Patrick OBrians Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the sixteenth book in the series. At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster & delight Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephens objective is to set the revolutionary tinder of South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young & uncomfortably vigorous United States. The shock & barbarity of h&-to-hand fighting are sharpened by OBrians exact sense of period his eye for landscape & his feel for a ship under sail. ...

This is the book for the winemaker who likes the ease & convenience of making wine from concentrates. Particularly invaluable to the town- & city-dweller who enjoys wine but lacks the facilities to make it from grapes & other fruits the recipes are formulated from concentrates which are readily available to make 1-2 gallon batches of wine. Peter Duncans vast experience & knowledge of the way wine can be made with concentrates is all here in these pages
- this is the book that every winemaker who uses them will want to keep for ready reference.
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Winfield & Jolowicz is a leading textbook on the law of tort & a definitive all embracing guide to the subject. Though centred firmly on English law Winfield & Jolowicz continues to follow significant developments in other major Commonwealth countries & where appropriate European systems of tort law. ...

In this fast paced narrative ex-SAS surgeon Richard Villar provides 'a very personal insight into the difficulties dangers & occasional virtual impossibility of providing medical aid to disaster areas & war zones. He shares his remarkable experiences in the aftermath of three major earthquakes
- Kashmir (2005) Java (2006) & Haiti (2010)
- as well as in the Libyan civil war (2011). Readers are given a no-holds-barred introduction to a world which the vast majority will have only scant knowledge of. The author describes what happens on the ground before a full aid programme swings into action. Arriving in a stricken area with the infrastructure destroyed his small dedicated team can take nothing for granted; water power shelter & the rule of law are likely to be non-existent & disease & shortages of food & water ever present. They meet challenges that the rest of us can only imagine & are under intense pressure to help comfort & sustain overwhelming numbers of trauma struck men women & children whose worlds have been turned upside down. Winged Scalpel is not only a riveting read but highly instructional & informative. From his own point of view the author's experiences prove that 'you can take a man out of the SAS but you cannot take the SAS out of the man'.

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There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914-1918 based very largely on the authors experiences. Combat loneliness fatigue fear comradeship women excitement--all are built into a vigorous & authentic structure by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps. ...

. .. It is remarkable that one man should have been involved in so much action in so few years...I commend his biography to the reader.. .by any standard he was a hero & he tells his life's story with modesty & humour. Extract from the Foreword by Admiral Lord Boyce Captain Mervyn Wingfield was one of the last of his generation of submariners who made their reputation in the Second World War. Pre-war he had served on the China station & lived the riotous life of a young officer; in the war he commanded three submarines Umpire Sturgeon & Taurus survived a collision in the North Sea spent a winter in the Arctic penetrated the Norwegian fjords submerged through a minefield surfaced off St Nazaire in view of German guns to act as a navigation marker for the raiding force fought cavalry in the northern Aegean & later off Penang was the first British submariner to sink a Japanese submarine
- & barely survived the subsequent vicious counterattack after Taurus was severely damaged & became stuck in the mud at the bottom. Any one of these incidents would have merited a place for Wingfield in the history of naval warfare & the pantheon of submarine heroes. The Royal Navy's most senior submariner Admiral Lord Boyce notes in his Foreword that the diesel-powered submarines in which both men served were not so different but the risks which Wingfield took in wartime were greater & Lord Boyce admired the way in which Wingfield led his crew & was loved by them. Many men were burned-out by the war but in the postwar years Wingfield enjoyed a successful peacetime career in the Royal Navy where finally his personal qualities & his diplomacy were put to the test as a naval attache. In retirement Wingfield was well-known for hosting lively beef & Stilton lunches at the London Boat Show! He was also one of the last of the generations of Anglo-Irish families who served the Crown & provided officers & men for the Army & the Navy & his story in addition gives some insights into his early days especially with regard to being a young officer in the Royal Navy in the 1930s.
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Zoe Sorensson yearns to come into her powers as the only female dragon shifter. But being part of two worlds is more complicated than she expected. Its bad enough that shes the target of the Mages plan to eliminate all shifters
- she also has to hide her true nature from her best friend Meagan a human. For her sixteenth birthday all Zoe wants is one normal day including a tattoo & a chance to see hot rocker Jared. Instead the Pyr throw her a birthday party but ban Meagan from attendance putting Zoe in a tight spot. Things get even worse when Zoe is invited to the popular kids Halloween party & Meagans left out. Zoe knows the party is a trap laid by the host an apprentice Mage. When Meagan gets a last-minute invite Zoe must save the day
- & her best friend
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An extraordinary faerie tale of magic & mystery romance & danger described by Stephenie Meyer as a remarkable debut. Laurel is an ordinary fifteen-year-old high school girl. But something incredible is happening to her. She is changing. Now Laurel is about to discover that a deep & powerful magic holds the key to her destiny. ...

It wasn't a thing it was a bit of shaped sky.. . Somewhere in a place that is so far up there is no down a ship is waiting to take the nomes home
- back to wherever they came from. & one nome Masklin knows that they've got to try & contact this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is) then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this so he tries to do it anyway. & the first step is to try & hitch a ride on a new kind of truck a truck with wings
- Concorde. The final title in the magnificent trilogy The Bromeliad.

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The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Churchills famous few
- the Hurricane
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