After decades as a Commissario, Piero Trotti has retired. But his newfound peace is brief. An old friend calls him to Siena to give him urgent news: a known hit man has returned to Italy to kill Trotti. The former inspector must admit that he isn`t entirely undeserving, as his mistaken accusations & failed gambles have cost innocent lives in the course of his investigations. Though Trotti carries the burden of these deaths with him each day, someone else has appeared to enact his own, long-awaited retribution... ...

In an eighteen-year playing career for Cobh Ramblers, Nottingham Forest (under Brian Clough), Manchester United (under Sir Alex Ferguson) & Celtic, Roy Keane dominated every midfield he led to glory. Aggressive & highly competitive, his attitude helped him to excel as captain of Manchester United from 1997 until his departure in 2005. Playing at an international level for nearly all his career, he represented the Republic of Ireland for over fourteen years, mainly as team captain, until an incident with national coach Mick Mc Carthy resulted in Keane`s walk-out from the 2002 World Cup. Since retiring as a player, Keane has managed Sunderland & Ipswich & has become a highly respected television pundit. As part of a tiny elite of football players, Roy Keane has had a life like no other. His status as one of football`s greatest stars is undisputed, but what of the challenges beyond the pitch? How did he succeed in coming to terms with life as a former Manchester United & Ireland leader & champion, reinventing himself as a manager & then a broadcaster, & cope with the psychological struggles this entailed? In a stunning collaboration with Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, THE SECOND HALF blends anecdote & reflection in Roy Keane`s inimitable voice. The result is an unforgettable personal odyssey which fearlessly challenges the meaning of success. ...

First published by Macmillan in 1895, & now returning to print in this beautiful edition, The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to Rudyard Kipling`s classic, The Jungle Book. Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves learns more of life & survival in the Indian jungle in the company of well-loved characters such as Baloo the brown bear & Bagheera the black panther. Including three further stories of life in India, this rich collection of adventure, fable & poetry from the master-storyteller & illustrated by his father, John Lockwood Kipling, is a classic to treasure. ...

Ranging from Nevis to Glencoe, from the Cuillin to the Cairngorms, this book weaves the story of a friendship amongst witty-and often alarming-tales of mountaineering mishaps. Winter avalanches, rats in bothies & Brummies in baseball boots, these two adventurers take on the Scottish hills with wit & humour. Second Man on the Rope is a story of a beautiful friendship forged in the hills. ...

In this beautiful follow up to the best-selling ` One & Only Mandala Colouring Book`, there are 70 brand new super-large mandalas to colour in & help you find balance in your life. The mandalas are a traditional source of meditation & wisdom, & the Second One & Only Colouring Book will focus the mind with these beautiful designs. The high quality paper means a variety of mediums from pen, paint, pastel or pencil can be used. Sit back, start colouring & leave the stresses of everyday life behind. ...

At the end of the Cold War, we found ourselves living in a world with one superpower, the United States. Now, at the start of the twenty-first century, Parag Khanna argues powerfully that the moment of American supremacy is over, brought about by the increasing influence of what he terms the Second World: Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, the Middle East & East Asia. Travelling from Azerbaijan to Venezuela, China`s hinterlands to Gaddafi`s Libya, Parag Khanna explores these countries & their global significance. For as the three superpowers
- the US, the EU & China
- compete for influence in the Second World, citizens of these countries can already feel the these imperial forces exerting their influence & affecting the global balance of power. In a bold & provocative style, ” The Second World” makes clear what`s at stake, for whoever dominates the Second World will lead the twenty-first century
- or become a part of the Second World itself.


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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria & ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific & China, & yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship & research, & writing with clarity & compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, & to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War. Moral choice forms the basis of all human drama, & no other period in history has presented greater dilemmas both for leaders & ordinary people, nor offered such examples of individual & mass tragedy, the corruption of power politics, ideological hypocrisy, the egomania of commanders, betrayal, perversity, self-sacrifice, unbelievable sadism & unpredictable kindness. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers & civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history. ...

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria & ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific & China, & yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship & research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions & to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War. Moral choice forms the basis of all human drama, & no other period in history has presented greater dilemmas both for leaders & ordinary people, nor offered such examples of tragedy, the corruption of power politics, ideological hypocrisy, betrayal, perversity, self-sacrifice, unbelievable sadism & unpredictable kindness. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers & civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history. ...

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria & ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific & China, & yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship & research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific & from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor`s THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers & civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history. ...

This major work covers the whole six-year global conflagration that shattered & then re-shaped the world. From the German blitzkrieg against Poland in September 1939, to the surrender of Japan following the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki almost exactly six years later. After a seemingly endless run of Axis victories
- the fall of France, the surrender of Singapore, & the Russian withdrawal to the outskirts of Moscow
- this book shows how the Allies slowly turned the tide of war in their favor, winning a decisive victory over Rommel in north Africa & destroying the German 6th Army in Stalingrad. The pace then quickens as the long, hard struggle for victory reaches it dramatic climax with the D-Day landings & subsequent bitter campaign through western Europe to Germany, the Red Army`s unstoppable march to Berlin, & the final brutal battles with the Japanese in the Far East. Each key event is presented precisely, spread by spread, with maps, photographs & documents, biographical features & timeline.

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