OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

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Autumn 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake & his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission -- to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. & when Shardlake & Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers which could threaten the Tudor throne a chain of events unfolds that will lead Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age.. .' Sansom is a master storyteller' Guardian ' So compulsive that until you reach its final page you'll have to be almost physically prised away from it' Sunday Times ' Deeper stronger & subtler than The Name of the Rose' Independent on Sunday ...

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Soviet economic development from 1917 to 1965 in the context of the pre-revolutionary economy. In these years the Soviet Union negotiated the first stages of modern industrialisation & then after the defeat of Nazi Germany & its allies emerged as one of the two world superpowers. This was also the first attempt to construct a planned socialist order. These developments resulted in great economic achievements at great human cost. Using the results of recent Russian & Western research Professor Davies discusses the inherent faults & strengths of the system & pays particular attention to the major controversies. Was the Russian Revolution doomed to failure from the outset? Could the mixed economy of the 1920s have led to a democratic socialist economy? What was the influence of Soviet economic development on the rest of the world? ...

Following the destruction wrought on the Red Army Air Forces during the first days of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 the Soviet Union found itself desperately short of fighter aircraft. Premier Josef Stalin duly appealed directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill for replacement aircraft & in late 1941 the British delivered the first of 3360 Hurricanes that would be supplied to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease agreement. Specifically requested by the USSR the Hurricanes were quickly thrown into action in early 1942
- the Soviet Air Forces most difficult year in their opposition to the Luftwaffe. Virtually all the Hurricanes were issued to Soviet fighter regiments in the northern sector of the front where pilots were initially trained to fly the aircraft by RAF personnel that had accompanied the early Hawker fighters to the USSR. The Hurricane proved to be an easy aircraft to master even for the poorly trained young Soviet pilots allowing the Red Army to form quickly a large number of new fighter regiments in the polar area. In spite of a relatively poor top speed & only a modest rate-of-climb the Hurricane was the mount of at least 17 Soviet aces.
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This is the first volume of an integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story
- the revolution Lenin Stalinism
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Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions end what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment an unmitigated disaster or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society & culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism political violence poverty & ideology; & provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. ...

The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a bloody nine-year conflict in that country until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988-89 dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat at the hands of the Mujahideen the Afghan popular resistance backed by the USA & other powers. The Soviet invasion had enormous implications on the global stage; it prompted the US Senate to refuse to ratify the hard-won SALT II arms-limitation treaty & the USA & 64 other countries boycotted the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. For Afghanistan the invasion served to prolong the interminable civil war that pitted central government against the regions & faction against faction. The country remains locked in conflict over 30 years later with no end in sight. Featuring specially drawn mapping & drawing upon a wide range of sources this succinct account explains the origins history & consequences of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan thereby shedding new light on the more recent history
- & prospects
- of that troubled country.

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