In 1919 Michael Collins conceived of a scheme to knock out the eyes & ears of the British Administration at Dublin Castle by undermining & terrorising the police so that the British would react blindly & drive the Irish people into the arms of the Irish Republican Army The Bureau of Military History interviewed those involved in this scheme in the early 1950s with the assurance that the material would not be published in their lifetimes A few of the contributions were made available by the families of those involved but the bulk of them have only recently been released This the first book to make use of those interviews It makes fascinating almost unique reading because they contain first-hand descriptions in which men speaking candidly of their involvement in killing selected people at close range As a result it throws a considerable amount of new light on the activities of the Squad & the intelligence operations of Michael Collins ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When contact is lost with a military base set deep in the desolate plains of Colombia a special high mountain command unit is sent to check things out On arrival they find only one person alive & gradually the isolation & inability to communicate with the outside world takes its toll on their sanity Prisoners of fear paranoia & a dark secret; they must challenge each other & be prepared to kill one another in order to survive unless they can work out the true nature of their enemy & unite to defeat it Actors Juan David Restrepo Alejandro Aguilar Andres Castañeda Mateo Stevel Nelson Camayo Daniela Catz Mauricio Navas Andres Torres Julio Cesar Valencia & Juan Pablo Barragan Director Jaime Osorio Marquez Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen 169 Languages Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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The Squad
- kickass teenage spies with the perfect cover They are also part of an England youth football team Wherever trouble
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The New York Times bestseller' Silicon Valley needed a history lesson & Ferguson has provided it' Eric Schmidt What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson the global bestselling author of Empire The Ascent of Money & Civilization this is a whole new way of imagining the world Most history is hierarchical it's about popes presidents & prime ministers But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks
- leaving them to the conspiracy theorists with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age But in The Square & the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new From the printers & preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes & kings Far from being novel our era is the Second Networked Age with the computer in the role of the printing press Once we understand this both the past & the future start to look very different indeed' Ambitious & illuminating the historian who more than most connects our age to its past' Evening Standard Books of the Year' Captivating & compelling' The New York Times' Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book In 400 pages you will have restocked your mind Do it' Wall Street Journal
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Historians love to write about rulers--kings emperors presidents--or about vast social forces--migration industrialisation--but what if they are all missing the point? Thinking about our own lives isn't it clear that what makes the world go round are families colleagues teams associations in other words networks? Many old Italian towns have the same central structure a large square where people gather & a tower where the town's elite ruled from Throughout history you can express the battle between the two as a battle of networks
- who knows who who works with who guilds families fellowships clans cabals all cooperating to make sometimes huge changes Sometimes the power lies with those lurking in the tower & sometimes with those in the square Access to information to credit to ideas to news
- all constantly shift Whether in the Renaissance or in the present day what makes the world work is an astonishing tangle of networks
- & this was as true for the effort that went into discovering the New World as it is now for fighting elections or just talking to friends online In his enormously enjoyable new book Niall Ferguson celebrates the myriad ways in which the battle between rival networks makes history happen


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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 A retired safecracker living in Mexico is lured back to New York City for one last job Unfortunately the promised heist is in fact a double cross putting him in danger Actors Lee Van Cleef Karen Black Directors Anthony Dawson Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach & his brother The Squid & the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents& divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s In his third feature director Noah Baumbach scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager whose writer-parents are divorcing The father (Jeff Daniels) & mother (Laura Linney) duke it out in half-civilized half-savage fashion while their two sons adapt in different ways shifting allegiances between parents The film is squirmy-funny & nakedly honest about the rationalizations & compensatory snobbisms of artistic failure as well as the conflicted desires of adolescents for sex & status In detailing bohemian-bourgeois life in brownstone Brooklyn Baumbach is spot on Everyone proceeds from good intentions & acts rather badly in spite or because of their manifest intelligence Fulfilling the best traditions of the American independent film this quirky wisely written feature explores the gulf between sexes generations art & commerce Brooklyn & Manhattan ...

This all-new story finds an old soldier from a forgotten war in a post-apocalyptic world that has left him behind He was one of the last of the legendary Squidder Legions Can a discarded relic with a death wish & a rebellious Squid priestess overthrow humanity&s tentacled alien overlords? Ben Templesmith returns to his roots to finally do the tentacle Cthulhu-orientated book he&s always promised! The Squidder mixes action horror science fiction & fantasy elements with a touch of Squidly destruction ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Rising Damp creator Eric Chappell&s 22 years as a travelling auditor gave him an unequalled opportunity to observe offices & their inhabitants at close quarters & this hit sitcom
- created & written by Chappell with additional scripts by Phil Redmond & Kenneth Cope among others
- wryly explores the perils of the mid-seventies office environment A tyrannical boss unchecked male chauvinism pranks malingering & in-fighting are among the workplace hazards for the staff of the accounts department of International Rentals with Bernard Hepton Ken Jones & Patsy Rowlands featuring in the line-up of a frustrated & occasionally rebellious team (and wife!) Guest stars include Philip Madoc Leslie Schofield & Alun Armstrong This set contains all 22 existing episodes (out of 29) Scripts for some of the missing episodes are included in PDF format on disc one Actors Bernard Hepton Ken Jones Patsy Rowlands Alan David Ellis Jones & Karin Mac Carthy Certificate 12 years & over Year 1974
- 1976 Screen 1331 Languages English Duration 9 hours & 10 minutes (approx)


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Two greedy squirrels learn to share in the third hilarious rhyming adventure from the bestselling creators of THE LION INSIDEGreedy squirrels Cyril & Bruce both have their sights on a very special prize THE VERY LAST NUT OF THE SEASON! As the nut bounces crazily though the forest the squirrels race after it between the trees over boulders down the river &
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- right to the edge of a waterfall! Working together might be the only way to save themselves now A laugh-out-loud tale about friendship & sharing from the bestselling creators of THE LION INSIDE & THE KOALA WHO COULD Perfect for competitive friends & sibling rivals! Praise for THE LION INSIDE'A heartfelt message delightfully conveyed' Parents in Touch 'A delight to read over & over again' WRD' Captivating' Books for Keeps ' Will easily win over readers' The Book List' Field is on top form offering so many imaginative framings & irreverent characterizations that readers will feel carried along by his visual & comedic generosity' Publishers Weekly ' Brilliant had me in hoots of laughter' The Bookbag

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