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Links
Books
- Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan by Jean Overton Fuller (East-West Publications, 1988)
- A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE by Sarah Helm (Brown, 2005)
- The Women Who Lived For Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second Word War by Marcus Binney (Coronet Books, 2003)
- A Quiet Courage: Heart-stopping accounts of those brave women agents who risked their lives in Nazi-occupied France by Liane Jones
- Between Silk & Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941 - 1945 by Leo Marks (The Free Press, 1999)
- SOE in France by MRD Foot (Frank Cass Publishers, 2004)
- Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu (Sutton Publishing, 2006)
San Francisco's Great Quake
Author Simon Winchester recommends:
Books
- After the Ruins: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906 and 2006 by Philip Fradkin, Rebecca Solnit, Mark Klett and Michael Lundgren (University of California Press, 2006)
- Americans and the Californian Dream 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr, (Oxford University Press, 1986)
- The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of the Living Earth by James Lovelock (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- A Crack in the edge of the world: The Great American earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester, (Penguin, 2006)
The Iron Coffin
Links
Books
- War, Technology and Experience aboard the USS Monitor by David A. Mindell (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
- The Monitor Chronicles - One Sailors Account edited by George S. Geer, William Marvel (The Mariner's Museum, 2000)
- Ironclad, The Epic Battle, Calamitous Loss and Historic Recovery of the USS Monitor by Paul Clancy
- Naval Letters Series (Volume One) - Aboard the USS Monitor: 1862. The Letters of Acting Paymaster William Frederick Keeler
Battle for Warsaw
Links
Books
- The Warsaw Rising of 1944 by Jan M Ciechanowski (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- Rising 44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies (Penguin Books, 2005)
- The Civilian Population and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 by Joanna K M Hanson (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
- Memoire of the Warsaw Uprising by Miron Bialoszewski. (Northwestern University Press, 1991)
- Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski (Simpon Publications, 2001)
- Secret Army by Bor T Komorowski (Battery Press, 1984)
- Fighting Warsaw. The Story of the Polish Underground State 1939-1945 by Stefan Korbonski (Hippocrene Books, 2nd edition, 2004)
- The Polish Underground State - A Guide to the Underground, 1939-1945 by Stefan Korbonski (Hippcrene Books, 1981)
- By Devil's Luck: A Tale of Resistance in Wartime Warsaw by Stanislaw Likiernik (Mainstream Publishing, 2001)
- The Polish Home Army 1939-1945 by Marek Ney-Krwawicz (The Polish Underground Movement Study Trust, London, 2001)
- Courier from Warsaw by Jan Nowak Jezioranski (Wayne State Unversity Press, 1982)
- Seventy days by Waclaw 'Lech' Zagorski (Frederick Muller Ltd. London, 1957)
- Nothing but Honour: The Story of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944 by Janusz Kazimierz Zawodny. (Pan Macmillan, 1978)
The Mystery of the Headless Romans
Books
- Septimius Severus - the African Emperor by Anthony R Birley (Routledge, 1999)
- Burial Practices in Roman Britain by Robert Philpot (BAR, British Series 219, 1991)
- Roman York by Patrick Ottaway (Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2004)
- Dying for the Gods - Human Sacrifice in Iron Age & Roman Europe by Miranda Aldhouse Green (Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2002)
The Crusaders' Lost Fort
Books
- Crusader Castles and Modern Histories by Ronnie Ellenblum (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
- The Leper King and His Heirs by Bernard Hamilton (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
- Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War by Malcolm Lyons & DEP Jackson (Cambridge University Press, 1982)
- The First Crusade: A New History by Thomas Asbridge (Free Press, 2004)
The Secret History of Genghis Khan
Links
Books
- Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection by John Man (London, 2005)
- The Cambridge History of China, vol. 6: Alien Regimes and Border States by Herbert Franke and Denis Twitchett (eds) (Cambridge, 1994)
- Genghis Khan: The History of the World-Conqueror by Ata-Malik Juvaini (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural, 1997)
- The Mongols by David Morgan (Blackwell, 1990)
- The Secret History of the Mongols by Urgunge Onon (RoutledgeCurzon, 2001)
- The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century by Igor De Rachewiltz (Brill Academic, 2004)
- Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy by Paul Ratchnevsky (Oxford, 1991)
Missing in Action
Links
Books
