The concluding part of John D Grainger's history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes secessions & rebellions the religiously-inspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees civil war & external invasion from Egypt in the West & the Parthians in the East By the 80s BC the empire was disintegrating internally fractured & squeezed by the converging expansionist powers of Rome & Parthia This is a fittingly dramatic & colourful conclusion to John Grainger's masterful account of this once-mighty empire ...

It took 600 men six years to build & was one of the longest bridges in the world On its completion in 1878 famous visitors including the Emperor of Brazil Prince Leopold of the Belgians & Queen Victoria herself came to pay homage to this marvel of Victorian engineering Then on the night of 28 December 1879 the unthinkable happened Battered by an apocalyptic storm the thirteen 'high girders' of the rail bridge over the Tay estuary fell headlong into the river below carrying with them a train with all its passengers & crew There were no survivors What caused the fall of the Tay Bridge & who was really to blame? Returning to the subject since the first edition of The Fall of the Tay Bridge in 1994 David Swinfen has meticulously analysed new evidence & now presents a solution to the riddle which has perplexed historians & engineers for generations what really brought the bridge down? ...

Misha Glenny&s acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict & looks ahead to an uneasy future in this turbulent region Writing in the Evening Standard Fitzroy Maclean said ‘ Misha Glenny’s deeply disturbing book is to my mind essential reading for anyone trying to understand or even just follow events in what was once Yugoslavia’ ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region Free Blu-ray player in order to play All six episodes from the second series of the BBC crime drama starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case Though her superiors aren&t convinced Stella Gibson (Anderson) continues her investigations into an alleged serial killer who has so far been successful at covering his tracks & evading capture Meanwhile the killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) remains true to his cause & seeks out his next victim ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All six episodes from the second series of the BBC crime drama starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case Though her superiors aren&t convinced Stella Gibson (Anderson) continues her investigations into an alleged serial killer who has so far been successful at covering his tracks & evading capture Meanwhile the killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) remains true to his cause & seeks out his next victim ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play All the episodes from series one & two of the BBC crime drama starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case Though her superiors aren&t convinced Stella Gibson (Anderson)&s investigations lead her to believe that a serial killer is at work Meanwhile the killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) continues to evade capture & sets about finding his next victim ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play All 17 episodes from the first three series of the BBC crime drama starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case Though her superiors aren't convinced Stella Gibson (Anderson)'s investigations lead her to believe that a serial killer is at work Meanwhile the killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) continues to evade capture & sets about finding his next victim Series 1 episodes are ' Dark Descent' ' Darkness Visible' ' Insolence &38; Wine' ' My Adventurous Song' & ' The Vast Abyss' Series 2 episodes are ' These Troublesome Disguises' ' Night Darkens the Street' ' Beauty Hath Strange Power' ' The Mind Is Its Own Place' ' The Perilous Edge of Battle' & ' What Is in Me Dark Illumine' Series 3 episodes are ' Silence & Suffering' ' His Troubled Thoughts' ' The Gates of Light' ' The Hell Within Him' ' Wounds of Deadly Hate' & ' Their Solitary Way' Actors Gillian Anderson Jamie Dornan Format PALLanguage English Subtitles English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 6 ...

Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers A new bank was hit almost every week & the robbers rushed in & out with such skill & precision it reminded him of raids he'd led back in Afghanistan & Iraq when he was an army ranger In fact it reminded him so much of the techniques in the Ranger Handbook that he couldn't help wondering if the outlaws were former Rangers themselves And that was definitely going to be a problem If he stood any chance of catching them he was going to need the help of old allies new enemies & a lot of luck The enemies he had plenty of It was the allies & the luck that were going to be in woefully short supply ...

From one of the worlds favourite thriller writers this is the fourth title in the Amos Decker crime series following the bestselling &i> Memory Man &i>&i> The Last Mile &i>and &i> The Fix&i> Baldacci David ...

First the sickness rotted the adults' minds Then their bodies Now they stalk the streets hunting human flesh The Holloway crew are survivors They've fought their way across London & made it to the Natural History Museum alive
- just But the fight will never end while the Enemy lives unless there's another way The kids at the museum are looking for a cure All they need are medical supplies To get them means a journey down unknown roads Roads where not only crazed hungry sickos hide in the shadows SUDDENLY IT'S NOT SO CLEAR WHO
- OR WHAT
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