Twenty years have passed since Stefan Salvatore last saw his brother Damon. Now living in a remote town in England Stefan is finally able to start over. But when news from London reaches Stefan of a brutal killer on the loose who goes by Jack the Ripper Stefan suspects that the murders are the work of a vampire...his brother. Full of dark shadows & surprising twists the fourth book in the Stefan's Diaries series raises the stakes for the Salvatore brothers as they face new loves old treacheries & unimaginable threats. ...

Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he & his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man as a professional policeman one of the best detectives of his generation? & how did he investigate the sequence of squalid bloody murders that repelled
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- contemporaries & has been the subject of keen controversy ever since? Here at last in M.J. Trows compelling biography of this pre-eminent Victorian policeman are the answers to these intriguing questions. Abberlines story gives us insight into his remarkable career into the routines of Victorian policing & into the Ripper case as it was seen by the best police minds of the day.

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Suzy & her two best friends Lucy & Alexa are attending the annual round-up & auction at White Cloud Station. All three girls are desperate to buy horses of their own but unfortunately Suzy is allergic to horses & her father has forbidden her to have one. Suzy falls in love with a curly-coated horse that she desperately wants to buy. However things dont go according to plan when he gets sold to another bidder. ...

When Ember left her home to enter a mysterious order of Knights an order that protects our world from the next she thought she was finding her true home. A family a purpose & most surprising of all love. But that was before. Now the order is on the edge of destruction
- driven apart by someone they trusted the most. With hope fading Ember attempts a desperate escape. But she faces relentless pursuit by supernatural horrors that act on the commands of a mysterious evil. What she discovers in the shadows will shatter their world & bring a divide that will reverberate down the generations...
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Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins & outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIII's chief minister & right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves which Cromwell had arranged led to his swift downfall & execution. In this authoritative biography by an acknowledged expert in the field John Schofield reveals that the popular image of Cromwell as a blood-stained henchman is largely fictional. Detailed research into contemporary sources illuminates his brilliant mind & his love for & patronage of the arts & humanities while short case studies shed new light on his relations with & his reputation among Henry VIII's subjects. In his conclusion Schofield narrates the drama of Cromwell's downfall & highlights the king's posthumous exoneration of the 'most faithful servant he ever had'. ...

This book provides a fascinating & stunningly illustrated account of ancient Greece & its classical heritage. It chronicles military & political development in Athens Sparta & other ancient Greek city-states all revealed in magnificent detail. It features a special focus on the life tactics & military campaigns of Alexander the Great one of the most important soldiers the world has ever known. It explains & examines the military techniques & strategies operations & training of the Greek armies. It features over 500 photographs illustrations maps battle plans & fact boxes. The first half of this military & political history details how the Greeks recovered from the collapse of the first Minoan Cretan & Mycenaean civilizations & moved towards democracy. It highlights the Persian Wars shows Athens during the Golden Age before it was wrecked by the wars with Sparta & describes the men & women who made Greeces name resonate down the ages. The second part of the book describes the rule of Alexander the Great a military genius who helped spread Greek culture across half of Asia. Nigel Rodgers shows how Alexanders death without an heir was an irreparable loss & that ultimately his heir turned out to be the Roman empire. With information on weapons & fleets on the tactics of Greek soldiers & the organization of great armies this is a breathtaking analysis of 2000 years of impassioned politics warfare & culture. ...

The monarchical presidential regimes that prevailed in the Arab world for so long looked as though they would last indefinitely
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Until road transport began to make inroads into the goods & freight monopoly enjoyed by the railways there were thousands of goods yards throughout the UK & every conceivable commodity was transported in railway wagons. This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of the evolution of freight services & the Rise & Fall of the local goods train from the early days to the modern privatised railway & from the steam age to todays modern traction era with particular emphasis on the British Railways years from 1948 to 1997. ...

There is nothing more charming & evocative to railway enthusiasts than a rural branch line. Most were built before the advent of motorised road transport & provided a vital lifeline for the communities served but these lines inevitably declined. Although the infamous Dr Beeching usually takes the blame for closures there were significant losses in the 1920s & 1930s when more than a 1 000 miles of track were declared redundant. More recently there has been regeneration of some lines & new stations opened. This beautifully illustrated book looks at lines from the steam age through to the present time of diesel & electric multiple units. ...

From modest beginnings Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world yet by the end of the following century the British merchant fleet ranked just 38 in the world. The glory days of sail had given way to the introduction of the steam age. Traditional shipwrights had railed against new industrial methods resulting in the infamous demarcation disputes. Talented men like Brunel & Armstrong had always sought change & development but too many shipbuilders were relying on old technologies. From building mighty battleships & extravagant ocean liners the nation became complacent & its yards were eventually no longer as innovative as their foreign competitors. In the twenty-first century British shipbuilding has shrunk to a mere fraction of its former size & has become almost totally dependent on government contracts. The popularity of & fascination with this subject has prompted a new edition of Anthony Burton's successful book. With fresh images & a new final chapter the story of the rise & cataclysmic fall of British shipbuilding has been brought right up to date. ...