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In Ireland's Call BBC journalist Stephen Walker charts the fascinating stories of 40 Irishmen who swapped the sports field for the battlefield – household names who gave up their blossoming careers to volunteer for the Great War. Using rare archive letters, memoirs and newspaper reports, this compelling book features the stories of sportsmen whose lives were tragically cut short in the mud of the Somme, the despair of Ypres and the heat of Gallipoli. It chronicles the remarkable achievements of Irish international footballers and rugby players, athletes, GAA stars, cricketers, hockey players and a record-breaking Irish champion golfer. A century on, their sacrifices and those of a generation of Irish sporting heroes, are finally and faithfully recorded in this unique and evocative account.

»Brillant geschrieben, atemberaubend spannend und unglaublich gut recherchiert.« The Sunday Times Als Jurij Gagarin 1961 als erster Mensch ins All flog, hatte er nicht nur die Schwerkraft, sondern auch den Eisernen Vorhang überwunden, der auf der Erde den Kommunismus vom Kapitalismus trennte. Die USA befanden sich nach diesem Coup in wilder Panik, die Sowjetunion triumphierte. Basierend auf neuen Quellen erzählt dieses packende Buch vom aberwitzigen »Race to Space« der Supermächte: vom mörderischen Training der Kosmonauten, von Hunden und Schimpansen in Raketen, Bomben im Cockpit, dilettantischer Technik und der Angst der Kommunisten, im All am Ende auf Gott zu treffen. „Stephen Walker hat es geschafft, die unglaubliche Reise meines Vaters nacherlebbar zu machen!“ – Jelena Gagarina, Tochter von Jurij Gagarin „Fesselnd, faszinierend und unglaublich gut recherchiert. Ich habe jede Seite verschlungen.“
– Laura Shepard-Churchley, Tochter von Alan Shepard

Эта книга воссоздает точную картину соперничества СССР и США за первенство в осуществлении полета человека в космос. В ее основе лежит впечатляющий массив не публиковавшихся ранее документов и высказываний тех, кто не просто присутствовал при описываемых событиях, а был их активным участником. Автор проводит параллели между Сергеем Павловичем Королевым и Вернером фон Брауном, создателями ракет, а также Юрием Гагариным и Аланом Шепардом, двумя кандидатами на первый полет в космос. Центральное место в повествовании занимает история первого советского космонавта Юрия Гагарина.

A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever

On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb—dubbed Little Boy by its creators—was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unimagined power was unleashed on a vibrant metropolis of 300,000 people, leaving one third of its population dead, its buildings and landmarks incinerated. It was the terrifying dawn of the Atomic Age, spawning decades of paranoia, mistrust, and a widespread and very real fear of the potential annihilation of the human race.

Author Stephen Walker brilliantly re-creates the three terrible weeks leading up to the wartime detonation of the atomic bomb—from the first successful test in the New Mexico desert to the cataclysm and its aftermath—presenting the story through the eyes of pilots, scientists, civilian victims, and world leaders who stood at the center of earth-shattering drama. It is a startling, moving, frightening, and remarkable portrait of an extraordinary event—a shockwave whose repercussions can be felt to this very day.