This part of Italy holds many treasures. From Ferraris & fashion to Parmesan cheese & Parma ham Bologna is paradoxically innovative & steeped in tradition. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport accommodation eating & entertainment to ensure that your trip

Includes:: the best of this region famed for having the best cuisine in Italy. * Essentials section with useful advice on getting to & around the region. * Comprehensive up-to-date listings of where to eat sleep & play. *

Includes:: information on tour operators & activities from zipping around on a moped to sampling the regions best food. * Detailed maps for Bologna & other destinations. * Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights plus many lesser-known attractions Footprint Focus Bologna provides concise & comprehensive coverage of one of Italys most culinary satisfying regions.



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On Friday 25th May 1934 a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridges Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier as the First World War ended Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. An inspiration for Nancy Mitfords character The Bolter painted by William Orpen & photographed by Cecil Beaton Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered & branded her the high priestess of White Mischiefs bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya. Sackvilles life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal & heartbreak behind Sackvilles road to scandal & return painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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' Afghanistan is just like Iraq
- hot dusty & full of people who want to kill you' SSgt Simon Fuller Royal Engineer Search Advisor
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Patrick Bishop looks at the lives & the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS presented by Ewan Mc Gregor. They came from every corner of Britain & its Empire. They were the best of their generation...heading for one of the worst tasks of WWII. Like RAF pilots the thousands of brave young men who joined Bomber Command took to the air to help Britain triumph in World War Two. But in the glow of victory the fighter pilots were lauded for their efforts while the Bomber Boys faded in national memory. Crucial in the heat of combat they were politically awkward afterwards. Yet with an average life expectancy shorter than that of soldiers on the Western front in WWI these men faced death injury & capture time & again to send bombs through the shrieking flak onto enemy territory. Bomber Boys is a tribute to their strength courage & heroism
- filling in the historical blanks & immortalising their memory.
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In 1943 the RAF began a bombing campaign against Germany the like of which had never before been seen. Over the next twelve months tens of thousands of aircrews flew across the North Sea to drop their bombs on German cities. They were opposed not only by the full force of the Luftwaffe but by a nightmare of flak treacherously icy conditions & constant mechanical malfunction. Most of these crews never finished their tour of operations but were either shot down & killed or taken prisoner by an increasingly hostile enemy. This is the story of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in the days when it was widely believed that the Allies could win the Second World War by bombing alone. Kevin Wilson has interviewed hundreds of former airmen about what their lives were like in 1943: the stomach-churning tension of flying repeatedly over hostile territory the terror at being shot down or captured & the peculiar mixture of guilt & pride at unleashing such devastation on Germany. ...

Lancaster pilot Victor Woods aircraft arrived too early over Gelsenkirchen when the target was shrouded in darkness & the Main Force miles behind. His bomber was suddenly struck with terrifying force by flak & turned upside-down. An engine was on fire the unconscious mid-upper gunner slumped over his turret was being sprayed with petrol & their bombload had been struck by shrapnel. Could Vic get his crew back to base safely? Find out in Mel Rolfes expertly researched & narrated book which records nineteen similarly exceptional stories as night after night young men went off on sorties knowing the unpalatable truth that they might not see another dawn. ...

Bomber Commands offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56 000 British & Commonwealth aircrew & 600 000 Germans died in the course of the RAFs attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 with a few score primitive Whitleys Hampdens & Wellingtons & ended six years later with 1 600 Lancasters Halifaxes & Mosquitoes razing whole cities in a single night. Max Hastings traced the developments of area bombing using a wealth of documents letters diaries & interviews with key surviving witnesses. Bomber Command" is his classic account of one of the most controversial struggles of the war." ...

55 573 aircrew of Bomber Command lost their lives during the Second World War yet no campaign medal was awarded & their bravery & sacrifice went largely unrecognized. On 28 June 2012 this was corrected with the dedication & unveiling of the Bomber Command Memorial in The Green Park London. The journey from the initial idea to the unveiling of the memorial was a long & complex one & ' The Bomber Command Memorial
- We Will Remember Them' tells the story of the campaign; locating a site obtaining permission raising the funds designing the memorial & the opening ceremony. The book also tells the remarkable story of Bomber Command from the viewpoint of those who took part & veterans reflect on the experiences they had & what the memorial means to them. 50% of all receipts go to the Bomber Command Memorial Fund registered charity.
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