On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist working in Iran, was forced from her home by four men & secretly detained in Iran`s notorious Evin Prison. The intelligence agents who captured her accused her of espionage
- a charge she denied. For several days, Saberi was held in solitary confinement, ruthlessly interrogated, & cut off from the outside world. For weeks, neither her family nor her friends knew her whereabouts. After a sham trial that made headlines around the world, the thirty-one-year-old reporter was sentenced to eight years in prison. But following international pressure by family, friends, colleagues, various governments, & total strangers, she was released on appeal on May 11, 2009. Now Saberi breaks her silence to share the full account of her ordeal, describing in vivid detail the methods that Iranian hard-liners are using to try to intimidate & control many of the country`s people. In this gripping & inspirational true story, Saberi writes movingly of her imprisonment, her trial, her eventual release, & the faith that helped her through it all. Her recollections are interwoven with insights into Iranian society, the Islamic regime, & U.S.-Iran relations, as well as stories of her fellow prisoners
- many of whom were jailed for their pursuit of human rights, including freedom of speech, association, & religion. Saberi gains strength & wisdom from her cellmates who support her throughout a grueling hunger strike & remind her of the humanity that remains, even when they are denied the most basic rights. ” Between Two Worlds” is also a deeply revealing account of this tumultuous country & the ongoing struggle for freedom that is being fought inside Evin Prison & on the streets of Iran. From her heartfelt perspective, Saberi offers a rich, dramatic, & illuminating portrait of Iran as it undergoes a striking, historic transformation.

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Betws-y-coed in 1911 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map is double-sided. The main map covers the village, then westward to Pentre-du, & northward to Aber-llyn Lead Mine. Features include railway with station, goods yard, St Michael`s church, Afon Llugwy, Fedw Hendre, Clogwyn Cyrau, Coed Aber-llyn, Greffyn Lead Mine (disused), Albert Roller Mill, Clogwyn Dinas, old lead mines & shafts, River Conway. On the reverse is a portion of adjacent sheet 24.01 extending coverage southward to include Hafod-las Quarry with incline; southern part of village including Waterloo Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, Coed Gartheryr & Pen-y-clogwyn. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Beverley North in 1908 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the centre of Beverley, extending from Highgate & Eastgate northward to Scrubwood Lane. Features include town centre, railway with station, Market Cross, Wednesday Market, Saturday Market, St Mary`s church, County Hall, St Mary`s Manor House, Endfield area, Outer & Inner Trinities, cottage hospital, East Riding Maltings, Guildhall, Beverley Workhouse, Little Tranby, Longcroft, eastern part of race course, Elmsall Lodge, Newbigin Pits, Westwood Hall, St Nicholas church, etc. Extracts from a 1905 directory are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Beverley South in 1908 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the southern part of Beverley, from the Minster southward to Shepherd Lane. Features include Beverley Minster, Fleming House, St Andrew`s Garth, isolation hospital, tanneries, St Martin`s Burial Ground, Queensgate Cemetery, whiting works, Westwood Mill, Union Windmill, Black Windmill, Grammar School etc. Extracts from a 1905 directory listing private residents are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

” Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever read...a feverish, fascinating novel” Anthony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph An extract of this book was chosen by Kazuo Ishiguro & included in the 2012 World Book Night edition of Remains of the Day An almost unbearably tense & powerful tale of unrequited love & the danger of pity. In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance
- his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig`s only novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour & love, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Published alongside a new edition of Journey into the Past & a new translation of Letter from an Unknown Woman & other stories.
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` Beware of Small States` wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. He could have meant Lebanon: a sectarian state no bigger than Wales that has become battleground for one of the defining conflicts of twentieth-century history. Throughout its short existence, it has been attacked, invaded, occupied or interfered with to serve the political interests of foreign powers, resulting a series of devastating wars & crises. To understand Lebanon`s history is to understand the history of the entire region
- &, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has come to assume a disproportionate, dangerous power of its own. Iran & Israel now face each other in the hills of south Lebanon. David Hirst, author of ” The Gun & the Olive Branch, ” is a hugely respected commentator on the Arab-Israeli crisis. In a masterly narrative, he gives a much-needed, comprehensive history of the country & its conflicts, culminating with the recent war in Gaza & its fallout in Lebanon. Powerful & often moving, ” Beware of Small States” is a magisterial book, essential reading for understanding Lebanon or the current political climate of the Middle East.
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Russia...is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill`s words were never truer than in 1917, when the Russian Revolution morphed with dizzying speed from the orderly abdication of the Tsar to the barbaric murder of his entire family, & the violent seizure of power by Lenin s Bolsheviks. Yet the outside world was slow to grasp what was happening. Russia had long seemed due for change, & the western European powers were eager to keep the new Soviet state as an ally in the war against Germany. Politicians & public alike were unaware that a reign of terror unequalled since the French Revolution was gripping a nation the size of a continent. It was left to a handful of British adventurers to expose the brutality of a new order which was to shake western democracy to its very foundations. Who were these whistle-blowers? Some were diplomats or spies; others were scholars, novelists or journalists; one was a clergyman. Then there were the English governesses: young women hired to look after the scions of aristocratic Russian families, yet who suddenly found themselves living in perilous circumstances, their employers sworn enemies of a murderous new regime. John Ure, who himself lived as a diplomat in Russia & knew several of these extraordinary men & women personally, brings their stories unforgettably to life ...

Bewdley in 1926 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map extends eastward to Sandbourne House, & westward to Tanner`s Hill. Wribbenhall on the north-eastern bank of the Severn is also covered. Features include GWR railway with Bewdley station, River Severn, All Saints church Wribbenhall, St Anne`s church, Sandbourne House, Winterdyne, Kateshill House, Manor House, Tickenhill, Snuffmill Dingle, many orchards, Bark Hill area, Patchett`s Hill, etc. On the reverse is the commercial entry from an 1896 directory, plus a section from the GWR Severn Valley Branch timetable for 1906. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Spanning fifty years from the days of the British Raj to the granting of full independence after the Japanese conflict, Bewitched by Burma tells a vivid & often humorous tale of the challenges of life in Burma faced by Anglican missionaries. Setting out on the five-week sea passage to Burma, these men & women left comfortable but boring lives in Edwardian Britain in search of adventure. Their task was to preach Christianity in a Buddhist land about which they knew little. Once there, they rapidly fell in love with the country, its rich culture & warm people, whom they grew to respect deeply. From descriptions of tea on the lawn with the Viceroy to daily struggles with insects, illness & climate, & adventures with bullock carts & early motor cars, their letters home contain fascinating vignettes of a long-extinct colonial way of life alongside a daily life in Burma which is largely unchanged today. Author & narrator Anne starts the book with stories of the myths & legends lying behind the country`s past, & recounts many memories from her childhood in Burma. She also gives a key insight into its politics, history & geography, & reproduces a vivid first-hand account of the devastating trek from Burma to India to escape the Japanese occupation, written in the mid-1940s. Her husband shared her interest in Burma, having served there in the Indian army, & some of his memories are included. As Aung San Suu Kyi takes her rightful seat in parliament & Myanmar re-emerges onto the world stage after many decades of exclusion, Bewitched by Burma gives a unique insight into the country`s complex past. The book will appeal equally to today`s travellers & business people, to families of servicemen who served there, & to those interested in the early life of the church
- & even in the introduction of Girlguiding.
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