Andrew Williams

Nightfall, 6 June 1944. D-Day is over and the Allies have carved a tenuous foothold in 'Fortress Europe'. The future of Europe hangs in the balance as Hitler's formidable SS Panzer troops threaten to drive them back into the sea.D-DAY TO BERLIN is the remarkable story of the Allied struggle for survival - the battle from the beaches of Normandy to the heart of Hitler's Reich and ultimate victory just eleven months later.The campaign to free Europe from Nazi oppression through the collective operations from D-Day to Berlin mark one of the greatest ever military offensives. The Allies overcame initial setbacks to inflict a devastating defeat on Hitler's crack divisions in France - a victory that was threatened just months later in the bitter winter fighting of the Battle of the Bulge. The final crossing of the Rhine and the advance into Germany changed the course of European history forever.In D-DAY TO BERLIN we meet men and women from both sides - British, American and German soldiers - whose bravery and endurance made the final push through Europe the defining drama of the Second World War.

La dramática historia de la batalla submarina del Atlántico que tuvo lugar en la II guerra mundial, contada por un hombre que luchó en ella y sobrevivió.Lo que la historia ha dado en llamar la batalla del Atlantico fue, realmente, una guerra a gran escala dentro de otra guerra, que duro desde el comienzo de las hostilidades en 1939 hasta el momento del alto el fuego en 1945. Andrew Williams se centra en los primeros cuatro años de este encarnizado conflicto, durante los cuales los submarinos alemanes hundieron la asombrosa cantidad de doce mil toneladas de la flota aliada. La historia llega a su climax en mayo de 1943, cuando la introduccion de nuevas armas tacticas cambiaron las tornas a favor de los aliados permitiendoles primero contener y despues derrotar a las temidas "manadas de lobos" alemanas.Intercalando informes en primera personal de supervivientes de ambos bandos, La batalla del Atlantico elabora una cronica de las proezas de los carismaticos comandantes de los submarinos alemanes que guiaron a sus tripulantes en las cacerias y, a menudo, las condujeron directamente a la muerte. El libro se embarca en los buques mercantes y de escolta que fueron tanto victimas como verdugos de los "lobos grises" del mar; y penetra en los camarotes de guerra de buques alemanes, britanicos y americanos donde descifradores de codigos y estrategas se las ingeniaban para lograr cualquier ventaja posible en una carrera que resultaria funesta para el perdedor.

From 1939 until 1942, Hitler''s U-boats-the submarine fleet dubbed the "gray wolves"-threatened to accomplish what his air force had been unable to achieve: to starve Britain into submission. The ensuing struggle for control of the storm-tossed Atlantic trade routes became a full-scale war-within-a-war, and one which led to astounding losses: Allied powers would lose more than fifty thousand men, and fifteen million tons of shipping, over the course of the conflict.Through exclusive interviews with survivors on both sides-including those given for the first time by former U-boat crew members-historian and documentary producer Andrew Williams provides a riveting account of these crucial years of battle. Vividly recreating the claustrophobic and dangerous life on board, The Battle of the Atlantic succeeds in encompassing the whole experience of warfare as few other histories have, and forms an important contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest fights of the twentieth century.

Williams ha usado una amplia documentación, pero su fuente de información más importante han sido las entrevistas mantenidas con cerca de cincuenta supervivientes de ambos lados, marinos y aviadores britanicos y tripulantes de los submarinos alemanes, que le permiten revivir con sus recuerdos el drama y la epopeya de una de las mas decisivas batallas de la segunda guerra mundial y contar esta apasionante historia tal como sus protagonistas la vivieron.

Nightfall, 6 June 1944. D-Day is over and the Allies have carved a tenuous foothold in Fortress Europe. The future of Europe hangs in the balance as Hitlers formidable SS Panzer troops threaten to drive them back into the sea. D-Day to Berlin is the remarkable story of the Allied struggle for survival - the battle from the beaches of Normandy to the heart of Hitlers Reich and ultimate victory just eleven months later. The campaign to free Europe from Nazi oppression through the collective operations from D-Day to Berlin mark one of the greatest ever military offensives. The Allies overcame initial setbacks to inflict a devastating defeat on Hitlers crack divisions in France - a victory that was threatened just months later in the bitter winter fighting of the Battle of the Bulge. The final crossing of the Rhine and the advance into Germany changed the course of European history forever. In D-Day to Berlin we meet men and women from both sides - British, American and German soldiers - whose bravery and endurance made the final push through Europe the defining drama of the Second World War.

