Vivid, fictional account of the 1910 Houndsditch Murders that saw Latvian revolutionaries gun down three Police Officers in London's East End. The weeks that followed brought a massive manhunt, culminating in the bloody gunfight dubbed The Siege of Sidney Street: from which the ringleader, Peter the Painter, mysteriously escaped. ...

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery & ashen lyricism that illuminates the horrors as well as the fascination of total First World War, presenting the conflict through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. It provides an account of the terrors of the Western Front & of the sickening allure that made men keep fighting on for 4 long years. ...

The third volume in George R.R. Martin's superb & highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice & Fire continues the richest, ...

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS: STEEL & SNOW is the FIRST part of the third volume in the series. 'A consummate storyteller' Jojo Moyes ...

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.A STORM OF SWORDS: BLOOD & GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume in the series.' When times are tough there is no better distraction than these magical tales' Guardian ...

Thirty years after the Falklands War ' Secret Millionaire' Tony Banks is still haunted by his experiences in the South Atlantic. As a member of the crack Parachute Regiment his unit was the first to land on the Falklands & he fought in the bloody first & last battles of the war before liberating Port Stanley. In this memoir Tony vividly recalls the fighting in the Falklands. He relives the bombing raids in San Carlos bay, the Battle of Goose Green, the Argentinian attack on the Sir Galahad & the Battle of Wireless Ridge. But he also tells of his own battles with Combat Stress & of how three decades on the war is still claiming victims. He tells the stories of British & Argentine veterans & travels to Argentina to return a war trophy
- a trumpet he had taken from a prisoner
- to its rightful owner. The return of the trumpet brings closure to both men. & finally Tony returns to the Falklands to lay the ghosts that have haunted him to rest.

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In the late 1970s, wild, eager young Scotsman Tony Banks joined one of the toughest outfits in the British army. The men of the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment were highly trained but nothing could prepare them for the intensity & ferocity of fighting to liberate the Falkland Islands. Banks & his comrades were plunged into a war of night attacks & vicious close-quarters combat. In Storming the Falklands, Tony Banks gives his vivid, harrowing first-hand account of the bloodiest conflict British troops had faced in years. After the Falklands, Banks suffered years of debilitating combat stress, a battle only recently won when he met his former enemies & laid the demons to rest. 23.4 x 15.3 x 3.8 cm, pages 302 ...

During the expedition to Cho Oyu in Tibet, Joe Simpson has an encounter with a party of political refugees fleeing across the Tibetan border. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in the old world Tibet. Oppression abroad makes him see mindless violence in his home town of Sheffield in a new light. ...

London 1950

Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling back into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane, surrounded

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Stay organised in 2013 with this great Stormy Skies themed 30cm x 30cm calendar & A5 week to view diary set with plenty of space to write down birthdays, anniversaries & other important dates as well as selected public holidays & religious celebrations. ...