The fifteenth century experienced the longest & bloodiest series of civil wars in British history The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule Some of the greatest heroes & villains in history were thrown together in these chaotic years Yet efforts were made to maintain some semblance of peace & order as chivalry was reborn the printing press arrived & the Renaissance began to flourish Following on from Dan Jones's bestselling The Plantagenets The Hollow Crown is a vivid & engrossing history of these turbulent times ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play These stunning ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Collection of four BBC adaptations of Shakespeare&s history plays comprising & Richard II& & Henry IV Part One& & Henry IV Part Two& & & Henry V& Beginning in the year 1399 the plays deal with events affecting the monarchy during a 16-year period where the ruling orders of Richard II (Ben Whishaw) Henry IV (Jeremy Irons) & Henry V (Tom Hiddleston) find themselves beset by rebellion greed & war The cast also

Includes:: Rory Kinnear Simon Russell Beale Julie Walters & Lindsay Duncan

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play These three screen adaptations Henry VI in two parts & Richard III tell the story of “ The War of the Roses” an exceptionally turbulent period in British history Shakespeare’s plays are filmed in the visually breathtaking landscape & architecture of the period Starring Benedict Cumberbatch Hugh Bonneville Judi Dench Michael Gambon Sally Hawkins Sophie Okonedo & Tom Sturridge these exhilarating & emotionally charged films feature some of Shakespeare’s most eloquent & powerful language ...

The most famous of all locked-room mysteries
- a classic in the crime genre' The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place
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Sam Kieth & Chris Ryall transport you to a near-future Japan where burned-out husks
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Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne this moving British drama centres on a recently widowed aging country vicar who hosts a family Christmas & learns a valuable lesson about keeping his own home fires alight before spending too much time tending the fires of others Those coming for the holiday include his sister his late wife's sister & her cousin The vicar's free-spirited youngest daughter & his son a furloughed soldier also show up The preacher's eldest daughter lives with him & together they welcome their guests The vicar is a good man & a caring fellow who spends considerable time caring for & counselling his parishioners perhaps too much time for he does not recognize the troubles of his own clan His devoted oldest daughter quietly deals with a terrible dilemma She is about to marry an engineer who has just found a long-term job overseas She wants desperately to be with him but will not leave her beloved father who seems to need her so much Her little sister also has trouble While in the city she fell in love with a soldier He impregnated her returned to the war & was killed Later the child died & she has become an alcoholic something she eventually tells her brother & sister Meanwhile the young people's aunts learning of the situation ask the youngest to return home to care for her father so the eldest can marry Unfortunately the young woman refuses & heads off to get drunk with her brother When the vicar learns about his daughter's troubles he & she have an emotional reconciliation He then moves on to make peace with the rest of his family ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Rekindling memories of an era in which Hollywood produced a generation of legendary Leading Men this collection celebrates the lives & works of the most unforgettable actors of a generation With charisma sophistication style & wit Gregory Peck Charlton Heston Steve Mc Queen & Cary Grant each had a magnetic presence that has appealed to movie goers for years beyond their final performances Each programme within this unique collection delivers a revealing portrait through clips from their most memorable performances interviews with the stars & their families & in some cases rare home movies ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER & THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS' By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust & also the best at explaining its origins & grotesque mentality as well as its chaotic development' Antony Beevor' Groundbreaking You might have thought that we know everything there is to know about the Holocaust but this book proves there is much more' Andrew Roberts Mail on Sunday Two fundamental questions about the Holocaust must be answered How did it happen? & why? More completely than any other single work of history yet published Laurence Rees's Holocaust definitively answers them' With The Holocaust Rees has set himself the task of writing an accessible chronological account of the murder of six million Jews in conditions of scarcely imaginable horror He's done it excellently There is no shortage of books on the Holocaust but Rees's stands out as a readable & authoritative exposition of how & why it happened & the barbarous methods by which it was pursued The amount of ground it covers in 500 pages is remarkable
- from the anti-Semitism of popular German literature of the 19th century to Hitler's suicide & the surrender of his regime It's excellently written & skilfully interweaves narrative history sound interpretation & the recollections (through interviews listed in the notes as previously unpublished testimony) of survivors Rees provides an exemplary account of how the greatest crime in modern history came about' The Times' Rees has distilled 25 years of research into this compelling study the finest single-volume account of the Holocaust It is not a book for the faint-hearted Some of the first-hand testimony is both shocking & heart-rending Yet it has important things to say about human nature
- what our species is capable of doing if not prevented by civilized laws
- & demands to be read' Saul David Telegraph' Anyone wanting a compelling highly readable explanation of how & why the Holocaust happened drawing on recent scholarship & impressively incorporating moving & harrowing interviews need look no further than Laurence Rees's brilliant book' Professor Ian Kershaw bestselling author of Hitler


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This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II It is virtually a day-by-day account in men & women's own words of the horrifying events of the Holocaust
- the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race
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