![]() ![]() Who were the people who provided this rich seam of intelligence? Many were not trained agents nor, with a few exceptions, people with any experience of spying. Authentic voices from rural France, the Netherlands and Belgium – they were sometimes comic, often tragic and occasionally invaluable with details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar system or the deployment of the feared V-1 and V-2 rockets that terrorized London. The messages flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the legs of the birds. Between 19, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of 'Columba' – a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes they will encounter. Variety, the children’s charity - improving ![]() This book is sold subject to the conditions that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the author's or publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.Ī CIP record for this book is available from the British Library No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of G.L.Twynham, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Valerie Saunders illustration by: Matt TimsonĢ8-30 High Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3EL. The moral right of the author has been asserted.Īll characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. G.L.Twynham is hereby identified as author of this work in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ![]() ![]() The next day she starts training for a dangerous mission: to save girls entrapped by an evil wizard in the city of Bryre. In Monstrous by MarcyKate Connolly (HarperCollins Children’s Books February 10 2015), Kymera opens her eyes for the first time, takes her first breath and her father tells her: you are alive. As they become friends, Kym learns that Ren knows about the missing girls, the wizard, and the evil magic that haunts Bryre.Īnd what he knows will change Kym’s life. They would not understand that she was created for a purpose: to rescue the girls of Bryre.ĭespite her caution, a boy named Ren sees Kym and begins to leave a perfect red rose for her every evening. Her father says they would not understand her wings, the bolts in her neck, or her spiky tail-they would kill her. Yet night is the only time that Kymera can enter this dangerous city, for she must not be seen by humans. Because of his curse, girls sicken and disappear without a trace, and Bryre’s inhabitants live in fear. The city of Bryre suffers under the magic of an evil wizard. ![]() It’s a new Regular Thing (and we’d love to hear your thoughts and recommendations for future entries). The Middle Grade Review Bonanza is a feature with 2-3 mini-reviews for short MG books we really wanted to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. ![]() ![]() In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. It will earn generations of admirers.” -The Washington Times is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. 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Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Bookby Johanna Basford is one of the world's bestselling adult colouring books with 96 colouring pages waiting to be brought to life with colour. ![]() ![]() ![]() But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever-it-is she’s starting to feel for Porter.Īnd as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. ![]() Or that she’s being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Roth-a.k.a. Or that she’s landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Classic movie buff Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by “Alex.” Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush.įaced with doubts (what if he’s a creep in real life-or worse?), Bailey doesn’t tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown. ![]() ![]() ![]() During a summer in the 1960s, an eleven-year-old Bobby lives with his widowed mother, self-centered Liz Garfield, and has two friends, Carol Gerber and Sully. Middle-aged photographer and businessman Robert "Bobby" Garfield returns to his old hometown upon learning that his best friend, decorated soldier John "Sully" Sullivan, has died in a traffic accident and begins recollecting his past when he visits an abandoned house where he used to live. The film is dedicated to cinematographer Piotr Sobociński, who died of a heart attack a few months before the release. ![]() ![]() It is loosely adapted from Stephen King's Dark Tower tie-in Low Men in Yellow Coats, a novella in the 1999 collection Hearts in Atlantis after which the film was named. Hearts in Atlantis is a 2001 American mystery drama film directed by Scott Hicks and starring Anthony Hopkins and Anton Yelchin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wooten Poge, Page wrote the adventures of Bill Carter for Spicy Detective Stories. ![]() ![]() His 1940 Unknown novel, But Without Horns is considered an early classic explication of the superman theme. He also contributed to other pulp series, including The Shadow and The Phantom, and supplied scripts for the radio programs based on the characters he wrote, science fiction and two early sword and sorcery fantasy novels under forms of his real name, Norvel Page and Norvell W. He is best known as the author of the majority of the adventures of the ruthless vigilante hero The Spider, which he and a handful of other writers wrote under the house name of Grant Stockbridge. The name Norvell came from his maternal grandmother Elvira Russell Norvell Page. He was born in Virginia the son of Charles Wordsworth Page (1880 – 1947) and Estlie Isabelle Bethel Page (1880 – 1946). Norvell Wordsworth Page (1904–1961) was an American pulp fiction writer, journalist and editor who later became a government intelligence worker. ![]() |