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SENNA

ISBN: 978-1-912332-24-3 | RRP: £20.00 Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver who won three Formula One world championships for McLaren in 1988, 1990 and 1991, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time. He died in an accident while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix for Williams. Senna began his motorsport career in karting, moved up to open-wheel racing in 1981, and won the 1983 British Formula Three Championship. In 1988, he joined Frenchman Alain Prost at McLaren-Honda. Between them, they won all but one of the 16 Grand Prix that year, and Senna claimed his first World Championship, Senna his second and third championships in 1990 and 1991 Senna has often been voted as the best and most influential Formula One driver of all time. He holds a record six victories at the Monaco Grand Prix, and is the fifth-most successful driver of all time in terms of race wins. Senna courted controversy throughout his career, particularly during his turbulent rivalry with Prost. This is his incredible story.

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INTRODUCTION W

INTRODUCTION

ith so many changes in Formula One over the

not accept that he might be beaten.

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RACING INTO HISTORY

In its annual assessment of Senna, Autocourse thought he might

Senna had his first taste of the car at an uncharacteristically chilly

claim to be the best driver of his era even though his “level of

Estoril in January. The next day, looking unfamiliar in Rothmans

starting to splutter occasionally “and did not sound anything like so

achievement varied more dramatically in 1993 than ever before.”

blue in place of the familiar Marlboro red and white, Senna made a

purposeful.” However, Senna hung on to win following a change to

The publication noted: “His wins at Interlagos, Donnington Park and

demonstration run watched by around 350 journalists and posed for

dry tyres as conditions improved. He finished nearly 20 sec ahead

Suzuka served to confirm his matchless genius in the wet and his

photographers with his new team-mate, Damon Hill.

of Mansell. Later, Senna acknowledged, it had been a difficult race,

victory at Adelaide was surely the most decisive success achieved

“because the track was never completely dry and particularly bad when after a intense battle. He was also victorious in the prestigious Macau

On occasions this competitive intensity found expression in

no wins but there were some sensational performances which led to a

This victory not only conformed Senna’s wet weather ability but also

tactics that were deliberately intimidatory. Yet if some followers of

controversial move to Lotus. Sure, he was under contract to Toleman

highlighted a problem that had been largely concealed from the public

F1 found it distasteful there were few prepared to deny his claim

but Lotus offered him a winning car so….

to be numbered among the greatest racing drivers who ever lived. His first win was not long in coming and the early promise was soon fully

by anybody all year.”

Yet those who’d seen the Williams-Renault-Senna combination

His confrontation with Eddie Irvine, however, combined with his

thoughts. Electronic driver aids like traction control and active

there was rain in only one part.”

as so strong that it would sweep the board were having second

Grand Prix. His move to F1 with the unfancied Toleman team produced

able basis for comparison, especially one that

fans, from making an attempt in 2014. They did, however, hedge

to hold off the two Williams-Hondas, whose engines, Dennis Jenkinson observed, sounded “very healthy indeed.” Senna’s by contrast was

stands up to the inevitable arguments.

Yet that didn’t stop Autosport.com, the website for hardcore F1

THE LOTUS YEARS

second but jumped into an early lead in wet conditions. Initially he had

Comparing racing drivers from different eras is generally regarded as a pointless exercise.

years, it’s virtually impossible to arrive at a vi-

attitude to the British media for what he saw as an over-critical

suspension which had become such an integral part of the most

attitude towards him as a result, “provided yet another disturbing

successful were now banned and their removal initially brought

by Team Lotus and Renault. During the year Senna had posted seven

insight into Senna’s extraordinarily intense egocentricity and

some difficult and unpredictable handling.

retirements, prompting suggestions that he was abusing the machinery and

uniquely flawed genius.”

overdoing his use of the turbo boost control. Yet the Lotus 97T had the best

Senna himself was becoming uneasy about the FW16 saying he

their bets by asking the drivers themselves to vote for the man

Indeed, it was obvious from the time he arrived in England to

justified. The move to McLaren in 1988 resulted in three world championships

chassis of any car competing that season with the best braking and turning

For Senna and McLaren, 1993 marked the end of an era during

didn’t feel comfortable in it at Estoril despite changes to the position

they considered to have been the all-time best.

begin his car racing career that there was really something

but also to the bitter rivalry with his team mate Alain Prost, “The Professor”

capabilities and the best designed suspension. Its Renault was known to

which they had together scored three drivers’ titles, 35 grand

of the seat and steering wheel. “Some of that is down to the lack

special about this young man with the open smile and dark

who, until Senna’s arrival, was regarded as the F1 bench-mark.

be fuel inefficient under regulations limiting tank capacity to 220L.

The result was not really surprising. During his F1 career Ayrton

piercing eyes.

Senna had become the yardstick by which all other racing drivers

and Prost to the last two world championships, Senna had signed

concerned that he couldn’t push it as much as he needed to,” he

to drive for Williams for 1994.

observed.

It was said that Prost had opted to retire rather than face being

The season began in Brazil on 27 March. Senna set pole position

championship had eluded him. In those days the shy young man

with rivals meant that the name of Ayrton Senna became familiar in

1985. Senna had already lost the San Marino Grand Prix when he ran

Senna was widely considered to be the fastest driver of an age

from Brazil was known as Ayrton de Silva but he would later call

the world outside F1.

out of fuel before the end – as did several other drivers – but matter

His death at Imola in 1994 was shocking not just because F1

Prix, which he led from the start, with what appeared to be lack of fuel.

which was unusually rich in talent and as a three-time world

himself Senna which he thought would more distinctive than de Silva which was relatively common in Brazil.

of electronic change,” he said. Team mate Hill shared his feelings.

Peter Warr revealed that constant adverse press comment nearly led to the end of the relationship between Lotus and Renault midway through

He had already achieved success in karting, although the world

champion his incredible skill was showcased by some sensational

“The car was not the beauty we wanted it to be and Ayrton was

The extraordinary level of commitment Senna brought to his racing, together with his intense personality and controversial way of dealing

were judged; it was also the one by which they judged themselves.

wins. He was victorious in the Monaco Grand Prix no fewer

prix wins, 47 pole positions and 447 world championship points. Desperate to have the Renault power which had propelled Mansell

came to a head when he was forced to pull out of the British Grand

Senna’s team-mate again. Whatever the truth of this, the two-year

fatalities are thankfully rare but because it showed that even Ayton

and led Michael Schumacher’s Benetton until they made their pit

deal had been done on 14 September, two days after the Italian

stops after which the positions were reversed. Then, while he was

Grand Prix at Monza and many observers believed Senna was now

harrying the German driver, Senna spun out of the race, admitting

than six times and his wet weather virtuosity, an attribute that by

The level of ability he had attained in karting didn’t translate into

Senna could make mistakes. Inevitably, it left his rivals thinking: if

Warr later said that he had demanded that Renault, whose engine

on his way to a fourth world championship. When he visited the

it was his fault. He was again on pole for the Pacific Grand Prix at

common consent separates the great from the merely good, was

victory in his first Formula Ford 1600 race nor even his second.

Senna’s vulnerable what chance do the rests of us have?

featured a number of “secret” performance-enhancing components,

Williams factory at Didcot, chief designer Adrian Newey showed

Aida, Japan on 17 April and again he failed to finish. This time he

to come clean about the real cause of Senna’s retirement. Team

him round. He was impressed with Senna’s “interest in detail, his

was nudged off the track minutes after the start. In both cases, the

Such was the stature of the man that his death was the motor racing

Lotus then issued a press release that one of these components,

inquisitiveness and his obvious enthusiasm.” In the wind tunnel

race was won by Schumacher.

evident right from the start of his career at a soaking Estoril in

But at Brands Hatch on 15 March 1981 he was on the top step of

1985. And who could forget his amazing display of raw skill and

the podium, a position he would occupy many times over the next

courage in the wet at Donnington Park in 1993?

13 years.

On the other hand, Ayrton Senna displayed a high degree of

In 1981 Senna won two national Formula Ford championship and

equivalent of the passing of President John F Kennedy: you remembered where you were and what you were doing when you heard about it.

ruthlessness even for a F1 driver. To reach the front rank requires

followed that up in 1982 with a brace of FF2000 titles. In 1983

a high degree of self-belief but Senna had so much that he could

he beat Martin Brundle to the British Formula 3 championship

There can surely be no more eloquent tribute to greatness than that.

a gas temperature sensor in the left-hand exhaust, had failed. This

he was shown a model of his 1994 car and Newey noted the

disclosure revealed more details of Renault’s electronic engine

driver’s keenness to understand the design and philosophy of the

Newey worked hard to revise the FW16 in time for the San

management system than the French company was willing to disclose

car. “A desire to learn,” Newey recalled, “it was definitely one of

Marino Grand Prix with aerodynamic and other changes designed

and there was a big row.

the qualities that made him so great.” He added: “The thought of

to improve driver comfort. Whether or not it would be enough

working with him was tremendously exciting.”

remained to be seen. Senna put the car on pole but the tone for

Bruce Hales-Dutton West Malling, Kent March 2018.

Ayrton Senna during pre season testing in February 1990 at the

Ayrton Senna in his Lotus-Renault 97T, Grand Prix of Monaco, Senna during the 1993 Monaco Grand Prix

1985

Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, San Marino

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Grand Prix A History through the Lens

ISBN: 978-0-9930169-7-4 | RRP: £24.99 Formula 1 Grand Prix racing is the ultimate motorsport. The fastest cars, the biggest budgets, the highest rewards and the most glamourous fans all make it compelling viewing. For decades Grand Prix photographers have shot some of the most exciting images the sports world have ever seen and now the very best of them are brought together for the first time. Telling the fascinating story of Grand Prix racing from its beginnings in France with the Automobile Club France in 1906 through the golden years of the 1930s right through the glory years of F1 in the 60s and 70s to the extraordinary cars and highly paid drivers of the present day. In carefully researched profiles this book shows the great drivers drivers and the great cars; the technological wizardry of the designers and developers; the great rivalries between drivers and teams that creates champions & the fine balance between danger and safety.

a brief period of adjustment 1945 - 1949

tragedy and triumph 1970 - 1989

Alboreto on 53.

It was an extraordinary season; the table shows that two men won every

He repeated the trick the following year, chased all the way, this time by Nigel

race except one, with Gerhard Berger snatching a victory at Monza in Italy. It is,

All eyes were, of course, once more riveted upon Senna and Prost; the latter was to win thirteen pole positions (he equalled Jim Clark’s thirty-three that year),

Mansell in his Williams, who was just two points behind him at the end of the

perhaps, not surprising to learn that the two men were those titans of the track,

and the tensions between the two surged. Prost felt that Senna’s driving was

season with 70. The talented Nigel Mansell would come runner-up three times

Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. These two extraordinary drivers would lock horns

reckless and, therefore, dangerous, and they began arguing off track at Imola,

before he was allowed to taste the sweetness of a championship winner’s podium

for the next four heart-pounding seasons. In 1988, that meant, that the year was

Prost claiming that Senna had breached a team ethics code not to challenge the

appearance. In 1986, everything had come down to the final race in Australia

practically a whitewash for McLaren-Honda, because Senna and Prost were

car leading at the first corner. Prost also felt aggrieved at his team, sensing that

with Mansell favourite to win. But it was destined not to be; heartbreakingly for the

now teammates. And when the season was over there were just three points

British driver and his fans, Mansell’s tyre blew out on the sixty-third lap.

separating them.

Mansell’s rival the following year would be his own teammate. Nelson Piquet

he was being disadvantaged, and announced that he would drive for Ferrari the following season. With two retirements in France and Britain, and being driven

It was unfortunate for Prost that Senna was on unbeatable form and took

into by Nigel Mansell on lap 48 at Estoril, Senna was on the back foot. At Suzuka,

had never quite gone away since his last victory in 1983. Having changed over

home the greatest number of points ever in a Grand Prix season; 90. And the

Prost must have wondered if either he or Senna would survive the battles, when

to the Williams team in 1986, he was suddenly given a new lease of life and

race that perhaps symbolised the Brazilian’s extraordinary fierce determination

the Brazilian’s aggressive behaviour sent them both spinning. Having announced

throttled his way back to the top in 1987. That year saw four drivers battle it out

was the deciding contest at Suzuka in Japan. A win here would guarantee Senna

he was leaving McLaren, it was ironic that the winner that year was Alain Prost,

for top place; Prost, Senna, Piquet and Mansell. Mansell once again encountered

the title, but he began the race in fourteenth position because his car stalled, and

by a decisive margin from Senna; 81 points to 60, Prost’s third title and very well

bad luck; two retirements at Monaco and Detroit left him trailing, and when he

it was only because of the sloping track at the start that he was able to stay in

deserved.

crashed during qualifying and hurt his back, which put him out of the race at

the race at all. It was an inspired piece of driving by the Brazilian, because by

Season footnote; Nigel Mansell overtook and beat Senna at Hockenheim,

Suzuka in Japan, it ultimately cost him the championship, despite six victory

lap 27, he was in the lead. Not only did he stay there and take the race and the

nearly thirty seconds clear at the flag, in what was one of the most brilliant races

championship, he also drove three consecutive fastest laps and set a new lap

of his life.

podiums. Prost and the McLaren eventually wilted and finished the season fourth behind Senna with 57 points on third.

record. He won eight of that season’s races; Prost won seven. Had it not been for

Senna was seemingly fearless and consequently took risks with his driving,

the rule that dictated that only the eleven highest scores counted, (no, best not

which was absolutely breathtaking to watch but left many people wondering if the

to even think about it!) Prost would have won, having scored eleven points more.

young Brazilian would always be able to escape an accident by a hair’s breadth.

In 1964, Graham Hill lost the championship for the same reason, and the system

This championship, however, was firmly in the hands of Nelson Piquet, whose

was only changed in 1991.

consistency had brought rich rewards, and he won the title with two races still to go. And the rich rewards that motor racing could now bring, with television

All in all, then, a season to savour.

interest so high, meant that the top ten teams in each season would now be able to travel to the Grand Prix the following year free of charge.

So what would happen the following year? Would the rivalry that had been

Another Austrian, Gerhard Berger, had entered the top ten for the first time in 1986 and would stay around for many years challenging all those around him on the track, though he would never equal his countryman Lauda’s record. In

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Stirling Moss of Great Britain being wished good luck by his father former Brooklands driver Mr Alfred Moss before taking part in the 250 mile Grand Prix race at Silverstone aerodrome near Towcaster in Northamptonshire. It is the first recognised Grand Prix in Britain since before the Second World War and Stirling Moss is the youngest driver in the 500 cc race, 2nd October 1948

1989. The 3.5-litre atmospheric engines proved as fast as the 1.5-litre turbo engines, a fact which bemused everyone slightly. Gone was the turbo-lag effect, acceleration was admirable, 124.2 mph (200km/h) from a standing start in 5.2

with Nelson Piquet, another irrepressible driver. Berger chose the wrong year to

or 5.3 seconds, and corners could be assailed more easily. Using the so-called “Concorde beak”, which was narrow and allowed for wider front wings, also

peak, however, because Ayrton Senna was also on top form. Turbocharged engines were making their final appearances this year of 1988,

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sharpened by Prost’s open criticism of Senna’s driving now cause problems? Was Senna unreachable?

1988, he was to rise to number three in a Ferrari, a position he would gain for a second time in 1990, although in a McLaren at that point, sharing the position

and would give way to the naturally aspirated engines in 1989. And Benetton

driven some superb races the previous year and had now changed to Ferrari,

began to taste success when their car, with a Ford DFR 3.5 V8 engine and driven

where his skill was proving to be a threatening red devil to McLaren, although

by Belgian Thierry Boutsen, came in fourth.

Italian Ricardo Patrese in a Williams beat him down to fourth spot that year.

A British ERA racing car, driven by G Ansell mid-air during a crash at Silverstone Grand Prix ciruit, Northamptonshire, 2nd October 1948

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became the norm for many designers. What was not to like? Nigel Mansell had

The Belgian racing car driver Jacky Ickx (Jacques Bernard Ickx) beside a Ferrari 312 B2 waiting the beginning of the race during a break in the French Grand Prix. Le Castellet, July 1971 LeFt:

Jacky Ickx in a Ferrari 312B in Monaco, 10th May 1970

Ayrton Senna

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LEWIS HAMILTON - THROUGH THE LENS

ISBN: 978-0-9931813-4-4 | RRP: £20.00 This fully illustrated hardback book takes the reader on the incredible journey of Lewis Hamilton one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers in the history of the sport and is filled with quotes and superb action photography from the trackside. This book is perfect for Lewis Hamilton fans of all ages. A three-time Formula One World Champion, he is regarded by fellow and former drivers as one of the greatest Formula One drivers in the history of the sport. He won his first title with McLaren in 2008 before moving to Mercedes, where he won back-to-back titles in 2014 and 2015. Lewis Hamilton is currently driving for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team.

11th MAY 2008 PORTIMAO

19th SEPTEMBER 2006 SILVERSTONE

Hamilton pit stop at the Istanbul Park racetrack in Istanbul, during the Formula One Turkish Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton during Formula one testing at Silverstone Circuit

After that the champ seemed to go off the boil. There were times

the two went down to the last event of the season, although in 2015

when the phenomenon of 2007 and 2008 began to look confused

Hamilton was able to wrap up his third championship with three races

and distracted. Combined with a series of embarrassing goofs and

to go.

outbursts it made some people wonder if the spectacular talent had burned itself out before its full potential was achieved. For four of those years Hamilton was obliged to watch Sebastian Vettel score victory after victory on his way to four straight title wins

was able to pull it off.”

on the track surface. Hamilton passed his team-mate at the start but Kovalainen barged past soon afterwards. Hamilton took the lead on the fifth lap. On the 21st he pitted for new intermediate wet tyres, a decision justified by the return of rain soon afterwards. Hamilton controlled the race

standards. In another year that list could get smaller. At 31 Hamilton has reached the mark set by his hero the great Ayrton Senna and he has time for even more success.

When he attempted to assert his independence by joining

It’s no wonder that Hamilton the world-class sportsman has become a celebrity. His public appearances have demonstrated his

Although he was on pole for the Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal, the race itself yielded no points. Hamilton led from the start but a

supreme confidence as he deftly works big and admiring audiences.

in a British team. “He [Alonso] might feel that way but personally I

inspired tyre choice as the track dried confined him to ninth place,

don’t feel that way,” Hamilton said at the post-race press.

marking the first time in his F1 career so far that Hamilton had

After that the next few races represented something of an anti-

This book tells the story of the phenomenon that is Lewis Hamilton,

climax for Hamilton. The Ferraris were superior to the McLarens

After the dream start, the season was getting harder. And the

the son of mixed race parents who worked night and day to make

in the French and British grands prix, Raikkonen winning both,

Hungarian Grand Prix would see the McLaren team-mates’ both

Mercedes to grab a technological lead and dominate the next two

something special of their boy, and of his journey from a

Hertfordshire council estate to the top of the world.

although Hamilton was still able to maintain an unbroken podium

step up a gear in their desire to out-psyche each other. The tight

finishing record. Alonso was seventh at Magny-Cours after gearbox

Hungaroring had always been a particularly tough circuit and in

failure dumped him to tenth on the grid but he finished ahead of

2007 it was clear that fuel strategy would be a key factor.

Hamilton at Silverstone, which was something of a disappointment

off fuel to determine race pace. Hamilton had been scheduled to run at a slower pace and burn less fuel but in the event it was he

sensational pole. But what they didn’t know was that he’d been

who went out first and ignored team instructions to move over.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT

Worse, much worse, was to come in Germany. The industrial

a week later. Hamilton was again on pole for the United States

a hearing by the FIA’s World Council into the matter was set for

Hamilton was livid, feeling that the team had deliberately

the Thursday after the race. During qualifying at the Nurburgring

engineered Alonso’s delay. His anger boiled over ever before he

Hamilton’s car suffered tyre failure at the 160 mph Schumacher

down the pit straight were similarly rebuffed, leaving him to follow

Esses, pitching it across the gravel trap and hard into the tyre

swore at his team boss and Ron Dennis told his driver not to talk

his team-mate for the rest of the race. Hamilton now led the title

barrier.

to him in that way ever again. At the subsequent press conference,

chase by ten points from Alonso.

Hamilton managed to climb out unaided but collapsed as he

the two drivers flatly contradicted each, while Dennis had calmed

tried to stand. After a hospital check-up he was passed fit to race

down enough to attempt to gloss over the incident. Later, though, it

seventh he was now eight points behind Hamilton. F1’s great and

despite its members’ best efforts – was growing. He told Spanish

but lined up tenth. The start was enlivened by a rain storm which

was suggested that the Hamiltons had engineered the whole thing

good lined up to shower the newcomer with praise. Among them

journalists he felt Hamilton was being favoured as a British driver

caused the race to be stopped and re-started later. A less than

to show that Lewis was going to fight his corner and that he was

During practice for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, Australia

stopped his car in the pits. In an angry radio exchange Hamilton

“It had been a fantastic day,” Lewis recalled. But it also marked team. He’d sent a clear signal that it wasn’t just Alonso who could

16th MARCH 2007 MELBOURNE

LEWIS HAMILTON THE KID FROM STEVENAGE

Alonso was brought in early, putting him ahead of Hamilton

an important psychological breakthrough in his relationship with the

The Spaniard’s feeling of being marginalised within the team –

Commenting on the difficult conditions and limited visibility, he said:

waiting for 10 seconds longer than necessary, delaying Hamilton

Grand Prix at Indianapolis. At the start Alonso tried to dispute the first corner with him but was forced to back off. His attempts to pass

The British driver was overjoyed. “It’s definitely and by far the best victory I’ve ever had. It was one of the toughest races I’ve ever done.”

and enabling Alonso to win pole position.

periods that kept cancelling out the advantage he’d built up. It was

win races for the team. With the Spanish driver finishing down in

thereafter to finish 68 seconds ahead of Heidfeld.

