An Autumn evening in 1937 A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station Tonight he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow at a workers' bar in the city's factory district he will meet with the military attache from the French embassy Information will be exchanged for money So begins THE SPIES OF WARSAW with war coming to Europe & French & German operatives locked in a life-&-death struggle on the espionage battlefield At the French embassy the new military attache Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier a decorated hero of the 1914 war is drawn in to a world of abduction betrayal & intrigue in the diplomatic salons & back alleys of Warsaw At the same time the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage a lawyer for the League of Nations Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows amidst an extraordinary cast of venal & dangerous characters
- Colonel Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence last seen in Furst's THE POLISH OFFICER; the mysterious & sophisticated Doctor Lapp senior German Abwehr officer in Warsaw; Malka & Viktor Rozen at work for the Russian secret service; & Mercier's brutal & vindictive opponent Major August Voss of SS counterintelligence & there are many more some known to Mercier as spies some never to be revealed
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In 1945 the Second World War was over & a shattered world faced the future For the men & women of the newly formed GCHQ however the next global conflict had already begun Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller The Secret Life of Bletchley Park renowned author Sinclair Mc Kay uncovers the story of what happened after the end of the Second World War Once victory was declared many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley Park by cracking the impenetrable Enigma codes & giving the Allies an invaluable insight directly into the Nazi war machine moved on to GCHQ This was the British government's new facility established to fight a different but no less formidable foe
- Stalin & the KGBFascinating & insightful revelations from deep within the archives of this secret organisation reveal the story of the tumultuous early years of GCHQ as it navigated its way through an era of double agents deception & betrayals From the defection of the Cambridge Five & the treachery of the atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs to the collapse of the British Empire the ascension of Chairman Mao & the emergence of the US as a superpower Mc Kay deftly explores the impact these events had on the fledgling organisation During the years of the Cold War the men & women of GCHQ penetrated Soviet encryptions & gathered crucial intelligence from all over the world The Spies of Winter tells the story of the codebreakers themselves & how they used new technology to expand the horizons of cryptography in order to defend the nation & maintain the fragile peace in a world now under the shadow of nuclear holocaust
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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 One day three farm boys come upon a wounded outlaw named Harry Spikes They take him to one of the boys& barn nurse him back to health shield him from a sheriff&s posse & let him go on his way Later to escape the tyrannical discipline of their parents the three boys run away from home in search of adventure & excitement In the first town they come to they bungle a bank robbery & shoot & kill a state senator by accident Then with the law in hot pursuit they flee across the Texas border into Mexico Upon arriving there they happily reunite with Harry Spikes He takes the boys under his wing teaches them the outlaw&s trade & the four of them cross the border back into Texas After careful preparation they attempt a bank robbery that goes horribly wrong Tragically the boys discover that Harry Spikes is not the genuine hero that they thought he was Lee Marvin Gary Grimes Ron Howard & Charles Martin Smith star in this thrilling Western tale that examines the tragic consequences of hero worship & the loss of youthful innocence ...

Every good knitting project begins with great yarn In the quest for one-of-a-kind fibres many knitters & weavers have discovered the deep satisfaction of spinning one's own An art in itself spinning requires an array of basic technical skills & decisions to produce a particular style of yarn While knitters have long had stitch dictionaries to guide their hands no similar resource has existed for spinners Until now The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs is a step-by-step guide to creating 70 distinctive yarns from classics such as mohair boucle to novelty features like supercoils Lush full-colour photographs illustrate the process of turning fleece into yarn reveal the architecture of each yarn & demonstrate exactly how to manipulate & combine the fibres to achieve the desired result Images of knitted & woven pieces reveal how the spun yarn looks in a variety of projects ...

