Richard Holmes highly acclaimed military historian & broadcaster tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life & extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes' superb skill in this compelling book. Richard Holmes charts Wellington's stellar military career from India to Europe & in the process rediscovers the reasons Queen Victoria called him the greatest man the nineteenth century had produced. Combining his astute historical analysis with a semi-biographical examination of Wellington Holmes artfully illustrates the rapid evolution in military & political thinking of the time. Wellington is a brilliant figure idealistic in politics cynical in love a wit a beau a man of enormous courage often sickened by war. As Richard Holmes charts his progress from a shy indolent boy to commander-in-chief of the allied forces he also exposes the Iron Duke as a philanderer & a man who sometimes despised the men that he led & was not always in control of his soldiers. Particularly infamous is the bestial rampage of his men after the capture of Cuidad Rodgrigo & Badajoz. THE IRON DUKE is a beautifully produced book complete with stunning illustrations & colour plates. Richard Holmes' TV series to accompany THE IRON DUKE will be lavishly constructed in four parts & filmed on location in Britain India Spain Portugal France & Belgium. ...

The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engine long range medium bomber universally known as the Wimpy. The only bomber in construction throughout the Second World War the Wellington played a pivotal role in training & combat from its conception in the 1930s through active service in the Far Eastern Mediterranean & German arenas of conflict until its final use by the RAF in 1953. This book follows the fascinating story of the much-loved & innovatively designed Wellington throughout its life including many tales from the aircrafts years with Bomber Comm&. Illustrated with a wide selection of images both colour & black & white this book is a fitting tribute to a wonderful servant of the RAF. ...

Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work to be published in two volumes which has been compiled on behalf of the The Waterloo Association containing over 3 000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War & at Waterloo between 1808 & 1815 together with 150 battlefield & regimental memorials in 28 countries world wide. Photographs of memorials are included in a CD Rom inserted in each volume. ...

At first sight Wells has changed little over the last 150 years & Edwardian residents would still feel at home. This is particularly so in the east around the cathedral & the market place. On the other hand the west of the city which once boasted three railway stations has been altered out of all recognition. The buildings themselves have remained much as they always have been but this is far from the case when it comes to occupancy. Wells Through Time takes the visitor on a guided tour of Britains smallest & loveliest city. Many of the older pictures were taken by the Philips City Studio a business that operated in the Market Place for the best part of a century & it is to be hoped that these photographs will prove an inspiration to those who visit Wells today & a souvenir for those who have known the city in days gone by. ...

This compact presentable & best-selling dictionary is a fully up-to-date comprehensive & clear compact dictionary that is the ideal reference aid for learners & speakers of Welsh. It contains over 20 000 headwords & irregular forms of adjectives verbs & plural nouns are included. In addition there is an appendix of irregular Welsh verbs. Maer geiriadur gwerthiant uchel hwn yn glir yn gryno yn gyfoes ac yn gynhwysfawr. Maen ddelfrydol ar gyfer dysgwyr a Chymry Cymraeg. Ceir dros 20 000 o benawdau yn cynnwys ffurfiau afreolaidd ansoddeiriau berfau ac enwau lluosog ynghyd ag atodiad yn rhedeg y prif ferfau afreolaidd. D. Geraint Lewis is an award-winning author of numerous Welsh dictionaries & books of grammar. He has recently completed a Welsh Childrens Thesaurus & is currently working on a collegiate dictionary for the Welsh Joint Education Committee. Other works include collections of Christmas Carols for children & a major volume of Folk songs. Prior to his retirement he was an Assistant Director of Education with responsibility for Cultural Services in the County of Ceredigion. Enillodd D. Geraint Lewis wobr Tir Na N Og am Geiriadur Gomer ir Ifanc. Ers hynny y mae wedi cyhoeddi nifer o eiriaduron a llyfrau gramadeg. Mae wedi cyhoeddi Thesawrws Plant yn ddiweddar ac yn gweithio ar eiriadur 6ed dosbarth i Gyd-bwyllgor Addysg Cymru. Ymhlith ei weithiau eraill ceir cyfrolau o garolau Nadolig i blant a chyfrol gynhwysfawr o ganeuon traddodiadol Can Di Bennill. Cyn ymddeol bun Gyfarwyddwr Addysg Cynorthwyol yn gyfrifol am Wasanaethau Diwylliannol yng Ngheredigion. ...

This title deals with everyday situations in which children may find themselves while abroad. Welsh grammar is clearly explained & puzzles provide plenty of practice. This title is part of a series providing a thorough grounding in useful basic language skills. ...

In the glory years of the 1970s Wales won three grand slams in eight seasons. But rarely since then had the men in red started a Six Nations campaign armed with expectation rather than hope. 2012 was different. The previous year they had come within a kick of reaching the World Cup final losing by a point to France despite playing for the last hour with 14 men after their captain Sam Warburton had been sent off for a dangerous tackle. The question when they returned home was how they would cope with the heartache. The answer came in their first match in the 2012 Six Nations Championship. In Dublin against Ireland the team they had knocked out in the World Cup quarter-final revenge was on the menu. Wales went there without five of their leading forwards & lost Warburton to injury at half-time. They were trailing by six points with five minutes to go & had a player in the sin-bin. The old Wales would have folded but as in Life on Mars it was back to the spirit of the 1970s. This Wales team came back fighting to win not only the game but to sweep the board in the whole tournament bringing home a Welsh grand slam for the third time in eight years & establishing a strong & exciting team for the future. ...

The Welsh Harp Reservoir is an important lung of open space in north-west London. For those who drive around the North Circular Road it provides visual relief to the heavy flow of traffic. The stretch of water was once much larger & would have covered Brent Cross Shopping Centre. This outstanding collection of photographs traces the history of both reservoir & neighbourhood pulling together the records of museums & local authorities. Incredibly these pages explore the canal system Victorian Music Hall the first bicycle race the first greyhound race horse racing angling boating & wild life as well as the early tests on torpedos tanks & sea planes. In its Victorian heyday this was simply the jolliest place that's out" & thousands of visitors flocked here to have a "good time". Join Geoffrey Hewlett in his visual celebration of this urban oasis." ...

It was inevitable that certain areas of Wales would be chosen as locations for airfields in times of conflict & war. The nations distance from Continental Europe made it relatively safe from enemy attack & therefore ideally suited for training. It also due to its location on the western side of Great Britain near to the Western Approaches & the Atlantic convoys that the airfields in Pembrokeshire as a peninsula were ideally suited for Coastal Command operations into the Atlantic & the Bay of Biscay. In Wales there were thirty-seven airfields & four relief landing grounds eleven of which were operationally involved in air defence & maritime operations. Also there were numerous temporary landing areas attached to army camps associated with pre D-Day landings which do not count as proper airfields. ...

This is the 2012 edition of the most comprehensive guidebook to canoeing & kayaking the rivers of Wales. Nearly all the rivers of the principality are covered mostly from navigable source to sea or confluence. From lazy gentle tours suitable for families to raging torrents & waterfalls. There are over 180 rivers & two thousand kilometres of paddling. The book is simple to navigate with quick reference information detailed descriptions & area maps of the river catchments. There are a great many more colour photographs in this new edition compared with the old. Theres also an eclectic mix of anecdotes for a perspective on the paddling scene in Wales past & present
- but the best tales yet to be told are left for you to discover on the Welsh rivers. This is completely revised & updated since reprints of the first edition in 2003 & 2006. It has not been available since 2008 & there is no competitor or comparable book since the first edition.
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