Sam Kieth & Chris Ryall transport you to a near-future Japan where burned-out husks
- the Hollows
- wantonly devour souls throughout

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Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne this moving British drama centres on a recently widowed aging country vicar who hosts a family Christmas & learns a valuable lesson about keeping his own home fires alight before spending too much time tending the fires of others Those coming for the holiday include his sister his late wife's sister & her cousin The vicar's free-spirited youngest daughter & his son a furloughed soldier also show up The preacher's eldest daughter lives with him & together they welcome their guests The vicar is a good man & a caring fellow who spends considerable time caring for & counselling his parishioners perhaps too much time for he does not recognize the troubles of his own clan His devoted oldest daughter quietly deals with a terrible dilemma She is about to marry an engineer who has just found a long-term job overseas She wants desperately to be with him but will not leave her beloved father who seems to need her so much Her little sister also has trouble While in the city she fell in love with a soldier He impregnated her returned to the war & was killed Later the child died & she has become an alcoholic something she eventually tells her brother & sister Meanwhile the young people's aunts learning of the situation ask the youngest to return home to care for her father so the eldest can marry Unfortunately the young woman refuses & heads off to get drunk with her brother When the vicar learns about his daughter's troubles he & she have an emotional reconciliation He then moves on to make peace with the rest of his family ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Rekindling memories of an era in which Hollywood produced a generation of legendary Leading Men this collection celebrates the lives & works of the most unforgettable actors of a generation With charisma sophistication style & wit Gregory Peck Charlton Heston Steve Mc Queen & Cary Grant each had a magnetic presence that has appealed to movie goers for years beyond their final performances Each programme within this unique collection delivers a revealing portrait through clips from their most memorable performances interviews with the stars & their families & in some cases rare home movies ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER & THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS' By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust & also the best at explaining its origins & grotesque mentality as well as its chaotic development' Antony Beevor' Groundbreaking You might have thought that we know everything there is to know about the Holocaust but this book proves there is much more' Andrew Roberts Mail on Sunday Two fundamental questions about the Holocaust must be answered How did it happen? & why? More completely than any other single work of history yet published Laurence Rees's Holocaust definitively answers them' With The Holocaust Rees has set himself the task of writing an accessible chronological account of the murder of six million Jews in conditions of scarcely imaginable horror He's done it excellently There is no shortage of books on the Holocaust but Rees's stands out as a readable & authoritative exposition of how & why it happened & the barbarous methods by which it was pursued The amount of ground it covers in 500 pages is remarkable
- from the anti-Semitism of popular German literature of the 19th century to Hitler's suicide & the surrender of his regime It's excellently written & skilfully interweaves narrative history sound interpretation & the recollections (through interviews listed in the notes as previously unpublished testimony) of survivors Rees provides an exemplary account of how the greatest crime in modern history came about' The Times' Rees has distilled 25 years of research into this compelling study the finest single-volume account of the Holocaust It is not a book for the faint-hearted Some of the first-hand testimony is both shocking & heart-rending Yet it has important things to say about human nature
- what our species is capable of doing if not prevented by civilized laws
- & demands to be read' Saul David Telegraph' Anyone wanting a compelling highly readable explanation of how & why the Holocaust happened drawing on recent scholarship & impressively incorporating moving & harrowing interviews need look no further than Laurence Rees's brilliant book' Professor Ian Kershaw bestselling author of Hitler


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This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II It is virtually a day-by-day account in men & women's own words of the horrifying events of the Holocaust
- the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race
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The Holocaust
- the murder of Approx. six million Jews by Nazi Germany & its collaborators in World War Two
- is the gravest

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There is evidence to suggest that our world & everything in it
- from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars & spinning electrons
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A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass & spend a fortune of millions of pounds The tale seems to begin with buried treasure & then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story
- a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments secret societies the Knights Templar the Cathar heretics of the twelfth & thirteenth centuries & a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1300 years ago The author's conclusions are persuasive at the core is not material riches but a secret
- a secret of explosive & controversial proportions which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics & the entire edifice of the Christian faith It involves nothing less than the Holy Grail

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Tracklist Hyper Super Mega Waterfalls Forever End Ikebana Telephone Line Lucifer&8217;s Coat I&8217;ll Only Say This Easy Chevalier Hotel Cache Western Shade Mercury Lake ...

Of immense significance to Judaism Christianity & Islam the Holy Land has been attracting visitors since the fifth century BC Covering all the main sites both in the city of Jerusalem & throughout the Holy Land & including over 150 high quality site plans maps diagrams & photographs this book provides the ultimate visitor guide to the rich archaeological heritage of the region Fully updated with all the latest information this new edition

Includes:: updates on the crucial recent developments at the Holy Sepulchre & on six completely new sites including a Middle Bronze Age water system in Jerusalem & what may be the original Pool of Siloam

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