This is the ultimate guide to arms & armaments from the spears & swords of ancient history to the guns tanks battleships & fighter planes of the 20th & 21st centuries The Military History Book profiles the key arms & armaments technologies & tactics of war from 5000 years ago to the present day in stunning visual detail
- from the siege towers & catapults of ancient times to medieval swords & fortresses & from the war machines of the industrial revolution World War I & II & the Cold War to the unmanned drones & stealth bombers used by today's armed forces Discover the battles leaders & weapons of war that have changed the course of history & shaped the world & get up close with virtual tours of iconic pieces including the T-34 Tank the Lockheed F-117 Stealth Bomber & the AH-64 Apache helicopter Bringing military history to life like never before The Military History Book is the perfect gift for military enthusiasts of all ages
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The Military History of China bestselling author Erik Durschmied traces China's passage through a thousand years of war colonial adventurism & internecine politics & seeks to understand what this huge & unstoppable country is today
- as well as what the future holds for a fragile world in which China is the latest economic & military superpower Long the world's most populous country China has always flexed its muscles beyond its borders for all its contemplative religion & dreamlike art Catastrophic clashes with other countries are a thread woven into the fabric of the nation's history Today China stands on the threshold of global economic domination a true rival to the United States in a generation or so it will be twice as wealthy as the US Britain France Germany & Italy combined
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Tracklist Just Look At Us Now Nothing Is Real Younger Years Mourning In America You Break My Heart Blindness One More For The Road Big Time A Sea Of Roses Unwinnable War I've Been Loving You All The Things ...

The infamous 2005 mini-series returns in an all-new deluxe hardcover edition! The horror of suburban life explodes in an orgy of mythic violence
- & mild-mannered housewife Barbara Vale finds herself at its dark epicenter! & when you meet her family you'll understand why This slice of Americana is brought to you by the twisted minds of Joe Casey & the legendary Steve Parkhouse If you missed it the first time around this is your chance to finally join the Tupperware party!
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' Was her life to be always like this?
- always bringing some new source of inward strife?' When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes
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This title is presented with an introduction by Marina Lewycka Maggie & Tom Tulliver are both willful passionate children & their relationship has always been tempestuous As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss Tom's self-righteous stubbornness & Maggie's emotional intensity increasingly brings them into conflict particularly when Maggie's beauty sparks some ill-fated attachments George Eliot's story of a brother & sister bound together by their errors & affections is told here with tenderness energy & a profound understanding of human nature ...

Introduction & Notes by RT Jones Honorary Fellow of the University of York This novel based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it & the result on more than one level is tragedy ...

Drawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love sibling rivalry & regret The Mill on the Floss is edited with an introduction & notes by AS Byatt author of Possession in Penguin Classics Brought up at Dorlcote Mill Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom & is desperate to win the approval of her parents but her passionate wayward nature & her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family As she reaches adulthood the clash between their expectations & her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men her proud & stubborn brother; hunchbacked Tom Wakem the son of her family's worst enemy; & the charismatic but dangerous Stephen Guest With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful & moving In this edition writer & critic AS Byatt author of Possession provides full explanatory notes & an introduction relating The Mill on the Floss to George Eliot's own life & times Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator & later editor of the Westminster Review In 1857 she published Scenes of Clerical Life the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of ' George Eliot' including The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch & Daniel Deronda If you enjoyed The Mill on the Floss you might like Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure also available in Penguin Classics ...

The Miller's Dance is the ninth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner Cornwall 1812 At Nampara the Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture For Ross & Demelza there is some surprising
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- news & Clowance newly returned from her London triumphs finds that her entanglement with Stephen Carrington brings not only happiness but heartache As the armies battle in Spain & the political situation at home becomes daily more obscure the Poldark & Warleggan families find themselves thrust into a turbulent new era as complex & changing as the patterns of the Miller's Dance The Miller's Dance is followed by the tenth book in the Poldark series The Loving Cup ' From the incomparable Winston Graham who has everything that anyone else has then a whole lot more' Guardian

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