Ross Kemp has encountered conflict & warfare the world over broadcasting from some of the most volatile military hot-zones. From meeting the worlds deadliest gangsters to perhaps his hardest assignment of all; embedded with the British Army in Afghanistans Helmand province where he witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict & was trained in the tactics they use to stay alive. Stationed with British forces for his award-winning television documentaries Ross Kemp has not only experienced the terror & exhilaration of life on the frontline but also the courage & leadership of todays servicemen & women. The plight of our Armed Forces is one especially close to his heart & here for the first time Kemp tells the breathtaking stories of commandos medics submariners fighter pilots infantrymen sailors & engineers in daring raids stirring last stands & acts of extreme valour. British Fighting Heroes" is Ross Kemps personal tribute to some of the most remarkable men & women to have served in the British Armed Forces during the two World Wars many of them unsung or forgotten. From Sgt Major Stan Hollis D-Days only VC winner to Freddie Spencer Chapman the reluctant war hero who spent three years behind enemy lines in Burma fighting guerrilla warfare against troops each account is an extraordinary tale of courage adventure & patriotic sacrifice." ...

Learn how to bring to life the most exciting warriors & heroes. Armed with your pen & paper let battle commence! Discover how to draw & paint male & female warrior archetypes from the ancient legend of Thor to the valour of King Arthur. Explore anatomy color & lighting techniques & discover how to render combat armor weapons & clothing. Become a master fantasy artist with ten easy-to-follow step-by-step projects. ...

Spend Christmas with your favourite warriors
- the Mac Egans! Three tales of warriors Vikings & passion! In the Bleak Midwinter
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When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire he supposedly replied 'to the strongest'. There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals & governors for control of these territories. Most of these Diadochi (Successors) were consummate professionals who had learnt the art of war under Alexander or even his father Philip. Few died a peaceful death & the last survivors of this tough breed were still leading their armies against each other well into their seventies. Colourful characters epic battles treacheryand subterfuge make this a period with great appeal to anyone interested in ancient history & ancient warfare in particular. The wars shaped the map from the Balkans to India for the next couple of centuries. This first volume introduces the key personalities
- characters such as Antigonos ' Monopthalmus' (the One-eyed) & his son ' Demetrius ' Poliorcetes' (the Besieger) Seleucus ' Nicator' ('the Victorious') & Ptolemy ' Soter' ('the Saviour')
- & gives a narrative of the causes & course of these wars from the death of Alexander to the Battle of Corupedium (281 BC) when the last two original Diadochi faced each other one final time.

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The Earth Chronicles series in six voumes deals with the history & prehistory of Earth & humankind. Each book in the series based upon information written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East records the fantastic & real battles that occurred between the original creator gods over control of planet Earth. Asserting the premise that mythology is not fanciful but the repository of ancient memories The Earth Chronicles series suggests that the Bible ought to be read literally as a historic/scientific document & that ancient civilizations--older & greater than assumed--were the product of knowledge brought to Earth by the Anunnaki Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came." The 12th Planet the first book of the series presents ancient evidence for the existence of an additional planet in the Solar System: the home planet of the Anunnaki. In confirmation of this evidence recent data from unmanned spacecraft has led astronomers to actively search for what is being called " Planet X." The subsequent volume The Stairway to Heaven traces mans unending search for immortality to a spaceport in the Sinai Peninsula & to the Giza pyramids which had served as landing beacons for it--refuting the notion that these pyramids were built by human pharaohs. Recently records by an eye-witness to a forgery of an inscription by the pharaoh Khufu inside the Great Pyramid corroborated the books conclusions. In The Wars of Gods & Men the third volume of his series Zacharia Sitchin recounts events closer to our times concluding that the Sinai spaceport was destroyed 4 000 years ago with nuclear weapons. Photographs of Earth from space clearly show evidence of such an explosion. The Wars of Gods & Men in addition embraces Canaanite Hittite & Hindu sources to include in these investigations the incidents of The Great Flood the Tower of Babel & the upheaval of Sodom & Gomorrah. Sitchins unique reexamination of ancient mysteries explains these past cataclysmic events in the history of humanity opening insights into our future." ...

About the series The Access to History series is the most popular & trusted series for advanced level history students offering:
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Compiled by the magazines travel experts & by the extraordinary network of international correspondents the guides are truly the insiders guide to each featured city. Both people who live there as well as the well-travelled editorial team of Wallpaper*" have put their heads together to come up with a fascinating efficient guide that keeps the hip urban traveler with his/her finger on the pulse. " The Wallpaper* City Guides" are especially useful for the weekend tourist & the business traveller. If you only have 24 hours to discover a city each guide offers an exact hour-to-hour plan of what to see eat & purchase. For those travelling for a weekend the guides even go as far as to tell you what you could see for a day-trip outside the city. " The City Guides" are being published as Wallpaper* magazine celebrates its 10th anniversary. For a decade " Wallpaper*" has been the first to uncover & present enticingly the best in new design & urban travel spots from across the globe. " The City Guides" are the perfect way to present a decade of experience in one precisely edited guide to each of the 20 new cities to be published in Fall 2007 bringing the total number of guides available to 60." ...

The dramatic & little-known story of how in the summer of 1920 Lenin came within a hairs breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement & spreading Bolshevism to western Europe. In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess following a brutal civil war & the best way of ensuring its survival appeared to be to export the revolution to Germany itself economically ruined by defeat in World War I & racked by internal political dissension. Between Russia & Germany lay Poland a nation that had only just recovered its independence after more than a century of foreign oppression. But it was economically & militarily weak & its misguided offensive to liberate the Ukraine in the spring of 1920 laid it open to attack. Egged on by Trotsky Lenin launched a massive westward advance under the flamboyant Marshal Tukhachevsky. All that Great Britain & France had fought for over four years now seemed at risk. By the middle of August the Russians were only a few kilometres from Warsaw & Berlin was less than a weeks march away. Then occurred the Miracle of the Vistula: the Polish army led by Jozef Pilsudski regrouped & achieved one of the most decisive victories in military history. As a result the Versailles peace settlement survived & Lenin was forced to settle for Communism in one country. The battle for Warsaw bought Europe nearly two decades of peace & communism remained a mainly Russian phenomenon subsuming many of the autocratic & Byzantine characteristics of Russias tsarist tradition. ...

This remarkable Journal written shortly after the event describes not only the author's own experiences of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising but the wider picture. With the Soviet Army's arrival imminent the Polish Underground fighters decided to wage open warfare against the hated Nazi occupiers. This courageous decision was taken despite the Poles' chronic shortage of arms ammunition & medical support. They fully expected the Soviets to relieve them gratefully for hastening the defeat of the Germans. With cruel & calculated cynicism the Soviets halted their offensive & let the uneven match be settled without their involvement. The outcome was inevitable
- Warsaw was largely destroyed the Polish men women & children fighters crushed & the Nazis weakened. The Soviets then moved in. This journal is a unique record of the bitter fighting when neither side were prepared to give quarter.
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This latest volume maintains the impressive standards of scholarship & research from the field of warship history. This edition features a range of diverse articles including the story of the devastating Typhoon that hit the Japanese ' Fourth Fleet' in the mid-1930s the Semi-Dreadnoughts of Danton Class an overview of the Ocean Patrol Vessel type a medical history of two Jutland battlecruisers & the self-destruction & salvage of the French Fleet at Toulon in 1942. Contributors include Philippe Caresse Matthew Seligmann Hans Lengerer Conrad Waters Jon Wise Stephen Mc Laughlin Enrico Cernushi & Vincent P. O' Hara. ...