War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody & futile offensive on the Western Front One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions & debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long & exact so appalling a human cost? After all this was a fight that we were told would be over by Christmas Now in his major new history Allan Mallinson former professional soldier & author of the acclaimed 1914 Fight the Good Fight provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial & have a contemporary resonance He disputes the growing consensus among historians that British generals were not to blame for the losses & setbacks in the war to end all wars'
- that given the magnitude of their task they did as well anyone could have He takes issue with the popular view that the amateur' opinions on strategy of politicians such as Lloyd George & especially Winston Churchill prolonged the war & increased the death toll On the contrary he argues even before the war began Churchill had a far more realistic intelligent & humane grasp of strategy than any of the admirals or generals while very few senior officers
- including Sir Douglas Haig
- were up to the intellectual challenge of waging war on this scale & he repudiates the received notion that Churchill's stature as a wartime prime minister after 1940 owes much to the lessons he learned from his First World War mistakes'
- notably the Dardanelles campaign
- maintaining that in fact Churchill's achievement in the Second World War owes much to the thwarting of his better strategic judgement by the professionals' in the First
- & his determination that this would not be repeated Mallinson argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine & paid as a result an unnecessarily high price in casualties He shows that Lloyd George understood only too well the catastrophically dysfunctional condition of military policy-making & struggled against the weight of military opposition to fix it & he asserts that both the British & the French failed to appreciate what the Americans' contribution to victory could be
- & after the war to acknowledge fully what it had actually been






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Shortlisted for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best SF Novel The year is 2454 Humanity has engineered a hard-won golden age forged in the aftermath of a bitter conflict that wiped both religion & nation state from the planet Now seven factions or 'hives' co-govern the world their rule fuelled by benign censorship oracular statistical analytics & technological abundance But this is a fragile Utopia
- & someone is intent on pushing it to breaking point Convicted for his crimes celebrated for his talents Mycroft Canner is the indentured instrument
- & confidant
- of some of the world's most powerful figures When he is asked to investigate a bizarre theft he finds himself on the trail of a conspiracy that could shatter the tranquil world order the Hives have maintained for three centuries But Mycroft has his own secrets He is concealing a much greater threat to the seven Hives a wild card no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesised This threat takes the unlikely form of a thirteen-year-old called Bridger For how will a world that has banished God deal with a child who can perform miracles?


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Rabbit has too many carrots which overtake his house When he tries to move in with friends more chaos ensues Will Rabbit learn to change his selfish ways? ...

Two Michelin-starred chef Sat Bains offers an unprecedented view into his past recipes & philosophies on food in his award-winning autobiographical cookbook The book is an autobiographical cookbook that follows the tasting menu format at Restaurant Sat Bains featuring 68 in-depth recipes demonstrating how research development & creativity play a vital role in Sat's food pairings & flavour combinations The recipes are presented in 7 courses mirroring the tasting menu at the restaurant but with the addition of Sat's famous Ham Egg Peas which took him through to the final of the Great British Menu The 7 courses are Introduction Savouries Main Course Crossover Chocolate Cheese & To Finish The book details the theories thought process & evolution that shape the Sat's food & offers an exclusive opportunity to order dishes featured within the book when dining at Restaurant Sat Bains even when they're not on the restaurant's current menu With a foreword by Heston Blumenthal & contributions from Rene Redzepi & 35 of the world's greatest chefs & photography by John Arandhara Blackwell ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Too Many Crooks (1958) boasts an intricate plot in which Terry Thomas is being blackmailed for the hoards he&s stashed away as a renowned tax dodger Driving around in a Jaguar XK 150 a desirable sports car of the period his intricate private life unravels as his put-upon wife Brenda de Banzie draws on her expertise as a wartime PT instructress to turn the tables on him by marshalling the support of a band of crooks (George Cole Sidney James Bernard Bresslaw & Joe Melia) Look out for the very funny court scene where TT makes three appearances on separate charges before a bemused magistrate John Le Mesurier ...

The words & music from Tom Lehrer's recorded collections
- ' Songs by Tom Lehrer' ' An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer' & ' That
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Tracklist South City Court Sixty's Ford Sira's Biscuits Diamonds Gold Neighbours 1992 PT 2 Panther Super Soaker (Skit) Tearing Us Apart FM Mangal (Skit) God Save the T's Patterns Start the Fire ...

Too Much Birthday Cake Greeting Card Humorous blank card from ICON's Life Is Sweet range Each greeting card is cello wrapped with a bright yellow envelope Card Size 16x 16 ...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature These are beguiling provocative stories about manipulative men & the women who outwit them about destructive marriages & curdled friendships about mothers & sons about moments which change or haunt a life Alice Munro's stories surprise & delight turning lives into art expanding our world & shedding light on the strange workings of the human heart ...

A heartbreaking & inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass & Rosie Lewis Maggie Hartley is one of the UK's most prolific foster mothers This inspiring collection

Includes:: three heartbreaking true short stories about the children who have passed through Maggie's care TOO SCARED TO CRYWhen Ben & Damien arrive on Maggie's doorstep the two toddlers are too scared to speak More disturbingly still their baby half-brother Noah is completely unresponsive
- he doesn't smile or play or crawl The three siblings have been conditioned to be seen & not heard & it's up to Maggie to unpick what has caused this terrible void THE GIRL NO ONE WANTEDEleven-year-old Leanne is out of control With over forty placements in her short life no local foster carers are willing to take in this angry & damaged little girl Maggie is Leanne's only hope & her last chance If this placement fails Leanne will be put in a secure unit Where most others would simply walk away Maggie refuses to give up on the little girl who's never known love A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMASA tragic accident leaves the life of toddler Edward changed forever & his family wracked with guilt Maggie must help this family grieve for the son they've lost & learn to love the little boy he is now But will Edward have a family to go home to at Christmas? These heartwarming & inspiring short stories show the power of a foster mother's love & her determination to help the children who come into her care Note These stories have previously been published as individual ebooks True stories of foster care & adoption & one foster mother's attempts to help the children in her care heal from abuse neglect & trauma


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