TRANSLATION RIGHTS - Little, Brown Book Group

NIGHT RAID by Taylor Downing
History | 352pp | Little, Brown | August 2013 | Korea: KCC | Japan: EAJ
Secret intelligence, German radar, and the raid that changed the course of WWII
Radar was one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century. It was a British invention headed by Robert
Watson-Watt and his team in the 1930s and was central to Britain‟s survival of the Nazi threat of invasion and
conquest in 1940. However, had the Germans also separately invented radar? In 1941, when the loss of British
bombers flying over Occupied Europe began to reach alarming levels, an eagle eyed boffin in photo
intelligence spotted an unusual radio transmitter along the north French coast. Dr R.V. Jones, a scientist at the
Air Ministry decided, with the keen support of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to launch a daring raid on the site
and to try to bring back the technology for examination. The night of 27 th February 1942 was to prove the
turning point in the science in the progress of World War Two. The Parachute Regiment landed on the French
coast and managed to dismantle the equipment, drag it down to the beach and get away on Royal Navy
motor torpedo boats. Capturing a piece of top German radar technology enabled the British scientists to
understand it, work out how to jam it, and to clear the skies for the start of the bombing offensive of Germany in
earnest. NIGHT RAID is full of powerful characters, whacky boffins, courageous commanders and very brave
men. Downing was educated at Cambridge and went on to become Managing Director and Head of History
at Flashback Television.
METROPOLIS: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution by Mike Rapport
History | 352pp | 16 pages b+w photos | Little, Brown | February 2014 | Korea: Duran Kim; Japan: TMA
The city in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a stormy debate about its nature: was it a place
of Enlightenment, a sparkling well of progress and civilisation, or was it a den of vice, degeneracy and disorder?
This issue was particularly searing at this time for this was the age of the American and French Revolutions,
events which at one and the same time appeared to vindicate the city as the spearhead of progress and to
reveal it as the dark sink-hole of humanity‟s destructive impulses. METROPOLIS explores the ways in which the
lives of the three cities converged and diverged. Packed full of well-known characters; George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Rousseau, John Wilkes, Mary Wollstonecraft to name a few, the book also draws on
the writings, lives and experiences of ordinary people. The story of the three cities in this revolutionary age
represented a broader ideological and cultural rupture between the three nations, their different routes towards
democracy, a hardening of national identities and the transition from the cosmopolitan world of the eighteenth
century Enlightenment to the more starkly defined nationalisms of the nineteenth. But the main characters in the
book are the cities themselves, their streets, their buildings, their neighbourhoods and, above all, the life which
teemed within them. Mike Rapport was born in New York and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and
Bristol. He is currently Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is the author of 1848: THE YEAR
OF REVOLUTION.
US rights Perseus
26