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Derek Nudd

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Derek Nudd studied History and English at Keele University followed by a master's degree in Operational Research and Systems Analysis at Aston. Following a lively thirty-four year career in the engineering industry he returned to the joys of research and writing, publishing his first book in 2015. ...more

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Derek Nudd Perhaps not my own life but my grandfather's, yes. His work in Paris between the wars may well have had a covert element - there aren't enough pegs to…morePerhaps not my own life but my grandfather's, yes. His work in Paris between the wars may well have had a covert element - there aren't enough pegs to hang a history on but a novel, definitely.(less)
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The Riddle: Illuminating the Story Behind the Riddle of the Sands The Riddle: Illuminating the Story Behind the Riddle of the Sands by Maldwin Drummond

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The Riddle of the Sands; a Record of Secret Service by Erskine Childers
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This is clearly a labour of love by someone who knows the sea and has followed Childers' wake. Getting into the meat of it, the author offers an extended summary of the story of The Riddle of the Sands then Childers' own analogous tour in 1897. Here ...more
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Knowledge of campanology not essential but this book rewards a reader with at least a passing acquaintance with the Fens.
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Black Bart Roberts by D.T. Breverton
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Ask any passer-by to name a famous pirate and they might come up with Kidd (who arguably wasn't a pirate at all), Blackbeard, Morgan, the fictional Long John Silver - but Bartholomew Roberts? How come so few have heard of the most successful sea robb ...more
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Captain William Kidd was one of history's most notorious and bloodthirsty pirates, right?
Wrong, according to this well-researched book. It presents him as a skilled seaman and commander, ambitious, but naive in the treacherous ways of political man.
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"History has a strange cruelty, it remembers the grand speeches, the decorated leaders, and the glamorous victories, but it keeps the suffering of ordinary men tucked away in footnotes. Gautam Hazarika’s "The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II" Read more of this review »
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