- The Vietnam War 1956-1975 by Andy Wiest (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003)
- Vietnam: a History by Stanley Karnow (Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1997)
- Air War Hanoi by Robert F. Dorr (Blandford, 1988)
- Air Warfare in the Missile Age by Lon O Nordeen (Arms & Armour P, 1985)
- Clashes: Air Combat Over North Vietnam by Marshall Michel (Airlife Publishing, 1997)
Unknown Soldiers
Links
Books
- Cantigny, A Corner of the War by Jeremiah M. Evarts (Scribner Press, 1938)
- Make the Kaiser Dance: Living Memories of World War I by Henry Berry (Arbor House, 1984)
- The Last of the Fighting Four by Charles H. Abels (Vantage, 1968)
- History of the First Division During the World War 1917-1919 by Society of the First Division (John C Winston Co, 1922)
- Soissons 1918 by Douglas V. Johnson & Rolfe L. Hillman (Texas A & M University Press, 2000)
- The Doughboys by Laurence Stallings (Harper & Row, 1963)
- Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I by James H. Hallas (Lynne Rienner, 1999)
The Floating Brothel
Links
Books
- Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia by Joy Damousi (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
- The Second Fleet: Britain's grim convict armada of 1790 by Michael Flynn (Library of Australian History, 1993)
- The First Fleet: The Convict Voyage That Founded Australia 1787-88 by Jonathan King (Macmillan, 1982)
- The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner by John Nicol (Canongate Books Ltd, 2000)
- The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an 18th-century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts by Siân Rees (Headline Review, 2002)
- Damned Whores and God's Police by Anne Summers (Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1994)
- Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (Angus & Robertson, 1962)
The Battle of the River Plate
Links
Books
- The Price of Disobedience: The Battle of the River Plate Reconsidered by Eric J. Grove (Naval Institute Press, 2001)
- The Drama of Graf Spee and Battle of the Plate by Sir Eugen Millington Drake (P Davies, 1964)
- German Capital Ships and Raiders of World War II: From "Graf Spee" to the "Bismarck" by Eric Grove (Frank Cass Publishers, 2002)
Bog Bodies
Links
Books
There have not yet been any publications on the recently discovered Irish Bog Bodies, but if you want to read up on previous discoveries, have a look at any of the following:
- The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People by Don Brothwell (Harvard University Press, 1987)
- The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved by Peter Vilhelm Glob (Cornell University Press, 1969)
- Buried Soul by Tim Taylor (Fourth Estate Ltd, 2003)
- Dying for the Gods by Miranda Aldhouse Green (Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2002)
- Through Nature to Eternity by Wijnand van der Sanden (Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 1998)
Exhibitions - Where to see Bog Bodies!
- British Museum - Lindow Man is on permanent display in Room 50 of the British Museum.
- Manchester Museum - You can see the face of Osterby Man at the Manchester Museum.
- National Museum of Ireland - Gallagh Man is on permanent display here. Oldcroghan Man and Clonycavan Man go on display in March 2006.
- Silkeborg Museum - The breathtaking Tollund Man is on permanent display at the Silkeborg Museum.
- Moesgard Museum - Graubale Man is on display here, a short journey from Aarhus, Denmark's second city.
Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler
Links
Books
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (Penguin, 1991)
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud (Penguin, 2002)
- Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of Political Behavior by Jerrold M Post (Cornell University Press, 2004)
- The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders: With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton by Jerrold M Post (University of Michigan Press, 2005)
Children of the Doomed Voyage
Links
Read personal accounts from those who remember the SS Benares voyage on the WW2 People's War site:
Books
- Children of the Benares: A War Crime and Its Victims by Ralph Barker (Avid Publications, 2003)
Pol Pot
Links
Books
- Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot by David Chandler (Westview Press, 1999)
- Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison by David Chandler (University of California Press, 1999)
- Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short (Henry Holt and Company, 2005)
- How Pol Pot Came to Power by Ben Kiernan (Yale University Press, 2004)
The Gunpowder Plot
Links
Books
- The Gunpowder Plot : Terror and Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser (1996)
- God's Secret Agents by Alice Hogge (2005)
- Investigating Gunpowder Plot by Mark Nicholls (1991)
- A Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot by David Jardine (1857)
Published: 31/10/2005
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