Patrick Bishop ist ein gefeierter britischer Journalist und Autor, dessen Werke tief in Geschichte und soziale Themen eintauchen. Mit seiner umfassenden Erfahrung als Reporter für führende britische Zeitungen und Fernsehsendungen bringt er eine einzigartige Perspektive in sein Schreiben ein. Sein Erzählstil zeichnet sich durch scharfe Analyse und die bemerkenswerte Fähigkeit aus, komplexe Themen lebendig werden zu lassen. Bishops Bücher werden für ihre Autorität und fesselnde Erzählweise geschätzt, die den Lesern tiefe Einblicke in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart bietet.
Engage young imaginations with a hands-on cardboard farm playset that includes press-out vehicles, animals, and buildings. Designed for easy assembly, these models allow children to create their own farmyard scenes by simply pressing out and slotting the pieces together. Perfect for interactive play, this book offers a fun and creative way for little ones to explore farming activities.
Featuring mesmerizing photographs and intriguing facts, this non-fiction title invites readers to explore the solar system. A joke-telling astronaut adds a fun twist to the learning experience, making it both entertaining and educational. Perfect for aspiring space explorers, it combines captivating visuals with engaging content to spark curiosity about the universe.
For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitler’s advancing forces with a heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never before seen, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishop re-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating, exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words, the pilots describe what it was like to bale out from a stricken plane, to go into battle in the face of overwhelming odds, to hear the screams of a comrade as he went down in flames. With a riveting, taut narrative, Fighter Boys relates how those young heroes changed the course of World War II—and the history of the modern world.
Linked to a five-part BBC2 television series on the Irish diaspora, this illustrated account makes use of letters and other writings by ordinary emigrants and families who fled poverty, hunger, and political and religious oppression to start a new life in distant parts. Their descendants are now estimated to number some 70 million around the world, and those descendants' devotion to their homeland has maintained a strong and enduring sense of Irish identity.
Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor.
On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intelligence material and then sail for home. This was the greatest amphibious operation since Gallipoli, with the biggest accumulation of fighter power ever assembled. But by the morning of the attack, one of its architects already feared that the operation would "go down as one of the great failures in history". Its key players claimed it was essential to D-Day, with the media telling listeners that it was a success -- but the tragedy was all too predictable. Using first-hand testimony from combatants and civilians, and colourful analysis of the roles of Mountbatten and Montgomery, bestselling author Patrick Bishop's gripping account brings Operation Jubilee powerfully and vividly to life, in an epic demonstration of how ambition, folly and courage came together in one of the most tragic episodes of the war.
The book offers a compelling account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942, emphasizing its significance in World War II. It recounts the ambitious plan to capture the German-held port, aiming to demonstrate Allied resolve and gain experience for future operations. However, the mission resulted in devastating losses, with two-thirds of the attackers either killed, wounded, or captured. Utilizing first-hand testimonies and newly declassified documents, the author illuminates the complexities and consequences of Operation Jubilee, showcasing its crucial role in shaping the war’s narrative.
Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it.
SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain's most remarkable 20th century figures.
