

Bonnie Prince Charlie is one of the best-known and romantic names in Scottish and British history. As with so many legends, the truth is often obscure and the debate continues to rage over questions of his plans to become Charles III, his wish to make Britain a Catholic country, the battle of Culloden, Frances role in the 45 Rebellion, whether he ultimately proved to be a coward and how he met his end. Few others have really explored Charless motivations. By tackling 12 of the most intriguing myths surrounding Bonnie Prince Charlie, and revealing some little-known and astonishing facts, this book casts new perspective on one of the most turbulent times in Scottish and British history. Ten myths about Bonnie Prince Charlie are explored and, through them, we discover why Charles converted to the Church of England, who Charless mysterious wife was, why the Duke of Cumberland was not the most ruthless man at Culloden, why Charles rejected the idea of an independent Scotland and the real reason why Charles wanted to take the British throne.

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Saint Andrew Press

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0861537831

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9780861537839

A Bitter Magic

By: Rod Townley,Roderick Townley

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A Bitter Magic

By: Rod Townley,Roderick Townley

When twelve-year-old Cisley's mother, who controls real magic, disappears during a magic act, Cisley's left with her cold, distant uncle and a great mystery which will only be solved if she can summon her own magic.

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Knopf Books for Young Readers

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0449816494

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9780449816493

Cross and Tapper on Evidence

By: Roderick Munday

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Cross and Tapper on Evidence

By: Roderick Munday

Cross & Tapper continues to provide exceptionally clear and detailed coverage of the modern law of evidence, with an element of international comparison. The foremost authority in the area, it is a true classic of legal literature.

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Oxford University Press

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0199668604

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9780199668601

Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema

By: Roderick Flynn,Patrick Brereton

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Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema

By: Roderick Flynn,Patrick Brereton

In 1898, documentary footage of a yacht race was shot by Robert A. Mitchell, making him the first Irishman to shoot a film within Ireland. Despite early exposure to the filmmaking process, Ireland did not develop a regular film industry until the late 1910s when James Mark Sullivan established the Film Company of Ireland. Since that time, Ireland has played host to many famous films about the country_Man of Aran, The Quiet Man, The Crying Game, My Left Foot, and Bloody Sunday_as well as others not about the country_Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. It has also produced great directors such as Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, as well as throngs of exceptional actors and actresses: Colin Farrel, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Maureen O'Hara, and Peter O'Toole. The Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema provides essential facts on the history of Irish cinema through a list of acronyms and abbreviation; a chronology; an introduction; a bibliography; and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the pioneers and current leaders in the industry, the actors, directors, distributors, exhibitors, schools, arts centers, the government bodies and some of the legislation they passed, and the films.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810864355

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9780810864351

Dwelling with Architecture

By: Roderick Kemsley,Christopher Platt

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Dwelling with Architecture

By: Roderick Kemsley,Christopher Platt

The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme ‘dwelling and the land’. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the making of houses. That the domestic realm and the landscape can be vehicles for significant architectural insights is hardly an original observation. However this book seeks to bring the two topics together in a unique way. In exploring a building type that lies on the cusp of what is commonly understood as ‘building’ and ‘architecture’, it asks fundamental questions about what the very nature of architecture is. Who indeed is the architect and what is their role in the process of creating meaningful buildings?

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Routledge

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1136260927

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9781136260926

Three Hundred Hours

By: Roderick Craig Low

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Three Hundred Hours

By: Roderick Craig Low

David Grant and his beautiful French wife Élodie are a prosperous happy couple living in an idyllic village in the Ardèche. It is summer and Élodie has gone on a Buddhist retreat south of Paris. Left to his own devices, her husband decides to go on what he thinks will be a short trip away . . . And so, harmlessly enough, David Grant begins his journey across France and back to Ireland and the UK. By turns humorous and melancholic, it becomes a fitful odyssey that leads eventually to his home town of Edinburgh. As he wanders, he finds that more and more of his present life is falling away and that the ghosts of his past are crowding in. With its acute perceptions and unblinking dissection of a body and mind in the process of disintegration, this masterly darkly beautiful novel enthrals and moves and shocks to its very end.

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315

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Andrews UK Limited

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1782346031

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9781782346036

Birds and Forestry

By: Mark Avery,Roderick Leslie

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Birds and Forestry

By: Mark Avery,Roderick Leslie

In this book, an ornithologist and a forester have combined their skills to try and tease out the real facts behind the various arguments on forestry. The conflict between forestry and nature conservation has become a major environmental issue in Britain in the 1980s. The planting of large tracts of land with exotic conifers and the resulting disturbance of existing plant and animal communities has polarized the debate, each camp believing that it has the most rational view. But the interactions involved are complex. Which bird species are really threatened? How can we judge the relative value of bird species ousted by plantations and the new species which colonize them? How can the need for forest products be reconciled with the demands of conservationists? This fascinating book tackles these issues in a forthright manner. It represents a significant step towards achieving the sort of prudent land planning that will really improve our beleaguered countryside. Jacket painting by Philip Snow. Foreword by David Bellamy.

