The author of the From Crew to Captain series, David Mellor, shares lists from 10 key areas of business start-up:‘The purpose of this little book is to help people understand the work they will need to do in order to set up their own business. I have made this journey myself, and helped many other people do the same over almost 20 years.I have selected 10 key areas of business start-up, and given you 10 areas to consider if you are going to move forward with confid...

The author of the From Crew to Captain series, David Mellor, shares lists from 10 key areas of growing a business:‘The purpose of this little book is to help people understand the work they will need to do in order to set up as a sole practitioner or similar. I have made this journey myself, and helped many other people do the same over almost 20 years.I have selected 10 key areas of growing a business, and given you 10 areas to consider if you are going to move fo...

The purpose of this little book is to help people understand the realities of trying to transition from working full-time to achieving genuine semi-retirement. David Mellor is making this journey himself and wanted to share with other people what it is really like.David has selected 30 lessons that he has learned thus far and tried to balance what he has experienced with observations from 30 other people. David's key objective is to present the reader with an opportunity to move fo...

The author of the From Crew to Captain series, David Mellor, shares lists from 10 key areas of establishing a consultancy practice:‘The purpose of this little book is to help people understand the work they will need to do in order to set up as a sole practitioner or similar. I have made this journey myself, and helped many other people do the same over almost 20 years.I have selected 10 key areas of establishing a consultancy practice, and given you 10 areas to co...

On July 10, 1981, David Mellor was just a baseball-crazed kid, a star high school pitcher preparing to go to college and dreaming of one day taking the mound in Fenway Park for his beloved Boston Red Sox. His dream was derailed as he crossed the parking lot of a McDonald’s. He heard the racing engine, but couldn’t defend himself against the car coming straight at him. It sent him flying through the air and into a wall, where it hit him again and pinned him, severely damaging his knee and d...

Heaven's Emperor; Man of Science; SurvivorExtraordinary images, brilliant writing, the latest declassified information, witnesses from among the greatest historians, and the hitherto unknown words of the Emperor himself deliver History’s Verdict on Hirohito, the Second World War's most enigmatic leaderOpening with the fateful attack on Pearl Harbor and his role in it, we trace how this great admirer of the Western world had overseen his country's march to w...

Much has been documented about Himmler as the incarnation of pure evil and the puppet master behind the Holocaust.Now, history’s verdict reveals that he was much more than a mere slaughterer of Jews.For all his ills, Himmler was a visionary. He longed for a utopia based on the blood community of the Aryan race. What lengths was he prepared to go to in order to obtain ‘good blood’ as well as removing the bad?The infamous SS is also examined in detail. Were they just ...

A skilled journalist and a master spin doctor, Mussolini created immensely powerful myths about himself and his regime. Myths that have endured for over 70 years, baffling both his contemporaries and modern historians in equal measure. Myths that have allowed Il Duce to escape history's definitive verdict...until now.We deliver the truth about this divisive yet fascinating figure. From his early foreign policy to eventual involvement in WW2, we unveil the reality of his imperial ai...

Erwin Rommel has achieved almost legendary status as the German Field Marshall of World war Two? Mainly for his cunning in outwitting and outmanoeuvring his allied enemies he is now known as the desert fox. This is a truly remarkable achievement, given the hatred for Nazism in the wake of World War Two. But History’s Verdict asks if this is a deserving accolade?Ironically, often those who admired him most were his former enemies; while some of his strongest criticism came from fell...

In 1940 he fought against, but could not prevent, the greatest humiliation in the history of the France he loved so dearly.How did Charles De Gaulle recover from this? How did he preserve the spirit of France? Then help liberate his nation? Then go on to lead it as its most important political figure since his fellow general, Napoleon?We trace the growth of De Gaulle: the precocious child of nationalist, religious yet progressive. The lover of history who early on became su...

The Doctor may have regenerated on many occasions, but so too has Doctor Who. Moving with the times, the show has evolved across fifty years...New Dimensions of Doctor Who explores contemporary developments in Doctor Who's music, design and representations of technology, as well as issues of showrunner authority and star authorship. Putting these new dimensions in context means thinking about changes in the TV industry such as the rise of branding and transmedia storytelling. Along with it...

Adored by the ordinary soldiers who served under him and the hero Britain needed in the “Darkest Hour” of its long history, Montgomery was also often hated by his peers, his superiors and his allies.Our brilliant documentary will explain why this was so by providing the most revealing insights ever into this complex, brilliant and infuriating man. Newly declassified revelations, testimony from the world's greatest military historians and thinkers, the frequently witty words of the ...