Tracklist Want You Around (Chunky)I Went Swimming North Street From The Creators Of Love Actually Complicated Everyone's A Little Bit Weird Lost In You Kind Of Like Tread Lightly I Know Nothing By The Sea ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In 1943 the Germans opened Stalag Luft III a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists In doing so however the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history
- brilliantly portrayed here by Steve Mc Queen James Garner Charles Bronson & James Coburn
- who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted One of the most ingenious & suspenseful adventure films of all time The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) screenwriters James Clavell (Shogun) & WR Burnett (Little Caesar) & composer Elmer Bernstein Actors Steve Mc Queen James Garner Richard Attenborough James Donald James Coburn Donald Pleasence Charles Bronson Hannes Messemer Gordon Jackson David Mc Callum Angus Lennie Nigel Stock Robert Graf Tom Adams & William Russell Director John Sturges Certificate PGYear 1963 Languages English

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Great Escape tell of an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II starring Steve Mc Queen James Garner & Richard Attenborough The film is based on the book of the same name by Paul Brickhill a non-fiction account of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now &379;aga&324; Poland) in the province of Lower Silesia Nazi Germany ...

1969 was a pivotal year in space exploration US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon There are some moments in history that are so dramatic or important that people remember them forever In words & pictures Gillian Clements tells the stories of these Great Events through simple narrative text & lively informative line illustrations These books are perfect for the emerging independent reader at upper Key Stage 1 ...

Guy Fawkes was about to blow up the Houses of Parliament when the Gunpowder Plot was discovered in 1606 Find out who else was involved & how a terrible tragedy was narrowly avoided! There are some moments in history that are so dramatic or important that people remember them forever In words & pictures Gillian Clements tells the stories of these Great Events These books are perfect for the emerging independent reader at upper Key Stage 1 Simple narrative text & lively informative line illustrations Designed to encourage a sense of history not just give the facts ...

As a small boy at Joe Gargery&s forge Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life
- an escaped convict he is forced to
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& Hold your noise! Keep still you little devil or I&ll cut your throat!& Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a terrifying encounter with a convict on the lonely marshes will later transform his life Pip is more troubled by his visits to strange old Miss Havisham
- her decaying wedding dress & the house full of memories
- & the beautiful girl Estella who makes him ashamed of his country manners & coarse hands A blacksmith&s apprentice could never hope to win Estella but then young Pip&s future might not turn out quite as expected

Includes:: exclusive material In ‘ The Backstory’ you can learn about Victorian convicts & the alternative ending to Great Expectations! Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds & the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book & Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time



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I have been bent & broken but
- I hope
- into a better shape' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional

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Pip&s life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins & up the social ladder His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals Pip&s desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella but secrets from the past impede his progress & he has many hard lessons to learn ...

The classic novel brought to life in full colour! 'I never saw my father or my mother & never saw any likeness of either of them' No classical collection would be complete without this well-loved Dickens title The wonderful tale of Pip Miss Havisham & the spiteful Estella is retold here with fresh enthusiasm contained within rich Victorian ambiance for a wonderful reading experience ...