Kovalainen took his first pole position from a conservative Hamilton who’d slid into the gravel trap on his first run. Rain on race day morning

in the pits. The Spaniard, feeling he’d been tricked, retaliated by

be well off the pace. espionage dispute with Ferrari had developed to the extent that

an emotional moment when he crossed the finishing line to win his first grand prix, a victory he dedicated to his father.

Juan Manuel Fangio; Ayrton Senna; Alain Prost; Sebastien Vettal; Fernando Alonso; Michael Schumacher

And just to prove it hadn’t been a fluke he was to do all it again

The McLaren team plan called for Alonso to be first on to the

The growing army of Hamilton fans was also disappointed. They’d seen their hero beat Raikkonen to what seemed like a fuelled light which actually compromised a race in which he was to was Ron Dennis. “He’s focussed on being a great F1 driver and what we’ve experienced today is just the beginning.”

had dropped to fourth in the points standing. But the home favourite wasn’t to disappoint his fans.

track for the third qualifying session to enable him run fast and burn

to Lewis.

it was nip-and-tuck between the two of them but this time Lewis was on pole – the first of his F1 career. The race that followed was not to be an easy one, particularly because of the five safety car

he’d not seen the red warning light. “By the time they’d come to a halt it was too late for me to avoid them,” he said.

finished off the podium. The race was won by Alonso.

inspired move. The new grand prix formula for 2014, which specified

All Hamilton had to do was to beat his team mate. As the Formula

had abated by the afternoon although there was still standing water

drive-through penalty in the race for cutting a corner. Consequently, as

1.6 litre turbo-charged cars with electronic recovery systems, enabled

he has the same machinery. And in Nico Rosberg, Hamilton has a

Another win for Massa in the French Grand Prix and another pointless finish for Hamilton handed the title initiative to the Brazilian Ferrari driver. Although he was third in qualifying, Hamilton was given a ten-place penalty for the Montreal incident and forced to take a the teams headed for Silverstone and the British Grand Prix Hamilton

Mercedes in 2012 there were plenty who said it was a mistake, that he

team-mate well able to challenge him. In 2014 the title battle between

As the pit lane exit was closed several cars had halted but Hamilton appeared to realise this too late and slid into the Finnish driver’s Ferrari, putting both cars out of the race. Afterwards, Hamilton insisted

in the Red Bull car that made good use of technical supremo Adrian

1 adage has it, the toughest man to beat is your own team mate as

emerged from their stops.

was for all of us. You were aquaplaning all the time and you were tip-

seasons.

safety car period after 16 laps saw the six leaders heading for the pits. Hamilton was in front of Raikkonen going in but behind when they

The weather had made conditions difficult. “The important thing,” he said, “is to keep it on the track but I can’t explain how difficult it toeing almost.”

Newey’s unique ability.

shouldn’t leave the safe haven of McLaren. But it turned out to be an

off basically, making sure the radio was off, but just so happy that I

In the history of F1 only four other drivers have scored more title wins than Lewis Hamilton: Juan Manuel Fangio, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Vettel. That’s pretty exalted company by any

27TH APRIL 2008 BARCELONA

THE F1 NEW BOY

Hamilton driving for McLaren in Spanish Grand Prix, at the Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

27TH SEPTEMBER 2008 MONACO

8 JUNE 2008 MONTREAL

Lewis Hamilton driving in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, Marina Bay Street Circuit

Hamilton at Canadian Formula One Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada

WORLD CHAMPION!

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Sport Sportfor for2017 2018

MAN UNITED A BACKPASS THROUGH HISTORY

ISBN: 978-1-9997050-1-5 | RRP: £24.99 This limited edition hardback book provides an insight into the unique journey of one the most famous football club’s in the world Manchester United. Follow the authoritative text charting the historic rise from its origins as Newton Heath Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Football Club to the mighty Manchester United Football Club the team that has dominated English Football for the last twenty years. With additional career player retrospectives, a focus on the managers who have guided the club and some in depth statistical information, this limited edition book looks at some of those historical moments in this unique collection through image, on film, and on the record. Including a special feature on the career of Sir Alex Ferguson. United a Backpass Through History also includes over four hours of vintage Manchester united matches and profiles some of United’s star players including Best, Law, Charlton, Robson, Hughes & Giggs which can all be seen in this collection of action from 30 years of the ITV Sport Archive.

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CHELSEA A BACKPASS THROUGH HISTORY

ISBN: 978-1-9997050-0-8 | RRP: £24.99 This limited edition hardback book provides an insight into the unique journey of one the most famous football club s in the world Chelsea. Follow the authoritative text charting the historical rise from its origins of its founding father Gus Mears acquiring the Stamford Bridge athletic stadium to their rise to the top of English football. With in depth statistical information, additional career player retrospectives, a focus on the managers who have guided the club, including a special feature on Jose Mourinho. This limited edition book looks at some of those historic moments in this unique collection through image, on film, and on the record. Chelsea A Backpass Through History also includes over four hours of vintage Chelsea matches and profiles some of the clubs star players including Kerry Dixon, John Hollins, Ray Wilkins and Peter Osgood which can all be seen in this collection of action from 30 years of the ITV Sport Archive.

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LIVERPOOL A BACKPASS THROUGH HISTORY

ISBN: 978-1-9997050-3-9 | RRP: £24.99 This limited edition hardback book provides an insight into the unique journey of one the most famous football club s in the world Liverpool. Follow the authoritative text charting the historic rise from its origins of its founding father John Houlding, changing out of the back of the Sandon Hotel to the mighty Liverpool Football Club the team that has dominated English and European Football throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s. With additional career player retrospectives, a focus on the managers who have guided the club and some in depth statistical information, book looks at some of those historical moments in this unique collection through image, on film, and on the record. Liverpool a Backpass Through History also includes over four hours of vintage Liverpool matches and profiles some of the clubs star players including King Kenny, Kevin Keegan Ian Rush, and John Barnes which can all be seen in this collection of action from 30 years of the ITV Sport Archive.

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Man City A BACKPASS THROUGH HISTORY

ISBN: 978-1-9997050-2-2 | RRP: £24.99 This Illustrated limited edition hardback book together with 2 DVD’s provides an insight into the unique journey of Manchester City one the most famous football club’s in the world. Follow the authoritative text charting the historic rise from its origins starting out as St Mark’s (West Gordon) through to their rise to the top of English football with some of the most talented players in the world. With additional career player retrospectives, a focus on the managers who have guided the club and some in depth statistical information, this limited edition book looks at those special moments in Manchester City’s history using rare photographs, images and unique television footage. Manchester City A Backpass Through History also includes over four hours of vintage City matches and profiles some of the clubs star players including Bell, Barnes, Tueart, and Mike Summerbee which can all be seen in this collection of action from 30 years of the ITV Sport Archive.

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ARSENAL - A BACKPASS THROUGH HISTORY

ISBN: 978-1-9997050-4-6 | RRP: £24.99 This Illustrated Limited Edition hardback book together with 2 DVD’s provides an insight into the unique journey of Arsenal one the most famous football club’s in the world. Follow the authoritative text charting the club’s evolution from its beginnings as a south London munitions factory team right through to the mighty Gunners and their ascent to the top of English football. With player career retrospectives and in depth statistical information together with a focus on the managers who have guided the club, including a special feature on Arsene Wenger. This Limited Edition book looks at the special moments in Arsenal’s history using rare photographs, images and unique television footage. Arsenal - A Backpass Through History also includes over four hours of vintage Arsenal matches and profiles some of The Gunners star players including John Radford, Alan Ball, Malcolm McDonald, Liam Brady, David O’Leary, Tony Adams and Thierry Henry from 30 years of the ITV SPORTS archive

THE PASSION AND THE GLORY

Bringing HOME THE SILVER

in the Beginning

amateur leagues were greatly suspicious of the professional northern

season with a very creditable twenty-six-goal tally in his thirty-three

leagues. Would any of the London clubs join Arsenal and incur the wrath

games.

of the London FA? It turned out that they would not, and Arsenal found itself expelled from the London FA and banned from its competitions.

Then one of the wheels came off the engine. A defeat by Manchester City, 2-1 in December compounded the damage Everton had done by the same margin the week before, and Arsenal slipped to 5th in the table.

there were just three wins until February of 1992. That put paid to any title

In the only competition they could play in, the FA Cup, Arsenal were walloped in 1892, 5-1 by Small Heath, now Birmingham City. In 1893,

hopes, and a 17-game undefeated run to the end of the season was not

The Gunners came back from that setback and won the next five

after a promising run of four games, they were well and truly whacked by

enough to get the Gunners, who were capable of thrashing third-placed

games, which took them back to 2nd. But Chelsea had extended their

Sheffield Wednesday 7-1, off fourth place. An inexplicable FA Cup loss,

lead; 55 points to the Gunner’s 47. So there was work to do.

Sunderland, 6-0. The omens were not good.

Instead, Arsenal seemed to completely lose heart and entered

to Wrexham, a League Cup exit in the 3rd round thanks to Coventry, and

That same meeting in 1891 had determined that the club would now years of immense difficulties and might well have vanished from the face

frustrating season. Even the Charity Shield against Tottenham in August

title; eight games, just two wins but five defeats. In three of those, to

of the football world. When Arsenal attempted to start a professional

1991 had ended in a 0-0 draw. For George Graham it felt like the lowest

Chelsea, Liverpool and West Brom, Arsenal were sunk 3-1 each time.

Southern League with 12 other London clubs in 1892, the London FA

point of his career.

And then, of course, there was fearsome February 2017; the UEFA Champions League. Who could forget the two legs, though everyone

Graham must have wondered if he had lost his touch when two

threatened to expel those clubs, too, and the scheme collapsed, leaving

would like to have the memory surgically removed. It was too awful

defeats started the 1992-93 season. Norwich beat the Gunners 4-2 at

Arsenal a lonely voice in the wilderness with no local fixtures. Needs must when the devil drives, so the club applied to join the Football League. It was a good time to apply for membership because the

Highbury after the FA Cup Final in May, he said. Perhaps not the best news to send the team out onto the field with in the match against hard opponents Chelsea for the final. The Gunner’s season was to begin as it ended; facing Conte’s champions.

Arsenal ran out to meet them on the 27th May.

the doldrums that completely wrecked any hopes of a Premiership

defeat to Benfica in the European Cup ensured that this was another

be known as Woolwich Arsenal. The new club was to face almost two

about Wenger’s future at the club were swirling furiously, fuelled by the manager’s own statements. He was not sure if he would still be at

For a while this seemed to have done the trick; Southampton went down 4-0 and Chelsea 3-2. But the latter victory heralded a period when

home in the first match and Blackburn Rovers completed the double, 1-0.

not to be mentioned here; February: Bayern Munich 5 Arsenal

Nerves were calmed with a 2-0 victory over Liverpool and seven games

1. March: Arsenal 1 Bayern Munich 5. With only ten men, it was

And were ahead after only 4 minutes of play after a flagged offside was dismissed by the referee, and the Gunners were the better side throughout with some outstanding football, and they well deserved Ramsey’s winning header in the 79th minute after Diego had equalised for the Blues. Lifting the cup was proof that Arsenal had more than enough talent to take on and beat the best. The win meant that Arsenal had

league had decided to expand the Second Division from 12 to 15 clubs.

without defeat, which saw Chelsea and Manchester City overcome and

Arsenal’s biggest home defeat since November 1998 and the 5-0

become the most successful club in FA Cup history, recording a

In fact, five new clubs entered the League that year because Bootle and

Arsenal rise to the top spot. But then it all went wrong and the team

loss to Chelsea in the League Cup.

record-breaking thirteenth victory; an extraordinary achievement.

Accrington, who had been demoted, decided not to continue playing in

never recovered. Defeat followed defeat, and victories were so thin on

the League; a fatal decision for them, but for Middlesborough, Newcastle,

the ground that tenth was all that they could manage after the final league

Liverpool, Rotherham and Woolwich Arsenal, the door to the future had

Arsenal can look back with pride on a magnificent history since the meeting in the Royal Oak pub on the 1st of December 1886 that began the life of Dial Square FC. The club has had more than its share of disappointments and trials, but has overcome to them all to rise to triumphant heights. The Gunners have ridden the storms, refused to be downhearted and have consistently dominated the top echelons of English football as no other club has done. With thirteen league championships behind them and Thirteen FA Cups, Arsenal can confidently look forward to the future, and the Arsenal supporters, the ‘Gooners’, can expect more exciting games filled with the thrilling football for which the Gunners are famous. Some of the most talented players in English football wear, and have worn, Arsenal shirts, and will be succeeded by the stars of the future, to ensure that Arsenal remains one of the greatest clubs in the history of English football.

It would prove impossible to recover from the psychological blows as there was another defeat waiting in the league pipeline which

match in what had now become the Premier League.

would land them on 6th place.

What a spectacular year it had been nonetheless!

proceeded to belt in two goals against Manchester United one week

It was also Wenger’s seventh FA Cup win, making him the most successful manager in the history of the FA Cup.

And then, as though to say, we can if we want to, the team

been opened. Three of the greatest clubs in the history of English football had arrived in the Second Division, and Arsenal also made history

Would he now stay at Highbury?

after the 2-0 defeat at Tottenham. It was the first of five games that

because they were the first southern club to be elected to the Football Arsenal had pushed their way through the League Cup rounds, beating

League.

ended with the Gunners victorious, as did the 3-1 smacking that

Millwall on penalties, dispensing with Derby County, and luckily avoiding

“It’s not easy, believe me. I do think I am the right man to do the

Everton received in the last game of the season. The fans also had

job. You can’t make 35 years at the top level if you believe you’re not

asked for an increase in rent from £250 to £300 per year. The men at

humiliation by scraping home against Scarborough, 1-0. Now, Sheffield

a brilliant strike in injury-time from Aaron Ramsey, 20 yards out to

the right man to do the job”, said Wenger, and shortly after the

Arsenal were not exactly rolling in cash, so they refused to pay. Yet with

Wednesday was their adversary in the final.

savour in that game.

As always, success brought problems; the owner of the Invicta ground

When the Wednesday goal went in, Arsenal hearts missed a beat.

the help of their supporters they managed to buy their old ground, the

Both matches had been a sign of what the team could do; but it

They had to wait until the twentieth minute for an equaliser from Paul

Manor Ground, and got to work to prepare for a future which, had they

was all too late. Wenger’s men were in 5th place when the season’s

Merson before the glorious moment twenty minutes from time when

known what was in store,

Champion’s League place for the first time in 20 years.

And the Gunners still had their sights on the FA Cup. They were in the

Alexis Sánchez could be pleased with himself for being voted

final and their opponents were … Sheffield Wednesday.

player of the season and emerging as top goalscorer for the second

Arsenal had knocked out Tottenham and Leeds en route to the final

Jack Humble burst with pride.

time in his Arsenal career with 30 goals.

and were, of course, confident that they could pull off another victory

As the league fixtures ended, the seemingly eternal questions

Ian Wright scores the winner in FA Cup Final Replay against sheffield Wednesday 20th May 1993

Arsenal squad 1888

historic FA Cup victory.

whistle finally fell silent. They had missed out on the chance of a

defender Steve Morrow was in the right place to win Arsenal the trophy.

would have made David Danskin and 10

Arsene Wenger celebrates with midfielder Mohamed Elneny after the Emirates FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Chelsea

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CELTIC A Backpass Through History

ISBN: 978-1-912332-07-6 | RRP: £20.00 This Illustrated Limited Edition Hardback Book provides an insight into the unique story of Celtic one the most famous football clubs in the world. Follow the authoritative text charting a nostalgia-packed journey through the clubs evolution from its beginnings via a formally constituted meeting in St. Mary’s church hall in East Rose Street, Calton, Glasgow, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid on 6 November 1887 to the club that became the kings of Europe and the team that has never been relegated from the Scottish Premiership. With player career retrospectives and in depth statistical information, together with a focus on Jock Stein and the other managers who have guided the club including a special feature on Brendan Rogers. This Limited Edition Book looks at the special moments in Celtic’s history using rare photographs and images.

MORE SNAKES THAN LADDERS

in the Beginning

MORE SNAKES THAN LADDERS

in the Beginning

in the late 1800s, a time when the people of the East End of

plan for the formation of a football team. Eventually two men took

Glasgow were undergoing terrible hardship, with poverty rife

over in the driving seat for the discussions, the headmasters of the

League Cup quarter-final by Dundee United, 2-1. before the

ithout a doubt, Celtic FC owes its infancy

Glasgow, there were several people present who were ready

to the fighting spirit that has subsequently

to pick up the torch for Glasgow’s East End and do just that.

brought the team to the very top echelons of the football world. That spirit was ignited

Hot on the heels of that speech, representatives of three Glasgow parishes got their heads together to try and work out a

hite might have wished that he had got rid

punched by a Rapid Vienna player, which led to injuries,

when the sides met again in April; they were soon disabused of that silly

won one of their first five games and drawn

all the others, and already been dumped out of the scottish

any rate, Celtic eventually lost the tie and that was that. One to

and a clash that merited that description. Tommy burns was

Griffiths (a spectacular drive), Callum McGregor and Dedryck Boyata

League form improved sufficiently to maintain second place; Aberdeen were not to be displaced, and took the title for a second year running, seven points clear of Celtic again.

It was Sligo-born Brother Walfrid, a man admired throughout

penalty, a header, a curling drive beat them down as Scott Sinclair, Leigh

forget.

middle of December, the European Cup Winners’ Cup was also

Glasgow, who proved to be the ‘great persuader’. With the noble

a 1-1 scoreline. Partick 1-1 and Ross County 2-2, managed the same feat. Hearts, however, got the 5-0 treatment as Celtic secured the league title, and Rangers might have thought that they were in with a chance notion, hammered again 5-1, their heaviest defeat at Ibrox since 1915. A

no longer of any concern to Celtic, thanks to Rapid Vienna

aim of helping to alleviate poverty by raising money through a

since September of the previous year, as Rangers shared the goals in

place before they found their form again in March 1986, and began to crawl back up the table. Three games before the end of the season they were on second place, having beaten both Dundee and Motherwell by a 2-0 margin, and were in a knife-edge race with

Sacred Heart and St. Mary’s schools, Brother Walfrid and Brother

uttered the words “ ... go and do likewise”, in his speech in

A BLAZE OF GLORY

frustratingly drew six almost back to back, and hovered on fourth

Hearts for the title. The last match would decide it all; Celtic needed

Dorotheus.

was getting worse. A flame of pride rose high after the victory

Celtic struggled for the first two thirds of the league season, of Midlothian in October 1985. They almost came to rue that loss bitterly. They only lost one game in the new year of 1986, but

and education prospects limited – 4,750 children under the

of an Irish football club from Edinburgh, Hibernian, in the

glitter, 1985-86. suffering four defeats in five games starting with a loss to Heart

assaults by spectators, suspensions, fines for both clubs; it was all there in a litany of the worst aspects of the game. At

age of five died in Glasgow in 1888. And the desperate poverty

scottish Cup in 1887. When Hibs’ secretary John McFadden

help, in a season that could only just be persuaded to yield some

of David Hay as August 1984 turned into september, because by then Celtic had only

swept the ball into the Rangers’ net. A final game of the season resulted in a 2-0 victory over Hearts; Celtic took their 6th consecutive league title, a truly magnificent achievement – the best since that incredible period in the 1960s and

One last hope remained.

early 1970s when they won nine consecutive league titles. Before that, you have to go back to 1910 when they also hamstered away six

The Scottish Cup final.

football team to help one of his own charities, The Poor Children’s

consecutive titles. And what’s more, they had completed the season

Dinner Table, a meeting was called for the 6th November 1887.

undefeated, the first Scottish side to achieve this in the top-flight since

It took place in St. Mary’s Hall in what was then East Rose St.,

Aberdeen trailing in the distance on 76.

who had beaten them twice in the league. It would be a tough call.

With the Double under their hoops, the team went into the cup final

Celtic supporters needed nerves of twisted titanium to last

of a joiner, John Glass. He was, said another Celtic legend, Willie

arena on the 27th of May.

through to the end of that 100th Scottish Cup final.

Maley, the man to whom the club owed its existence. From then on,

The first half was tepid and produced no goals for either side.

Glass proved to be the powerhouse behind the new club in its early

And the records were about to be beaten again.

Dundee seemed to have clinched it with a goal after 54 minutes.

years.

There have been more than a fair share of disappointments and trials, but the club has overcome them all to rise to triumphant heights. The Bhoys have ridden the storms, refused to be downhearted, and are now dominating the top echelons of Scottish football once more. Celtic are riding high, and can confidently look forward to the future, and supporters can expect more exciting games filled with the thrilling, and occasionally unexpected, football for the which the Bhoys are known. They have seen some of the most talented players in football wear the hooped shirts and make the club one of the greatest in the world.

