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Blowing up the Rock: German, Italian and Spanish Sabotage attacks on Gibraltar during the Second World War
During the Second World War, Gibraltar faced the threat of invasion by Italy, Germany, and Spain. The Abwehr, the German Intelligence Service, rather than use their own saboteurs, …
Coprolite in the News
Between 1843 and 1918, tens of thousands of acres of Britain were dug over in the search for fossils. Pits were dug to excavate a fossil bone bed, some reaching forty feet deep, in …
'Nobby' Clarke: Churchill's Backroom Boy
Sabotage in Belgium
Between 1940 and 1944 forty Belgians were trained in industrial sabotage at Brickendonbury Manor, near Hertford, UK. This book tells the stories of their successes and failures …
Changing Assessments
Bernard R. Gifford As we edge toward the year 2000, the information age is a reality; the global marketplace is increasingly competitive; and the U.S. labor force is shrinking. …
Boris the Gnome
This is one of Bernard's first stories. Written in the early-1970s, it was based on a late-night bed-time story whilst he shared a bed-sit with College friends in Twickenham …
Choix De Contes Contemporains (1885)
Deserted Medieval Settlements in the Clee Hills, Shropshire
Churchill's Italian Angels
According to recently declassified documents in the British National Archives, twenty-four women were engaged to provide assistance to officers of the Special Operations Executive …
The Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Ditton Priors, Shropshire
Shortly after the start of the Second World War, the British Admiralty compulsorily purchased land near Ditton Priors, Shropshire, to store armaments. Using the Cleobury Mortimer …
Fossil Digging in the Mordens
Blackmail Sabotage: Attacks on French Industries During World War Two
In late-1943 Harry Ree, one of Britain's secret agents operating in eastern France, witnessed an RAF bombing mission on Peugeot's automobile factory in Sochaux/Montbeliard. As many …