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The SAS in Occupied France

The SAS in Occupied France

Gavin Mortimer

PEN SWORD BOOKS LTD
2023
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In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular storming of the Iranian Embassy, and there have been hundreds of books, films, documentaries and even reality TV shows about them. But what there hasn't been is a guide to the scenes of some of their most famous Second World War operations. That is why Gavin Mortimer's vivid two-volume account of their daring missions in German-occupied France in 1944 is such compelling reading. SAS actions in France delayed German reinforcements reaching the battlefront in Normandy, later sewing confusion among the Germans as they withdrew. The SAS trained the French Maquis and helped to turn them from an indisciplined rabble into an effective fighting force. Their exploits inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, and they left a trail of destruction and disorder in their wake. In this second volume focusing on 2 SAS he describes in graphic detail operations Loyton, Wallace and Hardy, and Rupert, all of which were carried out in eastern France. Using previously unpublished interviews with SAS veterans and members of the Maquis as well as rare photographs, Gavin Mortimer blends the past and present, so that readers can walk in the footsteps of SAS heroes and see where they lived, fought and died.
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The SAS in Occupied France

The SAS in Occupied France

Gavin Mortimer

Pen Sword Military
2020
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In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular storming of the Iranian Embassy, and there have been hundreds of books, films, documentaries and even reality TV shows about them. But what there hasn't been is a guide to the scenes of some of their most famous Second World War operations. That is why Gavin Mortimer's vivid two-volume account of their daring missions in German-occupied France in 1944 is such compelling reading. SAS actions in France delayed German reinforcements reaching the battlefront in Normandy, later sewing confusion among the Germans as they withdrew. The SAS trained the French Maquis and helped to turn them from an indisciplined rabble into an effective fighting force. Their exploits inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, and they left a trail of destruction and disorder in their wake. This first volume focuses on 1 SAS and describes in graphic detail operations Titanic, Houndsworth, Bulbasket, Gain, Haggard and Kipling, all of which were carried out in northern and central France. Using previously unpublished interviews with SAS veterans and members of the Maquis as well as rare photographs, Gavin Mortimer blends the past and present, so that readers can walk in the footsteps of SAS heroes and see where they lived, fought and died.
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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maddie Mortimer

PAN MACMILLAN
2022
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Longlisted for the Booker PrizeWinner of the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the YearShortlisted for the Goldsmiths PrizeLonglisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Original, memorable, shimmering' - Sarah Moss'Restlessly inventive . . . delicate and persuasive' - The GuardianSomething gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia’s body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster tourist. It’s travelling down the banks of her canals. It’s spreading.When a sudden diagnosis upends Lia’s world, the boundaries between her past and her present begin to collapse. Deeply buried secrets stir awake. As the voice prowling in Lia takes hold of her story, and the landscape around becomes indistinguishable from the one within, Lia and her family are faced with some of the hardest questions of all: how can we move on from the events that have shaped us, when our bodies harbour everything? And what does it mean to die with grace, when you’re simply not ready to let go?Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer’s astonishing debut is a symphonic journey through one woman’s body: a wild and lyrical celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all.
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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maddie Mortimer

PAN MACMILLAN
2022
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Today I might trace the rungs of her larynx or tap at her trachea like the bones of a xylophone or cook up or undo some great horrors of my own because here is the thing about bodies: they are impossibly easy to prowl, without anyone suspecting a thing.Until, of course, they do. And then, of course, they arent.When Lia finds out that her cancer is back, she tries to keep the landscapes of her past, her present and her body separate. But bodies are porous, unpredictable places.Lias story is told, in part, by the very thing that is killing her; a gleeful and malevolent voice that shape-shifts through her systems, learning her life from the inside-out. We come to understand the people that have shaped her: a daughter, navigating the horrors of the playground; a husband, struggling to maintain a sense of self as everything falls apart; a regretful mother making up for lost time; and a troubled former lover who belongs to Lias past, but wont stay there. In turn they each take up their place in the changing landscape of Lias body, at the centre of which dances our restless narrator and a boy nicknamed Red; the chemotherapy that is Lias last hope.Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life a heartbreaking tale of desire, love and forgiveness, a wild and fierce journey through one womans body.
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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maddie Mortimer

PAN MACMILLAN
2023
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Winner of the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted: Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year - Goldsmiths Prize - Betty Trask PrizeLonglisted: Booker Prize - Dylan Thomas PrizeMaps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer’s debut is a symphonic journey through one woman’s body: a celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all.‘Original, memorable, shimmering’ - Sarah Moss, author of Ghost WallLia has only one child, Iris; her magical, awkward, endlessly creative daughter who has just entered the battleground of her teenage years. Lia and Iris have always been close, but there is a war playing out inside Lia’s body, too, and everything is about to change.As she confronts what might be the end, memories of her own childhood and a passionate love affair come rushing into her present, unearthing buried secrets and her family’s deepest fears. But Lia still has hope . . . for more time, for more love, for more Iris.The Sunday Times Book of the Year'Restlessly inventive . . . delicate and persuasive' - The Guardian‘Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic’ - Daisy Johnson, author of Everything, Under
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Medieval Horizons