It was hard to see what Celtic could pull out of the bag, until Hay

That historic gathering also produced a name that was to

reshuffled the team, putting Aitken in midfield and bringing on

dominate Scottish football almost from the outset. That name

In what turned out to be a scintillating game, Aberdeen went ahead

McClair.

might have been Glasgow Hibernians, a popular suggestion, but

after just nine minutes. Shock turned to joy, though, as Stuart Armstrong

And suddenly, Celtic began to fire on all cylinders. In what was

Walfrid wanted the club to be named Celtic, and his proposal was

whacked in the equaliser just two minutes later. And there’s a very good

described as a “pulsating” last quarter of an hour, Provan sent home

reason why the Celtic lads are champions, and as the game wore on

adopted. He also favoured the hard ‘C’ but the ‘soft C’ won the

a spectacular bending free kick inside the Dundee left-hand post,

they asserted their dominance and piled on the pressure to be rewarded

day. Unknown to anyone present, a legend had been born. The

on 76 minutes; Celtic were even and hell bent on victory. When

with a Rogic winner late in stoppage time. 2-1.

team gained a nickname, too; the bold boys, which eventually

Aitken whipped his cross over to McGarvey, a flying header put

led to Celtic players being referred to as “The Bould Bhoys”, with

Celtic in the lead. Dundee couldn’t recover and the Bhoys had won

the ‘h’ indicating the Irish nature of the club, as the letters ‘Bh’ are

What an extraordinary team, what an extraordinary climax, to a stunning season. The 37th time the Hoops had taken the world’s oldest

their first trophy for manager David Hay, to begin a five-year period

national football trophy; the first clean sweep in 16 years, undefeated in

commonly joined in Irish Gaelic. Unlike Hibernians, however, Celtic

of success. Celtic had come back, if not from the dead, then from

the entire domestic season, a feat unequalled in Scottish football history!

did not choose players exclusively according to their religious

having one foot in the grave. Bonner, Willie McStay, McAdam, Paul

affiliations, a tradition of tolerance that the club proudly adheres to.

Moussa Dembélé was the 2017 man with the magic boots, top

McStay, McGarvey, Johnston, McClair and O’Leary all collected their

Two problems were solved with the same proactive

goalscorer with 32 to his credit, which included

first Scottish Cup winners’ medals. There was guarded optimism in

determination; a piece of ground just off the Gallowgate in

three hat-tricks; against

the air.

Parkhead was leased within a week of the meeting. (Volunteers

It seemed odd, then, for Hay to sell McGarvey. It certainly didn’t

John Glass

1899. An incredible debut for Brendan Rodgers. Celtic’s 106 points left

Celtic’s only final that season drew them against Dundee United,

Calton in Glasgow – the same hall in which John McFadden had uttered his words of encouragement – under the chairmanship

Celtic can look back proudly on a magnificent, indeed uniquely successful history since they ran out for their first league game on the 23rd of August 1890 against Heart of Midlothian. (A 5-0 victory by the way!)

Celtic team 1887-88 season

1984 Roy Aitken of Celtic is booked by referee A. Ferguson

21st April 1984 Celtic v Aberdeen, Danny McGrain in control

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Rangers, St Johnstone and Inverness CT.

Moussa Dembele scores his 2nd goal during the Ladbrokes scottish Premiership match against Rangers on 10th september 2016

Man United – Backpass Through History The Alex Ferguson Years ISBN: 978-0-9930169-9-8 | RRP: £20.00 Sir Alex Ferguson was one of the greatest football managers to grace the stadiums of the world. He announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He went out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the Premier League for the 13th time and he is widely considered to be the greatest manager in the history of English football, A constant element has been the quality of Alex Ferguson’s league winning squad and United’s run of success, which included winning the Champions League for a second time in 2008. This lavishly illustratred hardback book charts the enormous success of the club during Sir Alex Ferguson’s 27 year reign at Manchester United with profiles of all the big matches and players that guided the Club to its myriad of trophies.

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LIVERPOOL A BACKPASS THROUGH THE 1980’s

ISBN: 978-0-9930169-5-0 | RRP: £24.99 This Limited Edition Hardback Book provides an insight into the 1980 ‘s one of the most successful periods for one the most famous football clubs in the world – Liverpool FC. Liverpool Football Club the team that dominated English and European Football throughout the 1980’s. Follow the authoritative text charting the journey through the decade that proved to be the most significant period in the history of Liverpool Football club. The book charts the highlights of being European, League, FA and League Cup Winners to the devastation of the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters. Liverpool - A Backpass Through The 1980’s also includes over four hours of vintage Liverpool matches and profiles some of the clubs star players including King Kenny, John Aldridge, Ian Rush, and John Barnes which can all be seen in this collection of action from 30 years of the ITV Sport Archive.

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Featuring some of the greatest artists in the history of Rock. These fully illustrated hardback editions take the reader on the journey of rock & roll. With Photographs from the leading rock photographers. A must for every music fan.

the chain - 50 YEARS OF FLEETWOOD MAC

ISBN: 978-1-912332-09-0 | RRP: £20.00 They began as a little blues band in London, England, in 1967, named, rather bizarrely, after their tight rhythm section: Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass. Fleetwood Mac. Fifty years later, in 2017, as they prepare for their gigantic farewell world tour throughout 2018, they remain one of the biggest bands of all time – a position they have held since 1977 when, with the help of John’s wife, Christine McVie, and two virtually unknown American musicians called Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, they released an LP titled Rumours that went on to become the world’s best-selling album. That, in itself, is a remarkable story. Now consider the highs and lows, the successes and failures, the personal turmoil, tragedy and heartbreak through which this band has journeyed over the last 50 years … and the story of Fleetwood Mac becomes one of pure drama. The greatest ever rock ‘n’ roll soap opera. In this independent, lavishly illustrated publication, music writer and journalist Pete Chrisp reveals the true story of how, over the last 50 years, despite all of those confrontations, pinnacles and all-time lows … the chain of Fleetwood Mac remains unbroken.

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QUEEN - A K I N D O F M A G I C

ISBN: 978-1-912332-22-9 | RRP: £20.00 Defying all the established musical rules of rock and roll, indeed, all the rules of pop music, Queen launched into life and their music with an exuberance and love of excess that few in the 1970s could match. They were adored by their fans worldwide, who brought the band to the pinnacle of rock stardom, second only in popularity and fame to the Beatles. With Freddie Mercury’s extraordinary four octaves of vocals soaring above songs containing a mélange of vast mock-operatic sounds, overdubbed vocals and layered guitars, the group delivered a musical experience unlike that of any other band. Visually, they were as unafraid to follow their instincts as they were unafraid to push through musical boundaries and incur the purists’ prejudiced wrath. Queen ignored the naysayers in the press and continued to pour their colourful flambé out into the world with musical compositions both intricate and simple. From Bohemian Rhapsody to We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions, Queen’s celebratory music has made them one of the world’s best-selling music bands, and Freddie Mercury’s troubled life, dramatic rise to fame and tragic death has ensured that the group’s status as musical legends will endure.

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BOWIE - STARCHILD

ISBN: 978-0-9931813-8-2 | RRP: £20.00 Here is the story of the boy from Brixton who became one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, returned to prominence in the 21st with music and visions informed by a sense of his own mortality and who through his life and work, changed lives and those of generations to come. David Bowie’s music is loved by many and known by all as the soundtrack to the world of changes that was heralded by the creation of Ziggy Stardust. Through the hits and personas that followed, the work in art, drama, film and fashion, his voice rang clearly across the decades summoning everyone to a party where strangeness would be celebrated and the ‘now’ would always be new. Yet David Bowie remained forever the outsider, observing, creating, collaborating , inspiring and moving forward. This book follows a life that as much as any other was a personal journey but one in which so many joined and made part of their own.

starchild

set anything alight. his best effort was “Let Me Sleep Beside You”,

starchild

shouting at him or encouraging him. Bowie himself was almost

was about to hit an unsuspecting world. david never wanted to be old hat. the

perfect every take. this was the ‘tasteful thief’ at work picking

inevitable happened; tin Machine was put away on the shelf.

the best creations from the best musicians and songwriters to produce colourful lyricism and cascading musical ideas.

was coupled with an introduction to the colours

Behind the scenes, defries used ruthless brinkmanship to

doldrums, pointed me at some kind of light — said, ‘Be adventurous again’. I’ve

of mysticism. the music scene also floated along

free himself and Bowie of Mercury whilst being drawn into

been finding my voice, and a certain authority, ever since”.

unthinkable thoughts began to pray on his mind; perhaps he should

in a fug of dope smoke and mysticism, and Bowie,

the singer’s world and he was intent on getting american

finally give up. after all, Pitt was having no success in trying to sell

willing to partake in any interesting experience, was

record label rca interested in david. to achieve that result,

he Would, he saId look Back on that tIme WIth great

happy to take his drag of any spliffs going. there were

he and david made a trip to america in september 1971.

fondness.

his protégé to producers, film producers or commercial agents. ironically, failure, the word that Bowie denied access to his autobiography, proved to be the making of him.

meditation sessions with friends that drew on tibetan

david continued his charm offensive, which he had now honed to a fine art in itself, and in richard robinson, rca’s house producer and his music journalist wife lisa, david had powerful new admirers on his side. defries sealed the deal

Mercury in 1992, we shall never know. he had played the chameleon for

on the 9th of september making the Bowie camp $37,500

so long, that no one really knew when he was being sincere and when

better off, and after so many setbacks, david was on his

he was feeding his image. Perhaps Bowie had one eye on what was

way to stardom.

about to happen next.

listened to Bowie’s album and professed himself “absolutely enchanted” by what he had heard, and he used one of the

his parents. he had been shown his niche, his way forward

it was during this exciting visit to america that he

met the likes of andy Warhol and lou reed and he had

out of the musical impasse. Kemp and david were soon planning a new show

the glamorous image david would project on stage;

it was a meeting of kindred spirits, “love at first sight”,

together, ‘Pierrot in turquoise’. Now david could be found

iggy pop. iggy was almost like david’s alter ego,

marriage to iman and what better way to do it than with his music.

anything david could have imagined; understandably,

it was to be called Black tie White Noise and was david Bowie

him at first. With Kemp steeped in enthusiasm for all things

body what was hidden inside, and the singer was a willing pupil.

david became obsessed with him.

theatrical from Japanese Kabuki to the theatre of the

Bowie’s character was named cloud, a singing and speaking

Back in England, at a gig on the 25th of september,

taught him to dance”. and he taught him something vital that would bring

david commented that his emotional state was very different at the time; that time brought maturity, a diminishing need to control his inner life, and a more relaxed attitude in relating to other people. ”My God, it’s been uphill”, he said, adding, “I feel a lot freer these days to be able to talk about myself and about what’s happened to me, because I’ve been able to face it. For many years, everything was

I did particularly. But the stakes have changed. I feel alive, in a real sense...” iman and his marriage had acted as a catalyst, and forced david to analyse what he wanted, what was important to him,

showing that he was moving into the 90s and a new phase of

what his feelings were, where he wanted to go.

experimentation; it was in fact, the sound of his career being

the album went in at number 1 after two weeks in the UK

modern variant of a Greek chorus rolled into one person, and

david tried out a costume of red platform boots,

wearing makeup and costume for the first time, he began to write

baggy black culottes and a woman’s beige jacket

songs for the show, which saw the light of day in Oxford and then

that revealed his naked chest. the obvious success

mixture of emotional content and it was also the last time

a very smart career”, although it would have been surprising if

went on tour.

made him ecstatic, and he became impatient to get

that guitarist Mick ronson and Bowie would work together,

there had not been dissenting voices. Entertainment Weekly

because david’s old sparring partner was to die of cancer

used the words ‘listless’ and ‘tired’ to describe it. despite its

“I cringe when I see it now”, says Kemp, “it was so naive”.

resurrected.

moving in a coherent direction. the show also proved that Bowie was as fickle as ever; Kemp apparently discovered his lover in bed with the

charts. the reviews were good, on the whole; rolling stone magazine called the album “... one of the smartest records of

Black tie White Noise was a mixture of influences with a

another album started.

still, Bowie produced ‘columbine’, considered one of his finest

on the 30th of april that year.

ZIggy stardust Was aBout to rIse to glory.

songs of the time, along with a variety others that showed he was

all of it together; the importance of “the look – makeup, costume, general stagecraft, performance technique”.

always blocked out... I never wanted to return to examine anything that

Now a happily married man, david set about his next album. he wanted to create a monument to mark the occasion of his

his outrageous lifestyle even more far-fetched than

alive. Bowie had met his second mentor, who was also his

along with it anyway.

on the 24th of april 1992 when he and iman got married in Florence

attending dance lessons at Kemp’s Floral street studio. he

lover – according to Kemp – and teacher. “I taught him to

david picked up his saxophone a lot during the recording sessions, and as

producer was in two minds about this aspect of the recordings; but he went

in italy, the happy day captured by hello! Magazine.

wasn’t a natural, but Kemp encouraged him to express with his

express and communicate through his body”, says Kemp. “I

wanted to see if they could “... establish a new kind of melodic form of house.”

Without a doubt, the most sincere moment of his entire life came

as Kemp said following his meeting with the singer, noting a

absurd, it also was humour and a shared delight in music

enjoyment from making his music, and the producer loved the fact that working

how he would look back on the night he knelt down on one knee on

“plaintive, damaged” quality to Bowie’s voice that attracted

hall, it seems, that kept Kemp’s interest in the young visitor

light-hearted and relaxed, david entered the recording sessions and showed glimpses of his old, inventive creativity. rodgers noticed that Bowie was getting real

stage and spoke the lord’s prayer during the memorial concert for Freddie

a meeting with someone who would prove crucial to

songs to open his show ‘clowns’; hence the invitation to david.

have been a rather faceless musical amalgam.

even he confessed that he was hardly the greatest saxophonist in the world, his

Buddhism – and although david’s chameleon-like character could never settle on any one direction for his life, he had devoted time to the study of Buddhism, and his interest was serious. Fascinated by the bohemianism, the outcasts of the ‘respectable’ world that accumulated in Kemp’s flat, Bowie fell in love with the alternative lifestyle he found that was so opposed to anything he had lived with

in 1968, and in the middle of this disturbing era of doldrums,

indelible mark on the rest of his career. sitting in the vacuum

shone through, saving the album, along with producer Nile rodgers, from what could

with Bowie meant never knowing what was going to happen next, and they

of his stalled career, david was invited to see a performance

a path towards a style of performance that would leave its

of ‘Night Flights’ by the Walker Brothers. Bowie’s voice was strong and his confidence

david Bowie had no regrets about his time with the band; they had charged him up, he said later, “... I can’t tell you how much. Reeves shook me out of my

by actor, dancer and mime artist lindsay Kemp. Kemp had

serendipity knocked at the door. she was to lead david down

starchild

Kemp fed the youngster with books to read and pictures to absorb. he spoke about Kabuki, and the avant-garde. Now the tibetan society became one of Bowie’s ports of call and

weeks turned into months of inactivity and his confidence began to pay the price. he was succumbing to depression, and previously

which, in collaboration with producer tony Visconti, became a delicious piece of music. But it still couldn’t break the deadlock. Bowie continued to hang around with little prospect of success. the

the song, ‘the Wedding’, of course, was the tribute to david’s marriage, and there were songs about the death of his brother terence, riots in la, and a cover

Being interviewed at his flat at Haddon Hall, Beckenham, London, 24th April 1972

left: rIght: Portrait of David Bowie photographed in 1967

rIght:

On stage during his Sound And Vision Tour in 1990

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PINK FLOYD -A Kaleidoscope of Conundrums

ISBN: 978-0-9931813-0-6 | RRP: £20.00 This illustrated Limited Edition provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most ground breaking and influential bands of all time Pink Floyd. Follow their incredible journey from students when the band formed in Cambridge in 1965 and consisted of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright with Dave Gilmour joining in 1967. Syd barrett left in 1968 but remains synonymous with the group. Pink Floyd rose to become the most commercially successful and musically influential groups in the history of popular music. This book features a breakdown of every studio album that Pink Floyd ever recorded.

n 1969, Floyd went into the studios to record the

Syd’s life this year took another turn for the worse; he

soundtrack for the film ‘More’ by Barbet Schroeder,

lived in a darkened room that was descending into the pit

a left-wing French film director. They were happy

with him, and he started a complicated relationship with a

to do so, not only for the financial benefits but also

because they understood that their style of playing lent itself to soundtracks, and that film music might be a way

gorgeous new girlfriend, Gala Pinion, which involved physical violence and extreme changes in mood that could see him turn from ork to angel within seconds. But he was just as

forward if all else failed. Waters rolled his sleeves up with

likely to remain silent for hours on end. No one really felt

gusto, and although the film vanished, the soundtrack

that his behaviour was particularly out of the ordinary in an

zipped smartly into the top 10.

atmosphere where drug taking, and at the time, Mandrax (Quaalude), especially, was almost mandatory for anyone

Also in 1969, Syd Barrett returned to music for a short

wanting to be accepted as part of the in-crowd.

solo career spanning two years. Initially, although his ideas were good, he seemed incapable of pulling a song together, on occasion incapable of even standing up or holding his

except that Syd’s drug taking was already excessive.

plectrum. Nevertheless, David Gilmour, who still stayed in close contact with Barrett, and Roger Waters stepped in to try

Nevertheless, in that same year there were good

and rescue the project. The Madcap Laughs was released on

vibrations for Wright and Waters, and for Mason, too. They all

the 3rd of January 1970. Suffice it to say that EMI, who had

got married; Wright to Juliette Gale, Waters to Judy Trim and

wanted to shut down the project anyway, did not bother about

Mason to Lindy Rutter.

asking for a second album from the wayward singer. They had had enough of “Weird nonsense” as they called Floyd’s

At the same time as these events were taking place,

music on the More soundtrack. The Madcap Laughs album

and in between gigs around the country, the band were

included many mistakes made during recording, for which

recording their third album, a double album released on the

Waters and Gilmour were criticised. However, at the time, it

25th of October 1969; Ummagumma. With no clear idea of

seemed to the two guitarists that their main task was to try

what they were going to do in the studio, the band added

and give Syd a wake-up call and pull him back from the edge.

two solo pieces from Waters and one each from the others

their efforts went unrewarded.

‘Careful with That Axe Eugene’, together with ‘Set the

to complement live recordings of ‘Astronomy Domine’ and

MAIN IMAGE: Pink Floyd shrouded in pink with new member Dave Gilmour, back right, August 1968

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THE ROLLING STONES - Rebellion’s Children

ISBN: 978-0-9931813-5-1 | RRP: £20.00 Along with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones were the key group of the sixties; headline makers, style icons, trend setters – but most of all the force behind a string of brilliant singles and albums that have come to define the era. If The Cavern in Liverpool was the birthplace of the mersey beat, then the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, where the Stones played their first gigs, was at the heart of British rhythm and blues. Formed in 1962 this tells their incredible story including profiles of the past and present members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood together with Brian Jones, Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. The Stones were at the vanguard of the British Invasion of the USA in the mid 1960’s and their albums Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street are some of the finest rock albums ever made. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on their 100 Greatest Artists of all time.

The Rolling Stones’ version of black R&B was uncomplicated but fierce and “primal”, presented by

any contracts, and so he was forced to bring booking agent Eric Easton in with him. Brian signed the Stones to

unleash the boys’ testosterone so that fights would

secretly arranged an extra £5 a week for himself in the deal.

dumping his then girlfriend for one of his more forceful

Edith Grove that night; the two greatest bands of the 60s

worst of all for the other members of the band, at any

had come together.

rate, gone was Ian Stewart, who Oldham felt did not fit into the image of the band that he was trying to create.

Beatles did, something, or rather someone, who could

It was a blow for Stewart and the others, who admired

make a rocker’s dreams come true; a canny manager, a

Ian’s ability and stable character. Stu was allowed to

Brian Epstein. He, in the guise of Andrew Loog Oldham,

remain with the band as their roadie and session pianist.

was coming to the rescue. Once Brian Jones got over

Even Bill Wyman was lined up for the chop until Eric

the fact they were adopting “an incredible hustler”,

Easton argued for his inclusion.

Oldham came with all the right ingredients; he knew his worth, he had a razor-sharp thinking brain and the

releasing an album in 2000, The Charlie Watts/Jim Keltner Project, to limited success. The Stones showed no signs of winding down as the year 2000 came and went, and Mick and Keith continued with their love-hate relationship. It was the year Eva Jagger died, aged 87, proud of her son the national

Rebellion’s Children

from now on; gone, too was Keith Richards, replaced by Keith Richard, more pop, according to Oldham; and

THE ROLLING STONES

could bring fame and fortune like that, then he wanted in on the game. Lennon and McCartney arrived back at

And Then There Were Five

and Beatle boots and the order went out for hair to be grown long – pretty, thin, long-haired boys was the image

there was no doubt that he was their man. The slim-built

their, not quite normal, domestic life after 35 years of rock and roll. He continued to play outside of the Stones,

Oldham knew what he was about; gone were the

were the scruffy commune dwellers; in their place, Oldham put men in black sweaters, tight-waisted jeans

of the stage. The rush of adrenaline changed Jagger in an instant; he jettisoned the blues; if pop music and make up

But the Rolling Stones still did not have what the

with the bottle, too. They resumed their country life in England with their 200 horses and sheepdogs, happy in

‘Rollin’ Stones’, the ‘Rolling Stones’ had arrived; gone

touched by greatness when they found the Beatles watching them one night just a few feet away at the edge

qualifications having worked for both Mary Quant and

mistake. Fate was on the side of the Stones. With a music

Brian Epstein with whom he would share the honours

career beckoning, Mick Jagger suspended his studies at

of breaking the stranglehold of middle-aged British

the LSE. But he kept his options open, intending to return

managers who had run things in the old-fashioned way

should the beckoning music career not materialise.

