This stylish multi compartment desk top organiser in faux black leather would make a useful desk top addition in any office. With a single half width drawer & 6 compartments of various sizes it&8217;s the ideal place to hold pens paperclips pencils & even letters. Approximate total

Dimensions in centimetres width = 29 x height (at tallest point) 14 x depth = 14.5

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Record all of your daily thoughts in this A4 chocolate coloured Globe Trotters notebook. The pages are ivory coloured & compliment the colour of the notebook. There is an elastic page divider allowing you to keep your place in the notebook & there is an inside rear pocket so you can keep important documents safe. ...

This handy refillable notebook has a black real leather outer case with a sturdy front popper fastening on the inisde the notebook refill slots neatly inside the straps. This notebook

Includes:: one refill which features a black cover case bound spine ivory lined pages & a page marker. Refill this notebook as many times as you wish using the product code 35054948.

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Record your thoughts in this A4 black Globe Trotter designed notebook. The notebook features ruled ivory pages & an inside rear pocket to keep any important papers safe. The size of the notebook means you can write everything down & keep it one tidy place. ...

Record your thoughts in this A6 black notebook. The notebook features ruled ivory pages & an inside rear pocket to keep any important papers safe. The size of the notebook means you can fit it into even the smallest of bags with ease allowing you to always have something to note your thoughts on. ...

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War & the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French & Indian War & continuing to the election of George Washington as first president Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England & America highlighting the drama & anguish of the colonial struggle for independence. Combining the political & the personal he provides a compelling account of the key events that precipitated the war from the Stamp Act to the Tea Act tracing the gradual gathering of American resistance that culminated in the Boston Tea Party & the shot heard 'round the world." The heart of the book features a vivid description of the eight-year-long war with gripping accounts of battles & campaigns ranging from Bunker Hill & Washington's crossing of the Delaware to the brilliant victory at Hannah's Cowpens & the final triumph at Yorktown paying particular attention to what made men fight in these bloody encounters. The book concludes with an insightful look at the making of the Constitution in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 & the struggle over ratification. Through it all Middlekauff gives the reader a vivid sense of how the colonists saw these events & the importance they gave to them. Common soldiers & great generals Sons of Liberty & African slaves town committee-men & representatives in congress--all receive their due. & there are particularly insightful portraits of such figures as Sam & John Adams James Otis Thomas Jefferson George Washington & many others. This new edition has been revised & expanded with fresh coverage of topics such as mob reactions to British measures before the War military medicine women's role in the Revolution American Indians the different kinds of war fought by the Americans & the British & the ratification of the Constitution. The book also has a new epilogue & an updated bibliography. The cause for which the colonists fought liberty & independence was glorious indeed. Here is an equally glorious narrative of an event that changed the world capturing the profound & passionate struggle to found a free nation." ...

France early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins & is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents two vast French & British fleets meet in the mid-Atlantic following a week of skirmishing. After fierce fighting both sides claim victory. In The Glorious First of June Sam Willis not only tells with thrilling immediacy & masterly clarity the story of an epic & complex battle he also places it within the context of The Terror the survival of the French Revolution & the growth of British sea-power. ...

Bruce Sandison takes the reader on a magical journey as seen through the eyes of some of Scotlands best-known & most respected gillies stalkers & keepers
- men who have spent their whole lives on river moor & hill caring for the iconic salmon in our rivers & the red deer on our hills. The stories they have to tell are full of humour kindliness & patience; sometimes under difficult circumstances as they help their guests old & young alike novice or experienced in pursuit of the best possible chance of sport. Your guide Bruce Sandison is a highly regarded author & conservationist well known for his passionate love for his native l&. Everything that is finest about Scotland will be found along the way & above all this is a unique opportunity to spend time in the company of these glorious very special gentlemen.
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In general " Glory" is my happiest thing". " The fun of " Glory" is.. .to be sought in the echoing & linking of minor events in back-&-forth switches which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to ones chest or in the casual vision of Martins mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists & a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale although nothing much happens at the very end
- just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day". (Vladimir Nabokov)."
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They are called The Glory Boys by those who regard their exploits with envy or contempt. Bob Kearton is one of them. Already a veteran & survivor of the close action in the English Channel & North Sea in January of 1943 he is ordered to the Mediterranean & beleagured Malta a mere sixty miles from occupied Sicily. Unexpectedly promoted to lieutenant-commander he is given charge of a newly formed & as yet incomplete flotilla of motor torpedo boats. The tide of defeat is thought to be turning the enemy no longer advancing along the North African coast with Egypt & India as final objectives & Keartons is a new war of stealth subterfuge & daring in which the Glory Boys are only too expendable. ...