Assault Regiment Wotan the elite band of men whom Kuno von Dodenburg had led so often to victory had been mercilessly cut down in the forests of the Ardennes. Only Sergeant-Major Schulze remained to lead the battered war weary survivors of Hitlers famed SS through the secret pass over the snow-locked Vertes Mountains in the Fuhrers desperate plan to save Budapest from the Soviet armies. Every single one of them knew that it was the plan of a madman & every man knew that whatever the cost it had to succeed. ...

Summer 1816. A house party on the shores of Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley & her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley along with Mary's half-sister Claire & the infamous Lord Byron take part in a challenge to see who can write the most horrifying story. Mary creates one of the most celebrated Gothic novels of all time but how did this monstrous horror flow from the pen of a 21-year-old English woman? First staged in 1984 & revived several times since Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation as if set in a ghostly nursery. Using flashbacks & the rich poetic language for which she has become admired Lochhead weaves a spider's web of connections between Mary's own tragic life & that of her literary monster. ...

The machinations of King Celimus have robbed Wyl Thirsk of almost everyone he held dear & those few who have survived will bear the scars forever. Myrrens gift offers Wyl the opportunity to strike back but at what price? His best friend is murdered mercenaries pillage the land in the name of his beloved Legion & now the mad king threatens the two women who are more precious to him than life itself. He cannot save both. The old seers advice comes back to him: find the Manwitch. Only Myrrens natural father can help break the hold of the Quickening. But Wyls heart pleads otherwise: protect your loved ones. Once again it seems Wyl Thirsk faces an impossible choice. The path ahead diverges. Left & right. Head & heart. Blood & memory. A misstep here could cost him everything.. . ...

A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world from its beginnings to the modern day from the highly acclaimed author of Sacred Causes & Earthly Powers. The paperback edition will be updated to cover recent events -- including the recent terror attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 & the continued military clash in Gaza in early 2009. Basing his study on a wide range of sources & key players from the world of terrorism Burleigh explains & defines the meaning of terrorism & marks its progression from its hard-to-trace beginnings to the modern day. Burleigh takes us from the origins of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood -- the precursors of the IRA -- on to look at Tsarist Russia where the intelligentsia launched attacks on organs of state & left-wing fighting against Fascism & Nazism in the 1970s & 1980s in western Germany & Italy. But such nationalist terrrorism has in turn been eclipsed by international jihadist violence largely driven by widespread resentment of the successful societes of the West. Burleigh explores the background & the milieu of people engaged in careers of political violence & examines their various mindsets as revealed by their actions rather than their words. He makes clear that the West has considerable resources to comprehend & combat terrorism & shows how history enables us to see how terrrorism can be effectively contained & countered -- if only by avoiding some of the major mistakes of the past. An unrivalled study that sheds an insightful new light on a plight that threatens to affect the world at large for many years to come Blood & Rage establishes Michael Burleigh as one of the most original learned & important historians of our time. ...

The War of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 & 1485 four kings lost their thrones more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block & thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. Yet almost nothing is known about the thoughts & feelings of the people who lived through this bloody conflict. Almost nothing but not quite. As they made their way in a disintegrating world a Norfolk family called the Pastons were writing letters
- about politics about business about shopping about love & about each other. Using these letters the oldest surviving family correspondence in English Helen Castor traces the extraordinary history of the Paston family across three generations. Blood & Roses tells the dramatic moving & intensely human story of how one family survived one of the most tempestuous periods in English history.
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In this two-book sequence author James Swallow brings the Blood Angels Chapter to life. In an epic story of heroism corruption & betrayal battle-brothers Rafen & Arkio find themselves pitted against each other in a battle for the very soul of the Chapter. When Brother Arkio claims to be a reincarnation of Sanguinius the Blood Angels spiritual father the message is clear: follow me or die. Rafen kneels before Arkio & swears an oath of devotion
- but the words are ashes in his mouth & in his heart he knows that he & his brother will have a reckoning that only one of them will survive...
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The bets are on whodunnit when a body is found at the bookies.. . Jude has never been averse to a bit of a flutter; her friend Carole on the other hand thinks that the local betting shop is a den of iniquity. But when Jude stumbles upon the body of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski -- the race is on to find his killer. The odds arent looking good. No one seems to know anything about the mysterious Tadek -- even his sister cant shed any light on what he was doing in Fethering. Who was the anonymous woman in the bookies who seems to have vanished? Why was Tadek interested in the local university? & who is the Fifi Tadek spoke of with his dying breath? As they question the local residents Carol finds an unexpected friend in an inveterate gambler & Jude finds herself in potentially more trouble than she can handle with a lecherous & charming drama professor. In this race there can only be one winner but with no leads & several suspects in the running will our lady detectives be pipped at the post by a cold & calculating killer? ...

The master of horror returns with another spine-tingling adventure in the fifth title of the Demonata... Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening & about to swallow him whole. He has cheated death defeated demons moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic & his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood? ...

The king of horrors demonic symphony in ten volumes now available in omnibus editions
- each containing two titles in the spine-chilling
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Like most people who own their own business I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night theyd better be dying.. . Mechanic Mercy Thompson is woken at 3am by a vampire calling in a favour. He has to deliver a message to a fellow undead & needs a witness that wont be noticed
- & Mercys shapeshifting abilities make her the perfect candidate. But the assignment turns into a bloodbath & Mercy attracts the attention of not just a powerful vampire but the even more powerful demon possessing him. She can count on the supernatural community for protection
- & alpha werewolf Adam would like her to rely on him in other ways too
- but when it comes to being proactive shes on her own.


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