Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Stormin' Normans, including why Norman knights slept with a dolly & which pirate hung up his eye-patch. With a bold, accessible new look & revised by the author, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ...

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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Louise (Yvonne Arnaud) was once married to Polotski. Believing him dead, she remarried, to Sir Duncan (Ralph Lynn). However, Polotski is still alive, & plans to blackmail Louise. At work, Sir Duncan has threatened his employee Mr Penny with dismissal, planning to replace him with a Mr Bullock. When Mr Penny calls at the house in the evening, he finds Louise alone as Sir Duncan is out with a girlfriend. Louise decides to take advantage of the situation, unaware that a suspicious Mr Bullock is outside. ...

Break out your pens & markers, & and help characters get dressed up, tell jokes, choose a pet, go on vacation, & more with this really giant coloring & doodling pad of 52 BIG place mats! Picky eaters & fidgety diners of all ages will love Taro Gomi's signature humor & invitation to imagine & create at mealtime. ...

During the first four years of World War II, Jan Karski worked as a messenger for the underground, risking his life in secret missions. He was captured, tortured, rescued, smuggled through a tunnel into the Warsaw ghetto &, finally, disguised himself as a guard to infiltrate a Nazi death camp. This title presents Karski's 1944 war memoir. ...

In 1955, eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. The author retells the survivor's tale of endurance, from his loneliness & thirst to his determination to survive. ...

It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, & uses than any other English word. As he reveals be's multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexible & changing language, with the help of wonderfully entertaining examples & cartoons. ...