Medieval Horizons

Ian Mortimer

Vintage Publishing
2024
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The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world.We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, people's horizons - their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world - expanded dramatically. Life was utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare.Just as The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England revealed what it was like to live in the fourteenth century, Medieval Horizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place - from literacy to living standards, inequality and even the developing sense of self - thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.Praise for Ian Mortimer:'The endlessly inventive Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time' - The Times
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Precious Jewels: An Inspiration for Christian Writers

Precious Jewels: An Inspiration for Christian Writers

Kay Mortimer

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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Precious Jewels: An Inspiration for Christian Writers offers streams of refreshing water from the Bible to encourage all writers on their journey. Whether you are a novice or an established author, this book will inspire you. Whether you write for family only, for fun as a hobby, or for publication, Precious Jewels can become a staple on your writers' bookshelf - one which you can return to again and again. Author Kay Mortimer examines all aspects of our writers' mission and purpose by getting to the heart of the matter with uplifting words. Add this book to your repertoire of writers' aids - you won't regret it.
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Etheric UFO Portals

Etheric UFO Portals

Nigel Mortimer

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Scientific Genius and Prophet Nikola Tesla envisaged a quality of the atmosphere which he called the Aetheric Energy Field. This 'energy' enveloped all of reality on planet Earth and beyond. He was certain that all matter drew its energy from this hidden force.The author has studies Tesla's findings concerning the Ether and looked at the problem from a dowsers point of view. He suggests that it is from this strange 'hidden' energy that information can be extracted by the human mind. Further, he speculates that some UFO phenomenon and Other Worldly Entities may be able to communicate with us using this 'Ether' at energy cross-over points in the sacred landscape. Using the Ether energy these Beings can manipulate matter, project thought-forms and change the way we understand our everyday world.Taking us through a journey from the hidden and amazing life of Tesla to modern day Quantum Physics, the book explores how Etheric Energy may play a vital part in allowing UFOs and visitors from other planets to travel through portals. Nigel Mortimer's refreshing new look at UFOs, Portals and Earth Energies brings about a brand new theory concerning the Ether which modern science is beginning to appreciate once again. This is no ordinary UFO book. It is an exploration into the unknown chapters of the mind and how we are able to appreciate in a better way some of the true mysteries and conspiracies of today.
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The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

Penelope Mortimer

New York Review of Books
2011
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The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist's couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. She is the mother of a vast, swelling brood of children, also nameless, and the wife of a successful screenwriter, Jake Armitage. The Armitages live in the city, but they are building a great glass tower in the country in which to settle down and live happily ever after. But could that dream be nothing more than a sentimental delusion? At the edges of vision the spectral children come and go, while our heroine, alert to the countless gradations of depression and the innumerable forms of betrayal, tries to make sense of it all: doctors, husbands, movie stars, bodies, grocery lists, nursery rhymes, messes, aging parents, memories, dreams, and breakdowns. How to pull it all together? Perhaps you start by falling apart.
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Free France’s Lion

Free France’s Lion

William Mortimer Moore

Casemate Publishers
2011
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'William Mortimer Moore has written a fine biography of Leclerc, who played almost as important a part as De Gaulle himself in restoring French pride in the Second World War'. – Antony Beevor, author of D-Day: The Battle of Normandy'Superb. General Leclerc is one of the few authentic French heroes of the Second World War, and in this exhaustively researched and fast-moving account of his extraordinary life, Mortimer Moore does him full justice.' – Professor Saul David, author of Zulu: the Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879But for his early death, many Frenchmen believe Leclerc would have been their greatest figure to emerge from World War II. De Gaulle himself admitted to his son-in-law that he gave up smoking when Leclerc died, in case France needed him, because Leclerc was no longer there.From the fall of France until 1943, Leclerc dovetailed his operations with the British effort in North Africa, establishing himself as a dynamic combat leader in the battles against Rommel. But once the conflict shifted to European soil he became even more prominent as the commander of the 2nd French Armored Division. For the next two years he was under the operational control of either Patton's Third Army, Hodges' First Army, at the Westwall, or Patch's Seventh Army in the south. His career not only includes the liberation of Paris, for which he is most famous, but the retaking of Strasbourg and the reduction of the Colmar Pocket. Aside from a fast-paced narrative covering combat at all levels of command, Leclerc's story will make fascinating reading for any serious student of the full scope of World War II.
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The Realm of The Angel

