Trapped in a cupboard with a nubile blonde nymphomaniac; crossing the Waal under a hail of fire with the US paratroops of 82nd airborne; rattling in a jeep through the Dutch countryside with the men of 1st Airborne Recce Squadron; trying to take out a self-propelled gun with a ruddy useless PIAT. Its all in a days work for Lt Dick Coward & Sgt Tom Price on their second published adventure. After the horrors of D-Day they find themselves plunged into even greater chaos & mayhem as they land in the deceptively tranquil countryside around Arnhem Holland as part of Operation Market Garden. What should be a pushover
- the ingenious scheme that everyone thinks will end the war by Christmas
- turns into Britains biggest military disaster of the Second World War. But if its a cock-up by golly is it a glorious one. Rarely if ever have Allied soldiers acquitted themselves better than the British Americans & Poles as they fought against the might of the SS in their bid to capture The Bridge Too Far. As usual Coward & Price are in the thick of it. They have to be. If Coward doesnt get a VC this time hell be booted off the family estate for good & stand no chance of winning the heart of the fickle dangerously beguiling Gina. Will he get the medal? Will he get the girl? Will Price be driven so mad by his masters Bertie Wooster-like stupidity that he ends up throttling him first?"

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IRELANDS FORGOTTEN LEGACY In 1914-1918 two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions & backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. Those that did were scarred for the rest of their lives. Many of these survivors found themselves abandoned & ostracised by their countrymen their voices seldom heard. The book
Includes:: * The Irish soldier firing the first shot * The first Victoria Cross * Leading the way at Gallipoli & the Somme * North & South fighting side by side at Messines Ridge * Irelands flying aces * Brothers-in-arms -- heart-rending stories of family sacrifice * The lucky escapes of some; the tragic end of others * The homecoming -- why there was no heros welcome
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My name is Laddy Merridew. Im a cry-baby. Im sorry. And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. & thats worse. The boy Laddy Merridew sent to live with his grandmother stumbles off the bus into a small Welsh mining community where he begins an unlikely friendship with Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins the town beggar-storyteller. Ianto is watchman over the legacy of the collapse many years ago of Kindly Light Pit a disaster whose echoes reverberate down the generations & blight the lives of many in the town. Through Iantos stories Laddy Merridew is drawn into both the towns history & the conundrums of the present. Why has woodwork teacher Icarus Evans striven most of his life to carve wooden feathers that will float on an updraft? Why is the undertaker Tutt Bevan trying to find a straight path through the town? Why does James Little the old gas-meter emptier dig his allotment by moonlight? & why does window cleaner Judah Jones take autumn leaves into a disused chapel? These & other men of the town both past & present & the women who mothered them married them & mourned them are bound together by the echoes of the Kindly Light tragedy & by the mysterious figure of Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins whose stories of loyalty & betrayal loss & love form an unforgettable spellbinding tapestry. ...

The Cowards (1958)" is Josef Skvoreckys blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945 in Kostelec Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the bass & the love of Dannys life is in love with somebody else. But Danny despairs most about the bourgeoisie patriots in his town playing at revolution in the face of the approaching Red Army
- not least because it ruins the bands chance of any good gigs."
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Sheriff Pa says its bedtime. But Cowboy Baby wont go to bed without his toys Texas Ted Denver Dog & Hank the Horse. No sirree! So off he goes to find them. But when hes rounded up his gang Cowboy Baby decides he doesnt want to go home... Offering a whole new storytelling experience this picture book & DVD edition features a charming story animation narrated by Kevin Whately. Running time: Approx. 5 minutes. ...

Harriets invited to accompany her aunts Thessalonica & Japonica to America. Shes terribly excited knowing very well that with two expert detectives for aunts this is going to be no ordinary trip. She soon discovers to her enormous surprise that theyre actually on their way to see her sixth aunt Formica! & as if this werent surprising enough she finds out that Aunt Formica is a cowgirl & the reason for their visit is to help her catch some rustlers that have been stealing cattle from her ranch. Harriet & her three aunts must move like greased lightening if theyre to get on the trail of the slippery cattle thieves. Its time to saddle-up & yee-ha! ...

In the far future the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the enemy have escaped into the past intent on wreaking havoc across time. The worst of these is Cowl an artificially forced advance in human evolution but one who is no longer human. Polly desperate to obtain funds to support her habits is unprepared for her involvement with Nandru Jurgens a Taskforce soldier & the killers pursuing him. Nor can she resist the alien tor which she feels impelled to attach to her arm. But she must learn fast as she is dragged back through time not least that to the denizens of some earlier eras she is little more than a convenience food. Initially the fragment of tor imbedded in Tacks wrist sums up his value to the Heliothane
- a point brought home to him with bloody abruptness. But as a vat-grown programmable killer employed by U-gov he is no stranger to violence. His long journey into the lethal world of the Heliothane is only beginning the extent of his mission just becoming apparent. Meanwhile hunting throughout time & the alternates Cowls pet the tor beast grows vast & dangerous. & the beast continues to feed.
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A brilliantly funny & wildly quirky series from the creator of Astrosaurs. Professor Mc Moo is a very clever cow
- so clever in
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Genius cow Professor Mc Moo & his trusty sidekicks Pat & Bo are star agents of the C.I.A.
- short for COWS IN ACTION! They travel
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Genius cow Professor Mc Moo & his trusty sidekicks Pat & Bo are star agents of the C.I.A.
- short for COWS IN ACTION! They travel
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