By 2001 Keith was ready to get the wheels turning under the band, but Mick was engaged with his film company again, and another solo album, which brought him in fine reviews – except from Keith, who loathed it. By now, Keith barely had a good word to say about his bandmate, anyway. Goddess in the Doorway, Jagger’s fourth album, only reached number 44 in the UK. Finally, Keith got his way in 2002; the fourteenth tour was announced, which almost came to a grinding

knighthood for Mick did. Keith was incensed that Mick would accept and sell out to the establishment they had

Just over one week later, Oldham got a record deal with Decca’s Dick Rowe, who, having turned away the Beatles, was extremely anxious not to make a similar

celebrity.

halt when Her Royal Highness intervened. Or rather, a

In May 1963, a formal deal with Oldham was signed in which he would receive 25% of their gross earnings.

right amount of arrogance; in other words, plenty of it to be used on the Stones’ behalf. And he had impeccable

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sober. In contrast, Charlie had beaten his demons and returned to sanity, and his wife had survived her battle

a three-year management contract with Oldham – and

break out amongst them. Even at this early stage, the rock musician’s life sprang up to claim the Stones, Mick

fans, Chrissie Shrimpton. And they were suddenly

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until then. The only drawback was that at 19 years of age, he was too young to get an agent’s license or sign

mean-looking musicians and a singer freed of inhibition. This, combined with the girls’ wild behaviour, would

both professed to despise.

RIGHT ‘Licks World Tour’, Gillette Stadium, Boston, America, 2002

LEFT Group Portrait - in Marble Arch car park, 1963

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THE BEATLES - Twist and Shout

ISBN: 978-0-9931813-7-5 | RRP: £20.00 The Beatles: Twist and Shout tells the story of the Fab Four from their very early years in Liverpool through to their world conquering fame. It shows in beautiful photographs reproduced on-the-page the group’s journey from the backstreets of Liverpool and Hamburg to their sell-out concerts in the Shea Stadium in America and their quest for musical perfection. In 1964 half of the American population watched the boys play live on The Ed Sullivan Show and an incredible 350 million TV viewers saw them record “All You Need Is Love” in 1967. They were awarded MBE’s by the Queen, they played with Elvis and sold tens of millions of records all over the world. The Beatles: Twist and Shout takes you as up close and personal as you can get to the 4 boys that changed the world forever...

Stamping Out Detroit senators and their wives and rows of worthies, plus the best call

quantities they wished, which helped to liven up the days and nights

girls money could buy – and if they ever doubted that they were in

now that daily champagne, sex, money and stardom to excess

America, the sale of their hotel bed linen and the never-ending visits

had proven to be things you could get bored with. Marijuana had

by handicapped children whose parents hoped for some Jesus-

been introduced into their lives that year, too, with the result that

like miracle from four Liverpudlian musicians, would always be a

for the entire length of filming for their second film, Help!, they were

reminder. A reminder, too, of how maniacal their world had become,

all happily high. George and John also had their first experience

how surrounded by chaos they were; girls falling onto the stage, girls

of LSD that year when they unknowingly swallowed it in coffee at

having to be rescued from impossible places, fans charging planes,

their dentist’s house. The resulting paranoia terrified them. Initially.

armies of flashing camera bulbs, hail storms of jelly babies, police

Subsequently, Lennon and Harrison used the drug regularly.

storming fans in vast auditoria and always, always the interminable sound of screaming.

George was dating a 19-year-old model call Pattie Boyd, one of the icons of fashionable England in the early 60s, who soon

And what of the boys themselves amongst all of this furore?

discovered that with The Beatles not much was private about their

What did they do when they weren’t on stage, or once they had

private life and that she, too, would be forced to leave hotels in

used up the shrunken amount of free time they had, to buy anything

disguise.

they could lay their hands from suits and shirts to clothes, cameras, watches and houses in the stockbroker belt south of London? There

Ringo was still with Maureen Cox, his girlfriend from the Cavern

was money aplenty now for the Jaguars and Aston Martins, the

Club era. In January 1965, 18-year-old Maureen had found out that

Rolls-Royces and Ferrari’s. The money also bought drugs in any

she was pregnant. So, with Brian as best man, Ringo and Maureen

ABOVE: British Poster of Richard Lester’s ‘Help!’ MAIN IMAGE: During filming of ‘Help!’, Obertauern,Austria, 1965

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once in a blue moon - The unforgetable frank sinatra

ISBN: 978-0-9931812-7-6 | RRP: £20.00 This lavishly illustrated hard back book tells the incredible story of Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra and begins in Hoboken New Jersey on December 12th 1915 where Frank is born the only child of Italian immigrants. Beginning his musical career in the swing era as a boy singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra found success as a solo artist from the early 1940s after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943. Sinatra became one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide including the hits New York New York, My Way and Strangers in the Night. He was a founding member of the Rat Pack with Sammy Davis Junior and Dean Martin. One of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century, Sinatra had a popularity that was later matched only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Michael Jackson. He has been called the greatest singer of the 20th Century.

Frank’s restless nature was given sustenance with a cross-

running too fast, now, no one could control it; the driver least of all; Frank.

came to see him in Philadelphia. People swarmed into the 25,000-seat

visits to Nancy were curtailed, of course. Poor Nancy. The train was

country tour in late March, and he filled the rest of the summer with concerts in venues between San Francisco and New York. Audience numbers swelled as “The Voice“ album climbed the charts; 10,000

Frank’s regard for Sammy Davis Jr. was evident again in 1954 when Davis was involved in a car crash that almost killed him, and did cause him to lose his left eye. After Frank had visited him in hospital, Davis, who “had no place to go”, in his own words, was taken

Fischetti’s, first cousins to Al Capone, were being associated with

to Sinatra’s home in Palm Springs to recover, and Sinatra found Davis

Sinatra’s name after the singer had reserved them deluxe suites at

his own place to live and encouraged him to continue performing. For

Sinatra was at the peak of his popularity, but if anything, the pressures were even greater and fed his neuroses, with the consequence that his anxiety and panic attacks during filming would

the Waldorf Hotel in New York. What was wrong with that innocent

was nothing else for it; Silvers went on alone at the Copacabana. The first part of his act went down like uncooked ravioli. In his dressing room during a break, Silvers mused on the lost opportunity, and the detrimental effect this could all have on his career. mind and body were elsewhere. Nancy knew this, but hope is hard

And then the door opened.

to deflate. The situation began to seriously bubble shortly after she

Frank had come to the rescue.

assumed it was a present for her, but it soon found its way onto the

found a diamond bracelet in the glove compartment of his car. She wrist of Marilyn Maxwell. When Nancy saw it there, she almost They went on together, repeated their army act and brought the

fainted with the shock. Suffice it to say, Maxwell was soon out of the

house down. It was the glorious side that could counterbalance the

house, and Sinatra was trying to placate his wife by saying Marilyn

self-centred character that was Frank Sinatra. Exhausted, Frank

meant nothing to him.

didn’t turn up on the set of his film for several days afterwards.

time the couple had been married for nine years. The educated Bogart fascinated Sinatra, who was extremely aware of his own lack of education. Sinatra’s self-indulgence was soon too much for even Bogart to endure and they almost came to blows. Nonetheless, Sinatra became part of a hand-picked coterie that had formed around Bogart, and from the laughter and drinking developed the group that came to be dubbed ‘The Holmby Hills Rat Pack’, dedicated to being “… Against everything and everyone, including themselves”. The original group included Judy Garland, and Sinatra became the Pack Master and Bacall the Den Mother. “Never Rat on a Rat” was the motto on For Sinatra, there began the third phase of his tempestuous career. Even though his emotional life would enter no calmer waters, a movie with Doris Day named after his hit song of the previous year, Young at Heart, followed by Suddenly, and a film that would bring him more accolades, The Man with the Golden Arm. He played the

Lana was on the menu. She had been the cause of Frank phoning Nancy in October to ask for a separation, and not even the urgings

lead character, Frankie Machine, and garnered an Academy Award

of George Evans could change his mind. He disappeared from the

nomination as Best Actor in a Leading Role and a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. And he took another role that was right up his street;

set of the movie he was working on and went to Palm Springs. With

devastated emotional landscape that Ava had left behind, Frank almost moved in with the Bogarts, whom he had known since the end of WWII, by which

by 1954, his film career was on an upward spiral when he appeared in

But, of course, Marilyn was heading for the exit anyway because

Far Left: Lana Turner Bottom Left: Al Capone, who was the Fischetti’s first cousin Top Right: Modern Times issue where Frank was voted Man Of The Year

His vocal mastery was then focused on his first 12-inch LP, In the

uring the period when he staggered around in the

their specially designed crest.

Nancy might have been forgiven for exhibiting a little cynicism.

There was another reason for his exhaustion, though. Frank was Nancy’s partner on paper only by this stage. His

Money Can’t Buy You Love

kindness he had benefited from. He refused, saying that he couldn’t leave the picture he was working on. True, he was sincerely worried about upsetting L. B. Mayer by leaving the film set yet again. There

Billboard, Metronome and Down Beat voting him top male vocalist. Wee Small Hours, acknowledged as one of the first concept albums

Once in a Blue Moon - The Unforgettable Frank Sinatra

him to stand in for Rags. Even though Silvers had helped Sinatra out during the tour of army bases at the end of World War II, Sinatra didn’t take kindly to being asked to reciprocate any favours or acts of

Money Can’t Buy You Love

His broad smile when they were photographed dancing almost

Once in a Blue Moon - The Unforgettable Frank Sinatra

would never play there again, that was made very plain to him. In fact, cancelling could very well crash his career altogether. Silvers was desperate. He phoned Sinatra again and again pleading with

A Sinatra Inside an Enigma

Once in a Blue Moon - The Unforgettable Frank Sinatra

the 20th, Rags died unexpectedly. Silvers needed a stooge for his act, and the Copacabana could make a career. If he cancelled the gig he

there already was one. Frank was infatuated with her. The luscious Lana Turner. cheek to cheek together in the summer of 1946 said it all. Turner’s

The singing of a confident Sinatra was to be heard in all its finery on two albums recorded in 1954, Songs for Young Lovers and Swing Easy! Both albums went to number 3 on the American charts, with

Rags Ragland. Just three days short of his 41st birthday on August

to keep her in the background and his client’s image clean. It was a losing battle; Marilyn might become history, but there would always be an immediate replacement. Even before Marilyn exited stage left,

ugly side, and he did not approve of it.

As summer passed into autumn, there was an opportunity for another side of Frank Sinatra to come to the fore. Phil Silvers was planning a double act at the Copacabana in New York with his friend

nerves. Which she did superbly. George Evans did his absolute best

Davis, Sinatra was untouchable... but he was not unaware of Frank’s

favour?

see him simply leave the set or not even show up for the day’s shoot. Still, there was always the delicious Marilyn Maxwell to soothe his

number 1 moneymaking film of 1956 by Variety.

Frank Sinatra never wanted to be alone. And if it wasn’t girls, it was shady characters, as the FBI noted. During the summer, the

venue, Madison Square Garden. Then there was work for a new film, “It Happened in Brooklyn”.

Lana Turner. And it was there that Sinatra met Ava Gardner once

that of Nathan Detroit in the hit film musical Guys and Dolls with

more, on the arm of Howard Hughes, this time. Inevitably they found

Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons. The film was ranked as the

Above: A poster for Lewis Milestone’s 1960 crime film ‘Ocean’s 11’ starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Angie Dickinson

Above: Original theatrical release poster for the 1959 movie, The Man with the Golden Arm, by Saul Bass Opposite page: promotional portrait for director Lewis

Opposite page: Promotional portrait of the cast of the film, ‘Oceans 11’

Allen’s film, ‘Suddenly’. Sinatra plays a hit man in the film.

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The Who - THEIR GENERATION

ISBN: 978-0-9931812-0-7 | RRP: £20.00 The Who defined a generation and rocked the world. “My Generation,” “Pinball Wizard,” and “Baba O’Riley” are some of the most well known tracks in rock history. The rock opera Tommy, the genre-defining Live at Leeds, and the classic Quadrophenia are just some of The Who’s albums. The band’s original lineup had an amazing 15-year span, as they toured their way around the globe, performing live and recording until the death of drummer Keith Moon in 1978. Then John Entwhistle died in 2002, but the remaining founding members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend continue to tour. 50 years on the Road takes you on the journey with the band as they conquered the world: from small London clubs to Madison Square Garden, from seven-inch vinyl releases to multimillion-selling albums, all the way to recognition as global rock gods. The stories behind the music with an album by album analysis and accompanied by images from many of the most well known contemporary rock photographers gives a unique insight into one of the most influential groups in the history of rock music.

Pop Festival in California. Arriving a week early, they did one gig in Ann

And now it was down to Pete Townshend to produce the goods for

Arbor’s Fifth Dimension club in Detroit, together with some Chicago

the album; it was, however, a slow process even though several of the

who desperately wanted to be successful, very desperately, whilst he was

shows – in a non-profit show, all the artists received only round-trip first-

songs had already been written and others had moved on past the

happy to bring home a bricklayer’s wage and use the band to provide a

class airfares for their efforts – before heading out for their June 18 gig at

embryo stage. Not least because there really was no narrative thread

nice little supplementary income, thank you very much. He was not about

holding it all together in Pete’s mind. When the other group members

the festival trumpeting a myriad of big acts, including Jefferson Airplane,

Sandom, whose sister worked for him, Gorden was invited to come along

to upset the balance in his domestic life for the sake of a band. And he

Otis Redding, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Ravi Shankar, and Eric Burden

gathered, there was more talking about arrangements and so on than

and see the group perform one night in Acton. From that moment on,

already had more arguments in his life than he wanted.

and the Animals.

recording going on. Lambert’s insistence on an overture didn’t help. But

The Who became Gorden’s “little diamonds” and the new manager knew

The problem came to a head in an audition the group had with an

Lambert was Townshend’s rock in the storm, the man to undo the Gordian

Townshend had a brush with Jimi Hendrix when he heard that Hendrix

exactly what he was going to do to make his band famous. One of his first

A&R man at Fontana records, Chris Parmeinter. Doug felt that he was

was intending to smash and set light to his own guitar; Townshend was

knots that Townshend sometimes got into and the man to help shape the

investments was to buy them new clothes, new equipment and a new

being deliberately pressurised from the start and was dismayed when

incensed. Perhaps that’s why The Who’s show blew everybody away that

overall concept.

In keeping with the whirling vortex that surrounded The Who throughout their careers, they were then promptly blessed with another would-be manager. Peter Meaden stepped into the life of The Who having heard of them

the audition was over and sentence was handed down. Parmeinter spoke

night and left Hendrix’s antics in the dust. Townshend still asked Hendrix

favourably about the group, but something had to be done about the

for a piece of his guitar afterwards, though. He knew great guitar playing

drumming, he said. Whereupon Townshend turned to Doug and launched an attack in his own inimitable fashion; “If you can’t get it right then you’re out of the group.”

through the grapevine. Actually, in the barber’s chair, which is the same

It was too much for the normally placid drummer, who flared up with

thing. Meaden was a freelance publicist and publicised himself so well

the words, “I’m finished with this band. I’m finished now”. Sandom then

that Gorden was impressed enough to give him £50 to promote the group. Meaden, immaculately dressed, as any self-respecting mod would be, and talking one hundred to the dozen (no-one realised at the time that he was a pill-head) proposed that the group should be part of the mod

relented a little, considerate of the need to break in a new band member, saying that he would work for another month but that was it.

It was.

revolution and groom themselves accordingly. The group fell for Meaden’s charms and persuasive manner. In fact, they would have preferred him to Gorden as their manager; he was much more personable. Nonetheless, with two men covering their backs, surely now there

A series of stick twirlers now entered the revolving door... and exited

As Christmas approached, Track needed something for the market and issued an LP called “Direct Hits”, which featured The Who’s singles. Decca, too, were nervous about the group’s lack of recorded material. They were

also anxious to exploit the group before, as they thought, it flushed implication being that these were live recordings; they weren’t. Needless

That was the year when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who had been arrested on drug charges, went on trial. Richards received a one-year

to say, the album was scorched by the critics. Just before Christmas the

prison sentence and Mick Jagger 90 days. Enraged, Townshend suggested

band performed on a TV special in Intertel Studios in Wembley. The mini

just as quickly. Without a drummer there was going to be no recording

that The Who record “Under My Thumb” and “The Last Time” by the

opera “A Quick One” was the evening’s highpoint despite appearances by

Stones and donate the profits to the Stones’ defence team. As Entwistle

Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and John Lennon. The show, “The Rolling

danger was that they could lose their place on the rung up the ladder to

had been married on the 24 June to Alison Wise and was on his way to

the top that they so badly wanted. They had no choice, however, but to

the States, he agreed that Townshend should play bass in the project.

the fact that he was not enamoured of the blues, and he was certainly not

the gigs. Townshend persevered at art school and Daltrey continued to manhandle his sheet metal. The omens were not good.

Stones’ Rock and Roll ” was never aired. Just as well then, that down the grapevine the rumour was that Townshend was cooking up a real feast. The other members of the

Entwistle, Moon and Townshend were still moving along the “drug corridor” as Moon called it, themselves; Townshend floating on acid more than the others. Daltrey smoked, but that was it for him. The Stones cover did nothing to help The Who financially, of course, apart from garnering goodwill, so in mid-July they were back in America on a ten-week tour opening for the Blues Magoos and Herman’s Hermits. A more unlikely audience for The Who than those who liked Herman’s Hermits could hardly have been dreamed up. Well, money was no good to them in someone else’s pocket. Even so, £15,000 for 30 dates was not a good return for their time. Still, it was a short set and despite the heckling or amazed silences from stunned audiences, they did have time to enjoy

itself down the drain. Decca issued “Magic Bus - The Who on Tour”, the

with Fontana, so the task had added urgency. If they lost momentum, the

continue with whichever percussionist they had managed to drum up for

the increasing number of illegal drugs that were circulating through the

sign for the band’s future.

In the States, the band were living up to their reputation for druginfused living. They almost lost Moon one day when he opened the car door to get out with the car doing 80 mph.

The tensions within the group, however, were bubbling closer to the

enamoured with the mods. Nor, for that matter, was he enamoured with

appeared to have jettisoned his egotistical contempt for the world and come back down to earth. He was welcoming and happy. This was a good

Everything about The Who, its appearance, its presentation of a guitar and drums under a blanket of smoke bomb clouds, was spectacular. The Who had come to America and America had come to The Who.

surface; the main problem was still Doug Sandom. He had never hidden

would be no holding them down.

At this point, Townshend’s marriage, and probably the teachings of Meher Baba, were having a very positive effect on the guitarist and he

when he saw it. complex musical piece (A Quick One) and the extraordinary trashing of

A Force to be Reckoned With 1965 - 1968

van.

The Who - Their Generation

moderate success in the charts; 26 in the UK and 25 in the US.

In June of that year, The Who appeared at the Monterey International

reserving her special displeasure for Pete Townshend. Doug’s whole thrust in life was different from those of the other members of the band,

The group he alighted upon was The Who. Introduced to them by Doug

band members’ veins. On top of that, his wife disliked the band intensely,

Also at this time, a man entered their lives who was to fill the sails European Jewish immigrant who had been inspired by Brian Epstein’s management of the Beatles and wished to do the same thing himself.

band were aware that they had to produce something special, put their egos on the back burner and give Townshend his head. In this spirit of cooperation, all members of the group contributed in piecing together the creative shards that Townshend presented. Entwistle received a backhanded compliment from Townshend when he was asked to write songs for the album, because, said Townshend, he couldn’t write as nastily as Entwistle. 1969 was the year that Pete Townshend became a father when his daughter Emma was born. There was still no money, of course, so at the weekends after a week

A Force to be Reckoned With 1965 - 1968

“blokes band”. of their careers with moving air. His name was Helmut Gorden, an East

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The beatles - Twist and Shout

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bowie - starchild

ISBN: 978-1-912332-00-7 | RRP: £12.99 Here is the story of the boy from Brixton who became one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, returned to prominence in the 21st with music and visions informed by a sense of his own mortality and who through his life and work, changed lives and those of generations to come. Yet David Bowie remained forever the outsider, observing, creating, collaborating , inspiring and moving forward. This book follows a life that as much as any other was a personal journey but one in which so many joined and made part of their own.

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Pink Floyd A Kaleidoscope of Conundrums

ISBN: 978-1-912332-02-1 | RRP: £12.99 This illustrated Limited Edition provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most ground breaking and infuential bands of all time Pink Floyd. Follow their incredible journey from students when the band formed in Cambridge in 1965 and consisted of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright with Dave Gilmour joining in 1967. Pink Floyd rose to become the most commercially successful and musically influential group in the history of popular music.

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BOB DYLAN - Mr Tambourine Man

ISBN: 978-1-912332-03-8 | RRP: £12.99 This Illustrated hardback book provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most ground breaking and influential US artists of all time Bob Dylan. Follow the authoritative text encompasses the complete inside story of Bob Dylan the man and his music; the book traces the Bob Dylan story with a detailed biography of his life from his early folk roots through to the world wide musical phenomenon that we know today.