For all readers of Robert Harris, William Boyd and John le Carre, The Suicide Club is a First World War spy thriller set in Occupied Belgium in 1917, and tells the dark, disturbing and untold story of the shadow espionage battle fought behind the lines. Andrew Williams is in the front rank of English thriller writers (Daily Mail) and his novels possess a richness of characterisation and intelligence that few thrillers can match (Sunday Times). August 1917. Britain is mired in bloody stalemate on the Western Front and questions are being asked in government about the leadership of the army. Soldier spy Sandy Innes is summoned from his undercover work in Belgium by the new Secret Service to investigate. Officially transferred to Field Marshal Haigs headquarters in France to prepare agents for the next big push, his secret mission is to spy on Haigs intelligence chiefs. At GHQ, no one is interested in Inness inside knowledge. Instead, he is attached to an advance assault group dubbed The Suicide Club. His fellow intelligence officers have little faith in the top secret information being fed to Haig by their superior, and as Innes digs deeper he begins to suspect treachery. The stakes could not be higher: the fate of hundreds of thousands of British soldiers.In a tense race against time, against the background of political machinations in government and at GHQ, Innes must survive membership of The Suicide Club, and then risk all by going back behind enemy lines to uncover the truth.

This tense, gripping novel set in 19C St Petersburg amid desperate revolutionaries bent on the overthrow of the Tsar confirms Andrew Williams place in the front ranks of English thriller writers (Daily Mail). Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters and the Walter Scott Awards, To Kill a Tsar will appeal to readers of John le Carre, Robert Harris and Alan Furst.St Petersburg, 1879. A shot rings out in Palace Square. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. In the melee no one notices a striking dark haired young woman in a heavy coat slip away from the scene. Russia is alive with revolutionaries. While Tsar Alexander II remains a virtual prisoner in his own palaces, his ruthless secret police will stop at nothing to unmask those who plot his assassination and the overthrow of the Imperial regime. For Dr Frederick Hadfield, whose medical practice is dependent on the Anglo-Russian gentry, these are dangerous times. Drawn into a desperate cat-and-mouse game of undercover assignations, plot and counter-plot, he risks all in a perilous double life.From glittering ballrooms to the cruel cells of the House of Preliminary Detention, from the grandeur of the British Embassy to the underground presses of the young revolutionaries, To Kill a Tsar is a gripping thriller set in a world of brutal contrasts in which treachery is everywhere and nothing is what it seems.

The gripping and immersive historical thriller from the author of Witchfinder, based on the true events of a scandalous blackmail plot hidden in the shadows...A compelling story of power, passion and intrigue based on real events. A terrific readNICK ROBINSON, BBC Today presenterA wickedly entertaining tale of political chicaneryDAILY TELEGRAPH___________London 1929. Very much not a land fit for heroes. Frenchie knows his occasional work for MI5 serves only the ruling classes. But he needs to feed his children. Scruples died in the trenches.When Ramsay MacDonald, Britains first Labour Prime Minister, is blackmailed by a former lover, Frenchie must go to Paris to buy her silence.It is clear there are many people who would see MacDonald fall - the Conservatives, their friends in the press, even some of his own colleagues. But his own secret service? When Frenchie hears the other side of the story, everything changes.___________If le Carre needs a successor, Williams has all the equipment for the roleTIMES Literary Supplement Books of the YearSpy tradecraft of the old school, with no computers, fast cars or mobile phones, but not a whit less exciting for that. Highly recommended as both a spy story and a piece of social and political historyShots Magazine

Spring, 1941. The armies of the Reich are masters of Europe. Britain stands alone, dependent on her battered navy for survival, while Hitlers submarines his grey wolves - prey on the Atlantic convoys that are the countrys only lifeline. Lieutenant Douglas Lindsay is amongst just a handful of men picked up when his ship is torpedoed. Unable to free himself from the memories of that night at sea, he becomes an interrogator with naval intelligence, questioning captured U-Boat crews. He is convinced the Germans have broken British naval codes, but hes a lone voice, a damaged outsider, and his superiors begin to wonder - can he really be trusted when so much is at stake? As the Blitz reduces Britains cities to rubble and losses at sea mount, Lindsay becomes increasingly isolated and desperate. No one will believe him, not even his lover, Mary Henderson, who works at the very heart of the intelligence establishment. Lindsay decides to risk all in one last throw of the dice, setting a trap for his prize captive - and nemisis - U-Boat Commander Jurgen Mohr, the man who sent his ship to its doom...

