This is the ultimate record of guns through the ages. From rifles to sniper guns machine guns to grenade launchers a fully loaded guide to over 300 of the most important guns from the last 700 years. Discover revealing features on twenty 'key' guns from history including the Musket Gatling Gun & AK-47 assault rifle. Step inside famous gun maker factories from Colt & Smith & Wesson to Beretta & discover how guns were
- & still are
- developed & produced. Meet famous gunslingers & legendary sharpshooters from Dick Turpin & Billy the Kid to James Bond hear their stories & learn about the guns that made them famous. It's the ultimate visual history of guns.

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The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style. Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone vigilant savage & catastrophically accurate. Navarone itself grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of Germans & Italians an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To Captain Keith Mallory skllled saboteur trained mountaineer fell the task of leading the small party detailed to scale the vast impossible precipice of Navarone & to blow up the guns. The Guns of Navarone is the story of that mission the tale of a calculated risk taken in the time of war... ...

The Guns of Navarone & its three sequels in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book. THE GUNS OF NAVARONE Mallory Miller & Andrea are united into a lethally effective team. Their mission: to silence the impregnable guns set in the tall cliffs of Navarone. On their success or failure rests one of the most critical offensives of the Second World War. FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away the three Navarone heroes are parachuted into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of partisans & fulfil a secret mission so deadly that it must be hidden even from their own allies. ...

Last seen in the award-winning Diamond Dove Emily Tempest has a new job: an Aboriginal Community Police Officer. A cop. Not quite what she had in mind when she returned to Central Australia. If anything her instincts & background would propel her in the opposite direction. But for an Aboriginal woman in a pissant mining & meatworks town the career options are limited. & theres a car attached. Her new boss the dour Superintendent Cockburn sees her role as making tea & rounding up the truants. But when one old friend is murdered out on the Gunshot Road & another one gets the blame Emily leaps into the investigation feet first mouth never far behind. Behind its veil of lyricism & quickfire wit Gunshot Road transports the reader into a world few have ever seen up close: the Australian outback where cultures collide & where temperatures
- & the odd bullet
- go through the roof.

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A disfigured servant girl plans to flee Nepal; a Kalimpong shopkeeper faces an impossible dilemma; a Hindu religious festival in Darjeeling brings with it a sacrifice; a Nepali-Bhutanese refugee pins her hopes on the West; a Gurkha's daughter tries to comprehend her father's complaints; two young Nepali-speaking immigrants meet in Manhattan. These are just some of the stories describing & dramatizing the experiences of the Nepalese people & the Nepalese diaspora
- the people whose culture & language is Nepalese but who are dispersed to India Bhutan & beyond. From every perspective & on every page Prajwal Parajuly blends rich colour & vernacular to paint an eye-opening picture of a unique world & its people.
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The countless events being held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth make a clear statement to the enduring appreciation for the work of Gustav Klimt. Not that it takes such a special occasion for the press & the public to start talking about Klimt. More than two hundred articles about the artist appeared online in August 2011 alone in comparison with barely seventy on Rembrandt within the same period. This media publicity set editor Tobias G. Natter thinking about the value of compiling the present book. During his lifetime Klimt was a controversial star whose works made passions run high; he stood for Modernism but he also embodied tradition. His pictures polarized & divided the art-loving world. Journalists & general public alike were split over the question: For or against Klimt? The present publication therefore places particular emphasis upon the voices of Klimt's contemporaries via a series of essays examining reactions to his work throughout his career. Subjects range from Klimt's portrayal of women to his adoption of landscape painting in the second half of his life. The cliche that Gustav Klimt was a man of few words who rarely put pen to paper is vehemently dispelled: no less than 179 letters cards writings & other documents are included in this monograph. This wealth of archival material assembled here for the first time on such a scale represents a major contribution to Klimt scholarship. Defining features of this edition: Catalog of Klimt's complete paintings All known letter correspondence Featuring new photographs of the Stoclet Frieze commissioned exclusively for this book ...

A bestseller when first published in Germany in 2003 Jens Malte Fischers Gustav Mahler" has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources
- some unavailable to previous biographers
- & sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler & his wife Alma; Alma Mahlers diaries; & the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner a viola player & close friend of Mahler whose private journals provide insight into the composers personal & professional lives & his creative process. Fischer explores Mahlers early life his relationship to literature his achievements as a conductor in Vienna & New York his unhappy marriage & his work with the Metropolitan Opera & the New York Philharmonic in his later years. He also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism & American commercialism. " Gustav Mahler" is the best-sourced & most balanced biography available about the composer a nuanced & intriguing portrait of his dramatic life set against the backdrop of early 20th century America & fin de siecle Europe."

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' Are Collected Letters a superior form of biography? When as numerous & meticulously edited as these of Gustav mahler when they provide a time capsule ride back to the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire the answer must be yes.. . This remarkable book is unputdownable even for a non-Mahlerite.' Literary Review ' The letters are linked by a commentary that makes the volume both an easy & gripping read.. . There is passion in this book to scald the h&.' Sunday Times 'A vivid & telling portrayal of Mahler's personality in his voice.' Times Literary Supplement ...

In this pioneering book Pierre Pallardy shares his 7-step method of caring for the stomach -- the bodys second brain. It



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Lenny Mc Lean was one of the deadliest bare-knuckle fighters Britain has ever seen. He had dear powerful friends but he also had terrible enemies. So much so that he has two bullet wounds in his back
- each from a different attack. He has also been stabbed repeatedly
- always from behind. Lenny however is also a warm grizzly bear of a man whose main weakness is an overwhelming desire to put the welfare of his mates ahead of his own well-being. In this autobiography he tells of how the mafia flew him to New York to take on their greatest bare-knuckle boxer in a multi-million pound illicit challenge bout. The Mafias man lasted less than three minutes. When the IRA fronted up a London gang in a money-laundering scam Lenny was brought in to intimidate the terrorists. The IRA not surprisingly backed off. Lennys most serious trial came when he was accused of murder. Fighting to prove his innocence against a minimum sentence of 25 years Lenny never gave up & went on to be found not guilty. After deciding to retire from the violent life Len turned his hand to acting debuting in the series The Knock". He also had parts in " The Fifth Element" & " Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels"."

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