Bletchley Park Brainteasers, McKay, Sinclair

Автор: Mckay, Sinclair
Название: Mile end murder
ISBN: 1781318042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781318041
Издательство: Aurum Press
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Цена: 9890.00 T
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Описание: In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation, a veritable locked room mystery which baffled even legendary Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Автор: Sinclair McKay
Название: Secret Life of Bletchely Park
ISBN: 1845136330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845136338
Издательство: Quarto
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Описание: The first oral history of one of the most fascinating aspects of the war effort.

Автор: Mckay, Sinclair
Название: 100 people you never knew were at bletchley park
ISBN: 1838405127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838405120
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 15830.00 T
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Описание: A hundred short biographies of people who worked at the secret wartime codebreaking base of Bletchley Park, and went on in their postwar lives to all manner of remarkable achievements, from government office to composing the score for Dracula films, by the author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park.

Автор: McKay Sinclair
Название: The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book: Test Your Inner Detective by Solving Some of the World`s Most Difficult Cases
ISBN: 0762498242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780762498246
Издательство: Little Brown
Цена: 17460.00 T
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Описание: Pit your wits against the brilliant minds of Scotland Yard and see if you have what it takes to solve 100 of the world's toughest crimes.
"Scotland Yard" conjures up so much more than just London's Metropolitan Police. Since it opened its doors in 1829, Scotland Yard has been synonymous the world over with the highest level of detective work and famous for its ability to solve the most macabre of murders and catch the most audacious of thieves.
The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book mines the history of this famous institution to recreate some of the most complex conundrums its detectives have ever faced. Armchair detectives can now try their hand and keen powers of observation and deduction to solve for themselves dozens of the most difficult and challenging cases.
Activities include:

• Anagrams and cryptograms
• Logic, linguistic, and mathematical puzzles
• Map puzzles
• Coded and visual puzzles
• Brainteasers
• Hidden messages
• And more (answers are provided in the back of the book)

Автор: McKay, Sinclair
Название: Dresden
ISBN: 0241389682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241389683
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 17600.00 T
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Автор: McKay Sinclair
Название: The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0711255830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780711255838
Издательство: Quarto
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Цена: 9670.00 T
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Описание: Bestselling author Sinclair McKay gives a gripping account of a murder in the heart of Victorian London, which intrigued and scandalised Bloomsbury society.

Автор: McKay Sinclair
Название: Scotland Yard Puzzle Book
ISBN: 1472258339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472258335
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 16180.00 T
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Описание: Pit your wits against the brilliant minds of Scotland Yard, from the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteasers.

Автор: McKay Sinclair
Название: The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945
ISBN: 1250258014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250258014
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Цена: 19930.00 T
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A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II.

On February 13th, 1945 at 9:45 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens, and whipping up a molten hurricane in which the citizens of Dresden were burned, baked, or suffocated to death.

Early the next day, American bombers finished off what was left. Sinclair McKay's The Fire and the Darkness is a pulse-pounding work of history that looks at the life of the city in the days before the attack, tracks each moment of the bombing, and considers the long period of reconstruction and recovery. The Fire and the Darkness is powered by McKay's reconstruction of this unthinkable terror from the points of view of the ordinary civilians: Margot Hille, an apprentice brewery worker; Gisela Reichelt, a ten-year-old schoolgirl; boys conscripted into the Hitler Youth; choristers of the Kreuzkirche choir; artists, factory floor managers, shop assistants, and classical musicians, as well as the Nazi officials stationed there.

What happened that night in Dresden was calculated annihilation in a war that was almost over. Sinclair McKay's brilliant work takes a complex, human, view of this terrible night and its aftermath in a gripping book that will be remembered long after the last page is turned.

Автор: Sinclair McKay
Название: Berlin
ISBN: 1250277507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250277503
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Цена: 18390.00 T
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Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond.

Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity-in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He traces the city's history through the rise of Hitler and the Battle for Berlin which ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, but beyond the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony.

From the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands, McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins.

Amid the destruction, a collective instinct was also at work-a determination to restore not just the rhythms of urban life, but also its fierce creativity. In Berlin today, there is a growing and urgent recognition that the testimonies of the ordinary citizens from 1919 forward should be given more prominence. That the housewives, office clerks, factory workers, and exuberant teenagers who witnessed these years of terrifying-and for some, initially exhilarating-transformation should be heard.

Today, the exciting, youthful Berlin we see is patterned with echoes that lean back into that terrible vortex. In this new history of Berlin, Sinclair McKay erases the lines between the generations of Berliners, making their voices heard again to create a compelling, living portrait of life in this city that lay at the center of the world.

Автор: Mckay, Sinclair
Название: Secret britain
ISBN: 1472284550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472284556
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 10110.00 T
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Описание: From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park Brainteasers comes an exciting new book that journeys around the top secret and hidden WWII bases and battlegrounds in the UK, and tells the story of the brave men and women who fought and trained in them.

Автор: McKay, Sinclair
Название: Berlin
ISBN: 0241503175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241503171
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 17600.00 T
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Описание: The Sunday Times bestselling author of Dresden on the most important city of the 20th century

Автор: Mckay, Sinclair
Название: Secret britain
ISBN: 1472284534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472284532
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 17190.00 T
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Описание: From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park Brainteasers comes an exciting new book that journeys around the top secret and hidden WWII bases and battlegrounds in the UK, and tells the story of the brave men and women who fought and trained in them.