' One of the most remarkable tales of human courage & determination. The story is gripping & the book is a classic of its kind' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Endurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration & human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton & a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overl&. In October 1915 still half a continent away from their intended base the ship was trapped then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton & his men drifting on ice packs were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book based on first-hand accounts of crew members & interviews with survivors describes how the men survived how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land how they were attacked by sea leopards the diseases which they developed & the indefatigability of the men & their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable. ...

Zara is back from Valhalla after successfully rescuing Nick. Bedford needs their best warrior now more than ever as the evil pixie regime is causing mass destruction & chaos everywhere. Though Nick's job is clear Zara's role is a lot more uncertain. She's not just fighting for her friends
- she's also a pixie queen. & to align her team of pixies with the humans she loves so much will not be as easy as she hopes. Especially since she can't even reconcile her growing feelings for her pixie king.. .
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This latest expansion for Force on Force provides players with everything they need to recreate battles from the mountains to the Green Zones of modern Afghanistan. Beginning with a detailed background section the book presents extensive orders of battle for Coalition forces & guidelines for fielding Taliban & al Qaeda forces. Also included are 20 new scenarios Afghanistan specific Fog of War cards & new vehicle descriptions. Enduring Freedom is an indispensable source-book for gaming complex & intense engagements in Afghanistan on the tabletop using Force on Force or other modern combat rules. ...

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon Rose reflects could have ended in mere tragedy but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose something passes between them
- something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism threaten the love of his wife Clarissa & drive him to the brink of murder & madness.
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One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon Rose reflects could have ended in mere tragedy but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose something passes between them
- something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism threaten the love of his wife Clarissa & drive him to the brink of murder & madness.
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This title is the epic disturbing story of how the FBI is Americas real secret service. Such creatures of passion disloyalty & anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once". (President Woodrow Wilson 1919). The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy & freedom yet throughout the last century it has used secret & lawless methods to destroy its enemies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the most powerful of these forces. Following his award-winning history of the C.I.A. " Legacy of Ashes" Tim Weiner has now written the first full history of the F.B.I. as a secret intellligence service. Drawn entirely from firsthand materials in the F.B.I.s own files " Enemies" brilliantly brings to life the entire story from the cracking of anarchist cells to the prosecution of the war on terror. It is the story of Americas war against spies subversives & saboteurs
- & the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in battle. Throughout the book lies the long shadow of J. Edgar Hoover who ran the F.B.I. with an iron fist for forty-eight years. He was not a monster but a brilliant confidence man who ruled by fear force & fraud. His power shaped America; his legacy haunts it. Reviews: " Truly impressive...[" Enemies"] could have been put together only by a journalist of Weiners stature". (Keith Lowe " Sunday Telegraph"). "A history that moves at the pace of a James Ellroy novel. But Weiners truth is wilder even than Ellroys fiction. Weiner sets the record straight on the FBIs first 100 years using only the Bureaus documents & oral testimony most of which has never been seen". (David Blackburn " Spectator"). " An outstanding piece of work even-handed exhaustively researched smoothly written & thematically timely... This is certainly the most complete book we are likely to see about the F.B.I.s intelligence-gathering operations from Emma Goldman to Osama bin Laden". (Bryan Burrough " New York Times"). " Extensively researched admirably understated yet terrifically entertaining". (Boston Globe). " Important & disturbing... Weiner lays bare a record of embarrassing even stunning failure in which the bureaus lawlessness was matched only by its incompetence...[he] has done prodigious research yet tells this depressing story with all the verve & coherence of a good spy thriller". (" New York Times Book Review"). About the author: Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the " New York Times" where he has reported from Afghanistan Pakistan Sudan & fifteen other nations. He was based for a decade in Washington DC where he covered the C.I.A. & the Military
- the latter topic being the subject of his " Blank Check: The Pentagons Black Budget". He is the author of the bestselling " Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" which won the 2007 National Book Award for Non-Fiction."

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Free from jail Lieutenant John Pearce is not free from the smugglers whose boat he stole
- they want bloody revenge & are prepared
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Jonathans father Doctor Mordecai is summoned to Rome to help the plague victims. The four young detectives are wanted too as the Emperor Titus believes that they can find the mysterious enemy who seeks Romes destruction. Can the friends prevent disaster? & what is Jonathans secret mission? ...

Charlie Higsons The Enemy" is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus & now the kids must keep themselves alive. When the sickness came every parent police officer politician
- every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed confused & hungry. Only children under fourteen remain & theyre fighting to survive. Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. & so a gang of children begin their quest across London where all through the city
- down alleyways in deserted houses underground
- the grown-ups lie in wait. But can they make it there
- alive? " Higson has got the balance of blood & gore just right". (" Daily Mirror"). " Clever.. .fast-paced.. .inventive". (" Guardian"). Charlie Higson is the author of the bestselling " Young Bond" series of novels for young readers including " Silverfin" & " Double or Die" & the spine-tingling teen zombie-horror series " The Enemy". Cant wait for the next instalment? This edition contains the first chapter of the mind-blowing first chapter of the second book " The Dead". Check out website for more blood more zombies & more terror."



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The Enemy" is the first audiobook in heart stopping thriller adventure series by Charlie Higson & read by Paul Whitehouse. When the sickness came every parent policeman politician
- every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed confused & hungry. Only children under fourteen remain & theyre fighting to survive. Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. & so a gang of children begin their quest across London where all through the city
- down alleyways in deserted houses underground
- the grown-ups lie in wait. But can they make it there
- alive?"



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