A memoir by Alan Williams, the first manager for The Beatles. He orchestrated the first gigs in Hamburg. He and The Beatles had a minor falling out, Brian Epstein stepped in, and the rest is history. Great information on the rise of The Beatles.

The man who gave the Beatles away

Biographies & Memoirs

Williams, Allan

Arts & Literature

Macmillan

For the first time, the real story behind the top-secret World War II operations Crossbow and Bodyline, and how photographic interpreters discovered the network of V-1 and V-2 sites throughout Nazi-occupied Europe
The story of the photographic intelligence work undertaken from a country house at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, is one of the great lost stories of World War II. At its peak in 1944, almost 2,000 British and American men and women worked at the top-secret Danesfield House, interpreting photographs to unlock secrets of German military activity and weapons development. Millions of aerial photographs were taken by Allied pilots, flying unarmed modified Spitfires and Mosquitos on missions over Nazi Europe. It was said that an aircraft could land, the photographs be developed, and initial interpretation completed within two hours—marking the culmination of years of experiments in aerial intelligence techniques. Their finest hour began in 1943, during the planning stages of the Allied invasion of Europe, when Douglas Kendall, who masterminded the interpretation work at Medmenham, led the hunt for Hitler's secret weapons. Operation Crossbow would grow from a handful of photographic interpreters to the creation of a hand-picked team, and came to involve interpreters from across the Medmenham spectrum. In November that year, while analyzing photographs of Peenemunde in northern Germany, they spotted a small stunted aircraft on a ramp. This breakthrough linked the Nazi research station with a growing network of sites in northern France, where ramps were being constructed aligned not only with London, but targets throughout southern Britain. Through the combined skill and dedication of the Crossbow team and the heroism of the Allied pilots, throughout late 1943 and 1944 V-weapon launch sites were located and destroyed, saving hundreds of thousands of lives, and changing the course of the war.

Operation Crossbow: The Untold Story of the Search for Hitler's Secret Weapons

Leaders & Notable People

Arrow

The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away

Description: 236 p. , [16] p. Of plates : ill. , ports. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Williams, Allan 1930-. Beatles. Concert agents --Biography.

London : Elm Tree Books

This book, originally published in 1987, presents a broad overview of the spatial organization of the European economy, providing a valuable synthesis of recently published material by geographers and other social scientists. A major theme is the interdependence of economic development at various scales. The three main sections look at international and European economic context; detailed changes in particular sectors; specific types if regional economic formations. Case studies are used and reference made to historical processes.

The Western European Economy: A Geography of Post War Development

Business & Money

Economics

Barnes & Noble Imports

Two unconnected but important recent academic and policy debates have focussed on the idea of the knowledge-based economy and the economic consequences of increasing international migration. This book challenges pre-conceived views on the debates and argues the need to understand that all migrants are potentially knowledge carriers and learners, and that they play an essential role in the globalization of knowledge transactions. Deconstructing the concept of knowledge, and demonstrating how tacit knowledge is in fact an amalgam of encultured and embrained/embodied forms of knowledge this book considers how international migration has profound consequences, analysed, first, in terms of the economic and immigration strategies of national and regional bodies. And, secondly, the authors explore how the ‘diversity dividend’ of migration is captured by firms through their management strategies, and by individuals through increasingly boundaryless careers, continuous learning and transnational working lives. This research is a highly original contribution which provides the first overview of one of the most dynamic forces for change in the globalising economy. It will challenge migration researchers and students to engage with the management and learning literatures, and it will challenge management and economic policy analysts to think through the role of international migration. As such it will contribute to teaching and research in a range of social science disciplines, as well as to those involved in policy arenas ensuring that firms and all migrants engage in mutual learning and knowledge sharing.

International Migration and Knowledge (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

Baláž, Vladimír

Routledge

Two unconnected but important recent academic and policy debates have focussed on the idea of the knowledge-based economy and the economic consequences of increasing international migration. This book challenges pre-conceived views on the debates and argues the need to understand that all migrants are potentially knowledge carriers and learners, and that they play an essential role in the globalization of knowledge transactions. Deconstructing the concept of knowledge, and demonstrating how tacit knowledge is in fact an amalgam of encultured and embrained/embodied forms of knowledge this book considers how international migration has profound consequences, analysed, first, in terms of the economic and immigration strategies of national and regional bodies. And, secondly, the authors explore how the ‘diversity dividend’ of migration is captured by firms through their management strategies, and by individuals through increasingly boundaryless careers, continuous learning and transnational working lives.  This research is a highly original contribution which provides the first overview of one of the most dynamic forces for change in the globalising economy. It will challenge migration researchers and students to engage with the management and learning literatures, and it will challenge management and economic policy analysts to think through the role of international migration. As such it will contribute to teaching and research in a range of social science disciplines, as well as to those involved in policy arenas ensuring that firms and all migrants engage in mutual learning and knowledge sharing.

Rural Britain: A Social Geography

History

Phillips, D. R.

Europe

Blackwell Pub.

Tall tales of weird wonders and ten-gallon terror from grizzled outlaws Jackson Lowry (Great West Detective Agency), C, Courtney Joyner (Shotgun), Scott S. Phillips (Squirrel Eyes) and Axel Howerton (Hot Sinatra) alongside furious fiction from young guns like R. Overwater, Allan Williams, Grady Cole and Craig Garrett. TALL TALES OF THE WEIRD WEST, only from Coffin Hop Press!

Tall Tales of the Weird West

Literature & Fiction

Lowry, Jackson

Joyner, C. Courtney

Howerton, Axel

Phillips, Scott S.

Overwater, R.

Garrett, Craig

Cole, Grady

Short Stories & Anthologies

Coffin Hop Press

The Saga continues. "STORETRY the Second Coming" is packed with raunchy and hardcore stories, unleashed in a poetic formation to tear down and rebuild the ghetto souls in the nation. The Ghetto Gospel is back for the second time to resurrect the have- nots to a higher consciousness. There is no other book in history that has strictly catered to the issues that takes place in the hood. This book is a collection of prophetic slang words that are dipped into the divine. If you came across this book it was not by chance. It means that it is your destiny to read each poetic story carefully with an open mind to fully reap the ingenious wisdom at hand. Get ready for the second coming!

Storetry: The Second Coming

Contemporary

AuthorHouse

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