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Télécharger le livre :  Why 1914?
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Why 1914?


Derek Robinson


Short, brisk and highly readable, this account stands out from the flood of books written for the Centenary of the Great War. In Why 1914?, Derek Robinson - trained as a historian, shortlisted for the Booker Prize - applies his novelist's skills to asking how and why...

Parution : 2014-09-18
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Kramer's War
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Kramer's War


Derek Robinson


Jersey, 1944. Lieutenant Earl Kramer, sole survivor of a ditched USAF bomber, crawls out of the sea one night and cuts the throat of a German sentry. Big mistake. Jersey is under Nazi occupation, and the lives of its inhabitants depend on an uneasy co-existence with...

Parution : 2014-06-19
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Rotten with Honour
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Rotten with Honour


Derek Robinson


Mikhail Starin, Head of Soviet Intelligence in London, is a ruthless, cold-hearted individual. Known to have killed 24 people, including his own mother, he's now determined to get his hands on a hard-to-stabilize nuclear formula. There's only one thing for British...

Parution : 2014-06-19
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Kentucky Blues
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Kentucky Blues


Derek Robinson


Rock Springs, Kentucky. A backwater miles from civilisation, but so far upstream that the riverboats can go no further, and with plenty of farmland there for the taking. Among the pioneers who choose to build their homes here are the Hudds and the Killicks, two families...

Parution : 2014-06-19
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  A Year with Rudolf Nureyev
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A Year with Rudolf Nureyev


Simon Robinson , Derek Robinson


Here, for the first time, is an intimate and fascinating portrait of Rudolf Nureyev off-stage - a man who was an exacting, unpredictable, parsimonious and often immature individual, yet who, at the same time, aroused great affection in a host of friends. Simon Robinson...

Parution : 2013-05-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Quercus
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Télécharger le livre :  A Splendid Little War
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A Splendid Little War


Derek Robinson


The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer...

Parution : 2012-12-20
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Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Artillery of Lies
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Artillery of Lies


Derek Robinson


1943. British Intelligence has finally got to grips with the Eldorado Network, Germany's most successful spy ring. It turns out to be one man in a small room in Lisbon, inventing phoney (but convincing) reports. For two years he has pulled the wool over German...

Parution : 2012-03-01
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Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Red Rag Blues
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Red Rag Blues


Derek Robinson


It's 1953, and Luis Cabrillo has burned through the small fortune he earned from both British and German Intelligence in WW2. Now he has only his wits, his confidence, and his dazzling skills at lying and cheating to rely on.Teaming up with Julie Conroy (a corker of a...

Parution : 2012-03-01
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Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Operation Bamboozle
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Operation Bamboozle


Derek Robinson


From 1941 to 1943 it was the Germans. Then it was the turn of the British. Come the Cold War, he's conning McCarthy. Now he's going head to head with the L.A. mob. For high-stakes con artist Luis Cabrillo, once known as Eldorado, the million-dollar spy, trouble is never...

Parution : 2012-03-01
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Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Eldorado Network
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Eldorado Network


Derek Robinson


1941. Hitler rampant. Spain neutral. Madrid, like Casablanca, the launching pad for spies from all sides. The most daring and audacious is codenamed 'Eldorado'. Young, inexperienced, hotheaded, he had no right to survive, let alone succeed. Now his network is the most...

Parution : 2012-03-01
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Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Piece of Cake
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Piece of Cake


Derek Robinson


From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly promoted Commanding...

Parution : 2011-10-06
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
Collection : R.A.F. Quartet
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Télécharger le livre :  Hullo Russia, Goodbye England
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Hullo Russia, Goodbye England


Derek Robinson


Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it's...

Parution : 2011-10-06
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Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  A Good Clean Fight
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A Good Clean Fight


Derek Robinson


North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. A good clean fight, for those who like that sort of thing, and some do. From an advanced landing field, striking hard and escaping fast, our old friends from Hornet Squadron (Piece of Cake) play Russian roulette, flying...

Parution : 2011-10-01
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Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Damned Good Show
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Damned Good Show


Derek Robinson


They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of...

Parution : 2011-10-01
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Goshawk Squadron
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Goshawk Squadron


Derek Robinson


World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes. At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is...

Parution : 2011-07-01
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Hornet's Sting
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Hornet's Sting


Derek Robinson


It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot's life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously. Distractions from the...

Parution : 2011-07-01
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  War Story
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War Story


Derek Robinson


Fresh from school in June 1916, Lieutenant Oliver Paxton's first solo flight is to lead a formation of biplanes across the Channel to join Hornet Squadron in France. Five days later, he crash-lands at his destination, having lost his map, his ballast and every single...

Parution : 2011-07-01
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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