Books
Murders in the Dark
The Astonishing True Story of the 1942 London Blackout Murders
In the middle of World War II, the people of bomb-ravaged London experienced an outbreak of terror different to anything the Nazis were inflicting. Over the space of six days during one of the coldest months ever recorded, and under the cover of the blacked-out nights, six women were brutally attacked, and four of them were murdered.
Two police officers and a pathologist were at the centre of the desperate attempt to bring the killing spree to an end. But they were hamstrung by primitive investigative techniques, the pace of the attacks, political pressure and their own egos. It would take a small miracle for them to identify, arrest and convict the guilty party. This evil needed to be excised fast, and order restored.
A Hateful Decision
Churchill's Darkest Hour and the British Attack on the French Navy.
Summer, 1940. Winston Churchill watches in horror as France falls to the Germans in just six weeks, completing the Nazi conquest of mainland Europe. He faces an urgent question: what will happen to France’s mighty navy? Under German control it presents a major threat to Great Britain, and could mark a point of no return.
With the Nazis closing in and time running out, Churchill ordered Operation Catapult. By the end of one of the most agonising but necessary military operations of the war, a large part of the French navy would be destroyed and nearly 1,300 French sailors would be dead, a number which would haunt all involved for the rest of their lives.
The remarkable true story of the women who defied the Nazis and saved 15,000 lives.
October, 1938. Germany is poised to take over part of Czechoslovakia and thousands of terrified refugees have fled to Prague. A mix of Jews and political opponents of the Nazis, they will be killed if they do not leave the country.
Doreen Warriner, a British academic studying in Prague, decides she must help. She rallies a group of women and they begin an underground evacuation operation of such astonishing efficiency that over the next ten months they help 15,000 people escape the Nazis and are only forced to stop when World War II breaks out in September 1939.
Angels of Prague
The breathtaking biography of one of Britain's most celebrated humanitarians.
When Nicholas Winton cancelled his skiing holiday in favour of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own.
As millions of Jewish families attempted to flee the growing clutches of the brutal Nazi war of terror, this twenty-nine-year-old stockbroker decided to act, pulling off one of the most remarkable rescue missions of the century. The British Oskar Schindler tells the story of this remarkable man's life and those around him who helped him to achieve all he did.
The British Oskar Schindler
Ian Fleming's Inspiration
The unique bestselling biography of the James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
James Bond is possibly the most well known fictional characters in history. What most people don’t know is that almost all of the characters, plots and gadgets come from the real life experiences of Bond’s creator - Commander Ian Fleming. In this book, we go through the plots of Fleming’s novels explaining the real life experiences that inspired them.
The reader is taken on a journey through Fleming’s direct involvement in World War II intelligence and how this translated through his typewriter into James Bond’s world, as well as the many other factors of Fleming’s life which were also taken as inspiration.
Active Goodness
The True Story Of How Trevor Chadwick, Doreen Warriner & Nicholas Winton Saved Thousands From The Nazis.
The remarkable true story of how three British heroes saved thousands of endangered Czech men, women, and children from the Nazis at the beginning of World War II.
When university lecturer Doreen Warriner visited Prague in the winter of 1938, she was appalled at the sight of so many suffering people, all desperately trying to flee Hitler's death squads. Along with Trevor Chadwick and Nicholas Winton, the evacuation of thousands of people.
