To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent conflict, and personal tragedy of the way one mighty …
This book contains: 1. General introduction 2. Introduction to Book 1 3. The basic rule 4. State 5. The exceptions to the basic rule 6. The statutory exceptions 7. Shipping 8. Submissions to the jurisdiction 9. Procedural privileges 10. Exclusions and inclusions 11. Retrospective 12. Acta Imperii, Acta Gestionis 13. Introduction to book 2 14. The diplomatic privileges act 1964 1…
The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an enormous fifth column of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London has become the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamic terror and extremism - so much so that it has been mockingly dubbed Londonistan. In this ground-breaking book Mela…
In The Downing Street Years Margaret Thatcher gave her own account of her prime ministership from 1979 to 1990. Now, in The Path to Power, she writes for the first time about her personal life, about the formation of her character and values, and about the training and experiences which led to the 1979 election victory.
"En el desarrollo de la labor investigativa en el Public Record Office, de Kew. Londres, actividad que iniciara a fines de 1988, con el patrocinio de la Fundación y la orientación del profesor Malcolm Deas, Efraín Sánchez revisó los fondos documentales correspondientes a los despachos de los agentes diplomáticos de Inglaterra, acreditados ante el gobierno de Colombia y de la Nueva Granada…
Britain fought in the Second World War to save the world from fascism. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya -a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people- demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of one-and-a-half million to hold them in c…
Set up under the Labour Government in 1948 and clandestinely financed from the Secret Intelligence Service budget, the Information Research Department waged a vigorous covert propaganda campaign against Communism around the world. IRD was a large organization with close links to Ml6 with whom it shared many personnel. Parliament, had it known of the true purpose of IRD's existence, may well hav…
The Foundations and Future of British Security (pp.5-16) by The Royal Society of Arts under the auspices of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); European Security (pp. 17-24) by The Royal Institute of International Relations (IRRI); Transatlantic Relations (pp. 25-33) by The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations; East-West Relations: The British Role (pp.35-43) by The Roy…
Peter Wright was a key figure in british intelligence for nearly a quarter of a century. This book, which the British government has gone to great lengths to keep from being published, is a memoir that recounts his extraordinary career in that wilderness of mirrors, the world of espionage.