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 The majority of these superb photos are previously unpublished & are used to document the highs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. ...

They were the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies; they rose somewhat unpromisingly from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time. Mick Wall respected rock writer & former confidant of both Page & Plant unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess
- & eventually paid the price for it with disaster drug addiction & death. WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH reveals for the first time the true extent of band leader Jimmy Pages longstanding interest in the occult & goes behind the scenes to expose the truth behind their much-hyped yet spectacularly contrived comeback at Londons O2 arena last year & how Jimmy Page plans to bring the band back permanently
- if only his former protege now part-time nemesis Robert Plant will allow him to. Wall also recounts in a series of flashbacks the life stories of the five individuals that made the dream of Led Zeppelin into an even more incredible & hard-to-swallow reality: Page Plant John Paul Jones John Bonham & their infamous manager Peter Grant. The culmination of several years research this book tells the full shocking story of Led Zeppelin from the inside written by someone who has known Jimmy Page for over twenty years.

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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. ...

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." ...

Remember the legendary racehorses of yesteryear? The famous jockeys the colourful trainers & the many other great characters of the sport? Remember a time when the whole country would come to a virtual standstill for great events like the Derby & the Grand National? While horse racing may still provide a glorious & compelling spectacle the sport of kings was at its most majestic in decades past. This beautiful collection of photographs & memories takes you back to that wonderful era with a unique look at the sport's long & rich heritage. Drawing on 100 years of outstanding photographs in the huge Mirrorpix archive this book brings racing to life as it once was. All the excitement drama & thrill of the chase are evoked along with profiles on the great & the good of the game from champion riders to trackside rogues cup-winning thoroughbreds to the less-heralded but no-less loved plucky competitors of their day. This book celebrates the sport's grass roots its customs curiosities & unique characteristics held dear by racing lovers around the world. Written by award-winning author & sports journalist Adam Powley & ranging from the grandest venues to the humblest tracks this is the perfect illustrated guide to racing's golden age. ...

These two works belong to that group of books written by one of this century's fiercest & most devoted child advocates. In the first Korczak uses fiction to reveal the joys & sorrows of a child a ten-year-old juxtaposing them against the feelings of an adult as they both react to two days of adventure spent together. Two prominent themes in his writing are the exploration of the place of children in an adult world & the examination of the treatment & regard children are accorded in that world. In his second book Korczak spells out his ' Magna Charta Libertatis' in defense of the child's right to respect right to be him or herself & most importantly right to respect for the strenuous effort expended in the process of 'growing up.' ...