St Ermin's Hotel has been at the centre of British intelligence since the 1930s, when it was known to MI6 as 'The Works Canteen'. Intelligence officers such as Ian Fleming and Noel Coward were to be found in the hotel's Caxton Bar, along with other less well-known names. Winston Churchill allegedly conceived the idea of the Special Operations Executive there over a glass (or two) of his favourite champagne in the early days of the Second World War, and the operation was st...

'SIGINT is a fascinating account of what Allied investigators learned postwar about the Nazi equivalent of Bletchley Park. Turns out, 60,000 crptographers, analysts and linguists achieved considerable success in solving intercepted traffic, and even broke the Swiss Enigma! Based on recently declassifed NSA document, this is a great contribution to the literature.' - The St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award 2014Signals Intelligence, ...

The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events.From Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens. Executed in stone, bronze and a range of other materials, London's statues and monuments include work by some of the world's greatest sculptors.This revised book takes account of the many sta...

London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. Politicians, writers and military heroes rub shoulders with engineers, courtesans, artists and musicians, along with quite a few eccentric characters. Arranged geographically, this comprehensive guide describes famous graves in all the major cemeteries and churches in Greater London, including Highgate, Kensal Green, Westminster Abbey, and St P...

While the earliest evidence of organized running can be traced back to Egypt in 3800 BCE, the modern sport of track and field evolved from rural games and church and folk festivals, and rules were drawn up in the final quarter of the 19th century in those advanced societies where enough people had the leisure time to indulge their fancies. Today, in addition to the running events, track and field includes such events as the high jump, pole vault, long jump, shot, discus, javelin, hammer, a...

The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events.From Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, the range is glorious. Some commemorate events, while others celebrate people real or fictional; some take the form of small reliefs, while others are huge bronzes on pedestals, larger than life-size...

John Trollope MBE holds a record that is unlikely to be beaten: between 1960 and 1980 he played 770 league games for Swindon Town - a record number of league appearances for one club. This book tells the remarkable story, not only of his playing career, but also his subsequent 16 years of service to the club as manager and coach.The book has been produced with John Trollope's full cooperation and his strident views about those he played with and worked with, from Don Rogers to Glen Hoddle...

For many years the Author has pondered the question of whether we only have one life or whether this current life is one of several. People seem to have very fixed views on the subject and whilst there are many accounts of past lives, there is always debate as to whether these are real, imagined or have other explanations. Some question its reality on the basis of our failure to rember past lives.The Author considers these and many other questions, examining both sides of the argume...

Understand the current and future research into technologies that underpin the increasing capabilities of automation technologies and their impact on the working world of the future.Rapid advances in automation and robotics technologies are often reported in the trade and general media, often relying on scary headlines such as “Jobs Lost to Robots.” It is certainly true that work will change with the advent of smarter and faster automated workers; however, the scope and scale of th...

« Tous les enfants, hormis un seul, grandissent. » Dans la nuit londonienne, un enfant parti à la recherche de son ombre vient réveiller Wendy et ses deux frères. Qui est-il et d’où vient-il donc, ce garçon vêtu de feuilles qui ne connaît pas son âge et ignore ce qu’est un baiser ? Intrigués par Peter Pan et par la fée Clochette qui l’accompagne, les trois enfants les suivent au pays de l’Imaginaire, sur une île merveilleuse, où les enfants perdus, le capitaine Crochet et de nombreuses ave...

Entraînés par Peter Pan et la fée Clochette, la jeune Wendy et ses petits frères font la découverte d'un monde extraordinaire, un monde où rencontrer des sirènes est possible ! Un monde où seuls les enfants peuvent vivre leurs rêves... Mais attention, sur son bateau, le méchant capitaine Crochet veille...

Peter Pan makes night-time calls on the Darlings' house in Bloomsbury, listening in on Mrs. Mary Darling's bedtime stories by the open window. One night Peter is spotted and, while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. On returning to claim it, Peter wakes Mary's daughter, Wendy Darling. Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, and Peter learns that she knows lots of bedtime stories. He invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang, the Lost Boys, children who were lost in ...