In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded & twice decorated. Out of his experiences came his early masterpiece, A Farewell to Arms.

In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers & the men & women he encounters along the way with conviction & brutal honesty. A love story of immense drama & uncompromising passion, A Farewell to Arms offers a unique & unflinching view of the world & people, by the winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded & twice decorated.

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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front & his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry & Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivalled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto, of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, & demoralized, is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love & pain, of loyalty & desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway. Read by John Slattery ...

In this practical guide TV farmer Jimmy Doherty imparts his experience & ideas to show you how to achieve the self-sufficient lifestyle & add to your life whether growing for your own pleasure
- or profit! Farmer, entrepreneur & TV presenter Jimmy Doherty is living proof that you can successfully grow & rear your own food. Whatever your circumstances & whether you have a window box or a couple of acres, this book is full of ideas & suggestions to help you get started. Using Jimmy's knowledge & experience, this book will take you through all the realties to consider on the road to self-sufficiency, but above all it shows just how achievable it can be to grow & even sell your own produce. Focusing on the two main areas, what you can grow & what you can rear, this book will answer all of your questions, offer you the most useful & practical advice & show you how you can apply these ideas to suit your situation. So, if you want to make your own juices, bread or honey to sell at a local farmers market, save yourself the big grocery bills with your own vegetable garden, sell your own pork sausages or lamb burgers to local restaurants or rear your own turkey for your Christmas dinner this book will give you the practical knowledge & the confidence to actually do it. Jimmy covers everything from the skills to equipment to environmentalism to marketing & even shows that you don't necessarily need any land to live the self-sufficient lifestyle. Practical, realistic but full of good advice & encouragement, & case studies & essays to inspire you, A Farmer's Life for Me is the ultimate guide to the business of self-sufficiency.
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13 years ago Kevin Dolby was sent to prison for a violent robbery. But upon his release he sets in motion a chilling plan to get what he believes is owed to him. Leaving her old life in Battersea, Kevin's ex-wife Pearl has remarried & is determined to protect her son John from knowing the truth about his real father. But when her close friend Bessie dies, she is forced to return to the one place she'd rather forget. Pearl must plans to take over Bessie's shop & look after Nora, the young woman who was in Bessie's care. Meanwhile, Kevin is swindling his parents for money & once he gets what he wants, Kevin is going to find his son, whatever it takes... ...

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Includes:: 3 great DVDs each focusing on a different part of British steam. Disc one looks at the

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Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a Navy lawyer assigned to defend two men who accidentally killed a Private by asphyxiating him with a towel. Initially working out a quick & easy plea bargain with the prosecuting lawyer (Kevin Bacon), Kaffee is ...

In 1996 Sarah Lyall, a New York Times reporter, left behind her American roots & moved to London for love. As that newspapers correspondent in London, she became known here for her witty & incisive dispatches from her adopted country, as she conjured with her new & eccentric countrymen. She also found herself with a ringside seat at a singular moment in British life: the roller-coaster years of Tony Blairs New Labour had inaugurated a battle between the old world of aristocratic privilege & a new world of modern meritocracy. In A Field Guide to the British, Lyall strides her way readably, eloquently & perceptively across the social, political & cultural landscape of contemporary Britain. In a narrative studded with memorable anecdote & rich in humour, she explores themes as diverse as peers, politics, the media, understatement, the weather, & Britains relationship with animals, alcohol & sex. She ponders such matters as the missing link between the famous British reserve & the famous British hooliganism (could it possibly be binge drinking?); how any parliamentary motion is ever passed when the Commons act like naughty schoolboys & the Lords spend two days debating UFOs; & the age-old question of how anyone could possibly enjoy a game as tedious as cricket? A Field Guide to the British is an impressively wide-ranging survey of contemporary British mores from a writer blessed with acute powers of observation & a fluent & readable writing style. Seeing ourselves through Lyalls eyes is sometimes embarrassing, often revelatory
- but always very funny. Wry, insightful & engaging, A Field Guide to the British is permeated with a deep affection for its authors adopted country & an unerring eye for its oddities & eccentricities. It is required reading for Anglophiles & Anglophobes on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Thirty-two-year-old Sam Sheridan, a Harvard graduate & former Marine, had always had a taste for adventure. So when he found himself in Australia, with time on his hands, cash in his pocket, & every intention of spending it, he realised he could finally indulge a long-held obsession: fighting. He began training hard, with the best of the best, & within a year he stepped through the ropes for a professional bout against a Japanese karate champion. far from putting him off, he was even more hooked, & he set out on an epic journey into the world of Ultimate Fighting & Mixed Martial Arts in an attempt to pin down not only his opponents, but exactly what it is drives a man to step into the ring. This book is the chronicle of Sheridan's quest. Welcome to the real Fight Club. ...

Caught in the nets of a local fishing boat, the body of gangland boss Harvey Preston is dragged from the English Channel, wrapped from head to toe in a heavy chain. British intelligence suspects a connection with a cross-channel smuggling ring. But as undercover agent Paul Chavasse embarks on what will be one of the most dangerous cases in his extraordinary career, he soon discovers that this is no small-time operation
- & the ruthless men behind it will stop at nothing to protect their precious cargo.
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