LIBROS DEL AUTOR: Bernard O'Connor

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  • Resisting Vengeance
    Bernard O’Connor
    This documentary history provides a detailed overview of Allied intelligence efforts during World War II, focusing heavily on gathering information about Germany’s V-weapon program, specifically the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket. The sources describe the broad methods of British intelligence, including diplomatic and military intelligence gathering, as well as covert operation...
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    39,69 €

  • Resistance in the Nantes area before and after D-Day
    Bernard O’Connor
    This documentary history provides an extensive overview of Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive (SOE) activities in Nantes and German-occupied Northwest France during World War II, primarily focusing on agent recruitment, training, deployment, and operational challenges. The collection highlights the experiences of agents like Jean-Baptiste Legeay, Edwar...
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    46,07 €

  • British Intelligence on the Breton Nationalists, the Abwehr and the Sicherheitdiest in France during the Second World War
    Bernard O’Connor
    This compilation of British intelligence documents, primarily from MI5 and MI6, offers a detailed look into the espionage and counter-espionage efforts during the Second World War, specifically concerning Breton Nationalists aligned with Germany. The records focus on the interrogations of Patrick Guerin and Guy Vissault de Coetlogon, both recruited by the German Abwehr and Sich...
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    37,28 €

  • The CLAM Mission
    Bernard O’Connor
    Allied intelligence services, including Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) and Special Operations Executive (SOE), collaborated extensively with France’s Bureau Central de Renseignements et d’Action (BCRA) to conduct critical sabotage operations in occupied France. This collaboration involved shared training facilities and coordinated missions.Agents like Pierre Bo...
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    21,05 €

  • Marcel Baudrou and Lucie Quesnel
    Bernard O’Connor
    In late August 1944, a French couple residing in St. Brieuc, Brittany, were reported by local residents for occupying a house requisitioned by the Germans. Marcel Baudrou informed a local resistance leader that he possessed a wireless set belonging to the Germans and was willing to allow the Allies to use him to transmit false messages.Following questioning by French police, Am...
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    24,81 €

  • CORA 104 and 134
    Bernard O’Connor
    .On 11 November 1944 two Italian men were stopped by American soldiers walking on the road from Modena to Pistoia, a city in Tuscany. They gave their names as Federico Ponti and Carlo Bianchini. As American and British Security Officers had already learned from Italians that the German Intelligence Service had stay-behind networks in most North Italian cities, they were on the ...
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    17,45 €

  • Miss X
    Bernard O’Connor
    Before the Second World War, Britain’s Security Service was concerned that foreign spies were operating across the country, collecting military and economic intelligence and passing it on to the enemy. There were worries that some people were stealing and selling state secrets. In order to collect the evidence needed to convict people of spying for the enemy, the Security Ser...
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    17,41 €

  • Opium in the News
    Bernard O’Connor
    Bernard O’Connor’s latest documentary history is an account of opium, the black drug derived from poppies that was consumed as a medicine, a soporific, a mind-altering drug and a poison. Using the British Newspaper Archive, he has selected newspaper articles from both the Indian and the British press. What follows sheds light on the conflicting scientific, medical, commercial a...
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    29,60 €

  • The Italian X MAS Stay-behind Organisation
    Bernard O’Connor
    In late-1943, some officers in the Abwehr, Germany’s military intelligence service during the Second World War, began planning for a withdrawal of troops from occupied Western Europe. ’Operation Easter Egg’ was initiated. Caches of explosives and sabotage material were buried and location maps drawn. Nazi collaborators were recruited to be trained at special schools as saboteur...
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    28,61 €

  • Mawddach Crescent in the News
    Bernard O’Connor
    Mawddach Crescent, a Victorian terrace built at the beginning of the 20th century on the south bank of the Mawddach estuary, near Arthog, has attracted artists, musicians, writers and others over the past century.Bernard O’Connor, a long-time visitor to the Crescent, presents the history of the properties and the immediate area in over 100 years of newspaper articles. ...
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    16,06 €

