Thatcher's Spy
Author: Willie Carlin
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781785372858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemoir by former leading MI5 agent in Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1985.
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Author: Willie Carlin
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781785372858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemoir by former leading MI5 agent in Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1985.
Author: Ben Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1107012384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book situates the controversial Thatcher era in the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain.
Author: Thomas Leahy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1108487505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Leahy investigates whether informers, Special Forces and other British intelligence operations forced the IRA into peace in the 1990s.
Author: Rory Naismith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-11-29
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1786724863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt of the meandering waterway that has always been its lifeblood, it has weathered invasion, flood, abandonment, fire and bombing. The modern story of London is well known. Much has been written about the later history of this megalopolis which, like a seductive dark star, has drawn incomers perpetually into its orbit. Yet, as Rory Naismith reveals – in his zesty evocation of the nascent medieval city – much less has been said about how close it came to earlier obliteration. Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fifth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet despite its demise as a living city, memories of its greatness endured like the moss and bindweed which now ensnared its toppled columns and pilasters. By the 600s a new settlement, Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the River Thames by enterprising traders who braved the North Sea in their precarious small boats. The history of the city's phoenix-like resurrection, as it was transformed from an empty shell into a court of kings – and favoured setting for church councils from across the land – is still virtually unknown. The author here vividly evokes the forgotten Lundenwic and the later fortress on the Thames – Lundenburgh – of desperate Anglo-Saxon defenders who retreated inside their Roman walls to stand fast against menacing Viking incursions. Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today's great capital, this book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as a bulwark against the Danes and a pivotal English citadel. It recounts how Anglo-Saxon London survived to become the most important town in England – and a vital stronghold in later campaigns against the Normans in 1066. Revealing the remarkable extent to which London was at the centre of things, from the very beginning, this volume at last gives the vibrant early medieval city its due.
Author: Richard Aldrich
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 0007357125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs we become ever-more aware of how our governments “eavesdrop” on our conversations, here is a gripping exploration of this unknown realm of the British secret service: Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ).
Author: Claire Berlinski
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2011-11-08
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0465031226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreat Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline -- ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain's Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the nation's postwar socialist consensus. She proved that socialism could be reversed, inspiring a global free-market revolution. Simultaneously exploiting every politically useful aspect of her femininity and defying every conventional expectation of women in power, Thatcher crushed her enemies with a calculated ruthlessness that stunned the British public and without doubt caused immense collateral damage. Ultimately, however, Claire Berlinski agrees with Thatcher: There was no alternative. Berlinski explains what Thatcher did, why it matters, and how she got away with it in this vivid and immensely readable portrait of one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.
Author: Phil Miller
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745340791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.
Author: Jonathan Aitken
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-10-14
Total Pages: 801
ISBN-13: 1408831864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe complete life of Margaret Thatcher in one volume. As Britain's first woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brought about the biggest social and political revolution in the nation's post-war history. She achieved this largely by the driving force of her personality – a subject of endless speculation among both her friends and her foes. Jonathan Aitken has an insider's view of Margaret Thatcher's story. He is well qualified to explore her strong and sometimes difficult personality during half a century of political dramas. From first meeting her when she was a junior shadow minister in the mid 1960s, during her time as leader of the Opposition when he was a close family friend, and as a Member of Parliament throughout her years in power, Aitken had a ring side seat at many private and public spectacles in the Margaret Thatcher saga. From his unique vantage point, Aitken brings new light to many crucial episodes of Thatcherism. They include her ousting of Ted Heath, her battles with her Cabinet, the Falklands War, the Miners' Strike, her relationships with world leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and the build up to the Shakespearian coup inside the Conservative Party which brought about her downfall. Drawing on his own diaries, and a wealth of extensive research including some ninety interviews which range from international statesmen like Mikhail Gorbachev, Henry Kissinger and Lord Carrington to many of her No.10 private secretaries and personal friends, Jonathan Aitken's Margaret Thatcher – Power and Personality breaks new ground as a fresh and fascinating portrait of the most influential political leader of post-war Britain.
Author: Robert Harris
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Archie Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0198748701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Human Factor tells the dramatic story about the part played by political leaders - particularly the three very different personalities of Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher - in ending the standoff that threatened the future of all humanity