Soldier, Spy is the astonishing memoir of one ordinary man & soldier, Victor Gregg, as he resumes civilian life after the Second World War. As for so many others, picking up where he had left off proved far from simple for Gregg; he had fought many battles, lost many friends & been deeply damaged psychologically by his experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. To escape the memories & the emotional trauma, he moved from one job & distraction to the next: from immersing himself in the adrenaline-fuelled competitive cycling to working as a long distance lorry driver, from becoming a Communist Party member to becoming a spy &, by his seventieth birthday, helping bring about the fall of the Berlin Wall. This honest & gritty account is the third book in a remarkable trilogy that both explores the permanent & damaging consequences of a life at war & tells the story of one ordinary man who went on to lead the most extraordinary life. ...

In this moving & unforgettable narrative journalist Daniel Bergner travels into the heart of Sierra Leone, a country torn apart by war. This is the story of the people he encounters in a realm of fire & jungle as they rebuild their lives: Lamin, who lost his hands to save his daughter; Komba, child soldier & sometime cannibal; Neall Ellis, the mercenary pilot with a conscience; Valentine Strasser the embittered ex-dictator; & the Western outsiders trying to save a land of startling beauty & brutality. Shocking, often heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful, ” Soldiers of Light” is a story of survival & a haunting work of literary reportage. ...

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is the writer & fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, & can hear a search party & their dogs hunting him down. The branches move & he finds himself looking into the eyes of a militiaman, & faces death for the second time that day. But the unknown soldier simply turns & walks away. Sanchez Mazas becomes a national hero & the soldier disappears into history. As Cercas sifts the evidence to establish what happened, he realises that the true hero may not be Sanchez Mazas at all, but the soldier who chose not to shoot him. Who was he? Why did he spare him? & might he still be alive? ...

This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India`s north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan & Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence`s Young Men, each had distinguished himself in the East India Company`s wars in the Punjab in the 1840s before going out to carve out names for themselves as politicals on the frontier.; Drawing extensively on the men`s diaries, journals & letters, Charles Allen weaves the individual stories of these Soldier Sahibs together with the tale of how they came together to save British India, ending climatically on Delhi Ridge in 1857. ...

The Solent is the spiritual home of sailing & one of Britain`s most popular sailing spots, offering a varied & interesting cruising ground. In this fully updated third edition, Derek Aslett provides an authoritative companion that helps you make the most of your visit. Centred on Cowes & covering the area from Keyhaven & Yarmouth in the west to Chichester & Bembridge in the east, the Solent Cruising Companion provides comprehensive pilotage & nautical information, as well as suggestions of where to eat & what to do ashore. The book is enhanced with colour charts & detailed photography, including spectacular aerial shots of ports, harbours & anchorages. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Solihull in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Balsall Commom, Birmingham International Airport & the NEC, Dorridge, Hampton in Arden, Hockley Heath, Meriden & Shirley. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey

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Falk, one of Germany's leading publishers of street plans, produce their town plans in two different formats. Falk Extra plans are folded in a standard way, where the whole map can be opened to view the entire area it covers. For larger cities, the same mapping is also published with a special folding system designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps. The plans, which cover towns with their outer suburbs, indicate main landmarks & public buildings & show all the public transport facilities, one way streets & car parks. Plans of lager cities include a separate map of the town centre at a more detailed scale & a diagram of the underground & the suburban rail network. The plans also show the postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. Map legend

Includes:: English. Falk Extra plans also include on the reverse a road map of the surrounding area.

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This game of Solitaire is played with 36 marbles. The glass marbles featured in this game have been hand blown & the colors are vibrant against the solid ebony board. The game of Solitaire is reputed to have been invented by a nobleman confined in the Bastille prison during the early years of the French Revolution. The object is to eliminate all but one marble, which should ideally end up in the center of the game board. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...