With 170 contributors a scope that is peerless international & crosses centuries The Assassin's Cloak pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate & public of all literary forms There are several diary excerpts for every day of the year beginning with Samuel Pepys & along the way we meet cads & charmers sailors & psychopaths rock stars & prima ballerinas gossips drunks snobs lechers & lovers There is humour & tragedy history & the humdrum often recoded on the same day or in the same entry ...

Kansas 1905 On a new well out on the plains an assassin's bullet kills oilman Spike Hopewell Minutes later an explosion rips apart his refinery Death & destruction
- just another bad day at the well? Except Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency witnessed everything 448 pages Cussler Clive
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The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford delves into the private life & public exploits of America&s most notorious outlaw As the charismatic & unpredictable Jesse James (Pitt) plans his next great robbery he wages war on his enemies who are trying to collect the reward money
- & the glory
- riding on his capture But the greatest threat to his life may ultimately come from those whom he trusts most Based on the book by Robert Hansen Actors Brad Pitt Casey Affleck Brooklynn Proulx Sam Rockwell Jeremy Renner Sam Shepherd Mary Louise Parker Paul Schneider & Zooey Deschanel Director Andrew Dominik Certificate 15 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English Duration 2 hours & 40 minutes (approx)

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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 Western starring Brad Pitt as the legendary Wild West outlaw Jesse James To those he robbed & terrorised he may have been just a criminal but in the sensational newspaper articles & dime novels chronicling the James Gang throughout the 1870s Jesse was the object of awe & admiration Foremost among his admirers was Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) an idealistic & ambitious young man who had devoted his life to the hope of one day riding alongside his idol When Robert is recruited into James& notorious gang he eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw & when he & his brother Charley (Sam Rockwell) sense an opportunity to kill James their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical statusreferred to as " Behind the Story
- Death of an Outlaw"
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Having idolised Jesse James all through his young life Robert Ford desperately tries to join the outlaw&s gang only to soon find himself getting resentful towards his hero ...

A brilliant
- & rather transgressive
- collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall

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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 In the year 198 BC Cao Cao (CHOW YUN FAT) The Prime Minister of Han Dynasty ventured to the east & savagely defeated China&s greatest warrior Lv Bu terrifying every warlord across the country before crowning himself the King of Wei Meanwhile young lovers Mu Shun (TAMAKI HIROSHI) & Ling Jv (CRYSTAL LIU YI FEI) were taken from a prison camp to a hidden tomb where they spent five cruel years being trained as assassins for a secret mission Over twenty years later in the year 220 BC astronomical signs began to predict dramatic change & as a result Cao&s son Cao Pi (QIU XIN ZHI) & his followers urged Cao to become the new Emperor unaware that opposing forces were plotting against him Actors Chow Yun Fat Liu Yifei & Alec Su Director Linshan Zhao Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen 2351 Languages Mandarin
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages English ; French ; German Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired ; French ; German ; Dutch Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 48 minutes (approx)
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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 In the year 198 BC Cao Cao (Chow Yun Fat) The Prime Minister of Han Dynasty ventured to the east & savagely defeated China’s greatest warrior Lv Bu terrifying every warlord across the country before crowning himself the King of Wei Meanwhile young lovers Mu Shun (Tamaki Hiroshi) & Ling Jv (Crystal Liu Yi Fei) were taken from a prison camp to a hidden tomb where they spent five cruel years being trained as assassins for a secret mission Over twenty years later in the year 220 BC astronomical signs began to predict dramatic change & as a result Cao’s son Cao Pi (Qiu Xin Zhi) & his followers urged Cao to become the new Emperor unaware that opposing forces were plotting against him ...

The emperor of a crumbling Han Kingdom hatches an assassination plot that seems to have been foretold in an ancient prophecy in this sweeping historical epic starring Chow Yun Fat The time is the Three Kingdoms period As Emperor Xian's infatuation with the arts distracts him from being a powerful leader aging Han Dynasty warlord Cao Cao (Yun-Fat) fights to maintain their empire's might When rumours of Cao Cao's ruling ambitions begin to swirl Emperor Xian sets into motion a plan to have the powerful warrior eliminated According to an ancient prophecy a new dynasty will emerge from the ashes of the old one when the four elementals begin to align Now in the year 221 AD Cao Cao finds himself beset by his enemies The children of his fallen rivals have been shaped into assassins by a mysterious figure & now with the four stars rising in the sky above Bronze Sparrow Tower the powerful Cao Cao prepares to make his last stand ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Incredibly intense & meticulously researched The Assault a vividly realistic portrayal of the true-life events that gripped a TV audience of over 21 million viewers on Saturday December 24th 1994 It&s Christmas Eve 1994 A flight from Algiers bound for Paris is hijacked & 227 passengers are taken hostage by a militant group of heavily armed Islamic terrorists The authorities& only hope of saving the passengers is to enlist the GIGN an elite special-forces unit But it&s a deadly mission of survival that will escalate into a violent confrontation that&s both brutal & moving Directed by Julien Leclerq The Assault stars Vincent Elbaz Gregori Derangere Melanie Bernier Aymen Saidi & Marie Guillard Actors Vincent Elbaz Gregori Derangère Melanie Bernier Philippe Bas Aymen Saïdi Marie Guillard Antoine Basler Fatima Adoum Hugo Becker Hugues Martel Herve Dubourjal François Lescurat Abdelhafid Metalsi & Jean-Philippe Puymartin Director Julien Leclercq Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 ...