WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMSONThe Third Man is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers Rollo Martins a second-rate novelist arrives penniless to visit his friend & hero Harry Lime But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances & the police are closing in on his associates The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play Left in the care of the butler & his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday Philip realises too late the danger of lies & deceit But the truth is even deadlier ...

' Davis's prose is a lively joy & Flavia's Rome is sinister & gloriously real' The Times on Saturday Flavia Albia's day-old marriage is in trouble
- her new husband may be permanently disabled & they have no funds So when Palace officials ask her to expose a traitor in their midst she is ready for the task Ever since the Emperor Nero committed suicide in AD 68 Rome has been haunted by reports that he is actually alive & ready to reclaim his throne Two Nero pretenders have emerged from the East & met grisly fates But now a new pretender has been smuggled into Rome by the traitor Flavia must negotiate with spies dodge assassins & reveal this third Nero before he can make his move Will she act in time or will Rome once more be plunged into civil war?
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THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERMitch Rapp the CIA's top counterterrorism operative is sent on his final mission to eliminate a European industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to one of terrorism's most notorious sponsors But he doesn't know that the ultimate target of this mission is himself Set up by forces within the US who do not want the next Director-elect of the CIA to take over & therefore need a disaster for the present regime Mitch refuses to die the conspirators have made an awful miscalculation They have enraged one of the most lethal & efficient killers the CIA has ever produced Now they will pay AMERICAN ASSASSIN book one in the series is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O' Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Praise for the Mitch Rapp series ' Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times ' Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story instantly gripping' Shortlist ' Action-packed in-your-face adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three episodes of the educational documentary series that explores issues relating to the wildlife culture & archaeology found throughout the world The episodes are & The Garimpeiros& & Geysers in Yellowstone& & & The Inhabitants of Kalahari& ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three episodes of the educational documentary series that explores issues relating to the wildlife culture & archaeology found throughout the world The episodes are & Journey Into the Age of Wood& & Kilimanjaro
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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 Three episodes of the educational documentary series that explores issues relating to the wildlife culture & archaeology found throughout the world The episodes are & The Mac Kenzie Trappers& & The Zulu Culture& & & The Garajonay Jungle& ...

A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic & acclaimed author of At Swim-Two-Birds'
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Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles books & films no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature Approaching the canon of World War II literature is a challenge for a general reader but the 100 objects approach is a novel & accessible presentation This is a compelling frequently shocking & revelatory guide to the Third Reich that has been collated & presented by two of the world's leading World War II historians The photographs gathered by Roger Moorhouse & Roger Moorhouse include Pervitin Hitler's Mercedes Wehrmach toilet paper Hitler's grooming kit the Nuremberg courtroom the Tiger Tank fragments of flak the Iron Cross & of course the Swastika & Mein Kampf ...

The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise & fall of Nazi Germany Richard J Evans' The Third Reich in Power How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts & Minds of a Nation explores how Hitler turned Germany from a vibrant democracy into a one-party state Before Hitler seized power in 1933 Germany had been famous for its sophistication & complexity So how was it possible for a group of ideological obsessives to re-mould it into a one-party state directed at war & race hate? How did the Nazis win over the hearts & minds of Germany's citizens twist science religion & culture & transform the country's politics to achieve total dominance so quickly? From the Nuremberg Laws to the Olympic Games Kristallnacht to the Hitler Youth this gripping account shows how a whole population became enmeshed in a dictatorship that was consumed by hatred & driven by war ' Impressive perceptive humane' Ian Kershaw ' Excellent powerful it makes an indelible impression' Robert Service Sunday Times ' Likely to be the standard work for some years to come' Spectator Books of the Year 'A rich & detailed description of just what the Third Reich did in every compartment of the state & every corner of society Evans's magisterial study should be on our shelves for a long time to come' Economist ' Written with great style & human sympathy' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year ' Evans brilliantly conveys how the Fuhrer reignited Germans' pride as he led them to catastrophe' Neal Ascherson Observer Sir Richard J Evans is Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University His previous books include In Defence of History Telling Lies about Hitler & the companions to this title The Coming of the Third Reich & The Third Reich at War ...

A typically brilliant ironic & moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice on a journey overshadowed by the coming war & charged with intense personal nostalgia Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites & scenes had once exercised a strange & terrifying power over his imagination he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries reappraisals & inevitable self-revelations From Venice he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna to stand fulfilling a lifelong dream before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale This journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly & at times painfully up against an explosive present producing some memorable observations on the social wonders & existential horrors of Mussolini's new Roman Imperium Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901 Best known in the West as a novelist & short story writer he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature Debarred from a university post by reason of his Jewish ancestry he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp in 1945 Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance wry humour & understated irony Pushkin Press's publications of Szerb's work include his novels Journey by Moonlight Oliver VII & The Pendragon Legend as well as the short story collection Love in a Bottle & the history The Queen's Necklace ...