This is a provocative story about the return home of teenage war hero & war victim, Francis Joseph Cassavant. He is forced to confront his past
- the youth leader he idolised & who betrayed him, & the girl he still loves. The book gets to the heart of human nature & the moral issues & choices we have to make.
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Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold & heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly & triumphantly as Greek heroes. In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic & timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See Atalanta
- who was raised by bears
- outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx & discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera. Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of
- at our worst & our very best.


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War correspondent Colin Frere is on assignment in Malia, a Southeast Asian stateconsumed by civil conflict & revolution. He is abducted by the Communistguerrillas
- actually by prearrangement. His mission is to understand the rebels andtheir charismatic leader
- not least because his own elder brother once foughtalongside them. But he soon finds that idealism trumps journalistic detachmentand he becomes an active soldier in the revolutionary cause. His journey & thatof his adopted country involves heroism, romance, comradeship
- & ultimatelybetrayal. Heroes in the Evening Mist was the last novel by the prolific author William Ash, who died in 2014, & it has hitherto been unpublished. Ash was born in Texas butfought as a Spitfire pilot in the Second World War before spending three years in a German prisoner-of-war camp. His repeated attempts to escape made him oneof the models for the character played by Steve Mc Queen in the film The Great Escape & were chronicled in his best-selling memoir Under the Wire. He wasa lifelong socialist & his final work shows a rare sympathetic engagement notonly with the cause of post-colonial liberation but also with the problems faced byrevolutionary governments once they have won power


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From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a brilliant new black comedy about modern America A mother & her two young children rent a battered old RV (optimistically christened the ` Chateau`) & embark upon a journey through the Alaskan wilderness. At first their trip feels like a vacation: they spot wild animals, build bonfires, enjoy the scenery. But as Josie drives her kids deeper into the forest, dodging wildfires & increasingly eccentric locals, we learn more of the events that forced her to escape her old life. Fraught with unexpected encounters from the sublime to the ridiculous, her tiny family must survive this surreal adventure at all costs, in order to finally discover something clean & redemptive out at the very edge of civilization. Heroes of the Frontier is a captivating & hilarious novel about family, loss & recovery, & a powerful examination of contemporary American life. ...

From the bestselling author of The Circle, a hilarious & heart-warming misadventure through modern America: it`s time for the family vacation... Josie`s life is falling apart
- lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain & a feckless husband long gone
- so she gathers up her two kids & lights out for the wilderness. The Alaskan wilderness, to be specific. This is a story about the trip of a lifetime. It involves one battered old RV, one highly sensitive eight year old boy, one fearless & hyperactive five year old girl, several forest fires, a large supply of pinot noir, & a deeply misguided sense of optimism. It may well be that things don`t turn out quite as Josie expected
- but then again, some of the best places in the world are found at the end of a road you didn`t mean to take... Heroes of the Frontier is an uproariously funny portrait of modern America & the modern family, an entirely contemporary novel gleaming with Dave Eggers` trademark intelligence & originality.


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` They were the war`s bravest women, devoted to defeating the Nazis yet reluctant ever to reveal their heroic pasts. Now a new book tells their intrepid tales.` Daily Express Britain`s war in the shadows of male spies & subterfuge in the heart of occupied France is a story well known, but what of the women who also risked their lives for Britain & the liberation of France? In 1942 a desperate need for new recruits, saw SOE turn to a previously overlooked group
- women. These extraordinary women came from different backgrounds, but were joined in their idealistic love of France & a desire to play a part in its liberation. They formed SOE`s F Section. From the famous White Mouse, Nancy Wake, to the courageous, Noor Inayat Khan, they all risked their lives for King, Country & the Resistance. Many of them died bravely & painfully, & often those who survived, like Eileen Nearne, never told their stories, yet their secret missions of intelligence-gathering & sabotage undoubtedly helped the Resistance to drive out their occupiers & free France. Here, for the first time is the extraordinary account of all forty SOE F women agents. It is a story that deserves to be read by everyone. Squadron Leader BERYL E. ESCOTT served in the RAF & is one of the foremost experts on the women of SOE.
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Cushions, pillows, toys or ornaments, it`s up to you! These unique fabric fish are highly realistic & great fun. Printed on both sides & firmly stuffed to give them authenticshapes & appearance. The fish are made from strong hardwearing polyester with a shiny gloss finish. CE tested for toy safety (ages 3 upwards). This item will be ordered from the supplier upon request. ...

Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Germans & the English enjoy their taste best when accompanied by pickle`s bite & brine. Throughout the long centuries men have fished around their coastlines & beyond, the herring has done much to shape both human taste & history. Men have co-operated & come into conflict over its shoals, setting out in boats to catch them, straying, too, from their home ports to bring full nets to shore. Women have also often been at the centre of the industry, gutting & salting the catch when the annual harvest had taken place, knitting, too, the garments fishermen wore to protect them from the ocean`s chill. Following a journey from the western edge of Norway to the east of Engl&, from Shetland & the Outer Hebrides to the fishing ports of the Baltic coast of Germany & the Netherlands, culminating in a visit to Iceland`s Herring Era Museum, Donald S. Murray has stitched together tales of the fish that was of central importance to the lives of our ancestors, noting how both it
- & those involved in their capture
- were celebrated in the art, literature, craft, music & folklore of life in northern Europe. Blending together politics, science, history, religious & commercial life, Donald contemplates, too, the possibility of restoring the silver darlings of legend to these shores.

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