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A&C Black

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1408137674

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9781408137673

An Accidental Tragedy

The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots

By: Graham Roderick

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An Accidental Tragedy

The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots

By: Graham Roderick

Based on contemporary documents and histories, Roderick Graham paints a unique picture of Mary that sees her neither as a Catholic martyr, nor as a husband-murdering adulteress, but as a young girl adrift in the dangerous seas of sixteenth-century politics. Mary Stuart had none of the ruthlessness of her contemporary sisters, and the female empowerment of Catherine de Medici, Diane de Poitiers or Elizabeth Tudor passed her by. In an age of intellectually brilliant and powerful women, Mary relied on her beauty and charm in place of reason and determination. Passively and gracefully, she allowed events to overtake her as accidents and when she did attempt to control her future she unwittingly set in train the events that would lead her to the executioner's block.

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Birlinn

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0857904973

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9780857904973

The Life of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

by Andrew Henderson

By: Roderick Macpherson

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The Life of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

by Andrew Henderson

By: Roderick Macpherson

This is the first reset edition of Henderson's The Life of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1766). Henderson wrote two open letters to Samuel Johnson, criticizing his account of Scotland and the Scottish character as well as taking a side-swipe at Smollet. These too are included together with a new introduction to Henderson and his works.

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Routledge

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1315477955

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9781315477954

Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher

Scenes from a Scottish Childhood

By: Roderick Grant

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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher

Scenes from a Scottish Childhood

By: Roderick Grant

Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer's childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; a place where isolated hill farms, limitless moorland and the rock-strewn banks of wild, tumbling rivers became the backdrop for a variety of adventures and experiences. Laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes. Roderick Grant's book is not merely one of nostalgic recall. It is a richly evocative memoir of a time and place when horses still drew ploughs and children walked seven miles or more each day to reach their school; and where shepherd and gamekeeper, farmer and labourer, forester, railway worker, teacher, laird and minister, and their families, were all part of a community, close-knit in its isolation from the changing post-war world.

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Birlinn

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0857906844

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9780857906847

Submarine Torpedo Tactics

An American History

By: Edward Monroe Jones,Shawn S. Roderick

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Submarine Torpedo Tactics

An American History

By: Edward Monroe Jones,Shawn S. Roderick

Never-before-published, firsthand accounts of under-sea action presented with a summary of torpedo tactics illustrate how a submarine's crew can hit a target trying to avoid being hit. Legendary figures in American submarine history come to life in actual logs of undersea warfare, and in accounts of sailors who were in the van of torpedo tactics development. The technology is explained in detail, showing how American subs have been so successful in their hundred-year history. Outlandish gags and pranks of submarine skippers are included, showing just how brazen this elite group of super-competent sailors could be. The reader travels through World War II and the Cold War as submarines and torpedoes enter the nuclear age. The book is filled with diagrams and illustrations.

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McFarland

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0786496460

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9780786496464

John Knox

Man of Action

By: Roderick Graham

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John Knox

Man of Action

By: Roderick Graham

A deeply researched, well-written and comprehensive biography which vividly brings its subject and the milieu of the Scottish Reformation to life - but, even more significantly, the author's approach to Knox is uniquely different to the contemporary preconception of a ranting dogmatic misogynist. This man of action lived a dramatic life - he was a galley slave, an exile, and a man who lived at the very centre of one of the most volatile periods in Christian and Scottish history, keeping his integrity intact.

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369

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Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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0861537157

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9780861537150

Agency

Law and Principles

By: Roderick Munday

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Agency

Law and Principles

By: Roderick Munday

This new work provides a useful and accessible reminder of the principles of agency law for experienced practitioners, as well as an invaluable guide for students looking for an approachable text on this topic.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199230374

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9780199230372

Forgotten Voices of the Secret War

An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War

By: Roderick Bailey

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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War

An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War

By: Roderick Bailey

The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They especially wanted to know what I did after my escape, and precise things on the organisation of the SOE. And just for fun I suspect, because I had really not much to tell them, they pulled one of my toenails out...' - Robert Sheppard, SOE agent The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in World War 2 to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines: in Winston Churchill's famous phrase, to 'set Europe ablaze'. Drawing on the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive and featuring a mass of previously unpublished personal testimonies, Forgotten Voices of the Secret War tells the stories of SOE agents, HQ staff, diplomats, aircrew and naval personnel in their own words. As the war unfolds, we learn of parachute drops into enemy territory, torture by the Gestapo and nerve-wracking sabotage missions in far-flung climes. Forgotten Voices of the Secret War is both an incredible account of espionage during World War 2 and a fitting testament to the efforts and sacrifices of a dedicated group of courageous men and women.

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Random House

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1407022369

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9781407022369

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