This title presents 400+ thought-provoking reviews of the best war movies produced in the past 50 years! Finally here is a comprehensive war movie guide that reviews in detail dozens of compelling stories about men in the military & at war. Can you name the 25 best combat movies of all time the ten best WWII movies the five best military legal dramas fact-based military scandals or prisoner-of-war movies? This book attempts to do this & much more. Written with the goal of identifying the best war movies ever produced these reviews promise to stir discussion & provoke debate. ...

This heart-stopping account of the war in Iraq & Afghanistan reveals the grim reality of our soldiers daily battle for survival. From the embattled British outposts & insurgent hideouts of southern Iraq to the intense debates the war provoked inside 10 Downing Street & the Whitehouse here is the first on-the-ground report of the true costs of Britains involvement in Iraq. ...

Long ago the brother gods Osiris & Set ruled peacefully over the lands of Upper & Lower Egypt each in his own kingdom. But over time Set came to covet his brother's lands & crown & eventually the temptation overwhelmed him. Usurping Osiris' throne Set began a blood feud that spread war death & mutilation through both the heavens & the earth. Gods & men chose sides & took up arms on behalf of both Set & Horus the heir of Osiris. This book retells the mythic struggle between Horus & Set exploring the variations & background to the feud & examining the earthly realities that inspired or reflected the actions & allegiances of the Gods such as the political rivalries between the two kingdoms & the invasion of Egypt by Cambyses II. Ancient Egyptian weapons & strategies are also examined showing how their gods & men did battle. ...

Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller former Childrens Laureate & multi-award winner. This is a fresh reissue of a much-loved story with a beautiful new cover. Toby Jenkins hates going to Redlands Boarding School
- he gets called Jinks & thinks hell never make the top rugby team. But then he meets Christopher who claims to have powers. Christopher promises Toby a miracle. When Toby goes fishing he crosses to the other side even though he knows it belongs to the villagers. The village boys catch Toby & beat him up injuring his ear. Thus the war of Jenkins ear begins with all-out sticks & stones battles. Will Christopher be able to provide much-needed miracle?
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The year is 1900 & China is plunged into barbaric chaos. The Boxers a cult of young peasants who blame the foreign barbarians living in their country particularly the missionaries for the nations ills are rampaging through the country killing foreigners. Chinas Dowager Empress The Dragon Lady secretly encourages them into this maelstrom land Simon Alice & Jenkins as they are enroute to visit Alices uncle a country missionary. Threatened by the Boxers the three escort the missionary & his family to the safety of Peking. En route the party is attacked by the red-bannered Boxers & the missionary is killed. The survivors reach Peking only to find that the capital is no sanctuary. The Legations of the foreign ministers within the city is surrounded & the Siege of Peking begins. Fonthill Jenkins & Chang the missionarys adopted son volunteer to slip through the enemy lines to bring help. It proves to be Fonthills most dangerous mission... ...

The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion Tolkiens epic tale of war. In The War of the Jewels Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of The Silmarillion from the point where it was left in Morgoths Ring. The story now returns to Middle-earth & the ruinous conflict of the High Elves & the Men who were their allies with the power fothe Dark Lord. With the publication in this book of all J.R.R. Tolkiens later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age the long history of The Silmarillion from its beginning in The Book of Lost Tales is completed; & the enigmatic state of the work at his death can be understood. This book contains the full text of the Grey Annals the primary record of The War of the Jewels & a major story of Middle-earth now published for the first time: the tale of the disaster that overtook the forest people of Brethil when Hurin the Steadfast came among them after his release from long years of captivity in Angband the fortress of Morgoth. ...

The third part of The History of The Lord of the Rings an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes &

Includes:: the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. The War of the Ring takes up the story of The Lord of the Rings with the Battle of Helms Deep & the drowning of Isengard by the Ents continues with the journey of Frodo Sam & Gollum to the Pass of Cirith Ungol describes the war in Gondor & ends with the parley between Gandalf & the ambassador of the Dark Lord before the Black Gate of Mordor. The book is illustrated with plans & drawings of the changing conceptions of Orthanc Dunharrow Minas Tirith & the tunnels of Shelobs Lair. This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive & classic style of the black cover A-format paperbacks of The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings The Silmarillion & Unfinished Tales.

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Imagine being happily married for 28 years. You have three children a lovely house & a husband who travels a lot
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Niall Ferguson's The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred" re-tells the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. At the beginning of the twentieth century globalizing booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent frightening & brutalized in history with fanatical often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War & the end of the Cold War. What turned it into a bloodbath? From the plains of Poland to the killing fields of Cambodia Niall Ferguson reveals how economic boom-&-bust decaying empires &
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- poisonous ideas of race led men to treat each other as aliens. It was an age of hatred that ended with the twilight not the triumph of the West. & he warns it could happen all over again. "A heartbreaking serious & thoughtful survey of human evil that is utterly fascinating & dramatic". (Simon Sebag Montefiore " The New York Times"). " Unputdownable controversial compelling". (" Independent on Sunday"). "A big bold & brilliantly belligerent book". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " Hums with energy "able insights & pithy summaries". (" Observer"). " Gripping". (Tristram Hunt). Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College Oxford & a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of " Paper & Iron" " The House of Rothschild" " The Pity of War" " The Cash Nexus" " Empire" " Colossus" " The War of the World" & " The Ascent of Money"."

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But planet Earth was not only being watched
- soon it would be invaded by monstrous creatures from Mars who strode about the land
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