Following the blockbuster film this version of the classic story is ideal for younger readers in an easy to read abridged format. Classic Starts[trademark]" is in its 5th printing
- with more than half a million copies sold! It is aimed at children aged 7 to 9 years old. Hot on the heels of the blockbuster film comes a version of H.G. Wells chilling tale of alien invasion that every child can enjoy. It begins as the sky lights up with bright cylinders from Mars that look like falling stars
- & continues as the Martians emerge from their vessels with machines of fire & deadly smoke. Wellss depiction of a city in panic
- written in 1898
- still remains shockingly contemporary."



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Richard Dawkins Christopher Hitchens & Stephen Hawking have had a major impact on the loud & popular debate between aggressive atheists & religion. The huge sales of their bestselling books show just how much interest people have in their ideas. Now the rock star of the new spirituality Deepak Chopra is entering this debate sparring with leading physicist Professor Leonard Mlodinow (the co-author with Stephen Hawking of The Grand Design). In War of the Worldviews Chopra argues that there is design in our universe & a deep intelligence behind life. Without defending organised religion he debunks randomness as an explanation for how Nature evolves & shows how consciousness comes first & matter second. On the other side Mlodinow argues the viewpoint of science specifically what modern quantum physics can tell us about our world. In his view physics genetics & cosmology will shed far more light on the big questions than rethinking ancient spiritual concepts can ever do. A major work of our time War of the Worldviews offers much food for thought for those fascinated by the two sides of this modern conundrum. ...

Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo. On land & at sea throughout the four corners of the continent from the frozen plains surrounding Moscow & terror on the Caribbean seas to the muddy low lands of Flanders & the becalmed waters of Trafalgar The War of Wars" tells the powerful story of the greatest conflict of the age." ...

War Paint is the story of two remarkable women
- Miss Elizabeth Arden & Madame Helena Rubinstein. Between them they left an extraordinary
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This selection of Wilfred Owen's war poems is being published partly to provide an ideal edition of the poems for schools who essentially read the war poems & need a short thorough edition. It contains a new introduction by Jon Stallworthy which is aimed at a general audience but will be thorough & academic enough to work for schools as well. Constable have a similar edition planned but Chatto's will be out first & contains copyright material unavailable to other editions. ...

For the very first time The War That Never Was" tells the fascinating story of a secret war fought by British mercenaries in the Yemen in the early 1960s. In a covert operation organised over whisky & sodas in the clubs of Chelsea & Mayfair a group of former SAS officers
- led by the irrepressible Colonel Jim Johnson
- arranged for a squadron of British mercenaries to travel to the remote mountain regions of the Yemen to arm train & lead Yemeni tribesmen in their fight against a 60 000-strong contingent of Egyptian soldiers. It was one of the most uneven running battles ever waged; the Egyptians fielded a huge professionally-trained army. The British fought back at the head of a ragtag force of tribal warriors & ultimately won. Egypts President Nasser described the battle in the Yemen as my Vietnam. Its a fascinating forgotten & rip-roaringly entertaining pocket of British military history much in the spirit of Ben Mv Intyres bestselling " Agent Zigzag & Operation Mincemeat"."

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With two tours of Iraq under his belt Sergeant Dave Henley knows what modern war looks like. But nothing can prepare him for the posting to Forward Operating Base Senzhiri Helmand Province Afghanistan. This is a battlezone like he's never seen before. He's in charge of 1 Platoon a ragbag collection of rookies who he must make into a fighting force
- & fast. But this is a brutal unforgiving conflict which takes no prisoners. Their convoy is ambushed on the way to the FOB leaving two men grievously wounded
- before they've fired a shot. Back at home Dave's wife Jenny seven months pregnant must try to hold together the fragile lives of the families left behind who all wait for the knock on the door & the arrival of bad news...

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Again & again British politicians commentators & celebrities intone that The War on Drugs has failed. They then say that this is an argument for abandoning all attempts to reduce drug use through the criminal law. Peter Hitchens shows that in Britain there has been no serious war on drugs since 1971 when a Tory government adopted a Labour plan to implement the revolutionary Wootton report. This gave cannabis the most widely used illegal substance a special legal status as a supposedly soft drug (in fact Hitchens argues it is at least as dangerous as heroin & cocaine because of the threat it poses to mental health). It began a progressive reduction of penalties for possession & effectively disarmed the police. This process still continues behind a screen of falsely tough rhetoric from politicians. Far from there being a war on drugs there has been a covert surrender to drugs concealed behind an official obeisance to international treaty obligations. To all intents & purposes cannabis is legal in Britain & other major drugs are not far behind. In The War We Never Fought Hitchens uncovers the secret history of the governments true attitude & the increasing recruitment of the police & courts to covert decriminalisation initiatives & contrasts it with the rhetoric. Whatever & whoever is to blame for the undoubted mess of Britains drug policy it is not prohibition or a war on drugs for neither exists. ...

When you lose everything you love you need a friend... Nothing ever happens in sleepy Grimbleton. Until two strangers
- both claiming
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In the mist-shrouded haze of the past long before the beginning of recorded time there stood the world of Azeroth. Every kind of magical being strode the countryside among the tribes of man & all was at peace
- until the arrival of the demons & horrors of the Burning Legion & their baneful Lord Sargeras dark god of chaotic magic. Now Dragons Dwarves Elves Goblins Humans & Orcs all vie for supremacy across the scattered kingdoms
- part of a grand malevolent scheme that will determine the fate of the world of WARCRAFT. The Guardians of Tirisfal: a line of champions imbued with godlike powers each one through the ages charged with fighting a lonely secret war against the Burning Legion. Medivh was fated from birth to become the greatest & most powerful of this noble order. But from the beginning a darkness tainted his soul corrupting his innocence & turning to evil the powers that should have fought for good. Torn by two destinies Medivhs struggle against the malice within him becomes one with the fate of Azeroth itself...and changes the world forever.

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