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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On 6 June 2004 Frank Gardner & cameraman Simon Cumbers were in a suburb of Riyadh filming a report on Al-Qaeda when they were confronted by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was brought down by shots in the shoulder & leg. As he lay bleeding in the street a figure stood over him & pumped four more bullets into him at point blank range... Against all the odds Frank Gardner survived & this is his remarkable account of the agonizing journey he has taken
- from being shot & left for dead to where he is today partly paralysed but alive. It is a journey that really began 25 years earlier when a chance meeting with explorer Wilfred Thesiger inspired what would become a lifelong passion for the Arab world. This would take him throughout the Middle East & eventually lead to his becoming a BBC journalist. & in the wake of the events of 9/11 this passion sent him on the journey that came to dominate
- & nearly end
- his life: his coverage of Al-Qaeda. Honest moving & inspiring his story
- now updated for this paperback edition
- reveals a deep understanding of the Islamic world & offers a compelling analysis of the on-going ' War on Terror' & what it means in these uncertain times.




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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 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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A Liverpudlian West Side Story Blood Brothers is the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. One of them is given away to wealthy Mrs Lyons & they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. Blood Brothers was first performed at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983 & subsequently transferred to the Lyric Theatre London. It was revived in the West End in 1988 for a long-running production & opened on Broadway in 1993. ...

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons & they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. ' Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate & destiny.. .it carries one along with it in almost unreserved enjoyment Guardian One of the longest-running & most successful ever West End musicals Blood Brothers premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in January 1983." ...

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons & they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate & destiny.. . it carries one along with it in almost unreserved enjoyment " Guardian" One of the longest-running & most successful ever West End musicals " Blood Brothers" premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in January 1983." ...