Rich, densely plotted... If le Carré needs a successor, Williams has all the equipment for the role.Times Literary Supplement Books of the YearThe most authentic spy novel ever written [...] an utterly fascinating account of a very dangerous time in British history when elements of the Secret State were out of controlEdward WilsonGripped me, not just because of its crisp writing but because of its skilful blending of history and imagination... A clever cautionary taleThe TabletLondon 1963. The Beatles, Carnaby Street, mini skirts. But the new mood hasnt reached the drab and fearful corridors of MI5 and MI6. Many agents joined the secret service to fight the Nazis. Now they are locked in a Cold War against the Russians.And some of them are traitors.The service has been shaken to its core by the high-profile defections of Cambridge-educated spies Burgess, MacLean and now Philby. Appalled at such flagrant breaches of British security, the Americans are demanding a rigorous review.Harry Vaughan is brought back from Vienna to be part of it. The Chief asks him to join two investigators - Arthur Martin and Peter Wright - who are determined to clean out the stables, and the first target of their suspicions is the Deputy Director General of MI5, Graham Mitchell.Harry slips back into a relationship with an old flame, Elsa, and joins the hunt - somewhat reluctantly. He is sceptical of the case against Mitchell and wary of the messianic fervour of the two spycatchers. But the further the investigation goes - and the deeper his commitment to Elsa becomes - the greater the sense of paranoia and distrust that spreads through the wilderness of mirrors that is the secret service.The only certainty is that no one is above suspicion.Including Harry Vaughan.***Every bit as cynical in tone as Mick Herrons Slough House mobIrish TimesIf a good spy novel needs anything, its uncertainty, a hall of mirrors; and Witchfinder delivers it in spades. Great stuff Dominick Donald, author of BreatheOne of Britains most accomplished thriller writersDaily MailWilliams is an accomplished thriller writer and this may be his best book yet. London in the 1960s, its smoky pubs, damp streets and crackle of sexual liberation is so well portrayed that reading Witchfinder is almost like time travel. Williams blends fact and fiction to make a captivating read.Financial Times

1915. German guns are on their way to Ireland. The British government faces its worst nightmare; insurrection at home while it struggles with bloody stalemate on the Western Front. A British spy, Sebastian Wolff of the new Secret Service Bureau, is given the task of hunting down its enemies: one a traitor reviled by the society that honoured him as a national hero; the other a German-American doctor who, instead of healing the sick, is developing a terrifying new weapon that he will use in the country of his birth.A Wolffs mission will take him undercover into the corridors of power in Berlin, then across the Atlantic in a race against time to prevent the destruction of the ships and supplies Britain so desperately needs to stave off defeat.

From 1939 until 1942, Hitlers U-boats - his grey wolves - threatened to accomplish what his air force had hitherto been unable to achieve: to starve Britain into submission. The struggle for control of the Atlantic was to become the longest, and one of the most bitterly fought campaigns of World War II. For Winston Churchill it was the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war. During the course of five bloody and uncertain years, Britain and her Allies lost more than fifty thousand seamen and fifteen million tons of shipping protecting this lifeline. In The Battle of the Atlantic, Andrew Williams vividly describes this intense and strategically vital campaign in the fight for Allied victory. ...an excellent book. Sunday Express

Das Grammatische Lernlexikon Englisch ist ein handliches Nachschlage- und Ubungsbuch fur jeden Englischlerner. Es dient dazu, Informationen uber Grundlagen der englischen Grammatik rasch zu finden und sich mit Kurztests zu vergewissern, ob man den entsprechenden Uberblick erlangt hat. Eine Besonderheit ist hier ein Anhang mit den knapp einhundert wichtigsten unregelmaigen englischen Verben, die zusatzlich in Lerngruppen prasentiert werden, wodurch das Einpragen des Stammformwechsels (sleep slept slept) erleichtert wird.Niveau B1B2 (GER)

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Un hombre. Una oportunidad. Rusia, 1879. Un atentado contra la vida del zar Alejandro II lo deja ileso pero revela una conspiración muy profunda. El presunto asesino es apresado y poco despues colgado. Entre sus posesiones se encuentra una lista de nombres que dara pistas a la policia para descubrir a los demas conspiradores. Porque Rusia esta llena de conspiradores: movimientos revolucionarios organizados han comprendido que, para lograr un cambio, es necesario tomar acciones dramaticas; ya no valen medias tintas niposiciones seudoconciliadoras como la del doctor Frederick Hadfield, un ingles que vive en San Petersburgo y que se vera mas involucrado de lo que quisiera con el grupo de conspiradores?

El testimonio de cincuenta supervivientes de ambos lados nos permite revivir el drama y la epopeya de una de las mayores y más decisivas batallas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. De 1939 a 1945 la suerte de la Segunda Guerra Mundial dependio en buena medida del resultado final de la batalla del Atlantico, un enfrentamiento que se saldo con la perdida de 648 submarinos alemanes, 3.500 buques mercantes aliados y cerca de cien mil hombres de uno y otro bando. Pero, sorprendentemente, esta batalla decisiva, que los alemanes pudieron ganar y que hubiera entonces cambiado el curso de la historia, no ha sido nunca contada como lo hace Andrew Williams en este libro. Williams ha usado para ello una amplia documentacion, pero su fuente de informacion mas importante han sido las entrevistas mantenidas con cerca de cincuenta supervivientes de ambos lados, marinos y aviadores britanicos y tripulantes de los submarinos alemanes.