David A. T. Stafford Books

Halfway To Paradise tells the full story of Billy Fury with the compassion and affection due to an artist who, decades after his death, still has the power to command admiration and adoration.

On May 10, 1941, a Scottish farmer spotted a parachutist floating down to a farm near Glasgow. He ran out to find a burning twin-engine Messerschmitt Bf 110 bomber and an injured officer in a German captain’s uniform. The “officer” was none other than Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer and right-hand man of Adolf Hitler. It soon emerged that Hess wanted to negotiate a peace deal between Britain and Germany. He was held as a prisoner of war for 4 years, convicted of conspiracy and crimes against peace at the Nuremberg Trials, and sentenced to life imprisonment. There have been many colorful conspiracy theories about this episode in history, and now Flight from Reality separates fact from fiction.

Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver! He also wrote the famous songs Living Doll (Cliff Richard) and From Russia With Love (Matt Munroe).He was a millionaire aged thirty in the Sixties, bankrupt in the Seventies and died in 1999.

When a woman's body is discovered, the husband that she was planning on leaving is immediately the chief suspect. But when Barrister Arthur Skelton is asked to represent the accused he suspects there's more to the victim's death...

The author pens an engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and personal legacy.

Operation Stopwatch/Gold, said CIA chief Alan Dulles, was one of the most valuable and daring projects ever undertaken. In 1955 it ran a tunnel 800 metres under the Russian sector of Cold War Berlin, and for more than a year tuned into Red Army intelligence. This was an almost impossible trick: apart from the technical wizardry needed, any noise or vibration could have given the game away. When snow fell panic measures were suddenly needed to prevent it thawing in a tell-tale line leading to the target building.

This book offers the most lucid overview available of Sigmund Freud, his legacy, and his place in our world. As the person responsible for the birth of psychoanalysis and one of the sharpest clinical minds of the 20th century, Freud continues to be one of the most influential thinkers of our time and one of the most controversial. For those interested in understanding the life and work of this seminal figure as well as the current debates that surround him, this book will prove an invaluable guide.

Arthur Skelton, a celebrated barrister, agrees to defend Mary Dutton, dubbed 'The Collingford Poisoner' by the press. But Skelton soon discovers that all is not as it appears.

In World War II the British created the Special Operations Executive to co-ordinate subversion and sabotage against the enemy, using disguise, deception, bribery, explosives, guerrilla warfare and assassination. This book tells the story of the men and women through their personal reminiscences