Dundee is the fourth largest of Scotlands cities & has some of the finest ecclesiastical public commercial & industrial buildings in the country evidence of its Victorian pre-eminence as a port & manufacturing centre. But beyond the city lies rural Angus possessing fine Pictish & early Christian monuments major medieval ecclesiastical survivals at Brechin & Abroath tower houses castles & country houses from Edzell with its remarkable formal garden to the vast Baronial fantasy of Glamis & William Adams House of Dun. This guide also covers buildings as diverse as the houses of the coastal ports the high-rise flats of post-war Dundee Stevensons Bell Rock Lighthouse & Frank Gehrys unique Maggies Centre. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Everyones favourite underdogs are back! Can they land work on a film set
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The epic story of the planet Arrakis its Atreides rulers & their mortal enemies the Harkonnens is the finest most widely acclaimed & enduring science fiction novel of this century. Huge in scope towering in concept it is a work that will live on in the reader's imagination. ...

The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy Baron Harkonnen into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke & his son Paul are expecting treachery & it duly comes
- but from a shockingly unexpected place. Then Paul succeeds his father & he becomes a catalyst for the native people of Dune whose knowledge of the ecology of the planet gives them vast power. They have been waiting for a leader like Paul Atreides a leader who can harness that force.. .DUNE: one of the most brilliant science fiction novels ever written as engrossing & heart-rending today as it was when it was first published half a century ago.
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Paul Atreides ruler of a thousand planets great victor of a holy war prince turned revolutionary leader messiah of a fanatical religious sisterhood is to be brought low by the very forces that created him. Yet foreseeing the plans of his enemies he determines to drive on towards his own shockingly different vision of the future. The amazing second Dune novel. ...

Explore the fantasy world of D&D & delve into dungeons slay monsters & gain treasure! If youve been thinking of playing D&D or youve played before & you want to get up to speed on the all-new 4th Edition this is the book for you. Heres what you need to know to join the fantasy fun. D&D terminology
- understand what ability check modifier saving throw AC gp hp & XP mean Roll the dice
- add modifiers & see if you rolled the d 20 high enough to beat the challenge Minding your manners
- know D&D etiquette so youll be welcome in any adventure Character building
- select your characters race & class & choose the best powers skills feats & gear Roleplaying
- give your character a background & personality quirks Combat
- use combat rules a battle grid & miniatures to play out furious battles Open the book & find: Everything a new player needs to get started playing D&D Details on four fantasy races & four iconic classes Explanations of every number & statistic on the character sheet The best magic items & equipment for characters of all classes Advice on roleplaying & teamwork A ready-to-use adventure to get you started as a Dungeon Master A ready-to-use battle grid with character & monster markers





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Always dunk your biscuit horizontally. Drinking beer is good for the environment. A wig is safer than a cycling helmet. Based on international scientific research but presented in a tongue-incheek style Curious Science" reveals startling truths guaranteed to change your life
- or at least make you popular at dinner parties. Fascinating & often hilarious it will open your eyes to the quirky science behind our everyday lives. You can discover the best time of day to be operated on how kissing is good for hay fever how to appear more intelligent effortlessly
- plus many other tips for work & home for eating & drinking & for a better love life."

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At 2 a.m. on the morning of the 3rd of June 1940 General Harold Alexander searched along the quayside holding onto his megaphone & called Is anyone there? Is anyone there? before turning his boat back towards Engl&. Tradition tells us that the dramatic events of the evacuation of Dunkirk in which 300 000 BEF servicemen escaped the Nazis was a victory gained from the jaws of defeat. For the first time rather than telling the tale of the 300 000 who escaped Sean Longden reveals the story of the 40 000 men sacrificed in the rearguard battles. On the beaches & sand dunes besides the roads & amidst the ruins lay the corpses of hundreds who had not reached the boats. Elsewhere hospitals full of the sick & wounded who had been left behind to receive treatment from the enemys doctors. & further afield
- still fighting hard alongside their French allies
- was the entire 51st Highland Division whose war had not finished as the last boats slipped away. Also scattered across the countryside were hundreds of lost & lonely soldiers. These evaders had also missed the boats & were now desperately trying to make their own way home either by walking across France or rowing across the channel. The majority however were now prisoners of war who were forced to walk on the death marches all the way to the camps in Germany & Poland where they were forgotten until 1945.

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Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant). This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras & the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches & his own undignified evacuation are described in some detail & occasional humour. The second part begins on 20 June 1944 when the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards set sail for Normandy & they take part in the Battle for Caen with engagements at Cheux Cagny & Colombelles & thence to the Bocage country with a particularly bloody fight at Montchamp. The final element covers the race for & liberation of Brussels a fiercely fought engagement at Hechtel
- Operation MARKET GARDEN Nijmegen & the Island winter in Belgium & Holland & the Rhineland Battle. As a member of the Intelligence Section the Author was aware of the big picture. Very observant he has a literary style or ability unusual in a ranker. He often writes in his trench whilst under mortar or shell fire & one experiences the fear that he (and millions of others) felt. He describes several near death experiences & the casualties & deaths of his comrades & other horrors of war sometimes in graphic detail. There are descriptions of hair-raising motor-cycle rides the fanaticism of the SS the sadness of lettering crosses of his dead comrades the ecstatic receptions in liberated villages & towns culminating in the liberation of Brussels the uneasy relationship with American troops the importance of alcohol in his (and others) war & the joy of returning to Engl&. The many sketches are an important accessory to the journals.C S Murrell trained as an artist but enlisted in the Welsh Guards in 1933. He served throughout the War (as told in this book). He later worked for the Ordnance Survey. He died in 1987. The Editor Nick Murrell (C S Murrells son) lives at Pevensey East Sussex.
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