Taylor Downing Book order (chronological)

A gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain's bleakest hour, by the acclaimed author of 1983: The World at the Brink.

1941. British aerial reconnaissance discovered what seemed to be a rotating radar tower on a clifftop at Bruneval, near Le Havre. The decision was taken to launch a daring raid on the Bruneval site to try and capture the technology for further examination. The parachute regiment had only been formed a year before on Churchill's insistence. This text tells the tale of this mission from the planning stages, to the failed rehearsals when the odds seemed stacked against them, to the night of the raid itself, and the scientific secret.

Jak kryptologové, vědci a vynálezci přispěli k vítězství Spojenců. Downingova kniha Churchillova válečná laboratoř jsou dějiny druhé světové války a úlohy, kterou v ní sehrál Winston Churchill a jeho využívání vědy a techniky ve vedení boje, doplněné o zásadní životopisné údaje týkající se Churchillovy vojenské, novinářské a politické kariéry, jak se vyvíjela do května roku 1940, kdy se stal ministerským předsedou Velké Británie. Autor stvořil práci velice zajímavou, dobře zpracovanou a informačně bohatou, v níž věnuje velkou pozornost Churchillově osobnosti, ale líčí v ní především průběh druhé světové války z pohledu Velké Británie, diplomatické akce, které ji doprovázely (konference v USA, Kanadě, severní Africe, v Teheránu, Jaltě a Postupimi), a popisuje, jak průběh války ovlivnil vědeckotechnický pokrok.

A paperback offering coverage of the English Civil Wars of the 1640s.

Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that dominated the world during these years. It is a story of crises and conflict on a global scale: from the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the tanks in the streets of Warsaw, Budapest and Prague, to spies, student riots and encounters in space. In Cold War, Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing record epic history through the detail of individual human experience: the recollections not only of statesmen whose decisions led to these momentous events, but also of the ordinary men and women whose lives were bound up in these years of conflict. Cold War is the first comprehensive history for the general reader to benefit from the recent opening of Soviet, East European and Chinese archives as well as formerly classified American documents. In a driving narrative that it both gripping and informative, the true story of the Cold War can at last be told.

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