“A Guide To World War II
- Invasion to Liberation” is a collection of annotated maps on a double-sided sheet, presenting the various
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World War II: Visual Encyclopedia profiles the soldiers who served, as well as key events & the technology of war. Find the facts about the most cunning strategists, the longest battles, the fastest fighter planes, & much more in this spectacular visual dictionary. Key information is available at a glance, with data boxes, facts & stats to dip into alongside cutting-edge CGI technology that bring these infamous events to life. Packed with profiles of the people, places & events, from Winston Churchill to Pearl Harbor, World War II: Visual Encyclopedia explores this historic event that shaped our world. ...

With the centenary of the outbreak of the ` The Great War` coming in 2014, World War One, A Very Peculiar History commemorates the events of the time by looking at some of the incredible lengths, no matter how risky or bizarre, people went to to defend their country. From front pigs to hairy beasts, author Jim Pipe looks at the nicknames coined at the time, while providing mind-boggling lists & figures about the battles, the equipment used & the harsh conditions the troops faced. Laced throughout this chronological description of the events leading up to & during the war are tales of human endeavour, charity & daring
- some scary, some quirky, & some truly unbelievable. So take time to take in the sheer scale of sacrifice, destruction & political tension that World War One resulted in, because we won`t be able to ask, first-h&, what it was like to fight in World War One for much longer.
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World War Two, A Very Peculiar History explores the most destructive event of the twentieth century, a war that defined & shaped the world we live in today. Jim Pipe introduces the nations, as well as individuals, that participated & the politics that drove them, alongside the Cherished Library-style fascinating trivia & quirky facts. In this book you can learn about mad British schemes & the atomic bomb, Nazi hunters & wartime songs, as well as comprehensive chapters about the origins & causes of World War Two, the rise of Hitler & the Third Reich, how the war was handled at home & much, much more. World War Two, A Very Peculiar History is also packed with captivating anecdotes & interesting panels of mind-boggling information about the World War II. Fact boxes, a full glossary, timeline & index make the book both fun & informative to use. The text is enlivened with black-&-white line drawings & full-colour endpapers. ...

Widening his perspective from country (examined in previous volume, ” The State We`re In”) to world, Will Hutton calls for Britain & Europe to offer alternatives to the American Way. Under President Bush America has been forthright in its isolationism
- until the attack on the World Trade Center
- but whatever happens next, it is undoubtedly true that Bush will pursue a policy of America first. Hutton argues for a countervailing balance
- economically & socially
- to the American model. Only, he argues, by making Europe a strong bloc
- & that means adopting the euro
- will we have the leverage to influence the USA as we would wish, in an attempt to make Europe a safer, more prosperous place.





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Explore the intoxicating secrets of whisky with World Whisky, the ultimate guide to the best whiskies on earth. Now fully updated with stunning new photography, World Whisky is packed with over 650 iconic global whisky brands including Bushmills, Laphroaig, Talisker, & Yamazaki, from countries including Scotl&, Japan, & the USA. Learn everything you need to know about whisky, with intriguing features including whisky production, grain types, whisky liqueurs, & even tasting notes. Discover an incredible range of whisky styles, such as malt, blended, bourbon, corn, & rye, & understand its wonderful depth, variety, & complexity, as well as classic styles & new whisky varieties. Perfect for all whisky fans from aficionados to new converts, World Whisky is the ultimate guide to every aspect of the most celebrated spirit of all. Previous edition ISBN 9781405341721 ...

The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth continues with World Without End. On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius & a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed & revenge. They will see prosperity & famine, plague & war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. & always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. Ken Follett`s masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion & family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women & children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change. World Without End is followed by the third of Ken Follett`s Kingsbridge novels, A Column of Fire. ...

Following Rivers of Gold & The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authority World Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas`s great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay & the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, & battles with the French over Florida, & then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary projection of Spanish power across the Pacific to conquer the Philippines. More significantly, it describes how the Spanish ran the greatest empire the world had seen since Rome
- as well as conquistadores, the book is people with viceroys, judges, nobles, bishops, inquisitors & administrators of many different kinds, often in conflict with one another, seeking to organise the native populations into towns, to build cathedrals, hospitals & universities. Behind them
- sometimes ahead of them
- came the religious orders, the Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, & finally the Jesuits, builders of convents & monasteries, many of them of astonishing beauty, & reminders of the pervasiveness of religion & the self-confidence of the age. Towering above them all, though moving rarely from the palace of the Escorial outside Madrid, is the figure of King Philip II, the central figure in the book. The Venetian ambassador thought him `the arbiter of the world`. Once the Philippines had been consolidated, Philip`s advisors contemplated an invasion of China: the Jesuit Father Sanchez called it `the greatest enterprise which has ever been proposed to any monarch in the world`. It was an enterprise never undertaken, but never explicitly abandoned. Was it a great or a terrible empire? In contrast to other empire builders, the Spaniards entered upon arguments with each other about their right to rule other peoples, & their ruthlessness was often tempered by humanity. Hugh Thomas`s conclusion is unequivocal: ` The speed with which the sixteenth-century conquistadores conquered such large territories on two vast continents, & the comparable success of missionaries with large populations of Indians, stands as one of the supreme epics of both valour & imagination by Europeans.`


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World Wooden Jigsaw has been handcrafted & cut, then primed & painted in child-safe, non-toxic, bright colours. A small work of art in its own right, the jigsaw both entertains & educates, allowing children to appreciate geography by piecing it together with their own hands. The item is presented in an attractive box & supplied with its own natural cotton drawstring bag for transporting the pieces around. Suitable for ages 6 & up. Products meet & exceed required European Toy Safety Standard. ...

Each journey is accompanied by a map of the route & is described in terms of the technical challenges of building the railroad as well as the stunning views to be seen while travelling on the trains. Some of the railway journeys featured include the Harz narrow-gauge railroad in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; the Indian Pacific which runs across Australia from Perth to Sydney; India's Darjeeling Himalayan Railways; & the spectacular railroads in the Canadian Rockies. ...