Mike Brearley reviews his life with all its attendant emotions, tensions and moves, in what he calls ‘memoir of the mind’. This is book of his second thoughts and reassessments, allowing him to understand more fully things that were obscure to him earlier. After all, he says, ‘captaining ourselves, like captaining a team, requires a ... Mike Brearley – Turning Over the Pebbles
June 1944. Operation Bagration: the greatest defeat ever suffered by the German Armed Forces. More than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German adversaries, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa three years earlier. In the ensuing three weeks, Hitler’s Army Group Centre lost 28 of its 32 divisions.While the same month saw the ... Jonathan Dimbleby – Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War
The internationally renowned human rights barrister shows us how the powerto change the world is in the hands of people, not the people in power.'I want this book to inspire people, give them a blueprint for fighting their own battles, and challenge the status quo. To see that together, we are always stronger. To understand ... Michael Mansfield – The Power in the People
