John Wayne double-bill. In ' War of the Wildcats' (1943), attractive schoolteacher Cathy Allen finds herself torn between two men when she arrives in Oklahoma. One is Dan Somers (Wayne), a cowboy dedicated to protecting the interests of the Native American ...

Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating & revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles & Prince Andrew. Raised for vastly different futures, one burdened with the responsibility of becoming the future king & the other destined to live in his shadow, Charles & Andrew have spent their lives on different sides of the same coin. War of the Windsors tells, for the first time, the complete story of Charles & Andrew from their diverging childhoods to their current struggles. It looks at the distinct but overlapping stories of the two heirs, from being separated in their early years & the Queen's supposed overindulgence of Andrew to the competition for Lady Diana & finally, Charles' ascension to throne while his brother is stripped of Royal duties. & it explores whether, with the scandals around Andrew still fresh in public memory, Charles will ever let his brother back into the famil... ...

At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight…

Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but,

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. In this title, the author reveals how economic boom-&-bust, decaying empires &
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- poisonous ideas of race led men to treat each other as aliens.

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The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. ...

With a foreword by renowned World War I historian Dr Gary Sheffield, War on the Western Front examines the day-to-day lives of the brave men of the First World War, as they died in the trenches, from their recruitment & their training to their combat experience, vividly recounting the shock of life on the front.

This book has a collection of essays by well known First World War contributors such as Dr Stephen Bull, Ian Drury, Thomas A. Hoff, Martin Pegler & Ian Sumner.

World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of sophisticated trench systems forming a battlefield over 400 miles long; innovations in weaponry & equipment; & the introduction of tanks in battle. Without the ordinary soldier, however, there could have been no war: The Great War was very much a conflict of infantrymen
- Tommies, Stormtrooper, Poilus & Doughboys.

War on the Western Front provides an extensive re-assessment of trench warfare, a revolutionary tactic that challenged the very idea of war, & details developments in weaponry & armoured vehicles, including terrifying innovations in the use of poison gas, flamethrowers & tanks.








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No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from executive boardrooms worldwide. Whether they're ex-special forces, CIA spooks or Foreign Legionnaires, you'll find them exchanging gunfire with insurgents in Baghdad, patrolling government buildings in Afghanistan. ...

In EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS series, this gift book with silk ribbon markers is an anthology of over one hundred poems encompassing the entire spectrum of feelings about war: pride, compassion, courage, anger, fear, excitement, anguish, even laughter. The poets range from Horace & Virgil to Stevie Smith, from Ancient China to Primo Levi. ...

The bestselling poetry anthology for GCSE & A-Level! This popular anthology for schools contains poems, extracts, historical documents & illustrations, as well as differentiated oral & written tasks. The poems cover wars from the late 18th ...

Will she get another chance at happiness?

Flora Cooke is struggling to raise her children alone amidst the ruins of war-torn

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