Dario Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be 'disappeared' by the military government-murdered by the local chief of police with the complicity of his friends & neighbours. Twenty years later, Fefe returns to the town where Dario met died & attempts to discover how the community let such a crime happen. ...

Open Tunings. Open tunings offer guitarists an opportunity for a fresh new view of the instrument & an expansion of their creative options. From Open D to tuning in fourths, here are more than 20 of the most common open tunings. With a tuning diagram, diagrams for the most common chords, & scales shown in notation & tablature for each tuning, this book is a handy reference for everyday use. You also get tips on how to transpose songs to other keys, an explanation of chord symbols, the basic chords in standard tuning & a chord/scale chart showing you which scales to play over the most commonly used chords. ...

We regularly employ classically-derived expressions in our everyday language, yet many of us have little understanding of the origin of these common phrases. This title offers a look at the stories behind the expressions. It provides an introduction to classical mythology, & also offers insights into our language. ...

It has been one of those days. You've worked like a Trojan, displaying titanic strength & stoic endurance to overcome the Herculean labours that have faced you in order to meet that deadline. We regularly employ classically-derived expressions in our everyday language, yet many of us have little understanding of the origin of these common phrases. But an incomplete classical education need no longer be your Achilles heel. Opening Pandora's Box offers a light-hearted yet fascinating look at the stories behind the expressions. For example, did you know that the phrase 'the face that launched a thousand ships' originates from the story of the kidnapping of Helen of Troy, but the actual line comes from a poem by Christopher Marlowe? Opening Pandora's Box provides a useful introduction to classical mythology as well as giving an insight into our language. ...

Through a time-travel tunnel, linking Ireland & Egypt, Isis sent a small group of masters to prepare for the day when her mysteries would once again be released to the world to restore balance & enhance life. They established the Order of the White Rose to guard the sacred objects & the secrets of Isis. ...

David Glantz challenges the time-honoured explanation that poor weather, bad terrain & Hitler's faulty strategic judgement produced German defeat, & reveals how the Red Army thwarted the German Army's dramatic & apparently inexorable invasion before it achieved its ambitious goals. ...

After two months of bitter combat in Normandy, Operation Bluecoat transformed the campaign into a war of movement. British & German armoured divisions were flung against one another. This is the story of the breakthrough begun on 30 July by 11th Armoure ...

Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how & where the D-Day landings were to be mounted. The story of how this web was woven is one of intrigue, personal drama, ground-breaking techniques, internal resistance, & good fortune. It is a tale of double agents, black radio broadcasts, phantom armies, Ultra decrypts, & dummy parachute drops. These diverse tactics were intended to come together to create a single narrative so compelling that it would convince Adolf Hitler of its authenticity. Operation Fortitude was intended to create the false impression that the Normandy landings were merely a feint to disguise a massive forthcoming invasion by this American force in the Pas de Calais. In other words, the success of D-Day ? the beginning of the end of the Second World War ? was made possible by the efforts of men & women who were not present on the Normandy beaches. One of the most creative intelligence operations of all time
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2, 000 blood-crazed rebels. 26 elite British soldiers. One mans explosive true story.

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Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) is skipper of the U.S.S. Sea Tiger, a submarine forced out to sea by an enemy air attack. He is less than impressed by his newly-arrived junior officer, Lieutenant Nick Holden (Tony Curtis), who nevertheless manages to scavenge t ...