  • Allied Intelligence Services and the Vatican during the Second World War
    Bernard O’Connor
    During the Second World War, officers in the British and American Intelligence agencies reported links with the Vatican in Rome. This documentary history uses first-hand evidence, telegrams, letters, memoranda and photographs found in files deposited in the National Archives in Kew, London, It investigates the links between the representatives of the Special Operation Executive...
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    43,61 €

  • The Prehistoric Hillforts of Southwest Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    In the mid-1980s I attended a course on the Archaeology of Shropshire in which I studied some of the prehistoric hillforts found in the county. Little did I know how useful this was when I retired to the Clee Hills in the late-2010s. Studying the local Ordnance Survey maps and walking in the hills of Southeast Shropshire I noticed how many had prehistoric sites on the top. Havi...
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    56,18 €

  • Prehistoric Hillforts in North Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    In the mid-1980s I attended a course on the Archaeology of Shropshire in which I studied some of the prehistoric hillforts found in the county. Little did I know how useful this was when I retired to the Clee Hills in the late-2010s. Studying the local Ordnance Survey maps and walking in the Shropshire Hills I noticed how many had prehistoric sites on the top. Having researched...
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    41,07 €

  • Italy’s Mediterranean Sea Devils
    Bernard O’Connor
    When Benito Mussolini declared war on France and Britain on 10 June 1940, he had a secret weapon which he believed would release Britain’s hold on Gibraltar, Malta, Corfu, Crete and Alexandria. The British Mediterranean Fleet was a threat to the Italian Empire in Libya, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Albania and the plan to occupy Yugoslavia and create Mussolini’s ’Mare Nostrum’. ...
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    62,44 €

  • There’s Life in Stanton Lacy, Hayton and Downton Hall, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    ’There’s Life in Stanton Lacy, Hayton and Downton Hall’ is a collection of newspaper articles from 1743 telling the history of the parish - births, marriages, deaths, accidents, inquests, sales, auctions, employment, entertainment, the church, education, farming, forestry, crime, punishment, politics, sport and more.. ...
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    36,11 €

  • There’s Life in Neenton, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    Bernard O’Connor’s ’There’s life in Neenton, Shropshire’ is a selection of articles from the British Newspaper Archive from 1771 to the present day. It provides insight into the social, economic, religious and political life of the village - births, marriages, illnesses, accidents, deaths, inquests, agriculture, sales, auctions, crime, punishment, pubs, alcohol, sport and more...
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    62,37 €

  • There’s Life in Stanton Long and Shipton, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    Bernard O’Connor’s ’There’s Life in Stanton Long and Shipton’ is a documentary history of the last 250 years of life in these small Shropshire villages. Based on newspaper articles, it follows on from ’There’s Life in Bouldon’; ’There’s Life in the Crown, Munslow’; ’There’s Life in Munslow, Aston Munslow and the Swan’ and ’There’s Life in Diddlebury, Salop’. It details the live...
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    36,13 €

  • There’s Life in Stanton Long and Shipton, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    Bernard O’Connor’s ’There’s Life in Stanton Long and Shipton’ is a documentary history of the last 250 years of life in these small Shropshire villages. Based on newspaper articles, it follows on from ’There’s Life in Bouldon’; ’There’s Life in the Crown, Munslow’; ’There’s Life in Munslow, Aston Munslow and the Swan’ and ’There’s Life in Diddlebury, Salop’. It details the live...
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    56,07 €

  • There’s Life in Culmington, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    Using over 250 years of newspaper articles, Bernard O’Connor provides a unique insight into the social, economic and political life in Culmington, a quiet rural settlement in Corvedale. It includes a selection of reports on births, engagements, marriages, deaths, inquests, wills, crime and punishment, sport, farming, politics, the church, auctions, sale particulars and more. ...
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    31,10 €

  • There’s Life in Hungerford, Broadstone and The Seven Stars, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    Using over 250 years of newspaper articles, Bernard O’Connor provides a unique insight into the social and economic life in Hungerford, Broadstone and The Seven Sisters, quiet rural settlements in Corvedale. It includes a selection of births, engagements, marriages, deaths, inquests, wills, crime and punishment, sport, farming, auctions, sale particulars and more. ...
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    14,82 €