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The Who - Their Generation

ISBN: 978-1-912332-04-5 | RRP: £12.99 The Who defined a generation and rocked the world. The stories behind the music with an album by album analysis and accompanied by images from many of the most well known contemporary rock photographers gives a unique insight into one of the most influential groups in the history of rock music.

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THE KINKS - Fifty Years on the Road

ISBN: 978-1-912332-05-2 | RRP: £12.99 This Illustrated Limited Edition hardback book provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most important and influential British groups of all time The Kinks. Follow the authoritative text charting a nostalgia-packed journey from when the band was formed in Muswell Hill North London, by brothers Ray Davies and Dave Davies in 1964. This unique book features extensive interviews with former band members.

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Glory Days 50 years of Dreaming ISBN: 978-1-9997050-9-1 | RRP: £12.99 This book examines every part of his musical career, discussing influences and how his background shaped his songwriting.  His albums have reflected deeply-felt passions and concerns, from the position of the American working man in The River and Nebraska, to deep personal relationships in Tunnel of Love; from the bleak vistas in Darkness on the Edge of Town to the anger of Born in the U.S.A.

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Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me

ISBN: 978-1-9997050-7-7 | RRP: £12.99 This Illustrated hardback book provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most important English rock bands formed in London in 1968. This is the independent guide to the Rock group Led Zeppelin, following the origins of the band consisting of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham.

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ONCE IN A BLUE MOON The Unforgettable FRANK SINATRA

ISBN: 978-1-9997050-6-0 | RRP: £12.99 This lavishly illustrated hard back book tells the incredible story of Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra and begins in Hoboken New Jersey on December 12th 1915 where Frank is born the only child of Italian immigrants. One of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century, Sinatra had a popularity that was later matched only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Michael Jackson. He has been called the greatest singer of the 20th Century.

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Elvis Presley - All Shook Up

ISBN: 978-1-912332-01-4 | RRP: £12.99 This Illustrated Limited Edition hardback book provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century Elvis Presley Follow the authoritative text charting the career of the man they call the “King of Rock and Roll”. We follow Presley from his carefree beginnings at Sun records to global superstardom. In addition the book features rare interviews with the legendry Elvis guitarist Scotty Moore, Drummer DJ Fontana and Elvis loyal backing singers the Jordanaires.

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Royal Wedding The Souvenir Album

ISBN: 978-1-912332-13-7 | RRP: £20.00 There’s nothing quite so splendid as a British Royal Wedding, especially when the groom is a much-loved Prince of the Realm like Harry of Wales and his bride a Statesside stunner like Meghan Markle. Royal Weddings are traditionally a time of celebration for all - from Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s big day in 1947 which momentarily lifted Britain’s post-war gloom, to Prince Charles and Lady Di’s 1981 fairy tale ‘wedding of the century’ watched by an estimated 750 million worldwide, their son William’s traditional yet modern ceremony to the middle-class Kate Middleton in 2011, and now Harry and Meghan’s wedding full of ‘fun and joy’. . . Relive these special days again with ‘Royal Wedding The Souvenir Album’. Gorgeously illustrated throughout with photographs of the happy couples, their attendants, families and friends, beautiful wedding gowns and jewellery, wedding cakes, flowers and keepsakes. . .this souvenir album is the next best thing to having been there ‘oneself’.

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Royal Babies – A Heir Raising History

ISBN: 978-1-912332-14-4 | RRP: £20.00 The British Royal Family – the world’s most famous and fascinating monarchy – is enjoying a renaissance as the Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to her third child. While the birth of every baby is undoubtedly magical, when that baby is ‘heir’, or indeed ‘spare’, to the British throne, ‘tis a whole other realm of magic - and mystery - altogether. Combining stunning images and fascinating facts, ‘Royal Babies – A Heir Raising History’, reveals the real-life stories of hope and fear, joy and pain, drama and conflict, and humour and hubris involved in the business of begetting, bearing, birthing and bringing up babies of the blood Royal.

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The Story of the royal air force 1918-2018

ISBN: 978-1-912332-12-0 | RRP: £20.00  The Story Of The Royal Air Force 1918-2018 celebrates and commemorates 100 years of the Royal Air Force with access to rare RAF archives, Mike Lepine uses photographs and documents to bring the story of the people, planes and missions to life as never before. From its genesis in the horrors of the First World War when pilots were open to the elements in craft made of little more than wood and fabric, to the iconic air battles of the Second World War, through to the lifesaving missions carried out in today’s trouble zones, RAF 100 looks at the men, women and aircraft that are at the heart of this great service.

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pioneers of spaceflight

ISBN: 978-1-912332-27-4 | RRP: £20.00 July 1969. It’s a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy’s challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. It is only seven months since NASA made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Now, on the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The threestage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history.

P I O N E E R S

A B r i e f E x p l a n at i o n o f o u r S o l a r S y s t e m

Soviet Union

Yuri Gagarin

uri Gagarin was born on March the 9th 1934 in

For several years, Soviet officials were hesitant to assign him

On March the 27th 1968, while on a routine training mission from

the village of Klushino in the smolensk Oblast in

to a second space flight for fear of losing him in an accident.

Chkalovskiy Air Base near the Star City cosmonaut training centre

Russia. Drafted into the soviet Air Force in 1955,

He became deputy training director of the cosmonaut training

with flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin, the MiG-15UTI jet in which

pace exploration came of age when the world was

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, the inner solar system planets, are

in the Soviet Union as the father of practical astronautics, rocket

and iron. Intense heat causes the rocks to rise before they then cool

writhing in the turmoil of WWII. The Nazis had

engineer Sergey Korolyov in 1937 as part of his 5-year purge of

all terrestrial planets; in other words they are composed of silicate

and sink back down to the core. The crust is divided into huge plates

understood the benefits of rocket technology as

intellectuals, later realised his mistake when WWII started. For most

rock and minerals that are differentiated between a metallic core and

that float on the mantle, the next layer. The plates are constantly in

a silicate mantle and crust. (At the Earth’s centre is the core, which

motion; they move at about the same rate as a growing fingernail.

a weapon of conflict, and Wernher von braun was engaged as

of the war years, Korolyov was permitted to work in a design bureau

Gagarin trained in jet fighters, and in 1960 he was selected to

centre, helping other cosmonauts prepare for their space flights

Gagarin was flying crashed in inclement weather, killing both pilots.

chief engineer in the project that gave birth to the first rocket-

in prison, where he worked on weapons technology, and at the war’s

has two parts; the solid, inner core of iron has a radius of about 760

join the newly created soviet space Program.

and successfully completed his aerospace engineering thesis

Gagarin was 34. His ashes were interred in the Kremlin wall and

powered flight by the V-2, launched in 1942. When the war

end, he was part of a team sent to examine the V-2 rocket.

miles (about 1,220 km), according to NASA. It is surrounded by a

on space plane design at the prestigious Zhukovski Air Force

are ritually visited by space flight crews prior to their departure for

ended, braun and his team together with their blueprints were

liquid outer core composed of a nickel-iron alloy. The outer core is

8 planets; 9 dwarf planets; 188 known natural satellites known as

As there was little room inside a spacecraft at that time, Gagarin,

Academy. Gagarin persisted in his desire to return to space,

Baikonur.

encouraged to go to America to continue their work on space

With the help of those German teams, the Soviets were able to

about 1,355 miles (2,180 km) thick. The inner core spins at a different

moons. Over 200 minor-planet moons have been observed. Earth

who was 5’ 2” tall, was selected to join an elite band of cosmonauts

rockets for the Americans.

however, and he was eventually assigned as Vladimir Komarov’s

known as the Sochi Six. These men formed the kernel of the Vostok

backup for the first Soyuz mission. After Komarov’s death in the

Upon hearing the news, the NASA Astronaut Office sent a message

space program.

Soyuz 1 accident in April 1967, Soviet officials felt justified in

of condolences to the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., saying

“Poyekhali!!” With that one Russian word, meaning “Let’s go!”

participate in further spaceflights.

their caution and Gagarin was never again allowed to train for or

their role in soviet rocket development was limited, and by the mid 1950s they had returned home.

the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in Vostok 1 to become the first human to travel in space. His one-orbit flight lasted 108 minutes. Upon his return from his historic single orbit of Earth, the Soviet Union treated Gagarin as a national hero. Completing many goodwill

Soviet technology had also made considerable progress, and on RIGHT: Yuri Gagarin. A still from film ‘The first flight to the stars’ BELOW LEFT: Yuri Gagarin with Academician S. Korolyov BELOW RIGHT: Yuri Gagarin and Zakaria Mohieddin (the first on the right), Cairo Almaza Air Base, Egypt, 1962

tours, he also became an international celebrity.

After his death, many prominent space facilities were

speed than the rest of the planet. This is thought to cause Earth’s

launch sub-orbital V-2 rockets in 1947 in a program that included radiation and animal experiments on some of the flights.

Other German engineers had gone to post-war Russia, although

in part: “We join you in mourning the loss of Yuri Gagarin. Nothing will dim the memory of his achievement in becoming the first pilot to fly in space.”

on April the 12th 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from

the 17th of August 1933, the first liquid-fuelled rocket was launched.

Our Solar system contains 779,000,944 asteroids; 3,521 comets;

has one moon which is 0.273 times the size of Earth, Mars has two,

magnetic field. The mantle under the crust is about 1,800 miles deep

the larger one is Phobos, 22.7 kilometres in diameter, and Deimos.

(2,890 km). It’s composed mostly of silicate rocks rich in magnesium

Jupiter has 69 moons, Saturn 62 and Uranus 27.

In wartime America, in the meantime, men such as Frank Malina

RIGHT: Wernher von Braun

SOLID INNER CORE LIQUID OUTER CORE

CRUST

BELOW L-R: Army Research Station, rocket experimental

renamed in his honour.

Later, the Rocket Propulsion Research Institute (RNII) was formed under the auspices of the military; this organisation would later play

area. V2 rocket (unit 4) on launch pad | Sergei Korolyov, 1966

Outside Moscow, the facility where cosmonauts train for their

a central role in Soviet technological achievement in the field of

| Twelve scientific specialists of the Peenemuende team, They

spaceflights was renamed the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.

space exploration. Soviet head of state Joseph Stalin was a late

led the Army’s space efforts at ABMA before transfer of the

Once a secret facility, today international crews, including U.S.

convert to rocket technology and having arrested the man known

team to National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)

MANTLE CORE CORE?

MERCURY

astronauts, train there for missions to the international space station

VENUS

EARTH

MOON

MARS

(ISS). At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the launch pad from which Gagarin began his historic journey is known as the Gagarin Start. The pad is still in use today to launch multinational crews to the ISS.

MAIN IMAGE: Asteroid 243 Ida is a mosaic of five image frames acquired by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft solid-state imaging system at ranges of 3,057 to 3,821 kilometers (1,900 to 2,375 miles) on August 28, 1993

To symbolise the current cooperation in space between two former rivals, in 2012 the Dialogue of Cultures – United World Foundation donated a bronze statue of Gagarin to the city of

RIGHT L-R: On December 16, 1992, 8 days after its encounter with Earth, the Galileo spacecraft looked back from a distance of about 6.2 million kilometers (3.9 million miles) to capture this remarkable view of the Moon in orbit about Earth | The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment HiRISE camera on NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took two images of the larger of Mars two moons, Phobos | Color-enhanced views of Deimos, Mars’ other moon | The Red Planet is home to Valles Marineris, the solar system’s largest canyon. Within this canyon lies Ius Chasma. This image, which spans the floor of its southern trench, was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The canyon is well-known for its fine stratigraphic layers modified by wind and water

Houston, along with a bronze monument to John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth. The sculptures beside one another outside the building that was once the original headquarters of the Manned Spacecraft Centre (now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Centre).

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the beauty of steam

ISBN: 978-1-912332-21-2 | RRP: £20.00 For almost 150 years steam locomotives dominated the landscape. Few parts of Britain – from the highlands of Scotland through the rugged Pennine country to the hop fields of Kent and the hills and moors of Devon and Cornwall – were far from the railway and the powerful beauty of steam locomotion. From its inception the steam locomotive has been one of mankind’s most enigmatic inventions and one of its most mysterious qualities is its ability to look natural within the landscapes through which it passes. The Beauty of Steam is a pictorial tribute to steam across Great Britain. Featuring some 150 images, many of which have never been published before, the book portrays steam in the landscape and hard at work. Of course, those August specials were not really the end - the allure of steam remained. Preservation meant that it was still possible to experience steam, and even British Railways saw main-line steam return in October 1971. Some 50 years on from August 1968, locomotives on the main line and in preservation ensure that current and future generations can enjoy the beauty of steam.

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THE WAR LETTERS OF GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN JEWS

ISBN: 978-0-9930169-0-5 | RRP: £20.00 In the mud and bloody filth of the trenches, and in the bullet-saturated air above the Eastern and Western fronts, Jewish soldiers and airmen went to fight for their country. They did so pushing against a wave of discrimination from the country they were born into, and whose cause they were absolutely convinced was just. Available in English for the first time, we read the heart-warming, moving and intensely personal letters that the young soldiers wrote home from the battlefield. The uniquely Jewish viewpoint they express, and the strong traditional elements in their religion, bring the conflict between the inhumane war, and religious belief into sharp contrast. The young mens’ attempts to adhere to their faith and rituals during the violent horror of trench warfare are touching, and often tinged with self-deprecating humour. The immense pain, the keenly-felt loss of comrades and a yearning for home and loved ones shine through the soldiers’ words. The war letters are a unique insight into life, battle and death on the enemy front lines, and the extraordinary Jewish experience in particular.

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COMET - Unseen Images from the Archives

ISBN: 978-0-9930169-2-9 | RRP: £24.99 It was a sensation! The World’s first jet airliner flew for the first time barely four years after the end of the Second World War...and it was British. It revolutionised commercial air travel. It was the fastest airliner in the World and inspired a post-war public with its pioneering jet engines and sleek design. Star-struck celebrities and royalty flew in it. The World’s airlines were queuing up to order.Packed with rare and unseen images, Comet delves into this amazing aircraft from the dark days of WW2 when it was conceived by Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, through its design and manufacture and introduction to service with BOAC amid cheering and flag waving. It covers in depth the tragic Comet crashes, the work done on solving the crash mysteries and its successful reincarnation, both for civil airlines and for the military, as the Comet 4 and eventually the RAF’s Nimrod, the ultimate and final variant of the Comet design. Also included is the DVD documentary Air Accident Investigation and Escape featuring films from the archives of FAST, the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, and in particular the amazing film telling the story of the 1954 Comet crashes and the exhaustive work which solved the mysteries and made Britain world-leaders in accident investigation COMET Unseen Images from the Archives

INTRODUCTION

COMET Unseen Images from the Archives

INTRODUCTION

By Bruce Hales-Dutton It is hard to overstate the breadth of achievement that produced the de Havilland Comet. The design team began detailed work little more than five years after Britain’s first jet engine had flown for the first time. Even by late 1946 jet fighters carrying at most two crew members and very little else were still a novelty. Yet de Havilland’s engineers were visualising luxurious travel for 36 fare-paying passengers sitting in living room comfort and wearing their normal clothes, not specially-trained combat airmen in “G” suits and oxygen masks. For a start this meant providing a comfortable cabin environment at altitudes of 40,000ft and above where the air was thin and the outside temperature unimaginably low. To take full advantage of the new form of propulsion the Comet’s airframe had to be light and offer minimal drag. Meeting these challenges meant new construction methods and a new approach to aerodynamics as well as many other innovations. Inevitably a Comet cost far more than a Constellation or a DC-6 and burned twice as much fuel. But the world’s first jet airline, British Overseas Airways Corporation soon discovered that jets required less maintenance. They were more productive too: five Comets could do the work of eight conventional airliners. The British aviation industry appeared to have achieved its long-cherished aim of pegging back the American lead in airliner design with a brilliant technological coup. For two glorious years the Comet was the unrivalled standard-bearer of aeronautical progress. But it turned out to be, as one observer noted, a magnificent false start. Hopes so triumphantly raised were to be tragically dashed only two years later by a series of catastrophic accidents. The fact that the investigation into these crashes spotlighted a previously little-known phenomenon and so ensured the safety of future air journeys was scant consolation, particularly to the team of visionary engineers who had conceived and built the Comet. But they were determined to use the investigation’s findings to restore its reputation and the resulting Comet 4 emerged phoenix-like from the ashes of its past, bigger, stronger, with longer range and generally more capable. Yet although BOAC was now able to operate the first scheduled trans-Atlantic jet service the delay had allowed America to catch up. Soon the bigger, faster Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 would dominate long-haul air travel and maintain the US lead in commercial aviation technology. The Comet, though, was to enjoy a long service life. At first it was used only by wealthy travellers but ended its career carrying charter passengers to holiday destinations in the sun. Public perceptions of air travel were changed for ever. But the Comet did more even than that. Crediting it with changing the world is surely not too big a claim to make for the world’s first jet airliner.

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Taken from AF brochure ABOVe: The spacious but still incomplete flight deck of the Comet prototype owned by the Ministry of Supply and displaying the Class B marking G-5-1. It later carried the registration G-ALVG. The navigator’s seat and table are just visible, bottom left. LeFt tOP tO BOttOM: preparing the prototype Comet for its first flight, Hatfield, July 1949.

MAIN IMAGe: Before the 1954 accidents, de Havilland had high hopes of the long range Comet powered by Rolls-Royce Avons and it was hoped that an order by Pan American World Airways would represent a breakthrough. The sole prototype G-ANLO is pictured here in February 1957.

tOP tO BOttOM: On 27 July 1949 the Comet made a high speed run and a short hop before its first flight with chief test pilot John Cunningham in command.

INset IMAGes: G-ANLO made a major contribution to the Comet 4 development programme and this included a round-the world flight with John Cunningham in command in December 1955. The aircraft is pictured (left to right) at Bombay, 1955; again, Bombay, 1955; Stockholm, 1957; Stockholm, framed by an Aeroflot Il-14; Honolulu, 1955.

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MAYDAY - Air Crash Investigation

ISBN: 978-0-9931812-4-5 | RRP: £24.99 This Illustrated Hardback book tells the fascinating story of how commercial airliners were developed and the crashes that changed the face of aviation and made flying the safest form of travel in the modern age. From the fearless test pilots and the very first commercial jet airliners of the post war years the Constellation and the Comet. With in depth analysis of some of the most well known plane crashes and the investigations by the worlds leading experts in a race to discover the causes of each crash. This exclusive edition includes 2 DVDs of the television series Mayday, Air Crash Investigation investigating air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings, bombings and other disasters. Mayday uses re-enactments and computer generated imagery to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to each disaster. In addition, aviation experts, retired pilots and crash investigators are interviewed explaining how these emergencies came about, how they were investigated and how they could have been prevented. Includes the Discovery Channel Series Mayday Air Disaster PART ONE: WhaT?

AIRCr aS h INVESTIGATION

and violated Soviet airspace. The official investigation concluded that

the 747 re-entered Soviet airspace further fighters were scrambled

there had been a course deviation and that the aircraft’s on-board

and the order given to shoot it down.

PART two: why?

AIRCr aS h INVESTIGATION

“Murder in the Air”

were able to pin-point the start as the incorrect engagement of the door latching mechanism before take-off. They considered the design made

navigation system had been wrongly configured. It subsequently emerged that Soviets had tracked Flight 007 for

pointed out that there was a viewing port in the door to enable a visual check to be made of the lock pins’ engagement.

scrambled to investigate but the 747 left Soviet airspace and it was

considered that Soviets had been given ample time to identify the

its 12 September 1983 edition depicted a Korean 747 with a gunsight

747 as a harmless civilian aircraft before downing it. The shock and

superimposed over it. The caption in large letters said simply: “Murder

“followed standing orders and widely publicised procedures, firing to

outrage was summed up by the magazine Newsweek. The cover of

in the Air”. President Ronald Reagan called it “a barbaric act”.

protect itself against possible attack”.

There had, in fact, been a similar incident a decade earlier. In April 1978 a Korean Airlines Boeing 707 was shot down by Su-15s

A total of 290 passengers and crew died in the Airbus whose loss added further to US-Iranian tension. Indeed, after the bombing of Pan

near Murmansk after its pilot refused to follow the Soviet pilots’

Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland five months, later Iran was

instructions. The crucial difference between this incident and Flight

initially accused of complicity in retaliation for the downing of IR655.

They also noted that a modification intended to prevent the door being forced if the latching mechanism was not properly engaged

In a bizarre and tragic sequence of shoot-downs on successive days in September 1993 three Tupolev civilian airliners belonging to

had not been applied to the Turkish DC-10. Nor had this deficiency

history. Numerous articles and books were published highlighting the

been detected at the time of the aircraft’s delivery although some –

design flaws and the apparent inadequacy of the regulatory system. McDonnell Douglas was equally energetic in its attempts to

The report contained thinly veiled criticism of the regulator, the airlines

rehabilitate the DC-10. The tri-jet not only kept flying but kept selling too: 386 by the time production ended, compared with 250 TriStars. Yet in

of the grave risks entailed by sudden depressurization of the cargo

1976 when the French accident report was published the 1976 DC-10

compartment”. The inadequacy of the pressure relief vents had resulted

had still to face its toughest test.

