In 1837 P&O or the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company won a lucrative mail contract to the Iberian peninsula. In 1840 they added Egypt & the Mediterranean to their routes. In 1843 P&O placed the first cruise advert in The Times & in 1844 were selling passages to Gibraltar Malta Athens Constantinople & Egypt to tourists clearly becoming the worlds oldest cruise company. In that year the author William Thackeray was offered a voyage if he would write about it for the company helping promote their services. By 1870 the Suez Canal had opened reducing the time to travel to India China & Australia & in 1904 P&O introduced the Vectis as a cruising yacht. By the 1920s cruising had become a huge part of the companys business & post-war the company grew this business on the back of its lucrative Ten-Pound Pom contracts with the Australian government. By 1981 Canberra was carrying almost half of all cruise passengers from the UK & in 1982 she sailed to war with Royal Marines & the Parachute Regiment. Post-Falklands P&O began to expand with new vessels. Today the company has seven cruise ships (Adonia Arcadia Aurora Azura Oceana Oriana & Ventura) all of which will be in Southampton on 3 July 2012 when 30 000 passengers will embark & disembark a record for the port. Celebrating 175 years in style this is the official history of P&O Cruises. ...

P&O Ferries Across Five Decades traces the roots history & development of how P&O Ferries came to be established as Britains biggest & leading ferry company. P&O Ferries today operates a fleet of 22 ships serving France Belgium the Netherlands the Republic of Ireland & Northern Irel&. This title traces how P&O Ferries has established itself over the last 50 years together with the history of Thoresen Car Ferries P&O Normandy Ferries the Transport Ferry Service & Townsend Car Ferries which later became Townsend Thoresen Britains leading & iconic ferry company serving Europe & Ireland during the seventies & eighties. The continental routes to Belgium & Holland & to Northern Ireland were originally the brainwave of Frank Bustard with his LST landing craft which opened services on the North Sea & Irish Sea after the Second World War. This operation was later nationalised & then sold to Townsend Thoresen. The routes from Hull to Holland & Belgium established by P&O in the sixties were pioneers of freight operations between the UK & continental Europe with their first ships the Norwaveand Norwind. Following the demise of Townsend Thoresen & the rebranding of operations as P&O European Ferries in 1987 the operations on the North Sea were later absorbed under one management in Dover under P&O Ferries. The book also

Includes:: a short history of P&O Scottish Ferries up until its demise in 2002 when the routes to Orkney & Shetland were taken over by North Link.P&O Ferries Across Five Decades is being published as part of the 175th anniversary of P&O in 2012

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The P-47 Thunderbolt originally designed as a high-altitude interceptor became the principal US fighter-bomber of World War II. First adapted to the ground attack role by units of the Twelfth Air Force in early 1944 the strength & durability of the P-47 airframe along with its massive size earned it the nickname Juggernaut which was quickly shortened to Jug throughout the MTO & ETO. By October 1943 with the creation of the Fifteenth Air Force nearly half of the Twelfths fighter groups would be retasked with strategic escort missions leaving six groups to perform close air support & interdiction missions throughout the entire Mediterranean theatre. The groups inflicted incredible damage on the enemys transport routes in particular using rockets bombs napalm & machine-gun rounds to down bridges blow up tunnels & strafe trains. Myriad first-hand accounts & period photography reveal the spectacular success enjoyed by the Thunderbolt in the MTO in the final year of the war. ...

This title contains three glorious Christmas stories beautifully illustrated by award-winning illustrator P.J. Lynch. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey" "A Christmas Carol" & " The Gift of the Magi" are brought together in a wonderful three volume slipcase lavishly packaged & produced. This stunning slipcase makes a truly wonderful seasonal gift. " The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey" sees a grumpy old man & a lonely mother & son make friends; "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens tells the famous story of how miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways & rekindles the joys of Christmas spirit; & OHenrys " The Gift of the Magi" is the wonderful story of a poor young couple who try to buy each other something special for Christmas & end up giving each other the greatest gift of all. This is a timeless Christmas collection." ...

Pablo is having trouble with his contribution to his art groups painting exhibition. Nothing seems to be right. His concerned fellow-artists suggest perhaps he would have better joy with a landscape so he sets off into the country to try to capture a perfect view. By lunch time although he has done his best he is not satisfied so he decides to rest for a bit before continuing. While he is asleep he dreams that the local animals gradually congregate & add their own idiosyncratic perceptions to the wet art. Bird adds a bluer sky Sheep adds a brighter green grass & Mr Wolf groups all of them together to add focus... When Pablo wakes up he knows just what to do to make his painting right! ...

This book provides practical guidance on what remains the single most important statutory basis for police duties & powers in England & Wales the Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984 & its Codes of Practice. The second edition has been fully updated &

Includes:: revised & expanded case studies & diagrams. There is further information dealing with the application of the Act for those outside the police charged with investigating offences such as Revenue & Customs the Armed Forces security officers & Community Support Officers. Amendments to the Codes of Practice including Code A (December 2008) Codes B C & D (January 2008) & Codes E & F (April 2010) are also included. With the aid of check-lists flow-charts & illustrative examples this book gives excellent guidance on how the procedures & requirements of the Act apply to common every day scenarios facing police officers as well as other persons charged with the investigation of offences. The appendices contain the full text of the Act in addition to the latest version of the Codes of Practice. This is an essential reference source which the busy police officer or legal practitioner cannot afford to be without.

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When legions of giant monstrous Kaiju" started rising from the sea a war began that would take millions of lives & consume humanity's resources. To combat the Kaiju a new weapon was devised: massive robot " Jaegers" piloted by soldiers of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. This lavish book chronicles the production of the film with concept art photography & cast & crew commentary." ...

Fully armed & with all hands on board the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials
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In PACK MY BAG Henry Green chronicles his early life providing a delightfully wayward & incisive portrait of English society & of the man himself. From reminiscences of a childhood spent among the gentry to searing descriptions of Eton & Oxford to reflections on the authors first experiments with prose & with sex. ...

Why not introduce a little sparkle to your sketches & drawings with these bright highly reflective pencils. Try them on a dark background on their own or with other media to add brilliant definition & glowing highlights. Derwent Metallic is watersoluble so you can also create shimmering colour washes & interesting line & wash effects from traditional golds & silvers to shimmering pinks & violets to all your artwork. ...