Shostakovich`s Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died of their wounds, the cold, & most of all, starvation. The assembled musicians
- scrounged from frontline units & military bands, for only twenty of the orchestra`s 100 players had survived
- were so hungry, many feared they`d be too weak to play the score right through. In these, the darkest days of the Second World War, the music & the defiance it inspired provided a rare beacon of light for the watching world. Setting the composition of Shostakovich`s most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself & the years of repression & terror that preceded it, Leningrad: Siege & Symphony is a magisterial & moving account of one of the most tragic periods in history.

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Leningradskaya Oblast Road Atlas at 1:290, 000 from Discus Media, in Cyrillic & with map legend in Russian. Road network distinguished between tarred & unsufaced roads,

Includes:: field & forest tracks & indicates restricted entry routes & border crossings to Finl&. Driving distances are given on many local routes & locations of petrol stations are marked. Railway lines are shown with stops. The region’s numerous marshlands are marked & colouring shows forested areas. Symbols highlight religious buildings, historic sites, etc. The maps have no geographical coordinates. The atlas is indexed & has lists of useful addresses. All place names are in Cyrillic alphabet. Map legend & all the text are in Russian only.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: supplies of all titles published in Russia are very irregular & we cannot guarantee a definite delivery time for titles not in stock. If a title is currently out of stock, it may be advisable to choose an alternative.


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Leningradskaya Oblast Road Atlas in a series of detailed atlases of the administrative provinces of the Russian Federation from Roskartografia, with road information shown on a topographic base. Road network

Includes:: minor local roads, service stations, & distances between junctions. Colour coding distinguishes between federal roads & those which are the responsibility of local government. In many areas tracks & footpaths are included. The atlases also show railway lines, as well as inland waterways with locations of locks & the direction of the current. Cities & towns are marked according to the size of their population. Symbols indicate natural landmarks, post offices, hospitals & other facilities, museums, monuments, etc. Topography is shown by contours at 100m intervals & spot heights. Each atlas has an index &

Includes:: an administrative map of the region & a key to Russian road signs. In some atlases coverage is provided only for the areas with roads & not for the whole province. Please see individual descriptions or images of the area coverage supplied with each title. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet & the text, including map legends, is in Russian only. In this title: the whole of the province is covered. Also included are basic street plans of St Petersburg at 1:100, 000, Gatchina at 1:50, 000, & Vyborg at 1:25, 000.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: Supplies are very erratic & no delivery date can be guaranteed for titles currently not in stock. Also, we occasionally receive copies with different covers or in different sizes to those indicated on our website. But the cartography & basic information remains as described above.




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This book is a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. Deep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf & disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive life out of sight & mind of the government. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out that year`s crops, a county official dreams up a scheme that will raise money for the district & boost his career. He convinces the villagers to set up a travelling freak-show, to include Blind Tonghua`s Acute Listening Act & Deafman Ma`s Firecrackers-on-the-Ear. With the money, he intends to buy Lenin`s embalmed corpse from an ailing Russia & install it in a splendid mausoleum in the mountains to attract tourism to this sleepy district. However, as we all know, even the best intentions can go awry. ...

Winter 1917: As a generation of Europe`s young men perish on the fronts, British spy Jack Mc Coll is assigned a dangerous sabotage mission deep in Central Asia where German influence is strong. Meanwhile, the woman he loves, Caitlin, is in Bolshevik Russia, thrilled to cover the Revolution. Caitlin knows Moscow is where she is meant to be
- even if she is putting her life at risk. But years of bloody war have taken their toll on all of Europe, & Jack & Caitlin`s relationship may become another casualty. Can a revolutionary love a spy? & if she does, will it cost one of them their lives?
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A 128km long cycle route along the Lenne from its source near Winterberg in the beautiful region of Sauerland to the Ruhr river. Detailed maps show the route & its variants & extensive information is conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: ALL THE TEXT IN THIS TITLE IS GERMAN ONLY. MAP LEGEND

Includes:: ENGLISH, please see our sample image, & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of a similar product in English from other publishers. There is currently no English edition this title available in this series. About the series: All the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

Includes:: a list of places of interest, with opening hours, etc. Several of the guides also have street plans




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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. ...

Here are the Mini Monster Mates, who live in the same monster-land as the award winning Boris, Sid, Wendy & friends. We have already met Ernie, who likes to spot colours; & Norman who can`t resist sticking his nose in & counting all kinds of smelly things. Now we meet Lenny Long Legs, who likes to try out opposites. ...

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. ...

Map No. 2405E, Lens, in IGN’s excellent, detailed topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000. With the Lens
- Liéven conurbation
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