Transair Georgia were hit by missiles or shells allegedly fired by pro-

in the disruption of the floor under which the flight control cables ran

war probably contributed to the loss of an Iran Air Airbus A300B2.

Russian rebels in Abkhazia, Georgia. On 21 September 1993, a Tu-

jamming or rupturing the cables.

On 3 July 1988, Flight IR655 was on its way from Bandar Abbas,

134 crashed into the Black Sea killing all five crew and 22 passengers

Iran to Dubai when it was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz by a

on board.

Heightened tension in the Persian Gulf at the time of the Iran-Iraq

the vilification of the DC-10 which followed publication of the Paris accident report is probably unprecedented in commercial aviation

unapproved – modifications had been attempted before the accident.

and the manufacturer. The Windsor incident had provided “evidence

007, however, was that 107 passengers and crew out of 109 on board survived the airliner’s emergency landing on a frozen lake.

Inevitably the accident attracted wide public interest. There were even suggestions that the DC-10 programme would not survive. Indeed,

to heed “repeated warnings”. The president said the Vincennes had

believed that the airliner’s radar return had initially been mistaken for

sudden depressurisation. “All these risks,” the report added, “became evident 19 months earlier at the time of the Windsor accident but no efficacious corrective action had followed”.

over two hours and that the pilot who eventually fired the fatal shot had trailed the airliner for 14 minutes. The international community

a US intelligence-gathering aircraft flying in the same area. But when

beneath the floor “placed the aircraft in grave danger” in the event of

it possible for the vent door to appear locked when the latches were not fully closed and the lock pins not fully home. The French investigators

The incident was made more complex by a previous course deviation made by the airliner. This had resulted in fighters being

On 25 May 1975 American Airlines DC-10 N110AA operating flight 191 from Chicago to Los Angeles was cleared to take-off from O’Hare

This was clearly another design flaw: the routing of the cables

International airport with 258 passengers and 13 crew. As it was lifting

surface-to-air missile fired by the USS Vincennes. The guided missile destroyer had been sailing in Iranian waters and apparently mistook

The following day a Tu-154, reportedly carrying Georgian soldiers,

the airliner for an Iranian F-14 fighter at a time when the warship was

crashed while attempting to land at Sukhumi airport with the loss of

engaging Iranian gunboats.

108 of the 132 on board. On the 23rd, passengers were boarding the Tu-154 at Sukhumi when it was hit by artillery or mortar fire. One crew

To Reagan it was “a terrible human tragedy”. But he insisted the

member died.

airliner was heading directly for the Vincennes and that when it failed

aBOVE Demonstations outside the White House after Korean Air flight KAL-007 was shot down for straying into Soviet airspace, killing more than 260 people

TOP Soviet Sukhoi Su-15TM fighter

aBOVE

Search operations for Korean Airlines Flight 007

American Airlines DC-10 N110AA flight 191

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General Interest for

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CHURCHILL AND THE GENERALS

ISBN: 978-0-9930169-4-3 | RRP: £24.99 This is the incredible story of the darkest days of World War 2 when Winston Churchill and his Generals – Montgomery, Alexander, Wavell and Brooke were facing catastrophe on every front. They suffered Defeat at Dunkirk and survived the Battle of Britain. With normous amounts of courage and skill they fought off the Luftwaffe and managed to hold on until the Allied invasion of Europe. Men like Montgomery, Slim, Auchinleck, Alanbrooke and Alexander were given the highest command to wage war “against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime”. This is the story of his relationships with these remarkable men and the American Generals who followed them including Dwight Eisenhower and George Marshall The Story of an erratic impossible very English instinctive genius pitted against the superb skills of his generals in a battle which influenced the destiny of mankind.

A Selective World War Two Chronology

CHURCHILL and the GENERALS

‘History shall be kind to me. For I intend to write it.’ Winston Churchill (attrib.)

instead to war in North Africa and the Mediterranean – a theatre the Americans would normally have no interest in. By fighting here, the British reasoned they could weaken the Germans and wear them down. At the same time, the RAF and the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF), would pound Nazi Germany relentlessly from the air – the Americans by day and the RAF by night. While the Germans grew weaker and their manufacturing capacity was progressively reduced, America would have time to build and train a better army and get its mighty industrial base churning out an unstoppable torrent of guns, ships, planes and tanks. Once again, Churchill would get his way – but at a price. It soon became increasingly clear that America was not interested in being a junior partner in the venture. Or a silent one. Churchill progressively found it harder and harder to get his own way. Where once in the darkest months and years of the war he had stood alone, the sole power, now he was himself increasingly the most insignificant member of a triangle comprised of himself, Roosevelt and Stalin. At home, there were challenges in Parliament. Old party rivalries started to resurface and there were whispers that Churchill might be forced to stand down, perhaps in favour of Stafford Cripps. The public, galvanised by Churchill in the summer of 1940, were now tired of bad news and of war – and far less ready to fight. The unity of the ‘thems’ and ‘us’s’ was fracturing. Strikes flared up amongst vital war workers and British communists were baying for an early invasion of Europe to help Uncle Joe. The war was going badly – perhaps due to Churchill’s poor grasp of strategy. Everyone was blaming everyone else. The Generals were dull and incompetent. British conscripts lacked the fighting spirit. British tanks were poorly designed and small arms inferior to the German issue. Britain was fighting a foe superior in every way except morally – and what did that count for? By the end of 1942 Churchill was finding it all too much. Everything was too big and complicated. Jewish leaders were making him aware of the Holocaust, which he was powerless to stop. There was Operation Torch, the fall of Tobruk, massive setbacks in the Far East including the loss of Malay and Singapore, no real progress on the Eastern Front, the Siege of Malta, U-Boats running amok in the Atlantic, the Dieppe Raid ending in failure, vast diplomatic complexities, American public opinion turning against the British. – and the latest reports said that RAF night bomber offenses were next to useless. They couldn’t hit precise targets. Churchill agreed to them flying against the one target big enough for them to hit – cities. It wasn’t how he wanted to wage war. On one occasion, he

‘I wonder if any historian of the future will ever be able to paint Winston in his true colours. It is a wonderful character, the most marvellous qualities and superhuman genius mixed with an astonishing lack of vision at times, and an impetuosity which, if not guided, must invariably bring him into trouble again and again.’ General Brooke

‘Jesus Christ! What a man!’ Harry Hopkins, U.S. Presidential Advisor

1940: Churchill wears helmet during air raid warning

CIRCA 1940: Childs Ration Book

1939

3 – British forces advance to the Belgian border anticipating German attack on France 6 – Hitler makes peace overtures towards France and Britain 10 – Chamberlain rejects Hitler’s bid for peace 12 – France rejects Hitler’s bid for peace 27 – Belgium announces its neutrality

September

2 – British conscription is expanded to include all men between the ages of 19 and 41 18 – First Canadian troops arrive in Britain

1940

3rd September 1939: Arriving at the Admiralty, London, at the start of World War II to begin his second term as First Lord of the Admiralty

December

January 8 – Rationing begins in Britain

February 15 – Wavell becomes C-in-C Middle East

April 9 – Germany invades Norway 9 – Germany invades Denmark

CIRCA 1940: Lord Edmund Ironside before being promoted to Field Marshal

9 – Denmark surrenders 14 – British and French troops arrive in Norway 22 – Dill appointed vice-CIGS 27 – British troops begin pull out from Norway

May 10 – Germany invades France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; The Blitzkrieg begins 10 – Winston Churchill is appointed as Prime Minister, heading a coalition government 13 – Churchill delivers his ‘blood, toil, tears, and sweat’ speech to Parliament 14 – Local Defence Volunteers (Later to be called the Home Guard) established by Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden 15 – Holland surrenders 16 - Churchill flies to France and discovers the French Army is in a state of near collapse 23 – British fascist leader Oswald Mosley arrested and jailed 26 – British troops from the BEF begin to evacuate from Dunkirk 27 – Ironside relieved as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) 27 - Ironside appointed C-in-C Home Forces 27 – Dill appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) 28 – Belgium surrenders

Winston Churchill inston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on November 30th 1874 into quintessentially Victorian England. Victoria was on the throne, Disraeli was prime minister and the British had just concluded another obscure colonial conflict (The Third Anglo-Ashanti War) after the natives agreed to stop practicing human sacrifice. Three months before, Parliament had voted to end the use of small children as chimney sweeps. It had only been nine years since the end of the Civil War in America and the abolition of slavery. Churchill would be a toddler when the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes destroyed the Seventh Cavalry at Custer’s Last Stand. He would have just become a teenager as Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel. When Churchill passed away on January 24th 1965, Harold Wilson was at No10 and the Beatles were at No2 in the UK charts with ‘I Feel Fine’, (with co-vocals by John Winston Lennon, who had been named for Churchill). The Gemini space programme was just getting underway and U-2 spy planes were streaking over the communist bloc at 70,000 feet. Petula Clark had recently gone ‘Downtown’ and England was on the very verge of ‘swinging’. In between lies something of a story. Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace. The rumours say he was actually born in a toilet there. Apparently that’s not true although,

when asked, Churchill merely said that he couldn’t remember. His mother Jennie was an American socialite of no little beauty and his father, Lord Randolph, was an aristocratic Tory politician of no little thrust and ambition who became known variously as ‘Cheeky Randy’ and ‘the Champagne Charlie of Politics.’ They were busy people with careers to forge, balls to attend and hunts to ride to and so neglected their son quite horrifically, even by Victorian standards. Jennie was icily remote and Randolph thought the little boy was retarded, barely spoke to him and genuinely disliked him. From the ages of two to six, Churchill lived in Dublin where his father was in employment to his grandfather, the Viceroy. His mother carried on socialising and his father politicking and the young Winston was left in the care of his nanny, Mrs Elizabeth Everest. The little boy called her ‘Old Woom’ or sometimes ‘Woomany’ – and came to adore her. That did not prevent him from causing her continuous grief though. If he didn’t agree with something, the little Churchill would kick and scream, run off and hide or – on one memorable occasion when faced with a maths lesson – play on Mrs Everest’s devout Christianity by falling to his knees and threatening to worship graven images unless he was excused the lesson. The word ‘monster’ was used quite frequently in the Churchill household. His maternal grandmother called him,’ a naughty, sandyhaired little bulldog’ and young Winston’s dancing teacher called him ‘the naughtiest boy in the world.’ But still Mrs Everest loved him and the boy responded to her in return.

Churchill’s parents, Randolph & Jennie Churchill

A Selective World War Two Chronology 1 – Germany invades Poland 1 – Blackout announced in Britain 1 – The British Army is officially mobilised 2 – Neville Chamberlain attempts to negotiate peace between Germany and Poland but is forced by Parliament to issue an ultimatum instead 3 – Britain and France declare war on Germany 3 – First air raid sirens heard in London (False alarm) 3 – Chamberlain establishes his War Cabinet 3 - Australia, New Zealand and India declare war on Germany 3 – Ironside appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) 3 - Dill appointed Commander, I Corps, BEF 3 – Winston Churchill appointed First Lord of the Admiralty 5 – America announces it will stay neutral 6 – South Africa declares war on Germany 10 – Canada declares war on Germany 17 – The Soviet Union invades Poland 25 – Germany introduces rationing

7th August 1940: Winston Churchill inspecting Mk II howitzers, during a tour of East Coast defences

October

1942: Inspecting the Home Guard

Blenheim Palace

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vietnam - A HISTORY

ISBN: 978-0-9930169-1-2 | RRP: £24.99 Drawing upon the latest research available, Mike Lepine creates an extraordinary, panoramic view of all sides of the war. His narrative begins well before American forces set foot in Vietnam, delving into French colonialism’s contribution to the 1945 Vietnamese revolution, and revealing how the Cold War concerns of the 1950s led the United States to back the French. The heart of the book covers the “American war,” ranging from the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem and the impact of the Tet Offensive to Nixon’s expansion of the war into Cambodia and Laos and the peace agreement of 1973 which resulted in the ending of the conflict in 1975. This Hardback Limited Edition 3 DVD Book Set provides a detailed explanation of the issues that go on for years and years, from the bombing of the North to the nature of Air Cav Assaults, to tunnel warfare and the Anti-War Movement. With over 100 hundred images, this is a detailed history of the story of the Vietnam War.Also included in this 3 DVD Limited Edition Collectors Set is over five hours of rare and unseen films and footage for the first time on DVD.

Pages: 152 | Book dim: 270 x 270mm | Colour: F/C TM

ON THE WESTERN FRONT - THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918

ISBN: 978-0-9576909-1-2 | RRP: £24.99 The 1914 – 1918 First World War or The Great War as it came to be known was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. Understanding The Great War is crucial to understanding the history of the 20th Century to the present day. This illustrated 4 DVD Collectors Centenary Limited Edition Book Set, examines the brutal conflict of the First World War, the Western Front. The 112 page hardback 270mm x 270mm hardback Limited Edition 4 DVD Book Set provides a detailed explanation of why war broke out and how technology and tactics developed throughout the conflict - and determined which battles were won and lost and how these were crucial to its outcome. Countries from every corner of the globe joined the fray. With over 100 hundred images together with maps of the Western Front, this is a detailed history of the story of the Western Front.

ON THE WESTERN FRONT THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918

Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, June 1914.

Serbien muss sterbien! (“Serbia must die!”), Austrian propaganda artwork, after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914. Image showing the Austrian hand crushing a Serb terrorist.

On the morning of Sunday, 28th June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie stepped down from their train into bright sunshine in the Bosnian city of sarajevo and then embarked in a convoy of six cars en route to the town hall. Ferdinand was the heir apparent to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Those who knew him didn’t think much of him. He was uncharismatic, strange, uncommunicative, untroubled by academic achievement and rumoured to be partially insane thanks to inbreeding. He spent his days hunting animals around the world, and had reached a tally of 300,000 beasts according to his diaries. His secondary hobby was interior design. He had also married beneath him – Sophie was a lady-in-waiting – and that alone had caused a constitutional crisis that shook the already fragile empire. This was perhaps his one saving grace. He truly loved his wife. Today – 28th June – was their 14th wedding anniversary. Back in the heart of empire, Sophie was refused permission to sit in the same royal carriage as her husband. Out here on the periphery, they were free to sit together in the same car and enjoy their anniversary. Unfortunately, Sunday June 28th was not just their anniversary. It was also Serbian National Day. Lying in wait for the Archduke in Sarajevo that morning was a gang of well-prepared men armed with pistols and explosives. They were Serbian nationalists, almost certainly secretly supported by the Serbian state. Bosnia was an Austro-Hungarian protectorate and the nationalists wanted to see it free of the empire to be part of a greater Slavic nation to be called Yugoslavia. Ferdinand’s route to the town hall was well known and three bombers were placed along the route. The first two failed to act and the motorcade passed by unscathed. The third nationalist, Nedeljko Cabrinovic, threw his bomb but it bounced off the rear of Ferdi-

1914

Nedeljko Cabrinovic, a member of the Young Bosnia movement, and one of the seven who intended to assassinate Franz Ferdinand.

nand’s car and exploded under the car behind, injuring its occupants and some 15 spectators. Fearful of capture, Cabrinovic swallowed a cyanide capsule. It didn’t work. Hastily, he threw himself into the nearby Miljacka River to drown – only to discover it was just 5 inches deep at that point. He sat there helpless as an angry crowd set about beating him – and had to be rescued by police as the Archduke’s motorcade sped away. Once at the town hall, Ferdinand gave his pre-arranged speech (with a few added sarcastic comments about the assassination attempt) and then insisted on going to hospital to visit the wounded. Another motorcade was hastily assembled and set off again. By sheer bad luck, it would pass straight by another member of the nationalist gang, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, who was sitting at a table in a street café. He seized the opportunity, pulled his pistol and strode across the street to Ferdinand’s car, opening fire from a distance of five feet. His first shot hit the Archduke in the throat. He then shot Sophie in the stomach. She was pregnant. Ferdinand’s driver took the stricken couple out of danger and headed to the governor’s residence, with the Archduke clinging to his wife and begging her not to die. It was already too late. The Archduke himself succumbed to his wound ten minutes after arriving at the residence. When news of the assassination spread, anti-Serb riots broke out not just in Sarajevo but throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria-Hungary consulted their closest Allies, the Germans, about what they should do. The Kaiser, in a particularly bad mood that day, agreed with the Austro-Hungarian assessment: this was the ideal opportunity to fight a small central European war and crush Serbia once and for all. The Kaiser announced,’ The Serbs must be disposed of – and soon’. His powerful and influential Military Chief of Staff, Helmuth von Moltke, joined in the sabre rattling, agreeing that it should be ‘War! And the sooner the better!’ Armed with this ‘blank cheque’ from the Germans, the Austro-Hungarians made strong threats against Serbia. Unable to placate the empire, Serbia mobilised its army, buoyed up by promises of support from its closest ally, Russia. A small and seeming inconsequential exchange of fire on the Danube led to a formal declaration of war on Serbia by Austria-Hungary on 28th July and it partly mobilised its troops. This obliged Russia and France to mobilise their armies in response – and Germany followed.

Earlier portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Gavrilo Princip another member of the Young Bosnia movement who fired the fatal shot that killed Franz Ferdinand.

Hanging of Serbs in Trebinje 1914.

The war was on. One last terrible irony is that, had he lived, Ferdinand could well have been a great peacemaker. For all his faults, he wanted better treatment for all Slav peoples including the Serbs and had proposed that the Slavs become an equal third part of the Austro-Hungarian power structure. He also believed in making more reconciliatory and even friendly moves towards his traditional enemy Russia. He never lived to put his ideas into practice.

GERMANY

Germany was only unified into one nation in 1871 and so came late to the great games of European power-broking and empire building. A youthful nation dominated by old militaristic Prussian attitudes, it was determined to catch up fast. Its geographical location made it inherently paranoid, with the brutish might of Imperial Russia to its East and old enemies France to the West. Germany not only felt surrounded by its enemies. It also had a bad case of empire envy. The Germans utterly despised Belgium – but even tiny Belgium had a half way decent empire. As the 20th Century progressed, Germany had become an industrial powerhouse. However, it had next to no Empire to trade with. The Germans looked with envious eyes on the British Empire. They wanted it. Considerable resources were devoted to building the second most powerful fleet in the world – a direct threat to British maritime supremacy. This is not to suggest that Germany was spoiling for all-out war with Britain but having enough muscle might make Britain a little more amenable to German territorial ambitions. Germany also had another problem – its Kaiser. Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered left arm and an English mother, both of which troubled him deeply. Insecure about both his identity and his manhood, he overcompensated with a love of grand uniforms, hanging out with military men and playing at soldiers.

Wilhelm II. Emperor of Germany.

ON THE WESTERN FRONT THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918

Aftermath of the fighting in the French town of Carency during the Second Battle of Artois, May 1915.

Second Battle of Ypres, 22 April to May 1915 by Richard Jack.

A frightened little boy who loved to play tough, he was putty in the hands of the military elite who truly ran Germany.

They took ferocious losses as the Germans finally summoned up their nerve and came in for the kill. It was here, a Canadian historian said that their brave behaviour in holding the line ‘set the standard for the Canadian Army that was to be’. An eyewitness to the first chlorine gas attack, Lance Sergeant Elmer Cotton, provided a vivid description of its effect: ‘It produces a flooding of the lungs – it is an equivalent death to drowning only on dry land. The effects are these – a splitting headache and terrific thirst (to drink water is instant death), a knife edge of pain in the lungs and the coughing up of a greenish froth off the stomach and the lungs, ending finally in insensibility and death. The colour of the skin from white turns a greenish black and yellow, the colour protrudes and the eyes assume a glassy stare. It is a fiendish death to die.’ Private W. Hay of the Royal Scots arrived in Ypres just after the chlorine gas attack on 22 April 1915: ‘We knew there was something that was wrong. We started to march towards Ypres but we couldn’t get past on the road with refugees coming down the road. We went along the railway line to Ypres and there were people, civilians and soldiers, lying along the roadside in a terrible state. We heard them say it was gas. We didn’t know what the hell gas was. When we got to Ypres we found a lot of Canadians lying there dead from gas the day before, poor devils, and it was quite a horrible sight for us young men. I was only twenty so it was quite traumatic and I’ve never forgotten nor ever will forget it’ French and British troops fell back to well-prepared secondary lines of defence and the town stayed in Allied hands but the Germans did make some significant advances, using gas several more times. Fighting raged from 21st April to 25th May. The Allies suffered some 58,000 casualties, the Germans 38,000. Ten VCs were won during the action.

GREAT BRITAIN

In the years immediately preceding the outbreak of World War One, Britannia not only ruled the waves but good portions of the world too. It was content, complacent, tough and stand-offish when it came to Europe. It had no real desires to cut itself a slice of the continent. It had vast lands overseas from which to trade and extract untold wealth. The old enemies the French were on reasonable speaking terms and most of the other great European empires seemed remote and irrelevant. There might be odd fights over colonial territories, but they were far away. The one European power Britain was truly wary of was Germany – with good reason. In 1871, a book called ‘The Battle of Dorking’ was published. Written by George Chesney, it told the fantastical tale of Britain being invaded by an enemy nation which was Germany in all but name. Chesney, a military man, had seen just how efficient Germanic forces had been during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 and was worried about their ability to conscript vast numbers of soldiers. His book provoked fierce debate in senior military and political services, leading to an invigoration of Britain’s reserves. Paranoid or not, Chesney’s fears were widely shared in influential quarters. By the start of the 20th Century, Germany’s army was far mightier than Britain’s and its navy was expanding fast. German statements such as ‘the trident must pass into our hands’ was a direct threat to British supremacy at sea. In 1909, there were widespread reports of German Zeppelins making mysterious reconnaissance missions by night over the south and east of England – especially over military installations or dockyards. The reports proved to be false – Zeppelins could not yet safely traverse the North Sea – but the fear persisted.

