A new anthology that combines generous selections from well-known soldier poets such as Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon with work by civilian & women poets. A general introduction places Great War poetry in its contexts & the work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that explains the circumstances of composition. ...

' York Notes for GCSE' offers a useful approach to English Literature & aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today's students, the new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language & style, illustrations, exam advice & much more. ...

Auden, Lewis, Mac Neice & other key poets of the ' Thirties' were children of the First World War, obsessed by war & by communalism & by the class-struggle. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, a varied body of poetry emerged. This book arranges the poetry to make a 'critical essay' of the period. ...

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Investigations into the "accidental" deaths of two of the world's most powerful men have revealed just one link: both had a son attending Point Blanc Academy, a school for rebellious rich kids run by Dr Grief set high in the French Alps. Alex must infiltrate the academy as a pupil & establish the truth about what is really happening there. ...

You may be fluent in many languages but sometimes you could find yourself off the beaten track where you can't communicate. Point it, with 1300 items to point at, is the answer. Everyone in the world will understand you. This passport-sized assistant is the result of the author's extensive travels in the five continents. ...

Between 2007 & 2008, 20-year-old Kenny Meighan was the longest-serving point man in Helmand province. An exceptionally skilful & brave private, he was lucky to make it home alive. But in his hometown in Essex, where prospects are bleak & his father still suffers from nightmares of his own war experience, Kenny's struggle is far from over. ...

Ambushes. Hidden bombs. Snipers. The point man is the first to encounter these signs of danger. He's the soldier who leads the patrol into battle. Few survive for long. Between 2007 & 2008, 20-year-old Kenny Meighan was the longest-serving point man in Helmand province. An exceptionally skilfull & brave private who came from a family of soldiers, he was lucky to stay alive. This is the true story of how Kenny took on the toughest test a soldier could face & lived to tell the tale. ...

This collection is by the author of Brunizem. Sujata Bhatt's poems talk of her native India & her native tongue
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Reportage resists easy definition & comes in many forms, but it reveals hidden truths about people & events that have shaped the world we know. This book features the author's eyewitness accounts of the atom bomb tests at Bikini atoll & evocations of his encounters with Mao Tse-tung & Winston Churchill. ...