A special lavishly illustrated new edition of Michael Foreman's classic story It's 1914 when everything changes for a group of bys growing up & playing football in the Suffolk countryside Far away in a place called Sarajevo an Archduke has been killed & a web of global events results in a call for all British men to do their duty 'for King & Country' & join the army to fight the germans overseas The boys sign up for what sounds like an adventure & a chance to see the world After basic training the boys sail to France where they find themselves fighting on the front line Living in the trenches in constant fear for their lives is nothing like they expected & only a bombed-out wasteland no-man's-land separates their trences from those of their German enemies Then on Christmas Day something remarkable happens as the German & British armies stop fighting & meet in the middle of no-man's-land The enemies talk play football & become friends But the war isn't over the two sides resume fighting & the group of Suffolk lads are ordered to charge across no-man's-land ...

Let the Games Begin! Science Fiction by a Master First Time in Mass Market War is a serious business-or is it? Christopher Anvil turns his sardonic sense of humor loose on the subject & considers what might happen if Someone devised a computer war game so realistic & addictive that the people in charge of battle on both sides didn&t have time or inclination to start a real war Another device gave every homeowner the power to block off his property from any inxursion even by nuclear weapons A secret organization pulls the plug on an impending war by causing the commanders on both sides to be unable even to think of any of the words they need to order their forces into action & in a full-length novel The Steel the Mist & the Blazing Sun the devastation after the World War III has not put an end to war-not as long as men survive who atill want to conquer & dominate; nor as long as others will fight not just to survive but to defend freedom The many faces of war examined by master of science fiction adventure with wryly humorous twist About the Author For two decades Christopher Anvil had nimerous stories in the leading fiction magazines & was a frequest & popular contributor to the leading magazine Analog where he consisitently ranked high in the reader&s polls & had several stories nominated for Hugo & Nebula awards Like Keith Laumer he has a rare ability to combine fast-moving adventure with wry humor His previous books for Baen were Pandora&s Legions Interstellar Patrol Interstellar Patrol II The Federation of Humanity & The Trouble with Aliens His other novles include Strangers in Paradise; Warlord&s World; The Steelthe Mist & the Blazing Sun; & The Day the Machines Stopped ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Contains the films WARGAMES & its sequel WARGAMES 2
- THE DEAD CODE In director John Badham&s WARGAMES Matthew Broderick stars as David Lightman a young hacker who accidentally logs on to the Department of Defense&s network Thinking that he&s found a cool new computer game manufacturer David plays checkers chess & other more intriguing games like Global Thermonuclear War Realising that their system has been tampered with military operatives arrest him However the computer continues to play the game of thermonuclear warfare without David & generates the very real threat of World War III In an attempt to prevent global disaster David & his girlfriend Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) search desperately for the scientist who designed the system before the goverment computer initates a full-scale nuclear war Arriving twenty-five years after WARGAMES WARGAMES 2
- THE DEAD CODE finds yet another brilliant young computer hacker who may end up starting World War III via a government simulation war game This time Will Farmer inadvertently engages Ripley an overly sensitive supercomputer that was designed to detect & handle terrorist attacks

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play When six friends go out to into the wilderness to play war games with automatic weapons & light ammunition many of their relationships become fractured under the weight of the game Just as things begin to fall apart they realize they are not alone in the forest & a sadistic group of very dangerous men start to hunt them down one by one The only difference between the hunter & the hunted are that one groups bullets are very real Actors Stephanie Chapman-Baker Sam Cohan Valene Kane Neil Linpow Lutz Michael Andrew Harwood Mills Monika Mirga Michael Schermi Tom Stanley & Daniel Vivian Director Cosimo Alemà Certificate 18 years & over Year 2010 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; French ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Swedish ; Icelandic Duration 1 hour & 38 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) & Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) star in this compelling drama filled with action suspense & high-tech adventures Featuring superb performances by Dabney Coleman & Barry Corbin War Games is “brilliantfunnyand provocative” (New York)--a fast-paced cyber-thriller Computer hacker David Lightman (Broderick) can bypass the most advanced security systems break the most intricate secret codes & master even the most difficult computer games But when he unwittingly taps into the Defence Department’s war computer he initiates a confrontation of global proportions--World War III Together with his girlfriend (Sheedy) & a wizardly computer genius David must race against time to outwit his opponentand prevent a nuclear Armageddon Actors Matthew Broderick Ally Sheedy Dabney Coleman John Wood Barry Corbin Directors John Badham Language English Subtitles Spanish French Castilian Dutch German Italian Portuguese Polish Danish Number of discs 1 ...

Let the Games Begin! Science Fiction by a Master First Time in Mass Market War is a serious business-or is it? Christopher Anvil turns his sardonic sense of humor loose on the subject & considers what might happen if Someone devised a computer war game so realistic & addictive that the people in charge of battle on both sides didn&t have time or inclination to start a real war Another device gave every homeowner the power to block off his property from any inxursion even by nuclear weapons A secret organization pulls the plug on an impending war by causing the commanders on both sides to be unable even to think of any of the words they need to order their forces into action & in a full-length novel The Steel the Mist & the Blazing Sun the devastation after the World War III has not put an end to war-not as long as men survive who atill want to conquer & dominate; nor as long as others will fight not just to survive but to defend freedom The many faces of war examined by master of science fiction adventure with wryly humorous twist About the Author For two decades Christopher Anvil had nimerous stories in the leading fiction magazines & was a frequest & popular contributor to the leading magazine Analog where he consisitently ranked high in the reader&s polls & had several stories nominated for Hugo & Nebula awards Like Keith Laumer he has a rare ability to combine fast-moving adventure with wry humor His previous books for Baen were Pandora&s Legions Interstellar Patrol Interstellar Patrol II The Federation of Humanity & The Trouble with Aliens His other novles include Strangers in Paradise; Warlord&s World; The Steelthe Mist & the Blazing Sun; & The Day the Machines Stopped ...

