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 B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Classic war drama directed by Jack Smight The film tells the story of the Japanese attack on the island of Midway in 1942 which saw US forces finally wresting control of the waves & staving off the threat of its West Coast being invaded US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz (Henry Fonda) leads outnumbered US forces as they look to intercept Japanese military communications After then finding out that Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Toshirô Mifune) is planning an attack on the island of Midway Captain Matt Garth (Charlton Heston) is tasked with planning the US defence The cast also

Includes:: Robert Mitchum Glenn Ford & James Coburn

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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 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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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 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This dramatic reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the Great War is one of the finest films of the British silent era The Battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile was a triumph for German Admiral von Spee & the first defeat of the British navy for a hundred years The retaliatory strike was instigated six weeks later by Admiral Fisher who sent two large battlecruisers HMS Invincible & HMS Inflexible to the South Atlantic to restore British supremacy Filmed on real battleships supplied by the admiralty this monumental production like Eisenstein&s Battleship Potemkin (1925) glories in the power & beauty of the machine Scrupulously fair in its treatment of the enemy this stirring film has been restored by the BFI National Archive & is presented with a newly commissioned score composed by Simon Dobson & performed by the Band of her Majesty&s Royal Marines ...

Tolkien&s works are punctuated by dramatic & explosive battles Men versus Orcs Elves versus Sauron Goblins versus Dwarves
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