The Life of Evans: A Lethbridge-Stewart Spin-off Novel from the Classic Era of Doctor Who

Literature & Fiction

PEEL, JOHN

Mammone, Robert

Genre Fiction

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Lethbridge-Stewart - The Brigadier: Declassified: From the Classic Era of Doctor Who

Cooke, Paul

Forward, Simon A.

Frankham-Allen, Andy

McAllister, David

Bates, Philip

Grehan, Peter

Collins, Shaun

Bartlett, Glenn

Reference

Companions: More than Sixty Years of Doctor Who Assistants

Kiss of the Ice Maiden: From the Classic Era of Doctor Who (Lethbridge-Stewart - Series 4)

Sloan, Michael

<p>For thirty years, Eileen was forbidden to speak about her wartime activities. This is the full, uncut story of the Filter Room for the first time! Discover top secrets of Britain's wartime Radar network and read about Eileen's time in Nazi Germany. Find out how she ridiculed Hitler's SS Guards and relive her evacuation from Bonn when war broke out. Follow her journey as she hunts V2 rocket launchers in Belgium, making life or death decisions on a daily basis. Learn how she became a "guide" in a liberated concentration camp.\nNinety-year-old Eileen Younghusband served as an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in WW2. Deciding to volunteer at the age of eighteen, her mathematical abilities lead to her training as a Clerk Special Duties, a vital part of the Radar chain. She found herself working in the Filter Room, the lynchpin between the coastal Radar Chain and the successful defence of Britain. She tracked the V1s over Kent and London and gave the first "Big Ben" warning of a V2, which landed on Chiswick on September 8th, 1944.<br />
After losing two fiancés, she eventually married; only to be posted oversees six weeks later to Second Tactical Air Force in Belgium. There she became part of a team tracking and destroying V2 launching vehicles, responsible for the devastating raids on Antwerp - the Allies' vital port for landing troops and supplies.</p>

One Woman's War

Eileen Younghusband

The Second World War is dominated by heroic tales of men defending their country against a formidable enemy, but what about the women who also played their part in fighting for freedom? Eileen Younghusband was just 18 when she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). She quickly demonstrated her keen intellect and mathematical skills, playing a crucial role in Fighter Command's underground Filter Room. Working gruelling shifts under enormous pressure, she and her companions worked tirelessly, tracking the swarms of enemy aircraft that sought to break the British resolve. She even had the dubious honour of detecting the first of Hitler's devastating V2 rockets as it fell on an unsuspecting London.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Men I Have Known

New Stars for Old takes readers on a journey through the history of astronomy from the perspective of pivotal figures as they make their discoveries.  

Referencing the changing relationships between science, astrology, religion and culture of each period, Marc Read's writing provides readers with the opportunity to discover more about key figures such as Aristotle and Newton through fictional tales as they make their non-fictional scientific discoveries. 

*****REVIEWS*****
"In this delightful and erudite mixture of fiction and fact, Marc Read imagines being a fly on the wall of the history of astronomy with fascinating results." (Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist)
 
"A fresh and imaginative introduction to some important early thinkers." (Ursula Coope, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University)

"Delightfully written, with an imaginative, informative, light-touch style, New Stars for Old really brings the history of astronomy alive." (Dr John Taylor, Head of Philosophy, Rugby School)

"In an enjoyable series of fictional letters and bright vignettes, Read reminds us that Aristotle, Ptolemy and Kepler were real before they became legends, young before they became old, and sociable human beings before they were turned into detached ideas." (Rebekah Higgitt, Curator at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich)

New Stars for Old

Science & Math

Read, Marc

Astronomy & Space Science

Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Manic Mondays

Weaver, Michaela

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