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The Secret City

By: Sir Hugh Walpole

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The Secret City Sir Hugh Walpole - There are certain things that I feel, as I look through this bundle of manuscript, that I must say. The first is that of course no writer ever has fulfilled his intention and no writer ever will; secondly, that there was, when I began, another intention than that of dealing with my subject adequately, namely that of keeping myself outside the whole of it; I was to be, in the most abstract and immaterial sense of the word, a voice, and that simply because this business of seeing Russian psychology through English eyes has no excuse except that it is English.

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Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

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3985109664

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9783985109661

A Don at War

By: Sir David, KCMG OBE Hunt

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A Don at War

By: Sir David, KCMG OBE Hunt

When A Don at War was published in 1966 it was hailed as the first book to be written from the point of view of the Intelligence staff officer in the field with critics remarking on Sir David Hunt's authoritative exposition of British as well as German strategies. Eight years later it was revealed that the British, through the Ultra' system, were able to decode even the most important German radio messages despite the fact they were sent in the supposedly unbreakable Enigma cipher'. Since 1974 the great secret has become common knowledge. As a result Sir David has specially written for this second edition a new foreword whose main purpose is to explain the use made of Ultra during four years campaigning in the Mediterranean.

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328

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Routledge

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1135223939

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9781135223939

Gallipoli Diary Vol. II [Illustrated Edition]

By: General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO TD

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Gallipoli Diary Vol. II [Illustrated Edition]

By: General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO TD

Includes Gallipoli Campaign Map and Illustrations Pack –71 photos and 31 maps of the campaign spanning the entire period of hostilities. The desperate losses and ultimate failure of the Gallipoli campaign are legendary even among the holocaust of the First World War. The man ultimately held responsible for the failure was General Ian Hamilton, the officer in charge of the operation; criticism has been heaped on him since the last Allied soldier left the Turkish peninsula in 1915. His diaries however paint a different picture; that of a General struggling with a task that was night-on impossible to begin with; Thrust in to a mad-cap operation he was given the scantest of details; “But my knowledge of the Dardanelles was nil; of the Turk nil; of the strength of our own forces next to nil. Although I have met K. almost every day during the past six months, and although he has twice hinted I might be sent to Salonika; never once, to the best of my recollection, had he mentioned the word Dardanelles.” Short of men, supplies and most all ammunition; his failure was not from a lack of effort. Fighting uphill against an entrenched enemy, the ground that he and his men fought over was some of the toughest on Earth to attack. Always too close to the fighting line he was out of his depth with the strategic thinking necessary in an army commander. There is much in his diaries that is of interest the serious student of the Gallipoli campaign and the casual reader of the story of the First World War.

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632

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786251086

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9781786251084

Gallipoli Diary Vol. I [Illustrated Edition]

By: General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO TD

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Gallipoli Diary Vol. I [Illustrated Edition]

By: General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO TD

udes Gallipoli Campaign Map and Illustrations Pack –71 photos and 31 maps of the campaign spanning the entire period of hostilities. The desperate losses and ultimate failure of the Gallipoli campaign are legendary even among the holocaust of the First World War. The man ultimately held responsible for the failure was General Ian Hamilton, the officer in charge of the operation; criticism has been heaped on him since the last Allied soldier left the Turkish peninsula in 1915. His diaries however paint a different picture; that of a General struggling with a task that was night-on impossible to begin with; Thrust in to a mad-cap operation he was given the scantest of details; “But my knowledge of the Dardanelles was nil; of the Turk nil; of the strength of our own forces next to nil. Although I have met K. almost every day during the past six months, and although he has twice hinted I might be sent to Salonika; never once, to the best of my recollection, had he mentioned the word Dardanelles.” Short of men, supplies and most all ammunition; his failure was not from a lack of effort. Fighting uphill against an entrenched enemy, the ground that he and his men fought over was some of the toughest on Earth to attack. Always too close to the fighting line he was out of his depth with the strategic thinking necessary in an army commander. There is much in his diaries that is of interest the serious student of the Gallipoli campaign and the casual reader of the story of the First World War.

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694

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786251078

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9781786251077

Betjeman’s Best British Churches

By: Sir John Betjeman,Richard Surman

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Betjeman’s Best British Churches

By: Sir John Betjeman,Richard Surman

A beautiful and practical up-to-date guide to over two thousand of Britain’s best parish churches.

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1171

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HarperCollins UK

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0007416881

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9780007416882

The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters

The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with His Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937

By: Sir Austen Chamberlain

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The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters

The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with His Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937

By: Sir Austen Chamberlain

This collection of the diary letters of Austen Chamberlain provides a detailed record of Conservative and national politics in the inter-war period.

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564

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Cambridge University Press

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0521551579

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9780521551571

Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

During the Crusades, Wilifrid, a young Saxon knight, embarks on a series of adventures to prove himself worthy of the princess Rowena, fighting the Normans and the Templars?and allied with such figures as Robin Hood and Richard the Lionheart.

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529

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Penguin

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1101136146

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9781101136140

Book's by Sir Compton Mackenzie

The Secret City

The Secret City

A Don at War

A Don at War

Gallipoli Diary Vol. II [Illustrated Edition]

Gallipoli Diary Vol. II [Illustrated Edition]

Gallipoli Diary Vol. I [Illustrated Edition]

Gallipoli Diary Vol. I [Illustrated Edition]

Betjeman’s Best British Churches

Betjeman’s Best British Churches

The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters

The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters

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