Keith Lowe`s ” Savage Continent” is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed & pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape & murder were rife in the days, months & years after hostilities ended. Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance, ” Savage Continent” is a shocking portrait of an until-now unacknowledged time of lawlessness & terror. Praise for ” Savage Continent”: ” Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Moving, measured & provocative. A compelling & plausible picture of a continent physically & morally brutalized by slaughter”. (” Dominic Sandbrook”, ” Sunday Times”). ” Excellent”. (” Independent”). ” Unbearable but essential. A serious account of things we never knew & our fathers would rather forget. Lowe`s transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a whole catalogue of horrors...you won`t sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind”. (” Scotsman”). Keith Lowe is widely recognized as an authority on the Second World War, & has often spoken on TV & radio, both in Britain & the United States. He is the author of the critically acclaimed ” Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg”, 1943 (Penguin). He lives in north London with his wife & two children. ...

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another 10 years.. . Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed & more than 35 million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted
- such as the police, the media, transport, local & national government
- were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates were soaring, economies collapsing, & the European population was hovering on the brink of starvation. In this epic book, Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. He outlines the warped morality & the insatiable urge for vengeance that were the legacy of the conflict. He describes the ethnic cleansing & civil wars that tore apart the lives of ordinary people from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean, & the establishment of a new world order that finally brought stability to a shattered generation.

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The No.1 bestselling novel & Richard & Judy Summer Read: a haunting tale of murder, love & lost innocence for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Jed Rubenfeld Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty. Its grottoes, pagan statues & classical inscriptions seem to have a secret life of their own -- & a secret message, too, for those with eyes to read it. Young scholar Adam Strickland is just such a person. Arriving in 1958, he finds the Docci family, their house & the unique garden as seductive as each other. But post-War Italy is still a strange, even dangerous place, & the Doccis have some dark skeletons hidden away which Adam finds himself compelled to investigate. Before this mysterious & beautiful summer ends, Adam will uncover two stories of love, revenge & murder, separated by 400 years! but is another tragedy about to be added to the villa`s cursed past? ...

It is 1704 &, in the swamps of Louisiana, France is clinging on to its new colony with less than two hundred men. Into this hostile land comes Elisabeth Savaret, one of twenty-three women sent from Paris to marry men they have never met. With little expectation of happiness, Elisabeth is stunned to find herself falling passionately in love with her husb&, infrantryman Jean-Claude Babelon. But Babelon is a dangerous man to love. Witness to Elisabeth`s devotion is another of his acolytes, Auguste, a young boy despatched to act as a go-between with the `redskins`. When both Elisabeth & Auguste find their love challenged by Babelon`s duplicity, the consequences are devastating. It is longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010. ...

Here is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping. Journalist Jennifer Jordan chronicled the individual stories of the five courageous women who have climbed K2, the most fearsome mountain in the world. Climbers call K2 ” The Savage Mountain.” It is not quite as tall as Everest, but it is far more dangerous, located at the border of China & Pakistan, in the deadly Karakoram range, which has the harshest climbing conditions & weather of any place in the world. Ninety women have climbed Everest, but only five female climbers have ever reached the summit of K2 alive. Three of these women died on the way back down the mountain, & the other two have died since their climb. Because, these five women, who defeated the most ferocious of all mountains, have lost their own voices, ” Savage Summit” told their tragic & compelling stories. The terror & triumph of K2 was revealed through the stories of the few women who have succeeded in climbing it. The women in these stories are forced to deal with harsh conditions from the mountain, & from the men climbing around them, often being treated unfairly or discriminated against in their struggle to get to the summit.” Savage Summit” also attempted to answer tough questions: do female climbers rely too much on their male climbing partners? Are women prepared for the physiological & emotional rigors of K2? Are female climbers, because of the publicity & sponsorship opportunities afforded them, climbing the mountain without the proper training, endangering their own lives & the lives of those who climb with them? &, if women are as capable of men of climbing this most deadly peak, who will be next to attempt the long trek to the summit? ...

Savannah & the Georgia Coast in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

Moon Spotlight Savannah & the Georgia Coast is a 145-page compact guide covering historic Savannah & the Golden Isles, including Brunswick & Glynn County, Jekyll Isl&, St. Simon's Isl&, Darien & Mc Intosh County, Cumberland Island & St. Mary's, & the Okefenokee Swamp. Author Jim Morekis offers seasoned advice on what sights are must-sees &

Includes:: maps with sightseeing highlights so that planning your time is easy. This lightweight guide is packed with recommendations on sights, entertainment, shopping, recreation, accommodations, food, & transportation. Helpful maps make navigating these historic areas uncomplicated.
Moon Spotlight guides are affordably-priced, lightweight guides covering a smaller geographic region than Moon Handbooks or Outdoors guidebook series. The travel content in a Spotlight guide is pulled directly from individual chapters of larger Handbooks or Outdoors titles, with no introductory information (such as When to Go or Planning Your Trip), & no indexes. The results are compact guides to popular destinations that provide travelers with what they need to explore a specific locale in depth with fewer pages of very focused information.


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Let Savannah Diaries take you on a safari of discovery through Africa`s most beautiful national parks & big game sanctuaries, in the company of its spectacular wildlife & the remarkable characters
- scientists, conservationists, wardens & safari guides
- who have devoted their lives to protecting its unique heritage for future generations. Written by the preeminent expert on African wildlife, Brian Jackman, Savannah Diaries reveals the staggering size & scale of sub-Saharan Africa in a celebration of the continent`s wild places & their abundance of living creatures.

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Savannah in Georgia with Hilton Head Island in South Carolina on an indexed street plan from ADC, part of the Kappa Map Group. On one side is coverage of the Georgian side, including Garden City, Hutchinson Isl&, Skidaway Island & Thunderbolt; the Hilton Head Island is shown on the reverse at the same scale as the main map. Colouring indicates different types of roads, from controlled access highways & toll roads to local streets. The map shows county & zip code boundaries. Symbols indicate various facilities & places of interest. Extensive index lists places & streets/roads. ...

The Savannah Way linking Cairns in Queensland & Broome in Western Australia highlighted on a road map from Hema showing the northern part of Australia with local roads & outback tracks, various facilities including fuel supplies, etc, plus enlargements of popular areas, tables of facilities in national parks, etc. The map is double-sided, showing on one side northern Queensland with the north-western part of Northern Territory; on the reverse coverage starts with a very generous overlap, showing the northern parts of Northern Territory & Western Australia. The course of the Savannah Way, including its suggested variants, is prominently highlighted. Road network indicates sealed & unsealed roads, tracks & rough tracks. Symbols indicate different types of fuel supplies & rest areas, camping & caravanning facilities, local airports, information centres, etc. Also marked are various points of interest. National parks / other protected areas & Aboriginal Lands are prominently highlight 6ed. Topography is shown by names of mountain ranges, deserts, etc, plus graphics for salt pans, swamps, areas subject to inundations, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1º intervals. Enlargements present in greater detail four national parks: Boodjamulla (Lawn Hills) in QLD, Kakadu & Judbarra/ Gregory in NT, plus Purnululu in WA, annotated where useful with GPS coordinates. Also provided are tables of facilities in the national parks across the area covered by the main map, a list of important contact numbers, plus descriptions of various sights. To see other titles in Hema’s series of City to City maps please click on the series link. ...