Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940 the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter argues Max Hastings there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people & their army & what they were capable of delivering. Himself a hero he expected others to show themselves heroes also & was often disappointed. It is little understood how low his popularity fell in 1942 amid an unbroken succession of battlefield defeats. Some of his closest colleagues joined a clamour for him to abandon his role directing the war machine. Hastings paints a wonderfully vivid image of the Prime Minister in triumph & tragedy. He describes the 'second Dunkirk' in 1940 when Churchill's impulsiveness threatened to lose Britain almost as many troops in north-west France as had been saved from the beaches; his wooing of the Americans & struggles with the Russians. British wartime unity was increasingly tarnished by workers' unrest with many strikes in mines & key industries. By looking at Churchill from the outside in through the eyes of British soldiers civilians & newspapers -- & also those of Russians & Americans -- Hastings provides new perspectives on the greatest Englishman. He condemns as folly Churchill's attempt to promote mass uprisings in occupied Europe & details ' Unthinkable' -- his amazing 1945 plan for an Allied offensive against the Russians to liberate Pol&. Here is an intimate & affectionate portrait of Churchill as Britain's saviour but also an unsparing examination of the wartime nation which he led & the performance of its armed forces. ...

Sunday Times bestseller JANET EVANOVICH author of PLUM SPOOKY & SMOKIN SEVENTEEN delights with yet another Stephanie Plum adventure. Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off & loses his head
- literally. Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime & the only one shell talk to is Trenton cop Joe Morelli. Pump up the heat: Chipoltes sponsor is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers. Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers & collect the moolah. Add a secret ingredient: Stephanie Plums Grandma Mazur. Enough said. Bring to a boil: Stephanie Plum is working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night & snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso a.k.a. Ranger during the day. Can Stephanie hunt down two killers a traitor & five skips keep her grandmother out of the sauce & solve Rangers problems & not jump his bones?
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Five fantastic finger puppets bring these popular rhymes to life. What could be more enjoyable than spending time with your child sharing songs & rhymes together? Young children love nursery rhymes & finger puppets so this book is sure to be a winner! The finger puppets allow children to interact with the rhymes whilst developing motor skills.

Includes:: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; Hickory Dickory Dock; Baa Baa Black Sheep; Teddy Bear Teddy Bear & Incey Wincey Spider.

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It is a fresh new look for this hilarious story by the much-loved Dick King-Smith. Long ago in the cold lands of the North there lived a troll named Ulf who had a very bad habit
- he liked to eat fingers! Many many men women & children had found their hands a finger short thanks to the razor-sharp teeth of the Finger-eater. & who knows how many more might have suffered the same fate if it hadn't been for the actions of a resolute girl called Gudrun! From the much-loved Dick King-Smith author of children's classics such as The Sheep-Pig" (filmed as " Babe")."
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Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of readers throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story this unique history book directs probing questions at orthodox history presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried
- but failed
- to explain. This groundbreaking evidence
Includes:: Accurate ancient maps that show the world as it last looked during the Ice Age thousands of years before any civilisation capable of making such maps is supposed to have existed. Evidence of the devastating scientific & astronomical information encoded into prehistoric myths. The incredible feat of the construction of the great pyramids of Egypt & of megalithic temples on the Giza plateau. The mysterious astronomical alignments of the pyramids & the Great Sphinx. The antediluvian geology of the Sphinx. The megalithic temples of the Andes. The myths of Viracocha & Quetzalcoatl. The pyramids of the Sun & the Moon in Mexico. The doomsday calendar & eerie memories of the ancient Maya. The warning from the Hopi of Arizona.


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" There wasnt a meeting when someone didnt mention Black Hawk Down. ""
- A senior Obama administration official
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From author of Wreck this Journal" Keri Smith's " Finish this Book" is a creative adventure where the reader is the main character
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Between the satisfaction of knitting the last stitch & putting on a sweater for the first time comes a step over which many knitters stumble: the sewing seaming grafting & other manoeuvers with a tapestry needle needed to turn flat knitted pieces into a wearable garment. (To avoid this step altogether some knitters pay hundreds of dollars for someone else to sew up their sweaters.) But what if that step could be skipped altogether so that the tapestry needle would only be needed to weave in ends? Knitwear designer & technical editor Kristen Ten Dyke teaches readers to knit sweaters with no assembly required. Through clever planning & some simple techniques the 20 designs in Finish-Free Knits are shaped & joined during knitting
- without sacrificing the pockets button bands shaped collars & more that is accomplished in most designs by sewing together separate pieces. Readers will learn how to take these new technical skills
- for converting patterns from flat to circular shaping armholes joining pieces as you go & using short-rows for shaping
- beyond the garments in the book to inform their other projects avoiding the dreaded Some Assembly Required" phase forever."


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Full of relevant diverse & current real-world applications Stefan Waner & Steven Costenobles FINITE MATHEMATICS & APPLIED CALCULUS 6E International Edition helps you relate to mathematics. A large number of the applications are based on real referenced data from business economics the life sciences & the social sciences. Thorough clearly delineated spreadsheet & TI Graphing Calculator instruction appears throughout the book. Acclaimed for its readability & supported by the authors popular website this book will help you grasp & understand mathematics-whatever your learning style may be. ...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Julian Treslove a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer & Sam Finkler a popular Jewish philosopher writer & television personality are old school friends. Despite very different lives theyve never quite lost touch with each other
- or with their former teacher Libor Sevcik. Both Libor & Finkler are recently widowed & together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved & lost. It is that very evening when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home that he is attacked
- & his whole sense of who & what he is slowly & ineluctably changes.

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