One of the greatest players of all time Duncan Edwards's story is one of tragic heroism. From a working-class Dudley upbringing Edwards rose to great heights at Manchester United. In only five years he helped United to win two league championships & to reach the semi-finals of the European Cup. Edwards made his England debut in a game against Scotland at just 18 years & 183 days. He went on to play 18 games for his country including all four of the qualifying matches for the 1958 World Cup in which he was expected to be a key player. Sir Bobby Charlton has described him as 'the only player that made me feel inferior' & Terry Venables claimed that had he lived it would have been Edwards not Bobby Moore who would have lifted the World Cup as captain in 1966. Page-turning & poignant author James Leighton tells a story of a magnificent sportsman & great man
- the perfect contrast to the headline-grabbing footballers of today.
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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
- & foll a cat burglar
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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. ...

This book introduces the reader to the whole cult of the dune buggy from its earliest beginnings as a crude off-road vehicle in the 1920s to the explosion of glass fibre-bodied & VW-based fun cars that became the cult transport of teenagers everywhere in the 1960s & 1970s. With histories production details dates & identification tips for over 70 US & UK buggies the book will help identify the many marques that have been produced over the years. Using period photographs & archive material combined with amazing contemporary photography the book is a visual feast & also contains sections on buggies & celebrities for those that want to spot pop stars TV hosts & racing drivers posing with period vehicles. ...

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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