How close did Britain really come to invasion during this time? What were Hitler & Churchill's motives? & what was the battle's real effect on the outcome of the war? This title deals with these questions 176 pages Overy Richard ...

Sid Peggy & Amy adore the two gerbils Bubble & Squeak but their mother detests them A major family battle results & it's clear life is never going to be quite the same again But after a near fatal encounter between Bubble & Ginger the cat Mrs Sparrow begins to see that life with a pair of gerbils might not be so bad after all ...

A collection of essays published to mark the millennium of the Battle of Carham fought in 1018 352 pages 8 Plates black & white ...

THE SAME WORLD BRAND NEW STORIES The peace in Araluen is under threat & newly crowned King Duncan must prepare for war Morgarath is in hiding recruiting an army of savage beasts known as Wargals for his next attack Halt prepares for a seemingly impossible task
- to scale the Mountains of Rain & Night to spy on the enemy & uncover their plans He knows that one wrong move could be deadly for at the Battle of Hackham Heath the fate of a kingdom will be decided THE ORIGIN STORY OF ARALUEN'S MOST FAMOUS RANGER BY JOHN FLANAGAN AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING RANGER'S APPRENTICE SERIES
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This is a major new account of the Battle of Jutland the key naval battle of the First World War in which the British Grand Fleet engaged the German High Seas Fleet off the coast of Denmark in 1916 Beginning with the building of the two fleets John Brooks reveals the key technologies employed from ammunition gunnery & fire control to signalling & torpedoes as well as the opposing commanders' tactical expectations & battle orders In describing Jutland's five major phases he offers important new interpretations of the battle itself & how the outcome was influenced by technology as well as the tactics & leadership of the principal commanders with the reliability of their own accounts of the fighting reassessed The book draws on contemporary sources which have rarely been cited in previous accounts including the despatches of both the British & German formations along with official records letters & memoirs ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A star-studded World War II drama about the great air & naval battle in which the underdog Americans
- outnumbered by the huge Japanese flotilla
- won American military supremacy in the Pacific Leading them to their heroic victory is Admiral Nimitz & Captain Matt Garth (Heston) the latter a junior officer whose life is complicated by his son&s romance with a Japanese-American girl Actors Charlton Heston Henry Fonda Robert Wagner James Coburn Robert Mitchum Glenn Ford Edward Albert Hal Holbrook Toshiro Mifune Cliff Robertson Dabney Coleman Noriyuki & Pat& Morita Erik Estrada Clyde Kusatsu & Tom Selleck Director Jack Smight Certificate PGYear 1976 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages German ; Italian ; Spanish ; French Subtitles English for the deaf & hard of hearing ; French ; Italian ; Spanish ; German ; Arabic ; Danish ; Dutch ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Russian ; Swedish ; Turkish ; Finnish Duration 2 hours & 4 minutes (approx) (approx)


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' Majestic Truly gripping' Andrew Roberts The Battle of the Atlantic was the single most important
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- campaign of

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So when the kids accidentally lose the family pirate treasure the legendary Blighty Bling it's up to them to take to the high seas in a leaky rowing boat & get it back with their annoying know-it-all neighbours in tow 224 pages black & white illustrations throughout Quayle Ruth ...

The first half of the thirteenth century is dominated by two women as proud & ambitious as they were beautiful yet different in all other qualities Isabella flamboyant & passionate a medieval Helen of Troy
- wife to King John & mother to Henry III 480 pages Plaidy Jean
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Ten days before the start of WWII Graf Spee Germany&s famed warship under the leadership of Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch) attempts to halt Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic After a defeated allied craft manages to radio its coordinates before sinking British naval forces begin playing a cat-&-mouse game with the feared German warship leading to Langsdorff & his crew hiding out in Montevideo ...