As hinted at by Colonel Lergen&s "thoughtful" words of advice an attack on Dacia has been ordered by the Empire & the fearsome power of the new mage battalion is deployed Determined to unleash the power of modernity upon the enemy Tanya prepares her freshly polished human shields for an all-out battle There&s no holding back with a resume-worthy achievement on the line!! About the Author Carlo Zen is the author of The Saga of Tanya the Evil Chika Tojo is the artist of the manga adaptation for The Saga of Tanya the Evil ...

Set at the end of the tenth century this title is about the time Scandinavia was converting from worship of Norse gods to Christianity It focuses on two families that of Hoskuld a prominent farmer with several sons & that of Gudrun the most beautiful woman ever born in Iceland 272 pages Eiricksson Leifur ...

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings' They summoned their friends readiedtheir horses & prepared their helmetsshields swords coats of mail' JRR Tolkien spent much of his life studying translating & teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe filled with heroes dragons trolls dwarves & magic He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature & even if he had never written The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction They are startling brutal strange pieces of writing with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations They plunge the reader into a world of treachery quests chivalry trials of strength They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe & bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century ...

Based on Viking Age poems The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology legend & sheer human drama At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires magical knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries Yet it is also set in a very human world incorporating strands from the oral narratives of the fourth & fifth centuries when Attila the Hun & other warriors fought on the northern frontiers of the Roman Empire One of the great books of world literature the saga is an unforgettable tale of princely jealousy unrequited love greed & vengeance With its cursed treasure of the Rhine sword reforged & magic ring of power it was a major influence for writers including William Morris & J R R Tolkein & for Wagner's Ring cycle ...

In Iceland the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age A unique body of medieval literature the Sagas rank with the world's great literary treasures
- as epic as Homer as deep in tragedy as Sophocles as engagingly human as Shakespeare Set around the turn of the last millennium these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives & deeds of the Norse men & women who first settled in Iceland & of their descendants who ventured farther west to Greenland & ultimately North America Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as the long ships did from home the Sagas are written with psychological intensity peopled by characters with depth & explore perennial human issues like love hate fate & freedom
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The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world many of which are official contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves & ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance & authority Treated as historical evidence they offer more detail than even the best plans & demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve This book is the first of a series which will take selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types
- in this case the evolution of the cruising ship under sail Each volume reproduces a large number of model photos all in full colour & including many close-up & detail views These are captioned in depth but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features Although pictorial in emphasis the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text producing an unusual & attractive form of technical history While the series will be of particular interest to ship modellers all those with an interest in ship design & development will attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books
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A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory hypocritical & sentimental & train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity' When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer he & his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft & romantic They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part
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New omnibus edition containing the complete second Gaunt's Ghosts story arc including the novels Honour Guard The Guns of Tanith Straight Silver & Sabbat Martyr In the blood-soaked Sabbat Worlds Crusade the massed ranks of the Imperium battle the dark forces of Chaos for dominion At the forefront of this conflict are the Astra Militarum
- untold numbers of ordinary Imperial Guard soldiers fighting to preserve the Emperor's holy realm Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt & the men of the Tanith First-&-Only are at the heart of this struggle their specialist scouting role earning them the nickname 'the Ghosts' From the holy world of Hagia to Phantine's aerial dome cities & the mud-filled trenches of Aexe Cardinal Gaunt's Ghosts find themselves in the thick of the fighting time & again charged with the most dangerous missions the crusade's commanders care to throw at them
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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 Val Kilmer plays suave espionage hero Simon Templer
- aka The Saint
- & Elisabeth Shue co-stars in this atmospheric mix of bold adventure & grand romance An array of sophisticated gadgetry is at Templar&s command as he plunges into a cloak-&-dagger netherworld of move & countermove Cool too is Templar&s knack for coming up with the right disguise at the right time Now you see him Now you don&t or do you? Each close-call escape is a breathless miracle
- & no one knows a miracle better than a saint Actors Val Kilmer Elisabeth Shue Rade Serbedzija Valeri Nikolayev Henry Goodman Alun Armstrong Michael Byrne Yevgeni Lazarev Irina Apeksimova Lev Prygunov & Charlotte Cornwell Director Phillip Noyce Certificate 12 years & over Year 1997 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; German
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Czech Subtitles English For The Hard Of Hearing ; English ; Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; German ; Icelandic ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 51 minutes (approx)



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Roger Moore is Simon Templar better known as The Saint The Saint out-swindles the swindlers for the good of the little guy he&s handsome charming suave & sophisticated! This monolith of a box set contains every colour episode ever made from 1966 to 1969 Majestic stuff! Disc 1 1 The Russian Prisoner 2 The House of Dragon&s Rock 3 The Convenient Monster 4 The Helpful Pirate Disc 2 1 The Angel&s Eye 2 Queen&s Ransom 3 The Reluctant Revolution 4 Interlude In Venice Disc 3 1 Locate & Destroy 2 The Man Who Liked Lions 3 The Better Mousetrap 4 Little Girl Lost Disc 4 1 The Paper Chase 2 Fight Plan 3 The Fat Women 4 Escape Route Disc 5 1 The Persistent Patriots 2 The Death Game 3 The Art Collectors 4 To Kill A Saint Disc 6 1 The Counterfeit Countess 2 Simon & Delilah 3 Island Of Chance 4 The Gadget Lovers Disc 7 1 A Double in Diamonds 2 The Power Artists 3 When Spring is Sprung 4 The Gadic Collection Disc 8 1 Invitation To Danger 2 The Best Laid Schemes Disc 9 1 Legacy For The Saint 2 The Desperate Diplomat 3 The Organisation Man 4 The Double Take Disc 10 1 The Time to Die 2 The Master Plan 3 The People Importers 4 The Scales of Justice Disc 11 1 The World Beater 2 Where the Money Is 3 The Ex-King Of Diamonds 4 The Man Who Gambles With Life Disc 12 1 The Portrait Of Brenda 2 Vendetta For The Saint (Part 1) 3 Vendetta For The Saint (Part 2) Disc 13 1 The Fiction Makers (Part 1) 2 The Fiction Makers (Part 2) Disc 14 1 Vendetta For The Saint (movie version) 2 The Fiction Makers (movie version) ...