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012" My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in I go there every day to see is he dead & every day he lets me down He hasn't yet missed a day of letting me down" In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town As violence flares the characters face a battle between public persona & inner desires Through a chorus of unique voices each struggling to tell their own kind of truth a single authentic tale unfolds The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel Wry vulnerable all-too human it captures the language & spirit of rural Ireland & with uncanny perception articulates the words & thoughts of a generation Technically daring & evocative of Patrick Mc Cabe & JM Synge this novel of small-town life is witty dark & sweetly poignant Donal Ryan's brilliantly realized debut announces a stunning new voice in literary fiction ...

In The Spinoza Problem Irvin Yalom spins fact & fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical novel A psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophical issues Yalom jointly tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza his philosophy & subsequent excommunication from the Jewish community & his apparent influence on the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg whose einsatzgruppe was dispatched during the Second World War to investigate a mysterious Spinoza Problem Seamlessly alternating between Golden Age Amsterdam & Nazi Germany Yalom investigates the inner lives of these two enigmatic men in a tale of influence & anxiety the origins of good & evil & the philosophy of freedom & the tyranny of terror ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Hitchcockian thriller about a woman who because of a childhood incident is unable to speak Now she&s working as a maid in a spooky New England manor where a murderer lurks about the premises -- a murderer who specializes in killing those burdened by afflictions Ethel Barrymore was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her outstanding performance Actors Dorothy Mc Guire George Brent Ethel Barrymore Kent Smith Rhonda Fleming Gordon Oliver Elsa Lanchester James Bell Charles Wagenheim Ellen Corby Richard Tyler Erville Alderson Sara Allgood & Myrna Dell Director Robert Siodmak Certificate PG Year 1946 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles None listed Duration 1 hour & 21 minutes (approx)
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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 Adapted from the legenday comic strip written by Will Eisner & directed by Sin City&s Frank Miller The Spirit is a classic action adventure film which features a host of star including Samuel L Jackson Scarlett Johansson Gabriel Macht Eva Mendes & Jaime King When rookie cop Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht) mysteriously returns from the beyond as The Spirit he vows to fight crime from the shadows of Central city But his arch enemy the Octopus (Samuel L Jackson) has other ideas Intent on pursuing immortality the Octopus is systematically wiping out The Spirit&s beloved city
- but can the Spirit stop him? And what of Sand Saref (Eva Mendes) the jewel thief with dangerous curves She&s the love of the The Spirit&s life turned bad Will he be able to save her before she kills him? Actors Gabriel Macht Samuel L Jackson Scarlett Johansson Eva Mendes Sarah Paulson Paz Vega Jamie King Dan Lauria Stana Katic Johnny Simmons & Louis Lombardi Director Frank Miller Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen Languages English Subtitles English
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Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential & talked-about book on society in the last decade
- now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer inequality This groundbreaking book based on years of research provides hard evidence to show How almost everything
- from life expectancy to mental illness violence to illiteracy
- is affected not by how wealthy a society is but how equal it is That societies with a bigger gap between rich & poor are bad for everyone in them
- including the well-off How we can find positive solutions & move towards a happier fairer future Urgent provocative & genuinely uplifting The Spirit Level has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves & our communities & could change the way you see the world 'A big idea big enough to change political thinking' Guardian 'A remarkable new book the implications are profound' Will Hutton Observer ' The evidence is hard to dispute' Economist Richard Wilkinson studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology & is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School & Honorary Professor at University College London Kate Pickett is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York & a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist Her work with Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit Level was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year 2009 by the Times Higher Education Supplement & their book was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New Statesman



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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 1945 was a pivotal year in British history The unity that carried Britain through the war allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years led to a vision of a better society The spirit of the age was to be our brother&s & our sister&s keeper Director Ken Loach has used film from Britain&s regional & national archives alongside sound recordings & contemporary interviews to create a rich political & social narrative The Spirit of &45 hopes to illuminate & celebrate a period of unprecedented community spirit in the UK the impact of which endured for many years & which may yet be rediscovered today Actors Tony Benn Director Ken Loach Certificate Exempt from Classification Year 2013 Languages English ...