The German Girl sweeps from Berlin at the brink of WWII to Cuba on the cusp of revolution to New York in the wake of September 11th before reaching its deeply moving conclusion in the tumult of present-day Havana Based on a true story this wonderful novel gives voice to the joys & sorrows of generations of exiles forever seeking a place called home Before everything changed Hannah Rosenthallived a charmed life But now the streets of Berlin are draped in swastikas & Hannah is no longer welcome in the places she once considered home A glimmer of hope appears in the shape of the St Louis a transatlantic liner that promises Jews safe passage to Cuba The Rosenthals sell everything to fund visas & tickets At first the liner feels like luxury but as they travel the circumstances of war change & it soon becomes their prison Seven decades later in New York on her twelfth birthday Anna Rosen receives a package from Hannah the great-aunt she never met but who raised her deceased father Anna & her mother immediately travel to Cuba to meet this elderly relative & for the first time Hannah tells them the untold story of her voyage on the St Louis The German Girltells a horrific story in profoundly human terms & one ends up totally gripped & absorbed in the history' Julia Neuberger author of On Being Jewish ...

WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other The Nazi regime having started the conflict turned it into the most horrific war in European history resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers Over its course the Third Reich expended & exhausted all its moral & physical reserves leading to total defeat in 1945 Yet 70 years on
- despite whole libraries of books about the war's origins course & atrocities
- we still do not know what Germans thought they were fighting for & how they experienced & sustained the war until the bitter end When war broke out in September 1939 it was deeply unpopular in Germany Yet without the active participation & commitment of the German people it could not have continued for almost six years What then was the war Germans thought they were fighting? How did the changing course of the conflict
- the victories of the Blitzkrieg the first defeats in the east the bombing of Germany's cities
- change their views & expectations? & when did Germans first realise that they were fighting a genocidal war? Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony The German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War Told from the perspective of those who lived through it
- soldiers schoolteachers & housewives; Nazis Christians & Jews
- its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh & disturbing light on the beliefs hopes & fears of a people who embarked on continued & fought to the end a brutal war of conquest & genocide





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Taking inspiration from Jacqueline Wilson's brilliant characters fire your imagination & get your creative juices flowing with this boredom-busting activity journal beautifully illustrated by Nick Sharratt & complete with space to record your ideas every day Have a go at writing a tall tale like Tracy Beaker drawing a sea creature with Ella from The Longest Whale Song & much more in this the perfect gift for every Jacqueline Wilson fan! ...

A revelatory new biography of the sinister powerful & paranoid man at the heart of the CIA for more than three tumultuous decades Legendary head of the CIA James Jesus Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected government officials in American history Virtually untouchable he operated beyond the view of the public Congress & even the president himself In this gripping biography
- the first in over 20 years
- investigative reporter Jefferson Morley reveals the man behind the myths from Angleton's friendship with the poets Ezra Pound & TS Eliot to his links with the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington; from the intelligence secrets he unwittingly shared with British double agent Kim Philby to his obstruction of the investigation into the JFK assassination; & from his initiation of the US's first foray into mass surveillance of its citizens to his obsession with hunting for communist moles
- a search that nearly destroyed the Agency Yet during Angleton's seemingly lawless reign he also proved himself to be a formidable adversary to America's enemies acquiring a mythic stature within the CIA that continues to this day Here Morley uses exclusive interviews with colleagues & friends & never-before-seen correspondence to piece together a detailed & fascinating portrait of one of the most influential spies of our times


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Don Knotts stars in this US comedy directed by Alan Rafkin After getting the chance to be a reporter for the local newspaper Luther Heggs (Knotts) is sent to spend the night at a mansion made famous by a brutal murder 20 years earlier With the owner of the mansion looking to tear it down Heggs& account of his ghostly experiences at the house soon cause controversy The cast also

Includes:: Joan Staley Liam Redmond & Dick Sargent

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' Families are toxic' Thanksgiving New England & writer Cynthia has been persuaded by elder sister Frances to come & visit for the autumn holiday Cynthia is reluctant to join in this family reunion because she'd rather not see their long-estranged father Yet Frances is adamant that they must all meet to clear the air
- poisoned ever since their mother died when they were children But Cynthia has her own ideas about how to use this family occasion It's time to lift the lid on some unwelcome home truths about what happened all those years ago & this time her daddy's feelings are not to be spared
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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 Based on Robert Harris& acclaimed novel The Ghost is the story of a ghostwriter hired to take over writing the memoirs of one former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan
- James Bond The Thomas Crown Affair) after the ex-Prime Minister&s first co-writer dies in an accident Soon after the Ghost accepts the assignment a high-ranking British official accuses Lang of illegally seizing suspected terrorists & handing them over for torture by CIA a war crime The controversy brings reporters & protesters swarming to the Martha&s Vineyard mansion where Lang is staying with his wife Ruth (Olivia Williams) & his media-handler turned mistress Amelia (Kim Cattrall
- Sex & The City My Boy Jack) As The Ghost works he begins uncover to clues revealing the previous writer may have pieced together a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA & that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind From acclaimed director Roman Polanski (Oliver Twist The Pianist Chinatown) & resonating with topical themes this atmospheric & intriguing political thriller charts one man&s determination to discover the truth & to tell it if necessary from beyond the grave Actors Ewan Mc Gregor Pierce Brosnan Kim Cattrall Olivia Williams Timothy Hutton Tom Wilkinson James Belushi Jon Bernthal Jaymes Butler Daphne Alexander Angelique Fernandez & Michael S Ruscheinsky Director Roman Polanski Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)


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The sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity determined to halt our expansion into space The mastermind behind this lethal alliance is a traitor
- Charles Boutin He was a Colonial Defence Force scientist with access to their biggest military secrets Now the CDF's only hope is to discover Boutin's plan Trouble is Boutin's dead As a super-soldier created from Boutin's own DNA Jared Dirac may have answers However when Dirac fails to access the scientist's memories he's transferred to the Ghost Brigades for training These elite troops are also cloned from the dead so he might fit in But will Dirac's memory return as the enemy plots the fate of humankind? & whose side is Dirac really on?
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Britain's former prime minister is holed up in a remote ocean-front house in America struggling to finish his memoirs when his long-term assistant drowns A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project
- a man more used to working with fading rock stars & minor celebrities than ex-world leaders The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him
- secrets with the power to kill Robert Harris is once again at his gripping best with the most controversial new thriller of the decade

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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 Based on Robert Harris& acclaimed novel The Ghost is the story of a ghostwriter hired to take over writing the memoirs of one former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan
- James Bond The Thomas Crown Affair) after the ex-Prime Minister&s first co-writer dies in an accident Soon after the Ghost accepts the assignment a high-ranking British official accuses Lang of illegally seizing suspected terrorists & handing them over for torture by CIA a war crime The controversy brings reporters & protesters swarming to the Martha&s Vineyard mansion where Lang is staying with his wife Ruth (Olivia Williams) & his media-handler turned mistress Amelia (Kim Cattrall
- Sex & The City My Boy Jack) As The Ghost works he begins uncover to clues revealing the previous writer may have pieced together a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA & that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind From acclaimed director Roman Polanski (Oliver Twist The Pianist Chinatown) & resonating with topical themes this atmospheric & intriguing political thriller charts one man&s determination to discover the truth & to tell it if necessary from beyond the grave Actors Ewan Mc Gregor Pierce Brosnan Kim Cattrall Olivia Williams Timothy Hutton Tom Wilkinson James Belushi Jon Bernthal Jaymes Butler Daphne Alexander Angelique Fernandez & Michael S Ruscheinsky Director Roman Polanski Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)


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