In the summer of 1940, as the German Occupation tightened its grip on Paris, Agnes Humbert helped to establish one of the first resistance cells. Within a year the group was publishing a news bulletin, helping allied airmen escape & passing military information back to London. Then came the catastrophe of betrayal, followed by arrest & interrogation, imprisonment & trial &, for Agnes, deportation to slave labour camp in Germany. Resistance is the secret journal of a woman who never gave up hope. ...

Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has produced a beautifully imagined & powerfully moving story of love & loss. ...

Military topographic survey mapping with contours. These maps are designed primarily as flying charts for aircraft, but they are useful as general topographical maps where nothing else is available. Contours are shown in feet, with elevation colouring & spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown (but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named, & the road information is not necessarily up to date). Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Double-sided sheet. ...

Martin W. Sandler, Pulitzer Prize nominee, & Emmy[registered] Award winner, tackles the story of the Resolute
- the finest vessel
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A year & a day after James Cook arrived back on English soil having claimed Australia & New Zealand for the British crown, he set sail again on a three-year journey (1772-1775) that still remains the greatest exploratory voyage ever undertaken in the far Southern waters of the Indian, Pacific & Atlantic Oceans. His was the first ship ever to cross the Antarctic Circle, & no sailing ship since has ventured further south through the ice. This is a colourful & exciting story of the crew & their life aboard the Resolution & the adventures that occurred whenever they landed on exotic islands & coasts such as Tahiti, Easter Isl&, the Tonga Islands & above all the snow, fog, treacherous ice & blizzards of Antarctica. ...

John Manners, Marquis of Granby, famously led a cavalry charge during the Seven Years War in 1760, losing both hat & wig. A commander of skill & courage, he was cherished by his men & lauded by the British public as an authentic military hero. Granby predeceased his father, the 3rd Duke of Rutl&, & never inherited his title, but left two sons whose contrasting fortunes & tragically short lives are the subject of this meticulously researched & richly illustrated book. Charles became 4th Duke in 1779, sought reconciliation with the American colonies & was Viceroy of Ireland; Robert embarked on a naval career, became flag captain of the Resolution & died of injuries sustained at the Battle of the Saintes. Based upon the detailed archives held at Belvoir Castle, Resolution is both an enthralling saga of two generations of the Manners family & a finely delineated portrait of aristocratic, political & naval life in mid-Georgian Engl&. ...

The 30th session of the IMO Assembly took place at the Headquarters of the Organization from 27 November to 6 December 2017. This publication contains, amongst others, resolutions pertaining to:• Revised Guidelines on the Implementation of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code by Administrations• Procedures for port State control, 2017• Code for the transport & handling of hazardous & noxious liquid substances in bulk on offshore support vessels (OSV Chemical Code)• Survey Guidelines under the Harmonized System of Surveyand Certification (HSSC), 2017• 2017 Non-exhaustive list of obligations under instruments relevant to the IMO Instruments Implementation Code (III Code). ...

Side A is a full length map of the Maldives showing atolls, resorts & islands. It has an index of resorts with a grid reference for easy location. The map also

Includes:: Protected Marine Areas. Side B

Includes:: a fish poster map showing 12 common sharks & rays, & 83 common fish species.



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Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of ...

The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances & her slave, Mehuru. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash & a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah`s protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants & finds her life & fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum & slaves. Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history & inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful, haunting, intensely disturbing, this is a novel of desire & shame, of individuals, of a society, & of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others. ...