During World War II seven Allied agents are selected to rescue an American general from the impenetrable German fortress Schloss Adler In charge of the team is British Major Smith (Richard Burton) with American Lieutenant Schaffer (Clint Eastwood) as second in command Parachuting into the enemy territory in German uniforms the squad discover one of their number dead on arrival & Smith suspects that he may have a traitor amongst his unit Alistair Maclean wrote the screenplay & the film is reported to be amongst director Quentin Tarantino&s favourites Synopsis Commandos posing as German soldiers parachute into a city to rescue asupposed allied General from a Nazi hideaway fortress that can only be reached by cable car Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play ...

Offers an account of life as a Bombardier in World War Two that sees our hero dispatched from the front line to psychiatric hospital & from there to a rehabilitation camp 288 pages Milligan Spike ...

Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
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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 The next great adventure from the guy who brought you super size Me! In Where In the World Is Osama Bin Laden Morgan Spurlock takes on a franchise even more lethal than Mc Donald&s Al Qaeda Following Bin Laden&s trail through some of the most dangerous places in the world Spurlock encounters both the rational & the radical faces of the Middle East He interviews many people who embrace him on the streets & welcome him into their homes often gaining impressions that sharply contrast with the conventional media images of the region In a world where we are constantly being told that we&re on the verge of the ultimate showdown between good & evil Spurlock strives to uncover the truth about Osama Bin Laden But along the way he discovers that the lines that divide us aren&t nearly as black & white as the public are lead to believe Morgan Spurlock Interview Theatrical Trailer Deleted Scenes Actors Morgan Spurlock & Alexandra Jamieson Director Morgan Spurlock Certificate 12 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen Languages English
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Where are Baby's hands? Under the bubbles! Where are baby's eyes? Under her hat! Karen Katz's adorable babies play peekaboo in this delightful interactive book The sturdy format & easy-to-lift flaps are perfect for parents & children to share ...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold over 41 million copies worldwide in over 62 languages In this new lift-flap book children are asked where the Hungry Caterpillar might be hiding Is he hiding in the grass? No that's a chirpy cricket! Is he nibbling the strawberry? No that's an ant! The lift-flap on every spread lets little readers join in the fun as they search in this fun interactive take on the beloved children's classic ...

This book is about mathematical ideas about what mathematics means-and why Abstract ideas for the most part arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world Where Mathematics Comes From argues that conceptual metaphor plays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious-from arithmetic & algebra to sets & logic to infinity in all of its forms ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
- AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKScottish broadcaster & author Sally Magnusson's bestselling
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The children of Mivtown have grown up hearing the legend of the monsters of the loch But it's only a story
- a warning to stay
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A haunting tale of war love & loss from the author of Birdsong & A Week in December The Sunday Times bestseller On a small island off the south coast of France Robert Hendricks
- an English doctor who has seen the best & the worst the twentieth century had to offer
- is forced to confront the events that made up his life His host is Alexander Pereira a man who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does The search for the past takes us through the war in Italy in 1944 a passionate love that seems to hold out hope the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s & finally
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- back into the trenches of the Western Front This moving novel casts a long baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand Daring ambitious & in the end profoundly moving this is Faulks's most remarkable book yet



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