The celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death. But nothing so horrific and violent as that of conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer, poisoned during a performance of La Traviata. Commissario of Police, Guido Brunetti, has to step behind the lights into the bitc…
Tells the true World War II story of how the famous Royal Air Force 617 Squadron carried out a raid on three of the most important dams in Germany.
Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 wit…
Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 wit…
Max Hastings has traced the developments of area bombing using a wealth of documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. 'Bomber Command' lays bare the reality of one of the most controversial struggles of war.
Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 wit…
There are fifteen targets -- commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by twelve noon, today. The price on their heads: almost twenty million dollars each. Among the names on the target list, one stands out: a marine, Shane Schofield, call-sign: Scarecrow. And so S…
