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Strange Intelligence: Memoirs of Naval Secret Service

H.C. Ferraby and Hector C. Bywater

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Hector C. Bywater was perhaps the British secret service's finest agent operating in Germany before...

Speed Kings

Andy Bull

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In the 1930s, as the world hurtled towards terrible global conflict, speed was all the rage. It was...

LIFE: 50 Years of James Bond: On the Run with 007, from Dr No to Skyfall

E. Editors of lif

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The world will once more stream to the theatres for another dose of Bond. "LIFE" was on the scene in...

Fire & Ice (Faerie Song Trilogy #1)

Michele Barrow-Belisle

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Adventure wasn’t something Lorelei Alundra was interested in. Gifted with two other-worldly...

Young Adult Fantasy Romance

David McK (3562 KP) rated Rocketeer Adventures Volume 1 in Books

Jan 30, 2019

Like, I'm sure, more than a few others, my first exposure to The Rocketeer came from the early 90s movie of the same name: even back then, I remember thinking that it bore more than a few resemblances to the 1988 Amiga game 'Rocker Ranger', with both set during (or near) World War 2, and both concerning a test pilot who learns the use of a jet-fueled rocket pack.

I was completely unaware that the film - and, more than likely, that game - were based on a comic series of the same name: this particular one.

I aoso have to say that the film (from what I remember) draws heavily from this source, although (if you'll forgive the pun) neither ever really seemed to 'take off' for me: to heavily draw me in.

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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated The Captain (AKA Der Hauptmann) (2017) in Movies

Nov 16, 2019

The Captain (AKA Der Hauptmann) (2017)

2017 | Biography, History, International

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Shocking true story

At the end of the second world war Germany was on it's knees. People were looting jut to survive. Willi Herold was one such person. A deserter paratrooper, he was caught and chased by an officer and manages to escape where he finds an abandoned car and in the back a Captains uniform which he dons and takes the identity of. What follows is like an adults Lord of the Flies. This is a dark piece of history and hard to believe it is true. The director chooses ways of showing him surrounded by lunacy as they slip more and more into lunacy and darkness.
Brilliant film of a story I didn't even know about until I saw it.