Synonymous with conflict & humanitarian aid the mandate of the International Red Cross (ICRC) is to protect the wounded victims of war civilians prisoners & refugees alike In Memoirs of a Red Cross Doctor Frank Ryding recounts the missions he undertook with the Red Cross during a career spanning 35 years Having worked as a doctor in many of the world s war zones & natural disasters from the 'killing field' era of Cambodia to Afghanistan Chechnya Somalia Pakistan & Sudan his is an account of observation & also personal experience contrasting the serious the terrifying the heart-rending & the heart-warming It is also the story of the victims who suffer the consequences of war & disaster It shows both their courage & that of the aid agencies sent to help them As Frank recalls from some Somali graffiti " It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness' ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Julie Christie stars in an award-winning adaptation of Doris Lessing&s famous dystopian novel This complex haunting science-fiction feature screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1981 is presented in a br&-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio Set in Britain at an unspecified point in the near-future Memoirs of a Survivor tells the story of &D& a housewife trying to carry on after a cataclysmic war that has left society in a state of collapse Rubbish is piled high in the streets among near-derelict buildings covered with graffiti; the electricity supply is variable & water is now collected from a van &D& spends her time examining her relations with authority with the marauding gangs of brutalised children who roam the streets & with Emily the traumatised orphaned teenager who is delivered into her care ...

Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor Marcus Aurelius Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Classics In her magnificent novel Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life & death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world The Emperor Hadrian aware his demise is imminent writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius his future successor The Emperor meditates on his past describing his accession military triumphs love of poetry & music & the philosophy that informed his powerful & far-flung rule A work of superbly detailed research & sustained empathy Memoirs of Hadrian captures the living spirit of the Emperor & of Ancient Rome Marguerite de Crayencour (1903-88) who went by the inexact anagrammatic pen name ' Marguarite Yourcenar' was a Belgian-born French novelist & essayist the first woman to be elected to the Academie francaise Her first novel Alexis was published in 1929; in 1939 she was invited to America by her lover Grace Frick where she lectured in comparative literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York When Memoires d' Hadrien was first published in 1951 it was an immediate success & met with great critical acclaim If you enjoyed Memoirs of Hadrian you might like Robert Graves's I Claudius also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A timeless masterpiece every page is informed by her profound scholarship' Paul Bailey author of Gabriel's Lament' Yourcenar conjures worlds She can make us share passion
- for beauty bodies ideas even power
- & consider it closely at the same time She is that most extraordinary thing a sensual thinker' Independent on Sunday

...

Welcome to the dysfunctional world of Reverend Eustace Eel aided by an array of church officers who orbit around him on the Much Steepledown Circuit 192 pages Davis M H ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack planned for Memorial Day the president orders Mitch Rapp his top counterterrorism operative to pull out all the stops Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan where he leads the ultra secret counterterrorism Special Forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into Northern Pakistan Their target an al-Qaeda stronghold Within a subterranean room Rapp & his team discover a treasure trove of maps computers files & bills of lading for multiple freighters heading to US ports
- all pointing to plans for a catastrophic attack on Washington DC Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters andin a few hours the freighters have been located & the danger averted Or has it? To Mitch Rapp the whole operation seemed just a bit too easy Following his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth Rapp makes a truly terrifying discovery
- & with Memorial Day closing fast he must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions AMERICAN ASSASSIN book one in the series is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O' Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Praise for the Mitch Rapp series ' Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times ' Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story instantly gripping' Shortlist ' Action-packed in-your-face adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent ' Mitch Rapp is a great character who always leaves the bad guys either very sorry for themselves or very dead' Guardian

...

New York Times bestselling author & Eisner-nominated creator of i Zombie Chris Roberson delivers a magical new series with art by Rich Ellis Memorial is the story of Em a young woman who arrives at a hospital in Portland Oregon with no memory of her past A year later she has rebuilt her life only to find her existence thrown into turmoil after she inherits a magical shop & is drawn into a supernatural conflict between beings that not only represent but are fundamental elements of the universe itself! ...

Memoriam War Rages On Reduced to Zero Corrupted System Flatline Surrounded (By Death) Resistance Last Words ...

Tracklist Shell Shock Undefeated Never The Victim Austerity Kills In The Midst Of Desolation Refuse To Be Led The Veteran Requiem For Mankind Fixed Bayonets Interment ...

Tracklist Shell Shock Undefeated Never The Victim Austerity Kills In The Midst Of Desolation Refuse To Be Led The Veteran Requiem For Mankind Fixed Bayonets Interment ...

BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week' Wonderfully idiosyncratic coolly heartfelt & memorable' William Boyd' One of the great writers of early 20th Century Russia' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A remarkable memoir both potent & endearing' Erica Wagner New Statesman The writer & satirist Teffi was a literary sensation in Russia until war & revolution forced her to leave her country for ever Memories is a blackly funny & heartbreaking account of her final frantic journey into exile across Russia
- travelling by cart freight train & rickety steamer
- & the 'ordinary & unheroic' people she encounters Fusing exuberant wit & bitter horror this is an extraordinary portrayal of what it means to say goodbye & confirms Teffi as one of the most humane perceptive observers of her times & an essential writer for ours

...