Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-08-01 Pages: 752 Language: English As Antony Beevor cast new light on the Battle of Stalingrad. Alexandra Richie here unearths the traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II. in which the Poles fought off German troops. street by street. for sixty-three days.The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This is the first account to recall the tragedy from both German and Polish perspectives and asks why. when the war was nearly lost. Hitler and Himmler returned to Warsaw bent on murder. deportation. and destruction.For the only time in European history a capital was entirely razed. Hundreds were thrown from windows. burned alive. shot and trampled to death. 40.000 were murdered on 5th August -. the largest battlefield massacre of the war.Using the vast archive of her combatant father-in-law Wladyslaw Bartos...

History

Alexandra Richie

Europe

China Press

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2004-1-1 Pages:. 375 A guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington State. aiming never to return What he finds there starts a chain of events that will quickly spiral out of control Meanwhile. in Los Angeles a womans body is discovered. sitting bolt upright in a motel bedroom. She is dead. and her killer has left his mark. It soon becomes clear he has something to say. and a lot more work to do. And Ward Hopkins . and ex-CIA agent recovering from the recent shocking death of his parents. is on the trail of his past. tracking down the men who destroyed everything he once held dear. and the murderer whose face he sees every time he looks in the mirror

Lonely Dead

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The pupils of the Nightmare Academy are in for their hardest year yet, as the Named monsters of the Nether prepare to break free! Final exams don't normally end in death, but Charlie Benjamin's final exams are far from normal. When Charlie, Violet and Theodore embark on a routine test in the Nether, they don't expect Violet to be abducted by demonic, kangaroo-like Dangeroos and they really don't expect to end up in the middle of an all-out breakout attempt by the remaining Named monsters. With the mysterious "Guardian" under threat, and Barakkas and Verminion still loose on earth, only the misfits of the Nightmare Academy stand between an oblivious humanity and total annihilation. Because if the Four Named should ever escape the Nether and assemble on earth, they would be able to summon the Fifth. And that, by all the most reliable accounts, would be Bad. Really, really Bad.

Monster Revenge

Dean Lorey

First ever illustrated paperback of part two of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring 16 colour paintings by Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. JRR Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Part of a set of three paperbacks, this sumptuous edition is available in a smart new livery, and is illustrated in colour by Alan Lee, award-winning artist and Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY.

The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings. by J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R.Tolkien

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Emperor Series (5) Emperor: The Blood of Gods (Emperor Series)

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-10-08 Pages: 512 Language: English The epic new novel in Conn Iggulden's bestselling EMPEROR series.Julius Caesar has been assassinated A nation is in mourning Revenge will be bloody.Rome 's great hero Julius Caesar has.. been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies While these self-appointed Liberatores seek refuge in the senate. they have underestimated one man:. Caesar's adopted son Octavian. a man whose name will echo through history as Augustus Caesar.Uniting with his great rival Mark Antony. Octavian will stop at nothing to seek retribution from the traitors and avenge his father's death. His greatest hatred is reserved for Brutus. Caesar's childhood friend and greatest ally. now leader of the conspirators.As the people take to the streets of Rome. the Liberatores must face their fate Some flee the city;. others will not escape mob justic...

Emperor: The Blood of Gods (Emperor Series)

Literature & Fiction

IGGULDEN, CONN

Genre Fiction

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-08-29 Pages: 336 Language: English Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel. attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies In this critically acclaimed. bestselling biography she. shares the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look now.Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor - she conjured up the little black dress. bobbed hair. trousers for women. contemporary chic. best-selling perfumes. and the most successful fashion brand of all time - but she also invented herself. fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture.While Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful. what lies beneath her own glossy myth is far darker . Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships. this beautifully constructed ...

Arts & Photography

Justine Picardie

Graphic Design

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 480 Language: English The fifth Odd Thomas thriller from the master storyteller Odd finds refuge at a rundown mansion. but soon discovers a frightening presence.ODD THOMAS SEES DEAD PEOPLE ... They cannot speak. to him nor do him harm; but still. it's unnerving. living between two worlds. standing against our darkest fears.Just off Californias Pacific Coast Highway stands Roseland:. a mansion. protected by high walls Odd finds refuge there. with the very pregnant . and very mysterious. Annamaria.But the house contains terrible and bloody secrets. it is haunted by lingering spirits. and by nameless beats which lurk in the grounds. riding the shifting tides of time.Lately. Odd has suffered dreams of doom and terror . Roseland has welcomed him in ... but will it ever let him leave

ODD APOCALYPSE PB

dean-koontz

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-07-04 Pages: 288 Language: English The second adult novel from the internationally bestselling author Melissa Marr.Chloe knew she shouldn't have gone into the bar last night Now. in addition to a pounding headache. and weak limbs. she's got the guilt of five years sobriety down the drain.hen she wakes. she's not in the world she knows. She's in The Wasteland. a world populated by monsters and unfamiliar landscapes. in the company of people just like her .. pulled to the Wasteland out of time and place. for reasons no one knows or understands Once there. though. their mission is clear: keep the peace. protect each other. and try not to die. because sometimes. after six days of death. you might not wake up.But things are changing in the Wasteland And for Jack and Kitty. brother and sister from a Wild West frontier town;. Edgar. a Prohibition rumrunner...

The Arrivals

MELISSA MARR

HardCover. Pub Date :2012-12-31 Pages: 384 Language: English A startling new book. his most personal to date. from Philip Hoare. winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan' The sea surrounds us It gives.. us life. provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up in our everyday lives. we barely notice it.In 'The Sea Inside '. Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea. its islands. birds and beasts He begins on the south coast where he grew up. a place of almost monastic escape From there he travels to the other side of the world -.. the . Azores. Sri Lanka. New Zealand - in search of encounters with animals and people Navigating between human and natural history. he asks what these stories mean for us now.Along the way we meet an amazing cast; from scientists...

The Sea Inside

Philip Hoare

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 496 Language: English How far would you go to protect the ones you loveOn the surface the De Vere family appear to have it all Wealth. political power. and idyllic life split between their. London mansion. Oxfordshire country house and their idyllic. sprawling Martha's Vineyard estate. But beneath the gilded fa?ade. and the family's apparently watertight bonds with one another. lie many secrets. some of them deadly. When the mistakes of youth refuse to stay buried. and generation old hatreds resurface. the De Veres find themselves on the brink of losing everything. How far will each of them go to conceal the truth and protect the family

Sidney Sheldon's the Tides of Memory

Sidney Sheldon, Tilly Bagshawe

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