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The fifteen-year-old who was the very first immigrant to land at Ellis Island, New York, has now become a young woman of twenty, and has returned to New York and is excited at the prospect of spending more time with Mike Tierney, the young man she loves. Then, just when life seems to be going right, war intervenes, taking Mike far away, into great danger. Annie discovers that there is sorrow as well as joy in growing up...

Ten years have passed since Olga Lubimova married Englishman Henry Trent and left her native Russia, so why is she still unable to take her freedom for granted? Following a dinner party given by photographer Hugo Stratton, a cold voice on the telephone plunges Olga into a nightmare. There is no hiding place from those who threaten her children. It seems an open-and-shut case, but senior officers are bewildered when orders are given for a secret murder hunt...

Following the successful conclusion of the investigation into the affair of the Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson little realise that fate will see them back in Devon before the year is out. Holmes receives a potentially lethal package, the first strand in the tangled skein which he will need to unravel before this new adventure is resolved. A threat to Holmes's life, murders on Hampstead Heath and a strange phantom lady lead Holmes and Watson into the most dangerous investigation they have ever undertaken...

On 30 July 1945 the USS INDIANAPOLIS was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew of 1196 men an estimated 300 were killed upon impact and nearly 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean. They remained there, undetected by the Navy, for nearly five days, battered by a savage sea. They struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia and dementia. By the time rescue arrived, all but 321 men had died. Doug Stanton has brought this incredible human drama to life in a narrative that is at once immediate and timeless.

"The Camel's Hump," "The Cat That Walked by Himself," and "The White Seal" are just some of the enchanting tales collected together here. The collection also includes that most remarkable and endearing creation, "Rikki-tikki-tavi." Originally intended for children, these imaginative and inspired writings are just as suitable for adults and will delight readers of all ages.

The Gallipoli expedition was the bold and audacious plan of Winston Churchill, amongst others, to force the Dardanelles narrows, by sea and by land, to capture Constantinople from the Turks and to open the Black Sea to ships taking supplies and arms for the Russians on their immense German front.The campaign failed with catastrophic loss of life on all sides, but again and again, unbeknown to the Allies, they came close to achieving a goal that might have led to victory overall.This book, first published in 1956, is still regarded as the best and definitive account of the campaign. It won the Sunday Times Best Book of the Year Award as well as the inaugural Duff Cooper prize when the winner could choose who would present the award. Appropriately enough, Moorehead chose Churchill to make the presentation because the book demonstrated that the faults were not in the conception of the plan. Indeed, long after Churchill had resigned in disgrace, a new fleet was being assembled to again attempt to force the Dardanelles in 1919, which was cancelled when the war ceased and the Armistice was signed.Seen in the new light that Moorehead revealed, the Gallipoli campaign was no longer regarded as a blunder or a reckless gamble; it was the most imaginative conception of the war, and its potentialities were almost beyond reckoning. Certainly in its strictly military aspect its influence was enormous. It was the greatest amphibious operation which mankind had known up till then, and it took place in circumstances in which nearly everything was experimental: in the use of submarines and aircraft, in the trial of modern naval guns against artillery on the shore, in the manoeuvre of landing armies in small boats on a hostile coast, in the use of radio, or the aerial bomb, the landmine, and many other novel devices. These things lead on through Dunkirk and the Mediterranean landings to the invasion of Normandy in the Second World War. In 1940 there was very little the Allied commanders could learn from the long struggle against the Kaiser's armies in the trenches in France. But Gallipoli was a mine of information about the complexities of the modern war of manoeuvre, of the combined operation by land and sea and sky; and the correction of the errors made then was the basis of the victory of 1945.“the story of one of the great military tragedies of the twentieth century, which no writer has described better than Alan Moorehead.” Sir Max Hastings.