Love can entrap the most guarded of hearts! The distinguished Viscount Roworth can only hope his clandestine activities on behalf of the British Army will restore his family fortune & gain him entry into Brussels' high society. But the only fly in the ointment is the young woman with whom necessity has forced the penurious peer to share lodgings. The lovely, fiercely independent Miss Fanny Ingram seems to care not a whit for matters of rank & social standing. & although good sense tells Roworth he must resist her uncommon charms, nothing can protect his heart against the slings & arrows of Cupid's unerring aim! ...

Tells the story of individuals
- their ambitions, limitations & human nature
- which lie at the heart of global catastrophe.

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It's been three years since Lady Sarah Caversham set eyes on arrogant Charles Lennox
- the husband her father chose for her to
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Details: The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming but finally, triumphantly, Temujin
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The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds & hearts. This book charts the history from the first campaigns to the Charge of the Light Brigade, from the Crusades to the Dardenelles, & brings to life innumerable aspects of Ottoman life. ...

The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of the Second World War & highlights the crucial work of the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, which prevented Britain’s certain defeat in 1941. But there was another German cipher machine, used by Hitler himself to convey messages to his top generals in the field. A machine more complex & secure than Enigma. A machine that could never be broken.

For sixty years, no one knew about Lorenz or ‘ Tunny’, or the determined group of men who finally broke the code & thus changed the course of the war. Many of them went to their deaths without anyone knowing of their achievements.

Here, for the first time, senior codebreaker Captain Jerry Roberts tells the complete story of this extraordinary feat of intellect & of his struggle to get his wartime colleagues the recognition they deserve.

The work carried out at Bletchley Park during the war to partially automate the process of breaking Lorenz, which had previously been done entirely by h&, was groundbreaking & is recognised as having kick-started the modern computer age.

This hardback book has 240 pages & measures: 24 x 16 x 2.2cm







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By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover & libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, & ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas
- The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan tutte & Don Giovanni. This is a biography of a character & a portrait of four cities.
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Five-year-old Lorenzo Odone (Zack O' Malley Greenburg) is diagnosed with ALD, a degenerative disease, & his parents Michaela & Augusto Odone (Susan Sarandon & Nick Nolte) are determined to find a cure. They ignore the prognoses of doctors & battle ...

Oscar nominees Nick Nolte & Susan Saradon star in ths powerful & unforgettable drama based on a true story. The sobering news that their five-year-old son, Lorenzo, has a rare terminal disease, marks the beginning of an extraordinary mission for Augusto & Michaela Odone. Despite the prognosis, the Odones set out to save their child, colliding with doctors, scientists & support groups who are reluctant to encourage the couple in their quest for a cure. Their relentless struggle tests the strength of their marriage, the deapth of their beliefs, & the boundaries of conventional medicine. Nolte & Saradon deliver exceptional performances as the loving & determined parents who bring hope to many in this critically-acclaimed hit. ...

John Ridd is a farmer who finds love amid the religious & social turmoil of seventeenth-century Engl&. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset & Devon. Seized by curiosity & a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones. ...