Rupert Hughes

Originally Compiled by Rupert Hughes; completely Revised and Newly Edited by Deems Taylor and Russell Kerr

The fourth novel in the Second World War saga of the Bayley brothers. In the winter of 1942, it is the job of the youthful General Max Bayley, son of an English RAF World War I ace and a German mother, to protect transport planes dropping supplies to the stranded Wehrmacht in Russia. While Max's mission may seem doomed to failure, the Luftwaffe is facing worse problems on the Western Front, where they must face the formidable new RAF Mosquito. Reichsmarshal Goering soon realizes that the war cannot be won without the Mosquito, so orders military intelligence to obtain the specifications at any cost. This they endeavour to do by targeting the American wife of Squadron Leader John Bayley, Max's half-brother. But little do they reckon upon the might of the Bayley family... "The Whirlwind" tells the story of two young men united by blood and separated by ideology, and of the women they love and are desperate to rejoin.

Tract on the evils of drink, illustrated with true stories of the ill effects of alcohol upon well-known literary person.

The aim of this biographical dictionary is to treat each composer, and particularly those living, in depth; to provide heart, flesh and sinews to the bare bones of biographical information available in existing dictionaries and encyclopedias; to gather details and specifics that should, once and for all, be permanently recorded for the present and preserved for the future. This dictionary also aspires to embrace in each biography a succinct description of each composer's musical style together with a coup d'oeil on how that style grew and developed. At the same time, it hopes to provide descriptions (programmatic and/or musical) of some of the composer's major works. - Foreword.

ten short dramatic stories