The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger' It examines the physical conditions of fighting the particular emotions & behaviour generated by battle as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand & fight rather than run away In this stunningly vivid reassessment of three battles John Keegan conveys their reality for the participants whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt the levelled muskets of Waterloo or the steel rain of the Somme ...

These bald facts horrific as they are do not begin to scratch the surface of the truth about Robert Black a Scottish-born serial killer who undoubtedly committed further murders for which he was never tried both in this country & on the Continent In this ground-breaking account Robert Giles who has spent years tracing the killer's movements & sifting through all the evidence including transcripts of the trials convincingly argues that Black was an habitual serial killer over many years & quite certainly responsible for more than the four child murders for which he was convicted Co-written with Chris Clark a former police intelligence officer whose tireless work into the Yorkshire Ripper produced convincing new evidence of other murders that went unnoticed or unrecorded The Face of Evil shows once & for all that Robert Black was a serial killer whose crimes went far beyond what is generally believed In doing so it paints a portrait of human cruelty at its worst ...

A gifted clairvoyant A shocking vision A deadly killer Dean Koontz writes a spine-chilling novel in The Face of Fear
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James Cameron admired Martha Gellhorn above all other war-reporters 'because she combined a cold eye with a warm heart' The Chicago Times described her writing as 'wide ranging & provocative a blend of cool lyricism & fiery emotion alternately prickly & welcoming funny & stern' But make your own judgements & in the process find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War feel the frozen ground of the Finno Russian war the continent-wide Japanese invasion of China the massacres in Java the murderously naive intervention in Vietnam & the USA's dirty little wars in Central America You will also experience the process of the Second World War by the seat of your pants It is a tough way to learn history but also one created in bite-sized chunks that inspire just as often as they shock ...

An evocative & candid memoir that charts the key moments in the life of Britain's most successful bookseller 336 pages Waterstone Sir Tim (Author) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Horror in which a clinical trial at a remote facility goes terribly wrong Among those who sign up to test Pro Syntrex&s latest drug Pro 9 are Adam (Aneurin Barnard) Joni (Alex Reid) Carmen (Skye Lourie) & Jed (Oliver Coleman) The trial is highly secret with no-one including the staff who administer injections aware of who is receiving the drug & who is in the placebo group Shortly after the trial begins it becomes clear that something has gone wrong There are unexplained disappearances bizarre silhouettes & screaming from behind locked doors Locked inside the facility unaware of the true nature of events the surviving patients & staff must band together to try & find a way out of the nightmare ...

' One of the best books I've read this year Just astounding'
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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 John Cusack (The Frozen Ground 2012) is Detective Mike Fletcher a cop who is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo NY Working with his partner Kelsey Walker (Jennifer Carpenter
- Dexter) Mike becomes increasingly obsessed with finding the savage killer However with no leads the case is under threat of being shut down Mike risks being left powerless struggling to accept the killer may escape justice free to slaughter again But when his own teenage daughter disappears he drops any professional restraint in pursuit of the killer Just like the others Mike knows only too well that if he doesn’t find her in 48 hours he probably never will
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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 John Cusack (The Frozen Ground 2012) is Detective Mike Fletcher a cop who is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo NY Working with his partner Kelsey Walker (Jennifer Carpenter
- Dexter) Mike becomes increasingly obsessed with finding the savage killer However with no leads the case is under threat of being shut down Mike risks being left powerless struggling to accept the killer may escape justice free to slaughter again But when his own teenage daughter disappears he drops any professional restraint in pursuit of the killer Just like the others Mike knows only too well that if he doesn’t find her in 48 hours he probably never will
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This teen horror film comes from the writer of & Scream& & & Scream 2& Strange things seem to be happening around Herrington High School & a group of pupils confirm what every teenager secretly knows
- that their teacher are parasites from another planet An unlikely group of nerds jocks & loners must fight off the extra-terrestrial menace Starring Jordana Brewster Josh Hartnett Salma Hayek & Robert Patrick Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play
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