  • There’s Life in Holdgate (and Holdgate Fee), Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    Using over 250 years of newspaper articles, Bernard O’Connor provides a unique insight into the social, economic and political life in Holdgate, Corvedale, and Holdgate Fee, part of its parish in Ludlow. It includes a selection of births, engagements, marriages, deaths, inquests, wills, crime and punishment, sport, farming, politics, the church, auctions, sale particulars and m...
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    43,62 €

  • There’s Life in Bouldon, Peaton and Heath, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    Most people in this country have never heard of the tiny community of Bouldon, near Diddlebury, Shropshire. There are only thirteen houses, a dairy unit and the Tally Ho public house. There was a Methodist chapel but it closed several decades ago. The hamlet is situated on the banks of Pye Brook where it enters Corvedale at the foot of the western slopes of the Brown Clee, the...
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    23,41 €

  • There’s Life in Abdon and Tugford, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    Using over 250 years of newspaper articles, Bernard O’Connor provides a unique insight into the social, economic and political life in Abdon and Tugford, quiet rural settlements in the Clee Hills. It includes a selection of births, engagements, marriages, deaths, inquests, wills, crime and punishment, sport, farming, politics, the churches, politics, auctions, sale particulars ...
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    31,11 €

  • There’s Life in Stoke St Milborough, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    Using over 250 years of newspaper articles, Bernard O’Connor provides a unique insight into the social, economic and political life in Stoke St Milborough, a quiet rural settlement in the Clee Hills. It includes a selection of births, engagements, marriages, divorces, deaths, inquests, wills, crime and punishment, sport, farming, auctions, sale particulars and more. ...
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    43,54 €

  • There’s Life in Corfton, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    ’There’s Life in Corfton’ is another of Bernard O’Connor’s accounts of rural life in Corvedale based on 250 years of newspaper articles. It follows his accounts of Bouldon, Clee St Margaret, Seifton, Diddlebury, Munslow, Aston Munslow and the Crown Inn. It includes details of births, engagements, marriages, accidents, deaths, inquests, crime, politics, auctions and sale particu...
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    24,87 €

  • There’s Life in Clee St Margaret, Shropshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    ’There’s Life in Clee St Margarets. Shropshire’ includes over 250 years of newspaper articles which include details of births, engagements, marriages, accidents, deaths, crime, entertainment, sport, politics, auctions and sale particulars. It provided a unique insight into the lives of the people who’ve lived and are still living in this remote rural village in the Clee Hills. ...
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    31,16 €

  • There’s Life in Seifton, Salop
    Bernard O’Connor
    Bernard O’Connor’s ’There’s Life in Seifton, Salop’ is a documentary history of the last two hundred years of life in this small Shropshire community based on newspaper articles. It follows on from ’Bouldon in the News’; ’There’s Life in the Crown, Munslow’; ’There’s Life in Munslow and Aston Munslow’ and ’There’s Life in Diddlebury, Salop’. It details the lives of some of the ...
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    17,32 €

  • There’s Life in Pattingham, Staffordshire
    Bernard O’Connor
    ’There’s Life in Pattingham, Staffordshire’ provides insight into the lives of people who lived, worked and died here since newspapers were published nearly three centuries ago. It includes articles on births, engagements, marriages, divorces, accidents, deaths, crime, sport, leisure activities, auctions and sale particulars. ...
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    43,59 €

  • There’s Life in Diddlebury
    Bernard O’Connor
    There’s Life in Diddlebury includes over 200 years of newspaper articles that tell the stories of the people who lived and worked in the parish. There are reports of births, marriages, accidents, deaths, inquests, crime, auctions, sale particulars and more. ...
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    24,81 €

  • There’s Life in Munslow and Aston Munslow
    Bernard O’Connor
    Munslow, The Swan and Aston Munlow in Corvedale have a long history. Bernard O’Connor’s book is a documentary history providing insight into the human stories of those who lived worked and died in the area over the last few hundred years. ...
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    33,62 €


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