The Realm of The Angel

Hugh Mortimer

Global Summit House
2020
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Earth, 24th century; shattered by a man made cataclysm that caused tectonic plates to shift, mass extinctions, accelerated mutations of wildlife and almost obliterated humanity as a species. Only residual pockets remained save for one, The Republic of New Zealand which survived relatively unscathed and now was technically advanced although few in number and who's citizens had long ago taken measures to conceal themselves from the rest of the world. Until word came of an advanced civilization called The Realm and ruled by an unknown entity called the Angel. A retired Ranger, Jon Te Kawa was pressed into active service and tasked with infiltrating this empire which scans had shown to be warlike and a potential threat. Already haunted by night visions of an impossibly beautiful girl who seemed to be reaching out for his help, he finds this alien compulsion growing stronger as he nears the Realm.High above a starcruiser orbited, full of colonists who were fleeing a dying world and looking to reestablish themselves on this planet their ancestors fled aeons ago. Aeyshia, a healer and like the vast majority of her people, having extra sensory powers was similary tasked with examining the indigenous peoples for compatibility. It was to be her last trip to the surface when her shuttle was destroyed with her the only survivor. Unable to defend herself she is easily captured and sold into sexual slavery to a sadistic overlord of the Realm and imprisoned where Jon and Christoph, his new ally were heading.Yet there was hope. Since coming into orbit she found herself having visions of a dark haired, feral man; as handsome in his own way as many of her menfolk but who exuded an unknown compulsion over her. She continually reached out to him while growing stronger in her bondage. Then came the day when she reached breaking point, exploding in cataclysmic psychic fury; sweeping Jon up and melding with him to crush the city's oppressors and liberate the city.But they find themselves in a war as the Angel sends Her army to crush the rebellion, headed by the High Guard who were almost impossible to kill. Jon and Aeyshia, newly bonded, had to survive this overwhelming force. And each other.
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The Realm of The Angel

The Realm of The Angel

Hugh Mortimer

Global Summit House
2020
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Earth, 24th century; shattered by a man made cataclysm that caused tectonic plates to shift, mass extinctions, accelerated mutations of wildlife and almost obliterated humanity as a species. Only residual pockets remained save for one, The Republic of New Zealand which survived relatively unscathed and now was technically advanced although few in number and who's citizens had long ago taken measures to conceal themselves from the rest of the world. Until word came of an advanced civilization called The Realm and ruled by an unknown entity called the Angel. A retired Ranger, Jon Te Kawa was pressed into active service and tasked with infiltrating this empire which scans had shown to be warlike and a potential threat. Already haunted by night visions of an impossibly beautiful girl who seemed to be reaching out for his help, he finds this alien compulsion growing stronger as he nears the Realm.High above a starcruiser orbited, full of colonists who were fleeing a dying world and looking to reestablish themselves on this planet their ancestors fled aeons ago. Aeyshia, a healer and like the vast majority of her people, having extra sensory powers was similary tasked with examining the indigenous peoples for compatibility. It was to be her last trip to the surface when her shuttle was destroyed with her the only survivor. Unable to defend herself she is easily captured and sold into sexual slavery to a sadistic overlord of the Realm and imprisoned where Jon and Christoph, his new ally were heading.Yet there was hope. Since coming into orbit she found herself having visions of a dark haired, feral man; as handsome in his own way as many of her menfolk but who exuded an unknown compulsion over her. She continually reached out to him while growing stronger in her bondage. Then came the day when she reached breaking point, exploding in cataclysmic psychic fury; sweeping Jon up and melding with him to crush the city's oppressors and liberate the city.But they find themselves in a war as the Angel sends Her army to crush the rebellion, headed by the High Guard who were almost impossible to kill. Jon and Aeyshia, newly bonded, had to survive this overwhelming force. And each other.
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830

The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830

Ian Mortimer

Pegasus Books
2023
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A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic license of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history: the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic, and political change. And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions--where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion. Once more, Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank, and wore; where they shopped and how they amused themselves; what they believed in, and what they feared. Conveying the sights, sounds, and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral--the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience.
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The Outcasts of Time

The Outcasts of Time

Ian Mortimer

Pegasus Books
2019
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December 1348. What if you had just six days to save your soul? With the country in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will shortly die and suffer in the afterlife. But as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries, living each one of their remaining days ninety-nine years after the last. John and William choose the future and find themselves in 1447, ignorant of almost everything going on around them. The year 1546 brings no more comfort, and 1645 challenges them in further unexpected ways. It is not just that technology is changing; things they have taken for granted all their lives prove to be short-lived. As they find themselves in stranger and stranger times, the reader travels with them, seeing the world through their eyes as it shifts through disease, progress, enlightenment, and war. But their time is running out--can they do something to redeem themselves before the six days are up?
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