Floating Rigs of North Sea Oil Aims and Outcomes
The North Sea oil boom features semi submersible rigs resting on ferro concrete bulbs and anchored by massive systems. Computer controlled thrusters maintain position while weather storms are endured and oil sucked via flexible tubes. The book argues the project finances Britain’s economy, with government taxes taking a large share, and praises multinational capitalism as salvation for Britain’s socialist era.
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Cooper and Gaskell
Free Enterprise
Britain
Cooper
Gaskell
Bryan Cooper
Petroleum Economist
British Petroleum
T. F. Craskell
Oil Industries International Exploration and Production Forum
Great Britain
Children of the SS review highlights Nazi Lebensborn stories
The book by Clarissa Henry and Marc Hillel explores the Lebensborn program's use of maternity homes adoption children and infanticide to create a racially pure German nation. It notes 30 years too late prosecutions yet preserves strong documented research and stark images of Himmler era cruelty.
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Children of the
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Marc Hillel
Heinich Himmier
Lebensborn
Fountain of Life
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Hutchinson
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Russia
Germany
Nuremburg
Witesses
Himmler
Theirs is a parable of sin and family ruin in two novels
Oliver Knox's The God Spiga and A Family Failing are reviewed as dark parables on original sin and inherited corruption. The critics note spare bleak narration, detached perspectives, and unresolved conclusions, with strong emphasis on familial dishonor, murder, adultery, and the lingering reach of parents' sins into Osbert and others.
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Anne Tibble
Hell On Earth
Frum
Osbert
Freud
The Young Man Said 1897 1914 Wheatley Memoir
Maurice Dunlevy notes Dennis Wheatley’s autobiography volume The Young Man Said 1897 1914 lists 55 novels two short story collections and five other books. Wheatley began writing at 35 with The Forbidden Territory published in 1933. He maintained prolific output through the 1930s, slowed during World War II, yet released 17 titles in the 1940s.
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Dennis Wheatley
Hutchinson
War Cabinet
Churchill
The Silent Giant of Adventure Novels Dennis Wheatley
A profile notes Wheatley’s prolific yet underrated career from the 1950s to the early 1960s, with about one book annually later, widespread popularity, and translations into over 30 languages. Despite vast output and readership, he remains little known and excluded from serious literary circles, famed as a storyteller of adventure, history, and occult themes.
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Dennis Wheatley
War Cabinet Planner Also a Storyteller
Chapter 8 of The Young Man Said examines numerology and the number 8 in Wheatley life. Born January 8 1897 he entered the Royal Field Artillery on August 8 1917 and his wine business, marriages and first book all linked to eights. The social history of Victorian and Edwardian England is vivid, with portraits of grandfathers, a snobbish middle class upbringing, and a revealing ego.
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Christie's
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HMS Worcester
Alexandre Dumas
Pere
Baroness Orczy
Rider Haggard
Jules Verne
Anthony Hope
Conan Doyle
E. W. Hornung
Toby Juge
We'll Be Luckier Than Faust When 24 Years End
A skeptical critique of nuclear fission as the dominant energy path. The authors argue the 24 year horizon to 2000 is optimistic, noting investment favors breeder reactors and uranium reliance. They discuss Carter era deferrals and the dangers of overreliance on nuclear power while urging exploration of alternative energies.
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Mephistopheles
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America
Japan
Carter
Congress
Death Trick by J F Burke Sam Kelly Private Eye Thriller
A gritty New York West Side thriller follows Sam Kelly a stylish private eye as he probes the strangling of Abner MacIntyre linked to a classy call girl ring. The investigation, hazards and a luxury Hudson River cruise set the scene for a tough, promising series entry.
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J. F. Burke
New York
Upper West Side
Sam Kelly
Sam
Bobby
Abner Macltyre
MacIntyre
Hudson River
Mr Burke
Lyrical Second Ranker in Poetry by C Day Lewis
A Parsons selection of Poems of C Day Lewis 1925 to 1972 argues he was the most lyrical of the thirties poets though treated as second rank. The review praises his narrative and elegiac works, noting rhythm and phrasing that may preserve him from oblivion.
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C. Day Lewis
An Parsons
Cape Hogarth Press
Lewis
New Ski Season Books Debut From Rigby Catalog
Prepare for ski season with a new paperback edition of We Learned to Ski at 9.95. The Rigby collection also features Other New Releases including Australian Nicknames The Hilarious Dictionary at 5.95.
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Sunday Times
Australia
Rigby
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