FRANCE

At the start of 1914, there were still many in France who remembered their ignominious defeat in 1871 at the hands of the Prussians and their allies from the Germanic States. The successful invaders had annexed Alsace and Lorraine, two French

Portrait of King George V.

Poison gas attack.

Indian infantry in the trenches, prepared against a gas attack.

By April 1915, the war in the East was going badly for the Russians. They desperately needed more pressure to be applied to German forces on the Western Front, draining them of weapons, shells and men that could otherwise be used on the Eastern Front. Allied commanders on the Western Front understood their plight – and launched a late Spring offensive. On 3rd May, the French commenced a shattering six day, thousand gun artillery barrage against German trenches in the Artois. As the guns fell silent, the French 6th Army went over the top, breached the battered German lines and seized the strategically important target of Vimy Ridge. Once there though, they could advance no further and there were insufficient reserves and resources available to help them capitalise on their hard-won gains. The very next day, a determined German counter-attack drove them from the ridge and sent them spilling back towards their own lines. As the French launched their attack on Vimy Ridge, British and Indian troops made a second strike around what was left of the village of Neuve Chapelle in the Artois. The attack was a disaster. The British possessed nowhere near enough artillery shells to sufficiently damage the German defensive line. As a result, the troops were decimated by machine gun fire as they advanced. The attack was swiftly abandoned at the cost of 11,000 casualties. The British and Indians tried again, on 15th May , attacking Festubert, north of Neuve Chapelle. This time a 60 hour artillery bombardment was laid down on German positions before the Allies went over the top. It didn’t help. The British and Indian troops managed to get just 1,000 yards – just over half a mile – and took 16,000 casualties for that slimmest of gains. On 16th June, the French once again tried to seize Vimy Ridge, walking into the most ferocious of German artillery barrages as they advanced. They reached the ridge against all odds and took it – only to lose it once more to a powerful German counter attack the very next day. After suffering 100,000 dead, wounded and missing the French finally cancelled the offensive.

French TNH-type gas mask, made in 1915-16.

1915

The great Autumn Offensive of 1915 started in earnest on 15th September, with the French going over the top to attack Champagne. ‘Your elan will be irresistible!’ Joffre told his men. Simultaneously, British forces concentrated on Loos in the Artois and launched their single largest offensive of the year. The British had wanted to postpone the offensive until 1916 to build up men and munitions but Joffre wanted results now. His was the country that was invaded and, as the British were very much the junior partners in the war, they would have to fall in line with his wishes. Squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps flew missions to bomb German-held railway lines and other communications, in addition providing artillery spotting and reconnaissance support. Yet again there were not enough artillery shells for the British guns to lay down a truly effective bombardment. It was now that British troops launched their first ever gas attack of the war, with the Royal Engineers emptying 5,000 cylinders of chlorine gas in the direction of the German trench line. British soldiers rolled in behind, respirators on and bayonets at the ready. They discovered that those Germans not already poisoned to death had fled, leaving a four mile hole in their lines. The British paused at Loos, suffering from a lack of supplies, reserves and from the seemingly inevitable communications problems with HQ. When they resumed their attack the next day they met a determined line of German resistance beyond the town, with fortifications bristling with machine guns. The advancing British were cut to pieces. One observer in the field later wrote: ‘From what I can ascertain, some of the divisions did actually reach the enemy’s trenches, for their bodies can now be seen on the barbed wire.’ When the finally tally was made, 50,000 British troops were dead, wounded or missing. It was the final straw for the British government. Sir John French was fired as commander of the British Army and General Sir Douglas Haig promoted in his place. French had become increasingly disillusioned by the trench war, and horrified by his losses. He had lost all real enthusiasm – but Haig was altogether a different proposition. A dour, quiet Scot from a wealthy whisky family, he was

prepared to wage total war whatever the cost. He would, in the bloody months and years to come, display the true tenacious British Bulldog spirit – or a terrifying inability to learn from experience – perhaps both. While the British were fighting in Loos, a simultaneous French assault by their 2nd Army had expertly exploited a weakness in the German lines and punched a hole some three miles deep and six miles wide. As they paused to try and work out what to do with their gains, they were hit full on by a massed counter-attack by the German 3rd Army. Plagued by a chronic lack of ammunition, they were forced to retreat once more. As the gunfire ceased, 145,000 French soldiers were dead or wounded. A separate assault on Vimy Ridge did however finally succeed in securing the tactically vital area for the French. This time they held it.

British soldiers loading a battery of Livens gas projectors. Taken at Royal Engineers Experimental Station, Porton, UK. ABOVE: English gas bomb 1915.

Tanks in a field station.

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VOICES OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

ISBN: 978-0-9930169-3-6 | RRP: £24.99 It was a crucial moment of WW2. 1940. The Royal Air Force, virtually alone, defended the skies of Britain against massed formations of German bombers. They put up such a ferocious defence that Hitler gave up ideas of invading Britain and turned his attention to an assault on the Soviet Union. Of those pilots who courageously flew their Spitfires and Hurricanes against the Luftwaffe barely a handful remain. However the authors have interviewed no less than eighteen survivors and it is their memories and anecdotes that make this book unique. Highly illustrated throughout with rarely seen images, Battle of Britain is packed with great stories of aerial combat and being shot down, of the classic fighters that they flew and fought in and against, of making and losing friends and colleagues; of a strained social life in the midst of battle; and, most of all, of standing steadfast in the face of overwhelming odds. It is coupled with an authoritative and lively narrative.

During the whole time one was at readiness you were tired. You were taken off readiness at about half past nine or ten at night and then you went to the mess and you had a beer or two in the mess and then it was bed so that you didn’t probably get to bed until half past ten or eleven and at half past three you were woken up again. The one thing you remembered was you were always tired during those days.

Hawker Hurricane

Later on, after 10 May when the German advance was so rapid, we were sent out to reinforce in France and we would fly out at first light, leave Biggin Hill in the dark, fly to France, land where we’d been told to land at some little airfield, refuel which we had to do ourselves from tins because we had no ground crew with us, and then we would operate but it became chaos. We couldn’t get any orders or instructions because the headquarters was constantly on the move, retreating, and food, nothing had been arranged. One of our pilots was fluent in French and I remember he managed to beg some bread from a farmhouse near the airfield which was all we got that day and we would fly back as it was getting dark, land back at Biggin Hill just about in the dark. By that time, of course, you’d been up since four o’clock in the morning and you got back about ten o’clock at night, have a meal, go to bed, be shaken awake again about half past three, get up, get washed and shaved, down to have a quick snack breakfast and off onto the airfield and take off for France. That was very tedious, very tiring and we didn’t feel we were making any great contribution.

German pilots thought that ‘Hurricane’ was a very funny name for an aircraft. To their ears, in their language, it sounded like ‘Whore Barges’. The Hurricane however would have the last laugh. The true mainstay of the RAF fighter force during the summer of 1940, the Hurricane had been dreamed up by designer Sydney Camm in the early 1930s as a way of moving on from the traditional biplane fighter design. The first Hurricanes joined Fighter Command in 1937 and a total of 1,715 would serve during the Battle of Britain. Coming from a different era, the Hurricane was both slower than the Spitfire and unable to match its rate of climb, but could sustain quite major battle damage and still make it home. It is believed that Hurricanes were responsible for 4/5ths of all enemy aircraft shot down during the Battle of Britain.

William Walker, 616 Squadron

Pete Brothers, 32 Squadron

A good stable aircraft. An easier aircraft to fly than the Spitfire, which I flew later,37 because you had a better view forward. Sitting in the Hurricane you were higher up and you got a good view forward for taking off or landing. It could take a lot of punishment and it could take a lot of machine gun bullets through the fuselage and the wings and still fly.

August 1940 - Adlerangriff

Squaring Up to the Enemy

VOICES OF THE BATTLE OF BRITTAIN

Prelude: September 1939 - June 1940

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Wehrmacht followed with their own plans, suggesting an attack from the Low Countries against England’s east coast from the Wash to the Thames Estuary. Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, head of the Luftwaffe and Hitler’s Deputy, was contemptuous of both plans. Britain, he said, would need to be comprehensively defeated first. Through it all, Hitler remained curiously detached from it all and dreamed on of a negotiated peace with Britain. Any thought of a seaborne assault against England sent him rushing for the pralines again. ‘At sea I am a coward,’ he confessed. At Dawn on 10 May 1940, Hitler finally unleashed what he called ‘Operation Yellow’. History would come to know it as ‘The Blitzkrieg’. Two armoured corps and paratrooper units, with close air support provided by the Luftwaffe, burst into Belgium and the Netherlands, fighting south towards France. That very same day, by complete coincidence, everything changed in Great Britain. Neville Chamberlain’s government fell and Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. Churchill was not even a popular choice for the position, but arch-appeaser Lord Halifax had turned down the role and Chamberlain decided not to fight for his own job. Those who favoured peace with Germany at any price were seriously perturbed by what Churchill might do once he got his hands on the reins of power, being a notorious opponent of appeasement. Many of his colleagues in the Conservative Party genuinely disliked him and had conspired to wreck his career over the past decade or so. Others considered him a has-been. He was 65 and a back-bencher, after all. Hitler, who barely thought about Churchill, wrote him off as a drunk and a Jew-lover. He didn’t know it, but ‘cometh the hour…’. Churchill’s first few weeks as Prime Minister during May and June 1940 turned into, quite literally, a baptism of fire. In response to the German Blitzkrieg, French forces - along with significant elements of the British Expeditionary Force stationed in France - moved forward into Belgium to confront the invading army head on. It was a trap. To their east, a mass of German armour poured out of the supposedly unpassable Ardennes Forest and swiftly powered their way westward to the sea. The Allies were cut off and surrounded. The RAF had been in action, with mixed results, since the first day of the Blitzkrieg. Operating from airfields in France, RAF Hurricane fighters had acquitted themselves well fighting alongside the French Air Force and other allies. The end of the first day’s fighting saw 61 RAF aircraft lost or damaged to the Luftwaffe’s 192. The light British bombers on the other hand proved disastrously ineffectual and vulnerable. Thirty-two Fairey Battles were sent against the Germans. Of those, thirteen were swiftly shot down and another 18 severely damaged. Of a flight of Blenheims from 600 Squadron sent out on patrol, only one survived. Five Battles were sent out to destroy important bridges at Maastricht on the 12 May. None returned. Two days later, the Battle Fleet set out to bomb again. Seventy one took off. Thirty one returned.

Tony Pickering, 501 Squadron It was awful, there’s no other way to put it. You suddenly found yourself up against enormous odds. I’ll give you one example, six of us ran into 40 Ju87s one day. We shot down 14 of them and they ran off. As we left, and we were out of ammunition another 150 Ju87s came in. We were never overawed by the Germans but we were certainly outnumbered.

I loved the Hurricane but I realised there was an awful lot to learn as we had come off biplanes. We had been flying Gladiators before then, which were the front line aircraft, and then to go along to the Hurricane was a challenge. We got more and more used to them and after a while we got to love them. There was something very basically strong about a Hurricane and you felt it was like a favourite car or something but there was tremendous strength in the aircraft and it was a perfect gun platform. It was just everything one ever wished for in an aeroplane.

Dennis David, 87 Squadron

There was a certain routine when we were down at Hornchurch. If the phone would ring once they were talking to somebody in the mess. If it rang twice it was for you and you were going to be scrambled. If it rang three times it was for the other squadron. So when you were sitting down and the phone suddenly rang you said ‘Once...will it stop?’ ‘Twice...is that us?’ ‘Thank God its a third time’. An extraordinary situation of tenseness. Were we going to be scrambled or weren’t we? And that was the phone but again you never knew when the phone rang what was going to happen. It was a situation where nerves began to play quite a part. John Ellacombe, 151 Squadron

The Front LIne! A Hurricane pilot, in his cockpit and ready for take off at Hawkinge, the nearest airfield on the British mainland to occupied France

RAF pilots and sailors scramble for their planes during an alert

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General Interest for

2018

PEARL HARBOR - & the War in the Pacific 1941 – 1945

ISBN: 978-0-9931813-2-0 | RRP: £24.99 In the early hours of 7th December 1941 The Empire of Japan launched a surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii without explicit warning which crippled the US Fleet. In all 8 US Battleships were lost and 188 US Aircraft were destroyed. 2403 American citizens were killed by the Japanese. America was not at war with anyone at this time. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the immediate cause of Americas entry into World War II and the Pacific theatre which led to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and which ended with the surrender of The Empire of Japan aboard the USS Missouri on 2nd September 1945 and changed the course of history. This Commemorative Edition includes 2 DVDs of the rare film Crusades in the Pacific.

& the War in the Pacific 1941 – 1945

The Rising Sun

A dog thinks it is a member of the family. To the family however it is merely a dog

Japanese saying

The Rising Sun

sweep south – and never dreamed that Japan could have anything like

could to hide itself. Ahead steamed an innocent-looking civilian Japanese

the resources needed to launch a simultaneous assault on Pearl Harbor.

passenger liner, reporting back constantly to affirm that no American ships were about. By the early hours of December 7 1941, they had sailed 3,300

BuT THEy DID.

sea miles and were undetected and in position. The first wave of Kaigun bombers and fighters lifted off the flight deck at 06.10am, into fierce 40 foot waves that lashed the decks beneath their undercarriages…

The Rising Sun

t H e k i d o b u tA i At first, they codenamed it Operation Hawaii. Then perhaps someone realised that such a name might be too unsubtle and it was hurriedly changed to Operation Z.

At tA c k o n P e A r l H A r b o r

t H e c A r r i e r s l e Av e Before the Japanese set off for Pearl Harbor, they had been told that

Five submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy had slipped out of

J A PA n i n b l o o m

Kure Naval District on November 25 1941. They would be responsible for

the American aircraft carriers were their main target. By extreme good fortune (for the Americans), all three of the carriers belonging to the

Unleashed from their aircraft carriers in the pitch black of night, 152

Japan was sleeping when the Americans came, snuggly cocooned

launching the mini submarines that would take part in the attack on

Pacific Fleet had left harbor while the Japanese force was in transit. The

fighter aircraft and bombers struggled through fierce, lashing winter rain

in its many centuries of self-imposed isolation. It still inhabited a medieval

Pearl Harbor. Within a day, six Japanese aircraft carriers chosen to take

Enterprise had been the first to leave, ferrying aircraft to Wake Island to

as they headed south-west. Before them lay the coast of the Hawaiian

world, a world of shoguns and samurai, ronin and peasants, geisha and

part in the attack – the Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, Hiryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku

bolster its defences. The Lexington had left on December 5 bound for

island of Oahu. The clouds parted as they climbed over the Koolau Range

cherry blossom. The Americans who came were dreaming too. They

- would also set sail with 350 aircraft on board, this time from Hitokkapu

Midway, again to deliver aircraft, and Saratoga had returned to America

and suddenly there below was Pearl Harbor, basking lazily in early Sunday

dreamed of a world in which white men had a special purpose – a

Bay. Joining them were the battleships Hiei and Kirishima, the heavy

for repairs at Puget Sound dockyards. Indeed, a full third of all American

morning sunshine. They hit the airfields first. The fighters went for the rows of

duty even - to shape the globe, spread western culture and bring about

cruisers Tone and Chikuma and nine destroyers - the Isokaze, Urakaze,

warships in the Pacific Fleet were out at sea that day, fuelling later

American aircraft arranged in immaculate lines, making low tight strafing

a new, undreamed of age through trade and commerce. It was a

Tanikaze, Hamakaze, Arare, Kasumi, Kagero, Shiranuhi, and Akigumo.

conspiracy theories that Roosevelt did indeed have advanced warning

Together they would comprise the Kidō Butai – the Striking Force – under

of the attack and saved as many of his fighting assets as he could.

runs while the dive bombers obliterated the hangars. Nothing got off the ground to oppose them. They flew on to Pearl Harbor itself, and the warships lying helpless at anchor on ‘Battleship Row’. Ship after ship was

philosophy called ‘Manifest Destiny’ and, in 1853, it had a strong grip on the presidential imagination. year, a small flotilla of ‘Black Ships’ under the command of Commodore Matthew C. Perry slipped into Edo Bay (now Tokyo Bay) and fired a 73 gun

abruptly wheeled and made their escape. The date was February 7 1932.

just who was top dog. The Japanese immediately realised that they had nothing to match the American firepower and resorted to surrounding the up a hastily-scrawled sign saying, ‘go away immediately’. In French. The Americans didn’t. They were here to talk trade - or else. Like it or not, Japan

traditional dominance of the battleship on the high seas. – and proved had just witnessed. They dismissed it as a fluke and the attack on Pearl Harbor was not even mentioned when the final report on the Grand Exercises was written up. Yarnell’s surprise air raid was almost completely

The Kidō Butai moved west fast and it moved sure, doing everything it

Americans with tiny boats. On the deck of one, a Japanese official held

from the U.S. carriers Saratoga and Lexington. An aviator himself, Yarnell had realised that air power was soon going to challenge the it in high style. Other admirals rushed to challenge the events they

powerful carrier task force ever assembled.

‘salute to their own Independence Day’ to get their attention and to show

U.S. forces in the Pacific were staging their annual Joint Army and Harbor was the idea of Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, staging the attack

the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. It was, by far, the most

Japan received a most rude and abrupt awakening when, in July that

sunk, able to put up only a brief, token defence as the bombers came in for the kill. Then, as quickly as they had come, the fighters and bombers

Navy Grand Exercises. The daring – and devastating – raid on Pearl

would be dragged into the 19th century. As the Japanese reluctantly acquiesced, other powers felt encouraged to turn up unannounced with their own gunboats to talk trading terms, among them the British, the Russians and the Dutch. Out of it would come The Mikado, novelty plates and the collapse of a way of life. The Western world had hit Japan in its most vulnerable place – its

forgotten. Almost.

pride. The nation simply could not survive such a loss of face. There were OPPOSITE PAGE; TOP: Perry’s visit in 1854. Lithography. 8 March 1854 BOTTOM LEFT: Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnel BOTTOM MIDDLE: Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry BOTTOM RIGHT: Illustration of conference between Commodore Perry and the japanese Board 1856

LEFT: Chuichi Nagumo MIDDLE: Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku at Hitokappu Bay prior to sortieing to attack Pearl Harbor RIGHT: Nakajima B5N aircrews pose in front of one of their aircraft on the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Kaga the day before Pearl Harbor

LEFT: Japanese Navy Aichi D3A1 Type 99 carrier bombers prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier during the morning of 7 December 1941 MIDDLE: Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi RIGHT: Aircraft carriers USS Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3) at the yard TOP: USS Enterprise (CV-6) moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor

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WORLD WAR II - On The Russian Front 1941 – 1945

ISBN: 978-0-9931813-1-3 | RRP: £24.99 On the 22nd June 1941 Hitler launched his invasion of Russia – Operation Barbarossa. 4/5ths of all German soldiers lost in WWII were killed on the Russian Front. Here were the greatest civilian losses the largest battle and the biggest tank battle – Kursk – the world has ever seen. This was war on a scale and ferocity never seen before as Hitler and Stalin battled for the future of the world. Also included on 4 DVDs is the award winning History Channel Series Soviet Storm never before released on DVD. INCLUDES THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES SOVIET STORM

WORLD WAR II – ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT 1941

though were Soviet airfields – and they managed to catch and destroy

massive German advance was just a cunning provocation to try to get him to

the Ukraine on Hitler’s earlier instructions and then needing to be recalled.

over 1,000 Russian aircraft on the ground in just the first few hours of the

be hostile to the Germans. Five minutes after that, he was on the phone to

More armour had been withdrawn from the battlefield for repair and

Most of all, Stalin refused to listen to the many, many warnings because

attack. Soviet fighter pilots who did manage to take off were no match

the foreign ministry trying to get the Japanese to talk to the Germans to tell

maintenance and was coming back to the units more slowly than expected,

they contradicted his own strategic vision. It would, he had decided, be much

for the Luftwaffe fighters. The following day, the Luftwaffe accounted for

them to stop. Stalin was deeply confused. He was, as Goebbels put it, like a

due to the sheer distances involved, if nothing else.

another 1,000 Soviet warplanes.

rabbit mesmerised by a snake.

more convenient for the Germans to invade (if they were coming) in late 1942 or early 1943 when his military preparations would finally be in place. So that’s when the Germans would come.

The revised date for Typhoon was set at 30th September, with the

The German forces surged east on a front 1800 km long. It was such a

aim of completely surrounding Moscow by 7th November. By the start of

massive advance that – had anyone been up there – it would have been

October 1941, the 3rd and 4th Panzer Groups had encircled no less than five Soviet armies around the town of Vyazma in what became known as

visible from space – and the attack was broadly divided into three:

the Vyazma pocket. As the trapped armies fought to break through the

Army Group North under Field Marshal von Leeb would attack the Baltic

German ring, they were slaughtered. A further German victory close by at

States and the Northern Soviet city of Leningrad. It was comprised of the Operation Barbarossa was all set to go in May 1941 but Hitler was forced to delay it because of a military coup in Yugoslavia which had deposed his ally.

