The new edition of Hillier's has been updated & undergone a full-colour revision featuring new photos & illustrations to engage those keen to learn the fundamentals of MVT & enhance their understanding of the core concepts whilst keeping the straightforward approach that is much admired in this authoritative manual. ...

The second book in a two-volume series describing walking routes up every 2000-footer in Wales
- all 166 of them. The result is
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The first book in a two-volume series describing walking routes up every 2000-footer in Wales
- all 166 of them. The result is
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Katrin Himmlers cool but meticulous examination of the Himmler story reveals -- in all its dark complexity -- the gulf between the normality of bourgeois family life & the horrors perpetrated by one member. This riveting family memoir provides essential new information on the private life & background of one of the twentieth- centurys most notorious killers -- not a lone evil executioner but a middle-class family man loved & fully supported by his respectable German family. It also offers a unique account of one womens courageous attempt to deal with her chilling inheritance. It is part of the creeping discomfort in reading her book to realise the incredibly ordinary middle-class background of these three sons of a rather pompous provincial headmaster & to see how right until the end he was almost able to convince himself it hadnt happened like it had Sunday Times You get a vivid sense of a particular kind of German conservatism
- Roman Catholic monarchist
- & of how weirdly it found an outlet in the upstart part-pagan thuggery of Nazism Independent One can only admire her bravery.. . In a way Katrin Himmlers book is not a story about the past but one about the present. The most interesting details are the ones she gives of her own quest Daily Telegraph

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This book is the most thorough study yet of the whole process of recruitment indoctrination & performance of those responsible for the guarding of concentration camp inmates. It is not an attractive subject
- the conversion of human beings into murderers & individuals routinely carrying out appalling acts of cruelty is bound to be shocking. But it happened under the Third Reich on a massive scale. Of the 55 000 Nazi concentration camp guards some 3 700 were women. The book studies their behaviour with examples along with that of their male counter-parts. The book follows the development of concentration camps from the early beginnings in the 1930s (Buchenwald Sachsenhausen etc) through their establishment in the conquered territories of Poland & Czechoslovakia to the extermination camps (Dachau Auschwitz). In parallel it describes using original source material the behaviour of the guards who became in numerous cases immune to the horrors around them. This is well borne out by the conduct of the guards during the Liberation process which is also movingly described using numerous personal accounts of shocked Allied personnel.
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Get talking as you make your way around India Pakistan & Bangladesh. Lonely Planet phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical & social words & phrases. Chat with the locals & discover their culture a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience. ...

This book is the first one in the Hindi Made Easy series. It is meant primarily for beginners of Hindi. Slightly modified Roman script is used throughout to facilitate the learning of Hindi sounds but not to replace the Hindi script This book will also prove useful for the Breakthrough & Preliminary stages of the Languages Ladder. ...

Comprises a perfect introduction to the language for the traveller student or anyone who wishes to communicate with Hindi speakers. It presents the Hindi script with a comprehensive pronunciation guide & basic grammar. Each entry in the extensive two-way dictionary

Includes:: the script & romanised Hindi. The book also contains cultural information (such as the fact that eating with the left hand is considered rude) as well as a section on problems a traveller may encounter.

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In the 1920s the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals Ackerley recorded the Maharajahs fantastically eccentric habits & riddling conversations & the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday" is an intimate & very funny account of an exceedingly strange place & one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature." ...

Hinduism is practised by eighty per cent of Indias population & by thirty million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction Kim Knott combines a succinct & authoritative overview of a major religion with an analysis of the challenges facing it in the twentieth century. She discusses key preoccupations of Hinduism such as the centrality of the Veda as religious texts the role of brahmins gurus & storytellers in the transmission of divine truths & the importance of epics such as the Ramayana. Issues such as the place of women & dalits (untouchables) in contemporary society are also addressed making this book stimulating reading for Hindus & non-Hindus alike. ...