When the CIA commissioned a top secret undercover operation in 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, they enlisted the help of famous magician John Mulholland to write two manuals on sleight of hand & undercover communication. In 1973 all documents related to the mission were destroyed, Mulholland`s magic manuals were thought to be lost, until recently a single copy of each document was found. This is the first publication to reconstruct John Mulholland`s manual from the original pages. With chapter headings such as Handling of Powders, Surreptitious Removal of Objects & Special Aspects of Deception for Women, working examples & detailed, h&-drawn illustrations, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery & Deception is a fascinating read into a world of wizardry & spycraft. For example, do you know how to use cars for transporting bodies, cigarette papers for surreptitious notes, fake coins to hide poisonous powder? Read on & become an accessory to espionage! ...

The daring ” Dambusters” raid on 17 May 1943, when a special force of British Avro Mark III Lancasters attacked & destroyed the Eder Dams in Germany, was one of the iconic moments of the Second World War. ” The Dambusters Experience” tells the story behind the attack, & relives the attack itself under the leadership of Wing Commander Guy Gibson, as he & his men deployed, for the first time, the devastating new secret weapon developed by brilliant scientist Barnes Wallis. Discover how the hours-long raid, a pinpoint attack on a target chosen for its economic & symbolic value, took many months of development & planning. Explore in detail the story behind the attack: Wallis` realization that the Dams offered a unique
- if technically difficult
- opportunity to sever one of the vital industrial arteries of the Third Reich, his struggles to develop the science behind the ”bouncing bomb” & his campaigns to persuade a sceptical Bomber Command that his plan would work. Relive the testing of the bomb, the choice & training of the crew of the Dambusters squadron & finally the nerve-wracking flight through anti-aircraft fire, as the first attempts fell short of the target, with only the final bombs succeeding in shattering the structure of the dams. Fully illustrated & accompanied by beautifully reproduced memorabilia surrounding the raid, from log-books & flight-plans to eye-witness accounts of the damage inflicted on the dams, this unique homage to the Dambusters squadron is an essential companion to one of the war`s most exciting & memorable moments.

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This official England Rugby book previews Rugby World Cup 2015 from England`s perspective. Expert analysis & outstanding action photography make this Tournament guide an essential companion for all England rugby fans. Read about every member of Stuart Lancaster`s likely squad, their strengths, skills & background; recall England`s greatest Rugby World Cup matches & get the lowdown Stuart Lancaster & his coaching team. Can England win Rugby World Cup 2015 in front of a home crowd? The Official England Rugby Book: Rugby World Cup 2015 Edition will discuss just how this is possible. The book
Includes:: England Match Previews Rugby World Cup 2015 England Player Profiles Behind the Scenes Classic England Rugby World Cup Matches Tournament Progress Chart
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Train to be a Jedi with Rey! Complete with a Rey LEGO minifigure. Have you ever wanted to move things with your mind? Would you like to explore the galaxy & team up with ancient Jedi Masters? Want to wield a lightsaber? Then this is the training manual for you! Let Rey teach you the ways of the Jedi in the handbook section, & then see if you have what it takes to master the Force in the activities section! It`s an out-of-this-world galactic adventure! ...

This book enables you to discover a galaxy of adventures with the Lego (registered) Star Wars (trademark) Official Annual 2017. The all-new Official Lego (registered) Star Wars (trademark) Annual is packed full of galactic entertainment with all-action comic stories, challenging puzzles & fun games. & it comes with a fantastic Lego (registered) & the rest of the Star Wars (trademark) gang for hours of fun in a galaxy far, far away. Lego (registered) Star Wars (trademark) is the best-selling Lego (registered) theme ever! ...

Tour de France Records 2014 is the latest in Carlton Books' million-selling World Records series. Delving into the world of the Tour de France, the biggest & most glamorous of all cycling races, this volume highlights the great battles for the Yellow Jersey & the polka-dots of the King of the Mountains since the race began in 1903. There are also hundreds of stories & statistics on the legendary riders, famous teams & high mountains which have helped to make the Tour de France one of the most exciting & popular sports spectacles in the world. The stories, features, lists & table are bought to life by fantastic action photography. All fans of Le Grand Boucle (the great loop, because the Tour always encircles France
- with a few stages in adjoining countries
- in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction) will love Tour de France Records 2014, & feel confident about winning any argument about this epic sporting challenge after reading through it from cover to cover.

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Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both. On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott & Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. & things would only get worse. Rising to over 7, 000 metres in the centre of the Karakoram, the Ogre
- Baintha Brakk
- is notorious in mountaineering circles as one of the most difficult mountains to climb. First summited by Scott & Bonington in 1977
- on expedition with Paul ` Tut` Braithwaite, Nick Estcourt, Clive Rowland & Mo Anthoine
- it waited almost twenty-four years for a second ascent, & a further eleven years for a third. The Ogre, by legendary mountaineer Doug Scott, is a two-part biography of this enigmatic peak: in the first part, Scott has painstakingly researched the geography & history of the mountain; part two is the long overdue & very personal account of his & Bonington`s first ascent & their dramatic week-long descent on which Scott suffered two broken legs & Bonington smashed ribs. Using newly discovered diaries, letters & audio tapes, it tells of the heroic & selfless roles played by Clive Rowland & Mo Anthoine. When the desperate climbers finally made it back to base camp, they were to find it abandoned
- & themselves still a long way from safety. The Ogre is undoubtedly one of the greatest adventure stories of all time.




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This is the story of an arena of crime & degradation, of infamy & human suffering. It is the history of the Old Bailey, an institution as flawed as all man-made attempts at justice are doomed to be. In the beginning there was barbarity & injustice. The court was packed with a restless, muttering mob, eager for the verdicts of ' Guilty' so they could enjoy public executions, hurling abuse & missiles at those with the noose around their neck. Today we fool ourselves that we have evolved beyond barbarism, but are made uneasy by the continuing exposure of miscarriage of justice. If we use the Old Bailey as a yardstick, it is possible to argue that mankind has not made much progress through the centuries. In these pages, we tour the courts of long ago, meeting the Dracula-garbed court chaplains, drunken, brutal judges & cold-blooded hangmen. With wit & skill, Theresa Murphy brings to life a cast of hundreds, from the well-known to the less imfamous, who together make up the harrowing history of the Old Bailey. ...

These are the Faroe Islands as they were some fifty years ago: sea-washed & remote, with one generation still tied to the ocean for sustenance, & a younger generation turning towards commerce & clerical work in the towns. Following the blood, foam & fury of a whale kill, the normally cautious Ketil finds himself caught up in the frenzy of post celebrations, enthusiastically bidding for more meat than he can afford. Thus in his seventieth year, Ketil & his wife, along with their youngest son, struggle to repay their debt. Forced to accept the brutal reality of their precarious existence, they scavenge for driftwood & stranded seals. ...

Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank whiling away the day catching fish. As he grew older his competitive urge to catch more & bigger fish led him away from that natural connection between him, his grandfather & the rivers of his home & into large commercial fisheries catching fish after fish. That is, until the fateful day he let a record-breaking sand eel slip through his fingers & he knew that he had lost the magic of those days down by the river, & that something had to change. Armed with his late grandfather`s well-thumbed fishing encyclopaedia Will set out on a quest to get back to his roots & catch some of our great forgotten fish species, hidden deep in our lost waterways. The Old Man & the Sand Eel is at its heart the story of three generations of men trying to figure out what it is to be a man, a father & a fisherman. It plots Will`s scaly stepping stones back to his childhood innocence & late granddad, & a return to the importance of understanding the truly feral through a child`s eyes, when anything was possible & the wild was everywhere. ...