John King is to be congratulated on this painstaking piece of research which provides fascinating insight into the people behind the elegant facade of the general offices of Waterloo. Pen and Sword are to be congratulated too for producing an attractive book.
It is recommended for the shelves of all devotees of the Southern.
Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society
John King is to be congratulated on this painstaking piece of research which provides fascinating insight into the people behind the elegant facade of the general offices of Waterloo. Pen and Sword are to be congratulated too for producing an attractive book.
It is recommended for the shelves of all devotees of the Southern.
Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society
An amazing autobiography that doesn't pull any punches - if there are still members of the parliamentary labour party tempted to deny the holocaust, then this book should be force fed to them, for they are doing their party and their country an enormous disservice. Paul Le Groupil's story is utterly amazing - there were few enough survivors of the holocaust and the horror that was Auschwitz - to live to tell his tale displays enormous courage and fortitude, plus the ability to tell the story in the first place. Breathtaking detail.
Books Monthly
An amazing autobiography that doesn't pull any punches - if there are still members of the parliamentary labour party tempted to deny the holocaust, then this book should be force fed to them, for they are doing their party and their country an enormous disservice. Paul Le Groupil's story is utterly amazing - there were few enough survivors of the holocaust and the horror that was Auschwitz - to live to tell his tale displays enormous courage and fortitude, plus the ability to tell the story in the first place. Breathtaking detail.
Books Monthly
As featured in
The Bookseller 25/5/18
As featured in
The Bookseller 25/5/18
The reader soon knows that the author was no modest household servant. For example, Marchand was chosen to record Napoleon’s Summary of Julius Caesar’s Wars, published in 1836. The emperor openly described Marchand as a friend and entrusted him with some of his most precious valuables. On his deathbed, Napoleon made Marchand a count, a title later confirmed by Napoleon III. This memoir is by a literate and knowledgeable man who fully realized he was writing about an era and a leader of great import.
Read the complete review online [link=http://www.historynet.com/book-review-in-napoleons-shadow-being-the-first-english-language-edition-of-the-complete-memoirs-of-louis-joseph-marchand-valet-and-friend-of-the-emperor-1811-1821-edited-by-proctor-jones-mh.htm]here.[/link]
History Net
The reader soon knows that the author was no modest household servant. For example, Marchand was chosen to record Napoleon’s Summary of Julius Caesar’s Wars, published in 1836. The emperor openly described Marchand as a friend and entrusted him with some of his most precious valuables. On his deathbed, Napoleon made Marchand a count, a title later confirmed by Napoleon III. This memoir is by a literate and knowledgeable man who fully realized he was writing about an era and a leader of great import.
Read the complete review online [link=http://www.historynet.com/book-review-in-napoleons-shadow-being-the-first-english-language-edition-of-the-complete-memoirs-of-louis-joseph-marchand-valet-and-friend-of-the-emperor-1811-1821-edited-by-proctor-jones-mh.htm]here.[/link]
History Net
Originally published
in 1946 by the Ministry of
Information under the title
Merchant Airmen: the Air
Minstry account of British
Civil Aviation, 1939-1944,
a welcome new edition of
this detailed review of the
international air transport
operations across Europe,
Africa, Australia, the Far East
and the Atlantic Ocean of
Imperial Airways and British
Overseas Airways Corporation
(BOAC) during WW2.
Aero Society May 2018
Originally published
in 1946 by the Ministry of
Information under the title
Merchant Airmen: the Air
Minstry account of British
Civil Aviation, 1939-1944,
a welcome new edition of
this detailed review of the
international air transport
operations across Europe,
Africa, Australia, the Far East
and the Atlantic Ocean of
Imperial Airways and British
Overseas Airways Corporation
(BOAC) during WW2.
Aero Society May 2018
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Alan Bristow: Helicopter Pioneer
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Back Bearings
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Alone I Fly
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From Dogfight to Diplomacy
MacDonell's service career began in the 1930s. Shortly before the war he became a Squadron Leader and worked at the Air Ministry during the Phoney War. When hostilities commenced he became CO of No 64 Squadron, carrying out convoy support operations and eventually fighting in the Battle of Britain. Awarded a DFC, he was given command of a squadron… Read more...