Germans took 660,000 prisoners and destroyed 1200 Soviet tanks.

Army Group Centre (2nd and 3rd Panzer Groups, 2nd, 4th and 9th Armies) under Field Marshal von Bock would provide the thrust towards Moscow itself, striking at Minsk and Smolensk along the way.

The news of the twin victories were greeted with deep joy in Germany. Hitler thought the Red Army was now broken, while his Press Chief, Otto Dietrich, declared , ‘for all military purposes Soviet Russia is done

Army Group South under Field Marshal von Rundstedt and comprising

gave him just 30 minutes warning of Barbarossa when it began. For his part, a

the 6th, 11th and 17th Armies supported by the 1st Panzer Group, would

highly slighted Mussolini is on record as saying he hoped German casualties

head south into the Ukraine, seizing the vast riches of crops, capturing Kiev

would be high. He could never imagine they might lose.

Bryansk effectively cleared the way to Moscow itself. In the two battles, the

16th and 18th Armies and the 4th Panzer Group.

German troops despatched to restore ‘order’ were then further diverted to Greece to repair Mussolini’s grossly bungled attempts at invasion there. Hitler was furious with him. Hitler neither respected or trusted Il Duce, and indeed

with.’ On 3rd October 1941, Hitler made a speech of some significance after Was it all finally over? Winston Churchill had become so alarmed over the

returning to Belin. He told the German people;

and then heading down even further south to capture the oil fields of the Caucasus. Behind them would follow the Einsatzgruppen. Part of the SS and formed

‘We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down’

WORLD WAR II – ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT 1945

der Schulenburg – no friend to Hitler – had warned the Soviets. Stalin blithely dismissed his warnings as disinformation too.

‘I declare today, and I declare it without any reservation that the

intentions of Stalin that he actually had plans drawn up to launch a secret

enemy in the East has been struck down and will never rise again.’

surprise attack on the Red Army, starting on 1st July. The plan even involved

by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (under the overall command

fighting alongside rearmed German Army units against the Soviets. It was called

of Heinrich Himmler), their specific task was to identify Jewish civilians and

Operation Unthinkable. His Chiefs of Staff Committee obviously agreed with the

communist officials in the newly conquered territories – and kill them. Four

name – and successfully talked Churchill out of starting World War Three.

different Einsatzgruppen were formed, each comprising around 900 men, to take part in Operation Barbarossa. In this task, they were aided by further

Adolf Hitler

battalions of the of the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei)

Barbarossa was finally launched in the early hours of Sunday 22nd June

unprepared and even unwilling to fight. They had actually received direct

A victory parade was held in Moscow’s Red Square on 24th June and Stalin

Everything went perfectly for the Germans. The Russians were utterly

oafish tactics were just too obvious.

allowed Zhukov to inspect the parade, riding on a white charger.

1941 along a front stretching from the Baltic in the North to the Black Sea

instructions from Comrade Stalin just a few months ago not to rise to any

Within a year, Zhukov would be gone, purged on entirely trumped up charges

in the South heralded by massive artillery barrages and commando raids

provocation and aggression shown by the Germans and so in many cases

that he was planning a coup. Stalin was merciful and sent him into exile deep in

seizing or destroying important border targets. Each German soldier had been

were terrified to fight back lest they upset their great leader. They died in

provided with a handy phrase book instructing how to say essential phrases

droves.

the Russian interior rather than killing him. When the hero of the Eastern Front was brought down, no one complained. No one dared. Uncle Joe also conducted

in Russian including ‘I’ll shoot’, ‘Hands up!’ and ‘Where is the collective

yet another purge of his officer class – the men who had won the war for him.

Reports from his own Russian spies stationed around the world started to

farm chairman?’. Despite this, most of the soldiers poised to attack believed

This time there were fewer firing squads and more humiliating demotions and

cross Stalin’s desk saying that the Germans intended to invade in May 1941.

the rumours that Barbarossa was just an elaborate diversion to conceal the

obscure postings. Perhaps he was feeling almost grateful.

He ignored them. More urgent reports followed in June, most notably from

invasion of Great Britain and they would probably not even be required to fire

a mole inside the Luftwaffe. Russia was to be attacked ‘at any moment’.

a shot in anger.

The morning after, Stalin got news of the invasion and refused to believe it. So sure was he that Hitler would never go against him that he first

Stalin dismissed this highly placed German source as a ‘disinformant’. A

The Luftwaffe took off in waves targeting Soviet armoured formations,

assumed the reported invasion was the act of some rogue German generals.

fortnight before the invasion, the German ambassador to Moscow, Count von

regional command centres and communication posts. Their chief targets

Five minutes later he changed his mind and decided that all the reports of a

Or perhaps not. LeFt: German soldiers outside of Moscow during the 1941 Battle of Moscow

above & oPPoSITe PaGe: Operation Barbarossa map

above: L-R Siegfried Uiberreither, Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler & Otto Dietrich

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above: Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Marshal Rokossovsky during the Victory Parade

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RigHt: Soviet propaganda poster. The slogan reads ‘ We Won!’. Artist V. Ivanov

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Alexander McQueen - Fashion Genius

ISBN: 978-0-9931812-3-8 | RRP: £20.00 “Alexander McQueen - Redefining Beauty” is magnificently adorned with some of Lee Alexander McQueen’s most riveting designs, and the narrative illuminates the personal and professional struggles of a man who dared to defy accepted norms in the cavernous halls of fashion and give the world a new sense of the grandeur of which human creativity is capable. From conflicted gay teenager, aggressive and remote young man, through to his lonely suicide, the book charts Alexander McQueen’s ascent to couturier par excellence, highlighting his spectacular shows and showing how his confrontational, streetwise manner was simply a shield that protected and masked a very shy, sensitive and insecure man who hailed from the wrong side of the high fashion tracks. “Alexander McQueen - Redefining Beauty” will imprint upon the reader never to be forgotten images of his explosive designs, illuminate his talent and delve into the mind of a man who was Britain’s most unpredictable, tormented and spectacular fashion designer.

a le x a n der mc qu ee n

r edef i n i ng b e au t y | t h e b u r n i ng c h a i n s of b e au t y

Introduction - The Alexander McQueen Phenomenon

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ee Alexander McQueen was a child of his age, one in a long line of talented, tormented celebrities that do not live out their three score years and ten. On a personal level, he was a contradiction even to himself. He was constantly seeking release from his personal dungeons and never finding it, and this conflict manifested itself in his designs, igniting his fantasy. When unencumbered by a commercial restraining order, his creations were restless and surrealistically exotic, the soaring flights of a searching, yearningimagination. The world needs fantasy, there is enough reality, he said, yet his harsh view of reality and the pain in the world filtered into his fantasy and therefore into his work alongside his vulnerability and passion. On a mundane level, McQueen was the worthy successor to the English fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth, who lived from the 13th October 1825 to the 10th of March 1895. He was the first Englishman of whom it could be said that he broke through the boundaries of fashion design, as McQueen was to do 150 years later. Worth’s clothes were produced in Paris, and he is widely thought of as the father of haute couture. McQueen polarised opinion, and the word ‘genius’ was often used to describe him. This was not a universally held opinion in the great halls of fashion. On both sides of the divide, however, what was in no doubt was that his was a bounding creativity that was fuelled by a vivid, driven mind and executed by a highly skilled hand. He saw a piece of clothing as an objet d’art, as a way of transmitting concepts and ideas, not simply as clothing for the body. He succeeded, with almost frantic energy, in showing us where that thought could lead, taking the observer on a fantastical journey. McQueen thrust clothing beyond its usual inhibitions, beyond the limitations others had imposed upon it by imagination, pattern and dimension and in doing so, found himself leaving the arena of haute couture and entering the world of theatrical expansiveness, before then brilliantly combining the two. McQueen’s oeuvre was intensely autobiographical and therefore personal; as a consequence it was unique. His work orbited around recurring themes; one of these was his ancestral Scottish history, and an interest in history in

general and how it could be used to inform modern clothing forms and fabrics. He considered himself a romantic – on Valentine’s Day he would send 500 red roses to his boyfriend at the time – and romanticism pierced many of his shows in all of its gentle and harsh manifestations. This he had in common with the old masters, and he often drew inspiration from them and the eras in which they worked. McQueen’s creativity did not shrink back from expressing his emotions, either, and we saw that these were often in turmoil, and always reflecting his own – never truly satisfied – perception of romantic idealism which was marbled through with menace. He has been called ‘Byronic’ because of the undercurrent of lonely melancholy pervading his romanticism, and for the rebelliousness in his character, his search for the dramatic gesture; but he was a quintessential baroque man of the first order, too, displaced and dropped into the 21st century and consequently disoriented. He was the master of exuberance, richness and sumptuousness, a virtuoso of intricate and ornate workmanship, a style catalyst. As with many artistic spirits, the exotic, the strange, the unusual attracted him with a magnetic draw and he incorporated foreign clothing styles into most of his work criss-crossing the centuries to do so. These styles came from anywhere that caught his attention; Japan especially, which figured strongly in many collections, but also China, Africa or India and their influences flitted in and out of his work like butterflies. Nature was a theme of pivotal importance to him; he revisited it often and it provided him with a fountain of ideas that never dried up. His respect for it was obvious; for example, he allowed nature to have the last word in his final show, ‘Plato’s Atlantis’, where it had forced man to adapt to its demands instead of vice versa. Within the context of nature, birds, flying through the darker levels of humanity, figured strongly in his narratives, as did an exploration of the nature of female sexual power, unknown to him on a personal level, as he admitted, and therefore all the more mysterious. As indeed, were the machinations of love and sexuality; the person he most wanted to meet in life was the Marquis de Sade, the name of a man commonly associated with his

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sexual exploits who, McQueen said, made him feel as though his own life were banal. I gather some influence from the Marquis de Sade because I actually think of him as a great philosopher and a man of his time”, said McQueen of his idol. Despite his love of the past, McQueen was a trail blazer in his own world. The art/violence/shock connection had already been fully explored by performance artists before McQueen arrived on the scene and he had very probably observed or experienced it first hand in London. To the moneyed, genteel world of high fashion, however, it was a startling new concept. In the 1990s, McQueen was the first to fearlessly transgress the art/violence/shock barriers. He was a man of his time. He also lived in an era of technological revolution and made use of the cross-over influences from the contemporary art world. With his use of computerised technology to create random patterns, he allied himself with the idea of machine art and the questions that posed. He used digital printing to create highly original pieces. Even his innovative, glossy signature shows that helped propel him to the top of his profession

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were in keeping with the sun-king splashing of wealth that became prevalent in the egotistical society of the 21st century. They were said to have cost an estimated one million dollars per ten minutes. Although seen by many as an avant-garde master designer, his true talent was founded on an unsurpassable ability to cut, construct and tailor his work. As McQueen says of fashion: “It’s all been done before . . . it is how you do it.” Perhaps the saddest pictures now are of McQueen wearing skeleton designs, or his image on the cover of “Savage Beauty” which morphs McQueen into a skull. This image of death was so at odds with the flamboyant brilliance of his achievements that it seems inappropriate for this one-dimensional image of his character, or indeed the clumsy ‘bumster’, to be the legacy impressions of the man who, literally on occasion, harnessed the ennobling creativity of his fellow humans and the world around him to hypnotise, enrich and bring a sense of wonder and magic into the

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This magazine together with the DVD provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most ground breaking and influential British groups of all time The Beatles. The magazine features a complete history of the Fab Four and follows the origins of the band’s first formation in August 1960 as a five piece through to their eventual split with McCartney leaving in April 1970.

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It was a crucial moment of WWII - 1940. The Royal Air Force, virtually alone, defended the skies of Britain against massed formations of German bombers. They put up such a ferocious defence that Hitler gave up ideas of invading Britain and turned his attention to an assault on the Soviet Union. Of those pilots who courageously flew their Spitfires and Hurricanes against the Luftwaffe barely a handful remain. However the authors have exclusively interviewed many of the survivors and it is their memories and anecdotes that make this magazine unique.

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The steam locomotive is one of Britain’s greatest and most beautiful inventions and generations have marvelled at the power conveyed in its iron form. But the mystical qualities of smoke and pure white steam give life to the locomotive and through the genius of design, it appears to blend magically with the scenery through which it passes. Although Britain’s golden age of steam ended in 1968, these ‘living machines’ continue to enthral people of all ages. Packed with stunning colour and rare black and white photographs, The Beauty of Steam portrays real working steam and beautifully preserved locomotives pushing across the grand landscapes of Britain.

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Here is the story of the boy from Brixton who became one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. David Bowie’s music is loved by many and known by all as the soundtrack to the world of changes that was heralded by the creation of Ziggy Stardust. Through the hits and personas that followed, the work in art, drama, film and fashion, his voice rang clearly across the decades summoning everyone to a party where strangeness would be celebrated and the ‘now’ would always be new.

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Sir Winston Churchill bestrode the 20th Century. He held many political and Cabinet positions including Home Secretary from 1910 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for War. However it was on the 10th May 1940 when Churchill became Prime Minister and took control of Britain’s war effort that he finally sealed his place in history. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th Century who also was a soldier, an artist, an historian and the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was also an honorary citizen of the United States.

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Rock and roll’s first shining star, a role model for a generation of would-be rebels, an artist who broke the rules, crossed the racial divide, was maligned and adored in equal measure, and changed the cultural direction of America and the course of popular music for ever. That was Elvis Presley, the poor boy from Memphis, who took the American dream by the horns and rock ‘n’ rolled it until it rained gold over him.

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There’s nothing quite so splendid as a British Royal Wedding, especially when the groom is a much-loved Prince of the Realm like Harry of Wales and his bride a States-side stunner like Meghan Markle. Royal Weddings are traditionally a time of celebration for all - from Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s big day in 1947 which momentarily lifted Britain’s post-war gloom, to Prince Charles and Lady Di’s 1981 fairy tale ‘wedding of the century’ watched by an estimated 750 million worldwide, their son William’s traditional yet modern ceremony to the middleclass Kate Middleton in 2011, and now Harry and Meghan’s wedding full of ‘fun and joy’. . .

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The Battle Of Stalingrad resulted in the biggest defeat ever suffered by the German Army and was followed by its further humiliation at The Battle Of Kursk. Together, these 2 Soviet victories in 1943 proved to be the crucial turning point of WWII. In the year of their 75th anniversary, you can follow the story of these epic engagements along with that of the war on the Eastern Front in words, pictures and on film.

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July 1969. It’s a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy’s challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. It is only seven months since NASA made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Now, on the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history.

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THE BEATLES - TWIST & SHOUT

This full colour magazine together with 2 DVDs tells the story of the Fab Four. From the backstreets of Liverpool and Hamburg to their sell-out concerts in the Shea Stadium in America. In 1964 half of the American population watched the boys play live on The Ed Sullivan Show and an incredible 350 million TV viewers saw them record “All You Need Is Love” in 1967. They played with Elvis and sold tens of millions of records all over the world. The Beatles: Twist and Shout takes you as up close and personal as you can get to the 4 boys that changed the world forever...

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BOWIE - STARCHILD

Here is the story of the boy from Brixton who became one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, returned to prominence in the 21st with music and visions informed by a sense of his own mortality and who through his life and work, changed lives and those of generations to come. David Bowie’s music is loved by many and known by all as the soundtrack to the world of changes that was heralded by the creation of Ziggy Stardust. Through the hits and personas that followed, the work in art, drama, film and fashion, Bowie’s voice rang clearly across the decades summoning everyone to a party where strangeness would be celebrated and the ‘now’ would always be new.

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PINK FLOYD - A Kaleidoscope of Conundrums

This full colour magazine together with two DVDs provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most ground breaking and influential bands of all time Pink Floyd. Follow their incredible journey from students when the band formed in Cambridge in 1965 and consisted of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright with Dave Gilmour joining in 1967. Syd Barrett left in 1968 but remains synonymous with the group. Pink Floyd rose to become the most commercially successful and musically influential group in the history of popular music.

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elvis presley -all shook up

This fully illustrated magazine together with 2 DVDs provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century Elvis Presley. Follow the authoritative text charting the career of the man they call the “King of Rock and Roll”. We follow Presley from his carefree beginnings at Sun Records to global superstardom. In addition the magazine features rare interviews with the Legendary Elvis guitarist Scotty Moore, Drummer DJ Fontana and Elvis loyal backing singers the Jordanaires.

Pages: 96 | MAGAZINE dim: 182 x 263mm | Colour: MONO / 16 COL pages

bruce springsteen - Glory Days 50 years of Dreaming

For over forty years Bruce Springsteen has been on top of the rock ‘n’ roll stage with 18 studio albums - from his debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to 2014’s High Hopes - his a life dedicated to music-making and committed songwriting. This magazine examines every part of his musical career, discussing influences and how his background shaped his songwriting. His albums have reflected deeply-felt passions and concerns, from the position of the American working man in The River and Nebraska, to deep personal relationships in Tunnel of Love; from the bleak vistas in Darkness on the Edge of Town to the anger of Born in the U.S.A.

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BLACK SABBATH - NOT SO PARANOID

This Fully Illustrated Magazine together with 2 DVDs provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most ground breaking and influential British groups of all time Black Sabbath. Follow the authoritative text charting the turbulent journey of the Black Sabbath story, from their first appearance in the Birmingham clubs through to the triumphant stadium rock tours that we know today. The magazine also encompasses a series of rare interviews with Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Glenn Hughes and Ronnie James Dio, plus archive reports of the band on tour.

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MAYDAY - AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION

This full colour magazine tells the fascinating story of how commercial airliners were developed and the crashes that changed the face of aviation and made flying the safest form of travel in the modern age. From the fearless test pilots and the very first commercial jet airliners of the post war years the Constellation and the Comet to the modern planes we fly today. With in depth analysis of some of the most well known plane crashes and the investigations by the worlds leading experts in a race to discover the causes of each crash.

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man united - a backpass through history

This 96 page bookazine with 2 DVD’s provides an insight into the unique journey of one the most famous football club’s in the world Manchester United. Follow the historic rise from its origins as Newton Heath Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Football Club to the mighty Manchester United Football Club the team that has dominated English Football for the last twenty years. With player career retrospectives, a focus on the managers who have guided the club and in depth statistical information, this magazine looks at some of those historic moment through images and television archive.

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man city - a backpass through history

This 96 page bookazine with 2 DVD’s provides an insight into the unique journey of Man City one of the most famous clubs in the world. Follow the story charting the historic rise from the club’s humble origins starting out as St Mark’s (West Gorton) through to the top of the Premier League. With player retrospectives, a focus on the managers who have guided the club & some in depth statistical information, this magazine looks at those special moments in Man City’s history through unique images, photographs and television archive.

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CHELSEA - a backpass through history

This 96 page bookazine with 2 DVD’s provides an insight into the unique journey of Chelsea one of the most famous football clubs in the world. Follow the authoritative text charting the historic rise from the origins of its founding father Gus Mears acquiring the Stamford Bridge Athletic Stadium to Chelsea’s ascnt to the top of English and European football. With player retrospectives, and featuring the managers who have guided the club including a special feature on Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte. This Magazine collection looks at the special moments in Chelsea’s history through unique images, photographs and television archive.

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liverpool - a backpass through history

This 96 page bookazine with 2 DVD’s provides an insight into the unique journey of Liverpool one the most famous football clubs in the world. Follow the story charting the historic rise from its founding father John Houlding with the club changing out of the back of the Sandon Hotel to the mighty team that dominated English and European Football throughout the 1970’and 1980’s. With player retrospectives, a focus on the managers including Bill Shankly who have guided the club & in depth statistical information, this Collectors Edition looks at many of those historic moments through unique images, photographs and television archive.

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Bookazines for

2018

ARSENAL - a backpass through history

This 96 page bookazine with 2 DVD’s provides an insight into the unique journey of Arsenal one the most famous club’s in the world. Follow the journey of the club’s evolution, from its beginnings as a south London munitions factory team through to the mighty Gunners and their ascent to the top of English football with some of the most talented players ever seen. With player career retrospectives, a focus on the managers who have guided the club and in depth statistical information, this magazine looks at some of those historic moment through images and television archive.

Pages: 96 | MAGAZINE dim: 182 x 263mm | Colour: F/C

80 Page Colour Magazine plus 2 dvds. These full colour 80 page magazines come in a printed polybag and include 2 exclusive dvds packed with in depth information and stunning images.

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They faced annihilation or capture and with their loss, the invasion of Britain would surely follow. Now read the gripping, true story of their rescue by the most unlikely armada ever assembled. How ships of the Royal Navy and tiny pleasure craft returned to the beaches again and again for their embattled human cargo...whilst overhead, aircraft of the RAF and the Luftwaffe were locked in relentless, deadly dogfights. The 2 exclusive DVDs include, Little Ships presented by Dan Snow & Churchill A Giant In The Century

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The Battle of the somme

This magazine covers the historical setting of the Great War from Sarajevo and the fall of the Austro - Hungarian Empire and explains how aircraft, tanks and other new technology were developed for use in the war and tells the story of each major battle on the Western Front from Mons through to Verdun and the Somme. It also covers how Great Britain called on all the countries of the Empire for support in its hour of need with the role of America in the war fully explained. The 2 exclusive DVDs include, The Great War 1914-1918 & The Battle of The Somme, The True Story

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