From the beaches of Dunkirk to the air raid shelters in the Blitz this book tells the story of Britain during the most destructive war of the 20th century It is full of intriguing facts illustrations photographs detailed reconstructions paintings maps & photographs It

Includes:: links to websites to find out more information via the Usborne Quicklinks website as well as lists of places to visit throughout Britain

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Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists authors & philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction & the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health wealth & happiness Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions literature religions & philosophies throughout the centuries A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived Among them Plato Leonardo Galileo & Einstein Now 'the secret' is being shared with the world Beautiful in its simplicity & mind-dazzling in its ability to really work The Secret reveals the mystery of the hidden potential within us all By unifying leading-edge scientific thought with ancient wisdom & spirituality the riveting practical knowledge will lead readers to a greater understanding of how they can be the masters of their own lives ...

' Riveting' Lesley Pearse on The Letter ' Gripping' Good Housekeeping on The Secret From the 1 bestselling author of The Letter comes The Secret
- a powerful twisting novel that you won't be able to put down Mary has been nursing a secret Forty years ago she made a choice that would change her world for ever & alter the path of someone she holds dear Beth is searching for answers She has never known the truth about her parentage but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past She must go back to where it all began to unlock The Secret What readers are saying about the unputdownable stories of Kathryn Hughes' Get set to be hooked' 'A page-turner from the very beginning'' This is one of the BEST BOOKS I have ever read''I cried buckets of tears reading it''A beautifully told tragic tale'
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' Madness & despair! Give me that for a lever & I'll move the world' In the only novel Conrad set in London The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc a Russian spy working for the police & ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion & when his evil plan goes horribly awry Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions The Penguin English Library
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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 Starring David Suchet & David Capaldi this powerful three-part BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad&s famous novel tells of an attempt by a triple agent to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 a time of unrest & anarchist violence throughout Europe However it is the far-reaching effect this infamous conspiracy has upon the domestic life of the anti-hero Adolf Verloc that takes this compelling & complex tale beyond political intrigue to reveal a psychological drama of probing depth & vivid detail in its incisive portrayal of human frailty Forced against his will to commit a terrorist outrage & become a political pawn Verloc is unable to avoid involving his own wife Winnie & her handicapped brother Stevie in an escalating & desperate struggle for survival in the merciless arena of political blackmail & treachery The diverse worlds of Victorian London&s embassies & fashionable aristocratic society alongside the squalid criminal back streets of Soho provide a smouldering background to the dark tragedy that will befall Verloc&s family Faced with an impossible moral dilemma this hapless victim of circumstance sees his life filled with mystery danger & ultimately death ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award 2018 Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2018 Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018 Eye-opening funny & horrifying& Observer Everyone who has any interest in public life should read it& Daily Mail You may not wish to think about it but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom You might be a juror a victim a witness or
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- a defendant Whatever your role you&d expect a fair trial I&m a barrister I work in the criminal justice system & every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect The innocent are wronged & the guilty allowed to walk free I want to share some stories from my daily life to show you how the system is broken who broke it & why we should start caring before it&s too late A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FOR 24 WEEKS

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In 2006 a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe
- The Secret Later that year Rhonda Byrne
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' Remember Demons lie' Locked away inside the fortified walls of Oxford's St Wilfred's College surrounded by alchemists sworn to protect them Taylor & Sacha are safe from the Darkness For now But time is short In seven days Sacha will turn 18 & the ancient curse that once made him invincible will kill him unleashing unimaginable demonic horror upon the world There is one way to stop it Taylor & Sacha must go to where the curse was first cast
- the medieval French city of Carcassonne
- & face the demons The journey will be dangerous & monsters are waiting for them But as Darkness descends on Oxford their choice is stark They must face everything that scares them or lose everything they love

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This book deals with the Divine Proportion a secret code that rules art nature & science It is known by many names Golden Mean Sacred Cut & Phi are only a few; & it is not by chance that the Divine Proportion was given its name It has been called divine because over thousands of years it has been deemed to be so 208 pages Hemenway Priya ...