In 1914 Britain was home to at least 10, 000 black Britons, many of African & West Indian heritage. Most of them were loyal to the `mother country` when the First World War broke out. Despite being discouraged from serving in the British Army, men managed to join all branches of the forces, while black communities contributed to the war effort on the home front. By 1918 it is estimated that Britain`s black population had trebled to 30, 000, as many black servicemen who had fought for Britain decided to make it their home. It was far from a happy ending, however, as they & their families often came under attack from white ex-servicemen & civilians increasingly resentful of their presence. With first-hand accounts & original photographs, Black Poppies is the essential guide to the military & civilian wartime experiences of black men & women, from the trenches to the music halls. It is intended as a companion to Stephen Bourne`s previous books published by The History Press: Mother Country: Britain`s Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45 & The Motherland Calls: Britain`s Black Servicemen & Women 1939-45. ...

Engl&, 1605. 12-year-old Tom must save his father from hanging. He falls in with a mysterious stranger
- the Falcon
- who promises

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Laforgue felt his body tremble. What can be keeping them? Has the Commandant refused? Why has he not sent for me? Is this God`s punishment for my lie about my hearing? Father Laforgue, an idealistic Jesuit, embarks on a desparate mission to relieve an isolated priest in danger of his life in the wilds of seventeenth-century New France. Black Robe is a tautly suspenseful tale of physical & spiritual adventure, & a meditation on good & evil in the human heart. With an introduction by Colm Toibin. ...

Celia's mother died bringing her into the world
- when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives
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Terrifying secrets, torn loyalties, love versus duty, the gripping story of a young actress caught up in highly dangerous events in 1930s Berlin... Berlin, 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe as Hitler comes to power. Clara Vine, an attractive young Anglo-German actress, arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting, she is unwillingly drawn into a circle of Nazi wives, among them Magda Goebbels, Anneliese von Ribbentrop & Goering`s girlfriend Emmy Sonnemann. As part of his plan to create a new pure German race, Hitler wants to make sweeping changes to the lives of women, starting with the formation of a Reich Fashion Bureau, instructing women on what to wear & how to behave. Clara is invited to model the dowdy, unflattering clothes. Then she meets Leo Quinn who is working for British intelligence & who sees in Clara the perfect recruit to spy on her new elite friends, using her acting skills to win their confidence. But when Magda Goebbels reveals to Clara a dramatic secret & entrusts her with an extraordinary mission, Clara feels threatened, compromised, desperately caught between her duty towards
- & growing affection for
- Leo, & the impossibly dangerous task Magda has forced upon her.

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Black Sea is at once a homage to an ocean & its shores & an amazingly readable meditation on Eurasian history from the earliest times to the present. It evokes the culture, history & politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea. Ascherson recalls the world of Herodotus & Aeschylus; Ovid's place of exile on what is now the coast of Romania; the decline & fall of Byzantium; the mysterious fastness of the Chrisian Goths; the Tatar Khanates; the growth of Russian power across the grasslands, & the centuries of war between Ottoman & Russian Empires around the Black Sea; & in our own century the terrors of Stalinism & its fascist enemy, striving for mastery of these endlessly colourful & complex shores. This is a story of Greeks, Scythians, Samatians, Huns, Goths, Turks, Russian & Poles. This is the sea where Europe ended. It is the place where 'barbarism' was born. ...

The Black Sea coast of Russia & the Ukraine at 1:700, 000 on a double-sided road map from Merkury in a series covering the central part of European Russia & the adjoining regions of its western neighbours. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet only. On one side is the Ukrainian coast with Crimea, extending west to the Romanian border & inland to Krivoy Rog & Zaporozhye. The reverse side also

Includes:: the Crimean Peninsula, extending along the coast to Sochi & the border with Georgia, plus north-east across the Azov Sea beyond Rostov-na-Donu. Roads are graded into 13 different types according to their width & official administrative status. Fuel or car repairs stations as well as weight/dimension checkpoints are clearly marked. Driving distances are shown on most small local roads. The map also

Includes:: the railway network, shows locations of regional airports & sea ports, & indicates administrative boundaries of the constituent republics. Picturesque towns are highlighted & other places of interest are marked. The terrain is indicated only by colouring for forested areas & graphics for swamps
- no relief information or geographical coordinates are provided. The maps are not indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
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Black Sea is a homage to an ocean & its shores & a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, history & politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea. Ascherson recalls the world of Herodotus & Aeschylus; Ovid`s place of exile on what is now the coast of Romania; the decline & fall of Byzantium; the mysterious Christian Goths; the Tatar Khanates; the growth of Russian power across the grasslands, & the centuries of war between Ottoman & Russian Empires around the Black Sea. He examines the terrors of Stalinism & its fascist enemy, both striving for mastery of these endlessly colourful & complex shores, & investigates the turbulent history of modern Ukraine. This is a story of Greeks, Scythians, Samatians, Huns, Goths, Turks, Russians, Ukrainians & Poles. This is the sea where Europe ended. It is the place where `barbarism` was born. It is updated with a new foreword by the author. ...

`` The next best thing to actually travelling with Caroline Eden
- a warm, erudite & greedy guide
- is to read her. This is

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The Black Sheep Guides
- Travel for Food – offer a pocket sized itinerary to the best places, restaurants, café’s & bars for
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