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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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	Arthur Mack - Old Man of the Sea by Brent Piniuta, John Broomhead, Derek Nudd (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Armageddon Fed Up With This it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Castaways of the Kriegsmarine - How shipwrecked German seamen helped the Allies win the Second World War 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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STOP, POLICE!: From northern England to Portsmouth: a UK police officer’s true crime memoir of policing the thin blue line in the 1990s, ending in survival and the fight to recover after brain surgery by Richard Foster

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To start with I wasn't that impressed. The early chapters came over as disjointed anecdotes with too many exclamation marks.
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Interrogating Nazism: Spies, Soldiers and War Criminals in Second World War Britain

by Artemis Photiadou

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Secret Warriors: British Submarines in the Cold War

by Paul Brown

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Derek Nudd is on page 152 of 296 of Interrogating Nazism: This book, as the title suggests, falls into three main parts. On spies the author focusses on MI5's Camp 020 with a nod to the Royal Victoria Patriotic School. She has some interesting insights into the Double Cross project. She then turns to prisoner-of-war interrogation where she focusses largely on the army dimension, an aspect little covered by other books (including mine). Interrogating Nazism: Spies, Soldiers and War Criminals in Second World War Britain by Artemis Photiadou progress:	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Derek Nudd rated a book STOP, POLICE!: From northern England to Portsmouth: a UK police officer’s true crime memoir of policing the thin blue line in the 1990s, ending in survival and the fight to recover after brain surgery by Richard Foster (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
To start with I wasn't that impressed. The early chapters came over as disjointed anecdotes with too many exclamation marks. It's worth pressing on though. As the narrator matures so does the writing. It's still anecdotal, but assembled into thematic ...more
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Derek Nudd finished reading The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, 660-1649 by N.A.M. Rodger	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Derek Nudd wants to read British Statecraft and the Baltic Sea Region: A Documentary History by Hugo Bromley	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Derek Nudd rated a book did not like it Memoirs of Brigadier-general Gordon Shephard, D.S.O., M.C.; ed. by Shane Leslie. 1924 [Leather Bound] by Gordon Strachey Shephard	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is two reviews in one. I ordered a facsimile edition which arrived after a long delay (don't bother paying for expedited delivery). There were no charts or illustrations, several pages of text were missing, and pagination of the rest was decidedl ...more
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