Reporting America" is a magnificent collection of Alistair Cookes key dispatches on the key moments movements men & women of post-war America. Alistair Cooke was the greatest & most humane of all modern reporters & interpreters of America his adopted country to his native Britain & to the world. Starting with his first broadcast Letter from America on embarking in 1946 for America on a ship filled with tearful GI brides here are the stories of a nation: Korea the Mc Carthy witch hunts Civil Rights JFK the moon landings the moving eye-witness account of Robert Kennedys assassination Nixons resignation & Clintons scandals right up to the attacks of September 11th & the war in Iraq. Also containing Cooks observations on the great good & downright bad & on the views of the ordinary people he met as well as his daughter Susans memories of her father " Reporting America" is a tribute to an extraordinary man & the country he loved. " The voice of America... Here was a man who made intelligent honest sense of decades of assassinations scandals elections boom times & broken dreams.. .an indispensable record of twentieth-century American culture". (Peter Kimpton " Observer"). " Vintage Cooke". (David Dimbleby). "A rich picture of America so vivid.. .the fresh first pressing of history". (James Naughtie " Sunday Telegraph"). Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print radio & television. The Guardians Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years & the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television & of the BBC series America Cooke was however best known both at home & abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America which reported on fifty-eight years of US life was heard over five continents & totalled 2 869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004 far & away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history." ...

Romance & suspense combine in a tense teen thriller that will leave you gasping for more.. .34 kids missing. Vanished without a trace. Believing she is possessed Genie Magee's mother has imprisoned her all summer encouraged by the sinister Reverend Schneider. Beautiful Rian love of her life sets her free & their escape washes them up at Marshall's remote farmhouse downriver. But why are there newspaper clippings of the missing kids pinned to Marshall's bathroom wall? & should they believe his stories about the experiments at the Fortress an underground research station nearby? Genie meets Denis. Missing two years now but hasn't grown an inch. Rian is haunted by Ren?e who insists she's not actually dead. Soon they discover the terrible truth about Reverend Schneider & worse Genie is next.. .and Rian can't do a thing to prevent it. The Repossession is just the beginning. Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award & longlisted for the Amazing Book Awards in Sussex. ' Forget Bella & Edward. Genie & Rian are the new IT couple in the teen fiction world!' Kooky Toon Book Corner blog Check out Sam's website: http://www.samhawksmoor.com ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The siblings endure a car accident a terrible smell a deadly serpent a long knife a brass reading lamp & the re-appearance of a person they hoped to never see again. Then again why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? Avoid these books in Lemony Snicket's international bestselling series & you'll never have to know what happens! ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The siblings endure a car accident a terrible smell a deadly serpent a long knife a brass reading lamp & the re-appearance of a person they hoped to never see again. Then again why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? Avoid these books in Lemony Snickets international bestselling series & youll never have to know what happens! ...

This is a fantastic brand new addition to the Beginners" series designed to provide an informative introduction to trees & plant-life for young readers. Children can learn about some of the most fascinating cold-blooded creatures in the world from reptiles that can fly walk on water & climb on ceilings. This book offers terrific reading practice for children who prefer fact to fiction. It is developed with a reading expert from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence. It is great value for your money." ...

Republic is the central work of the Western worlds most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality Republic also contains crucial arguments & insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary reader who is carried along by the wit & intensity of the dialogue & by Platos unforgettable images of the human condition. This new lucid translation by Robin Waterfield is complemented by full explanatory notes & an up-to-date critical introduction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was the fastest & most successful strike fighter of the Cold War. Designed to deliver nuclear weapons at low altitude & then fight its way back to base by the early 1960s it was the primary weapon in the USAFs tactical strike arsenal. Thunderchief pilots in Europe the Far East & the USA stood on short-notice alert ready to take on the formidable defenses of their Communist Bloc targets. The F-105 was however to become a legend in a very different conflict. As direct American involvement in Vietnam increased F-105s were deployed
- initially as a deterrent but ever more as conventional attack fighters against insurgency in Laos & Vietnam. With the start of the bombing campaign against North Vietnam the Thunderchief became a vital element in attacks against some of the most heavily defended territory in modern history.
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The Republic of Love" marries a wide diversity of elements mythical & modern ironic & moving exhilarating & melancholy...a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive. Times Literary Supplement " The Republic of Love" is a hymn to the pleasures & pains the raptures even of an unspectacular life. Fay discovers that happiness is "a kind of by-product of existence & not an end in itself". This piece of knowledge saves her Shields suggests from the watery ambiguous yearning of the mermaid "plaintive coy" wordlessly calling out to no one. A simple message but Shields delivers it with so much grace & so little pretension that it is impossible not to be enchanted by her voice. She sings with the charm of a true siren. In her hands we believe anything can happen. Guardian A novel thats so engrossing it makes you want to retire to a squashy sofa until you reach the end. Vividly fresh...glittering & spangled with fabulous surprises. Sunday Times" ...

THE CRUSADES ARE OVER & EUROPE IS IN CHAOS. After years fighting in the desert sun
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BONUS: read an exclusive short story about Alex Lenas first love
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