Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In Tolstoy’s tempestuous epic of love & war passion & power a small circle of aristocrats find their glittering world crumbling as Napoleon’s sweeping forces threaten to overwhelm Imperial Russia Set in the opening decades of the 19th century War & Peace follows the changing fortunes of brooding military hero Prince Andrej his bookish friend Pierre & the spirited but naïve Natasha As Napoleon’s armies menace their privileged lives the horrors of the battlefield reach into Russia’s most elegant ballrooms & bedrooms Starring an international cast including Clemence Poesy (The Tunnel) Malcolm Mc Dowell (A Clockwork Orange) Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice) Alessio Boni (Caravaggio) Alexander Beyer (Carlos The Jackal) & Ken Duken (Inglourious Basterds) this magnifi cent production was fi lmed on location in Saint Petersburg & Eastern Europe by Oscar-nominated director Robert Dornhelm ...

This is a three-volume boxed set of Tolstoy's historical chronicle of Russia's struggle with Napoleon The novel is an affirmation of life itself focusing on the lives of individuals & the physical reality of human experience & its bewildering complexity ...

Undeniably epic in scale Tolstoy's masterpiece has intimidated readers since it was published in 1869until now This deluxe mini edition makes this massive yet masterful work accessible to readers who can get to know the greatest novel ever written in just one sitting It

Includes:: comprehensive summaries of each book of War & Peace along with descriptive character profiles an introduction & biography of Leo Tolstoy complemented with two-colour illustrations throughout

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Conflict a basic human instinct helping humankind evolve even while threatening the very existence of the species an instinct that will be as much a part of the future as it is now & always has been For all the glories of war-the defeat of evil the promise of freedom justice protection of the innocent the righting of wrongs technological innovation heroism-there are also the horrors individual grief mass destruction the elimination of entire cultures & great achievments injustice villainy the annihilation of the innocent & pain beyond bearing War & Space offers the ultimate speculation on the future of warfare-stories of insectoid anguish genetically-engineered diplomats who cannot fail aliens plundering humanity a weaponized black hole-scenarios of triumph & defeat great heroism & vile depravity & more ...

Humans were born armed Before Homo sapiens first walked the Earth proto-humans had manufactured spears & other tools not only to hunt & defend themselves but also to attack other humans The war instinct is part of human nature but the means to fight war depend on technology Politics economics ideology culture strategy tactics & philosophy have all shaped war but none of these factors has driven the evolution of warfare as much as technology Expanding on this compelling thesis this book traces the co-evolution of technology & war from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar & nanotechnology Alex Roland shines a light on the patterns of interaction between technology & warfare describing the sensational inventions that changed the direction of war throughout history fortified walls the chariot swift & nimble battleships the gunpowder revolution & finally aircraft bombers rockets submarines improvised explosive devices (IEDs) & nuclear weapons In the twenty-first century scientific & engineering research is constantly transforming war & simultaneously producing countless technological innovations Yet even now the newest & best technology cannot guarantee victory Rather technology & warfare remain in a timeless dialectic spurring change without ever stabilizing a military balance of power New technologies continue to push warfare in unexpected directions while warfare pulls technology into new stunning possibilities In an era of computers drones & robotic systems Roland reminds us that although military technologies keep changing at a precipitous speed the principles & patterns behind them abide Brimming with dramatic narratives of battles & deep insights into military psychology this Very Short Introduction is ultimately an original account of human history seen through the kaleidoscopic lens of war technology ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Titles Comprise The Cruel Sea The courageous story of the Battle of the Atlantic a story of an ocean a ship & a handful of men The brave crew are the heroes The heroine is the ship The only villain is the sea that man & war have made even more brutal For Those In Peril Flt Lt Murray (David Farrar) is a pilot who fails to join the RAF during WWII & decides to join the Air
- Sea Rescue instead His boat is out in all conditions picking up drowned pilots & taking them to safety PO Rawlings (Ralph Michael) is a new recruit who resents joining Farrar&s boat & would rather be where the action is
- in the air During a mission they run into an enemy minefield & an armed trawler San Demetrio London Set in 1940 during the battle of the Atlantic this is the true story of how the crew of the petrol tanker & San Demetrio& was left with a near impossible task when she was torpedoed by the Germans After the ship was torpedoed the crew abandoned ship in three lifeboats Two are picked up by other ships in the convoy but the third drifts for days until its crew spies the burning & San Demetrio& on the horizon Do they board the ship try to put out its fires & get it back to English shores or do they stay in the drifting lifeboat in the hope of being rescued? Actors Jack Hawkins Stanley Baker Denholm Elliott Donald Sinden Virginia Mc Kenna Alec Mc Cowen David Farrar Ralph Michael Robert Wyndham John Slater Robert Griffith John Batten Tony Bazell Arthur Young Walter Fitzgerald & Ralph Michael Director Charles Frend & Charles Crichton Certificate PGYear 1953 ; 1944 ; 1943 Languages Dolby Digital (10) Mono

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AN EMPIRE IN DECLINE Centurion Aurelius Castus
- once a soldier in the elite legions of the Danube
- believes his glory days

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What we know of war is always mediated knowledge & feeling We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding terrifying light These lenses are not fixed; they change over time & Jay Winter's panoramic history of war & memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in our imaginings of war from 1914 to the present He reveals the ways in which different creative arts have framed our meditations on war from painting & sculpture to photography film & poetry & ultimately to silence as a language of memory in its own right He shows how these highly mediated images of war in turn circulate through language to constitute our 'cultural memory' of war This is a major contribution to our understanding of the diverse ways in which men & women have wrestled with the intractable task of conveying what twentieth-century wars meant to them & mean to us ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Martial arts thriller starring Jet Li & Jason Statham After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin Rogue (Li) FBI agent Jack Crawford (Statham) vows to find the elusive killer & personally avenge his partner&s death But Rogue proves untraceable until three years later when he resurfaces to ignite a bloody turf war between Chinese mob leader Chang (John Lone) & Japanese Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi) Eager to capture Rogue once & for all Crawford leads his team of crime specialists headlong into the conflict But Crawford&s thirst for vengeance jeopardises his professional judgement & as the violence escalates he finally comes face to face with his enemy only to discover that nothing about Rogue or his plan is quite what it seems ...

A special new edition of Michael Foreman's award-winning memoirs about his wartime childhood 'I woke up when the bomb came through the roof It came through at an angle overflew my bed by inches bounced up over my mother's bed hit the mirror dropped into the grate & exploded up the chimney' The Second World War is an exciting time for a young boy growing up in a small town in Suffolk
- sometimes far too exciting! Life during wartime is vividly brought to life in this personal story filled with childhood memories
- from hiding in air-raid shelters to playing in the bombed-out ruins & the arrival of American soldiers War Boy is a modern classic that combines a touching personal story with factual information & wonderful illustrations Also available in paperback War Boy (9781843650874) War Game (9781843650898) After the War Was Over (9781843650881) Farm Boy (9781843650904) & Billy the Kid (9781844583669)

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