Fascinating & often chilling the story of how psychology is core to winning wars 304 pages Murray Leo ...

A NEW ENTRY IN THE NORFRESSA SERIES & THE BIRTH OF A NEW HERO! Epic fantasy by 30-time New York Times & international best-selling author David Weber set within his Bahzell Bahnakson War God universe A swordsman who has been robbed of his past must confront an evil wizard with a world at stake Know thyself It&s always good to know who you are but sometimes that&s a little difficult Kenhodan has no last name because he has no past or not one he remembers anyway What he does have are a lot of scars & a lot of skills some exhilarating & some terrifying & a purpose Now if he only knew where he&d gotten them & what that purpose was Wencit of Rum the most powerful wizard in the world knows the answers to Kenhodan&s questions but he can&t or won&t share them with him Except to inform him that he&s a critical part of Wencit&s millennium-long battle to protect Norfressa from conquest by dark sorcery Bahzell Bahnakson champion of Tomanak doesn&t know those answers & the War God isn&t sharing them with him Except to inform Bahzell that the final confrontation with the Dark Lords of fallen Kontovar is about to begin & that somehow Kenhodan is one of the keys to its final outcome Wulfra of Torfo doesn&t know those answers either but she does know Wencit of Rum is her implacable foe & that Kenhodan is one of the weapons he intends to use against her assuming she can&t kill both of them first But in the far northern port city of Belhadan an eleven-year-old girl knows the answers to all of Kenhodan&s questions & dares not share them with anyone even the ancient wild wizard who loves her more dearly than life itself It&s not easy to face the future when you can&t even remember your own past but if saving an entire world from evil sorcerers demons devils & dark gods was easy anyone could do it Meet the Author With over seven million copies of his books in print & seventeen titles on the New York Times best seller list David Weber is the science fiction publishing phenomenon of the new millennium In the hugely popular Honor Harrington series the spirit of CS Forester’s Horatio Hornblower & Patrick O’ Brian’s Master & Commander lives on—into the galactic future Books in the Honor Harrington series have appeared on fourteen best seller lists including those of The Wall Street Journal The New York Times & USA Today While Weber is best known for his spirited modern-minded space operas he is also the creator of the Oath of Swords fantasy series & the Dahak science fiction saga Weber has also engaged in a steady stream of bestselling collaborations including his Starfire series with Steve White which produced the New York Times best seller The Shiva Option among others Weber’s collaboration with alternate history master Eric Flint led to the bestselling 1634 The Baltic War & his planetary adventure novels with military science fiction ace & multiple national best seller John Ringo

Includes:: the blockbusters March to the Stars & We Few David Weber makes his home in South Carolina with his wife & children

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For centuries the sins of man ravaged the Earth & only the immortal Pandora the very woman whose curiosity first unleashed that evil could protect humanity After innumerable ages she had finally completed her mission & settled into a life of leisure However the mantle of War Goddess cannot be so easily set aside When a freak accident of science unlocks the doors to endless

Dimensions all-new evils spill out into the world & Pandora charges again into combat But to defeat the deadly Hellina & the malevolent legions that follow in her wake the immortal heroine must assemble a supernatural line of defense including the womanspider hybrid Widow whose savagery & thirst for blood might be the deciding factor between victory & Hell on Earth Meet The Author With a career spanning over twenty years Mike Wolfer has been both writer & illustrator on many of Avatar Press& most popular titles collaborating with some of the industry&s most renowned writers including Warren Ellis Garth Ennis & Alan Moore As the guiding force behind such horror titles as Night of the Living Dead Friday the 13th & Escape of the Living Dead Wolfer cemented his reputation as one of today&s top creators of supernatural tales a trend has continues with his writing credits on Warren Ellis& Gravel & Garth Ennis& Stitched both of which he also illustrates Avatar&s sister company Boundless Comics has also benefited from Wolfer&s flair for the macabre as he writes both Brian Pulido&s Lady Death & the "bad girl" extravaganza title War Goddess

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At the outbreak of World War One Joey young Albert's beloved horse is sold to the cavalry & shipped to France He's soon caught up in enemy fire & fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land At the outbreak of the First World War Joey young Albert's beloved horse is sold to the cavalry & shipped to France He's soon caught up in enemy fire & fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land But Albert cannot forget Joey & although still not old enough to enlist he embarks on a treacherous mission to the trenches to find him & bring him home Narrated from an unusual perspective Michael Morpurgo's classic novel vividly brings to life the sufferings of animals caught up in human warfare War Horse has been adapted by the National Theatre to become a hit play & is now being made into a major motion picture by Steven Spielberg Download the free scheme of work from the Collins Education website to support your teaching ...