NEW publication 2020. An acclaimed mountaineering classic in the same genre as Touching the Void, Ralph Barker’s The Last Blue Mountain is an epic tale of friendship and fortitude in the face of tragedy.
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Children Of The Benares
When the passenger liner City of Benares sailed from Liverpool on Friday, 13 September 1940, she was carrying 90 evacuee children from the bombed cities of Britain, bound under a government-sponsored scheme for a safe haven in Canada. Her sinking by U-boat four days later, without warning, in total disregard of the plight of survivors and in defiance of international law, shocked and horrified the civilised world.
Read MoreNot Here, But In Another Place
This true story of a hijacking and hostages. A disturbing fact-filled book of extreme human experience.
Read MoreGoodnight, Sorry For Sinking You
In late 1942 the elderly Ellerman Line steamer City of Cairo was on a voyage from Capetown to Brazil when seven days into the Atlantic crossing the ship was sunk by a U-Boat. There were 300 persons, including women and children and crew aboard.
Read MoreBill Lancaster, The Final Verdict
The Story of Bill Lancaster and Chubbie Miller.
Previously published as Verdict On A Lost Flyer
Read MoreOne Man's Jungle
A penetrating biography of a truly exceptional man - F. Spencer Chapman DSO
Read MoreAgainst The Sea
Twelve superb sea stories and examples of man's eternal struggle with the sea.
Read MoreDown In The Drink
Among those who fought in the ferocious battles for the skies during the Second World War, some - shot down, or forced to ditch - had to confront an exceptionally pitiless enemy: the sea.
Read MoreMen Of The Bombers
Ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two.
Read MoreStrike Hard, Strike Sure
All these stories are eloquent of devotion and endurance...all are moving. They are told graphically without sensationalism. (Times Literary Supplement)
Tales of Supreme Bravery (Daily Telegraph)