From humble origins to glittering success at home & abroad Tottenham Hotspur is a name synonymous with the glamour prestige & romance of football's heyday. Ever since a group of schoolboys gathered beneath a street light to form a team soon dubbed 'the Flower of the South' the club pioneered an adventurous style that made the Spurs name famous around the world. This lovingly compiled book is a photographic celebration of North London's greatest club drawing on the thousands of outstanding pictures contained within the Daily Mirror's huge archive. It portrays a golden age not just for Tottenham but for football as a whole before the modern era of GBP150 000-a-week players & WAGs when Spurs carried all before them in cup & league blazed a trail for British clubs in Europe & most famously secured the first domestic double of the 20th century with a team still rated by many as the best British football has ever produced. All the club's legendary figures from Nicholson to Perryman Dimmock to Hoddle are of course featured but this is much more than a visual record of famous names & great games. It provides a unique behind- the-scenes insight into the day-to-day atmosphere of a major club down the years the nooks & crannies of the White Hart Lane stadium the players the fans the characters & the offbeat quirks & curiosities that helped make Spurs so special. Wonderfully nostalgic & hugely evocative here are the people places & events that made this renowned club what it is today. ...

This is a unique & magnificent collection of photographs of Sunderland AFC from the very early days until 1992 freshly selected from thousands of images in The Daily Mirror's" extensive archive. These superb photos many of them previously unpublished document the rise of this famous traditional & much loved 130 year old football club from its formation by a teacher Scotsman James Allan to the Team Of All The Talents the 9 v 1 thrashing of arch rivals Newcastle United & the iconic 1913 FA Cup Final. Marvel at this superb pre war period where the club through the efforts of players such as Doig Buchan Carter & Gurney swept all before them to claim 6 English league championships. Enjoy the heights of the post war period including Sunderland's Bank Of England team 1973 & Sunderland's spiritual home; Roker Park. It's all here. This book brings to life the periods the personalities & the human stories." ...

Long before West Bromwich Albion became regular members of the Premier League they were performing stirring deeds on the playing fields of England & beyond. As founder members of the Football League they have a rare place in the game's folklore with the iconic names to go with it. Billy Bassett Jesse Pennington Tommy Glidden WG Richardson Ronnie Allen Ray Barlow Jeff Astle Tony Brown Cyrille Regis the Pearsons & the Everisses...an illustrious list indeed. Thankfully a club who won the League Championship almost a century ago & have also lit up the Black Country with FA Cup & League Cup triumphs plus some conquests abroad have been a magnet for eagle-eyed Daily Mirror photographers. Many of the superb images in this publication are previously unseen & illustrate the dramatic Baggies story. ...

Few clubs lend themselves better to a magnificent collection of photographs than Wolverhampton Wanderers. As three-time League champions & four-time winners of the FA Cup not to mention pioneers of European football their place in the Daily Mirrors extensive archive is secure. The majority of these superb photos are previously unpublished & are used to document the highs
- & one spectacular 1980s low
- of Molineux life. Billy Wright Stan Cullis Ron Flowers Bill Slater Bert Williams Derek Dougan John Richards Steve Bull
- the list of golden heroes is a long one. This publication celebrates not only their wonderful deeds but also the personalities & priceless anecdotes
- When Football Was Football!



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Picking up where Liar s Poker left off (literally in the bond dealer s desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market & like alchemists create limitless wealth for themselves & their partners. Founded by John Meriweather a notoriously confident bond dealer along with two Nobel prize winners & a floor of Wall Street s brightest & best Long-Term Captial Management was from the beginning hailed as a new gold standard in investing. It was to be the hedge fund to end all other hedge funds: a discreet private investment club limited to those rich enough to pony up millions. It became the banks own favourite fund & from its inception achieved a run of dizzyingly spectacular returns. New investors barged each other aside to get their investment money into LTCM s hands. But as competitors began to mimic Meriweather s fund he altered strategy to maintain the fund s performance leveraging capital with credit on a scale not fully understood & never seen before. When the markets in Indonesia South America & Russia crashed in 1998 LCTM s investments crashed with them & mountainous debts accumulated. The fund was in melt-down & threatening to bring down into its trillion-dollar black hole a host of financial instiutions from New York to Switzerl&. It s a tale of vivid characters overwheening ambition & perilous drama told in Roger Lowenstein s hands with brilliant style & panache. ...

1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Ellys world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but maddeningly distractible parents; a best friend who smells of chips & knows exotic words like slag; an ageing fop who tapdances his way into her home a Shirley Bassey impersonator who trails close behind; lastly of course a rabbit called God. In a childhood peppered with moments both ordinary & extraordinary Ellys one constant is her brother Joe. Twenty years on Elly & Joe are fully grown & as close as they ever were. Until that is one bright morning when a single earth-shattering event threatens to destroy their bond forever. Spanning four decades & moving between suburban Essex the wild coast of Cornwall & the streets of New York this is a story about childhood eccentricity the darker side of love & sex the pull & power of family ties loss & life. More than anything its a story about love in all its forms. ...

This is a pick & choose crochet book. Pick your favorite granny squares & filet patterns from numerous options then choose your yarn & colors for unique one-of-a-kind designs. Helpful designer tips are included throughout the book. Seven designs are also included to show how beautiful it is When Granny Meets Filet! ...

Partly autobiographical this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found to your complete surprise that your own father was one of those people. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began too busy with her schoolwork & toboganning to take much notice of political posters but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler the man who would soon change the whole of Europe
- starting with her own small life. Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to underst&. One day her father was unaccountably missing. Then she herself & her brother Max were being rushed by their mother in alarming secrecy away from everything they knew
- home & schoolmates & well-loved toys
- right out of Germany...


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This unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing Germany before the Second World War is now available in a special hardback edition to celebrate the 90th birthday of its author Judith Kerr with a reproduction of the original illustrated cover. This internationally acclaimed story of one Jewish family's flight from Hitler's Germany has become a much-loved classic & this special edition hardback has been published to celebrate the 90th birthday of Judith Kerr. It features reproductions of the original cover & pages from its first printing in 1971 illustrated by the author. Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found to your complete surprise that your own father was one of those people. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began too busy to take much notice of political posters but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler the man who would soon change the whole of Europe
- starting with her own small life. One day Anna's father was missing. Then she herself & her brother Max were being rushed by their mother in alarming secrecy away from everything they knew
- home & schoolmates & well-loved toys
- right out of Germany... Michael Morpurgo called When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: The most life-enhancing book you could ever wish to read.""


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Partly autobiographical these are first & second books in the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War. Michael Morpurgo called When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: The most life-enhancing book you could ever wish to read." This special bind-up celebrating the fortieth anniversary of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is based on Judith's own experiences. The last-minute escape village life in Switzerland the family's refugee existence in Paris & their final arrival in England were all part of her childhood. Follow the deeply moving yet often humorous story of Anna & her much-loved family through their flight from Nazi Germany to their new life in war-torn London." ...