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Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years' War. Through an exploration of thirty-three selected battles,...

Birgit Wichmann versammelt in dem Band 'Vision' aktuelle Gedichte in englischer Sprache die ihre Auseinandersetzung und bewusste Wahrnehmung täglicher Ereignisse widerspiegeln. Ihre Gedichte sprechen von Ihrem Verständnis der Welt, formulieren aber genauso eine kritische Haltung und wollen ein Anstoß sein, neue Ideen des weltweiten Zusammenlebens zu finden.

Having survived two separate terrorist attacks, the intrepid team of Hendrych and Kroupa had hoped to put the horrors of their run-in with the extremist group, AVPW, behind them. However, the prospect of world domination is too strong and they're soon facing a nightmare from beyond the grave.

Tom Firth begins his extraordinary memoir by describing his unusual childhood in Japan and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in his mothers native Poland only to split up when Poland was overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and older...

Tony Nott retired from the Dorset Police in 2002 at the rank of superintendent. He had spent most of his service as a detective, and had been involved in the investigation of a number of murder cases and other serious crimes. In 2000 he led the British forensic team on exhumations in Kosovo...

Hendrych and Kroupa take to stage again, in their second play. This time a quiet weekend's mushroom picking yields more than they expected. Their grizzly find of a decomposing body in a boletus patch sees small-town politics rear its ugly head. But, when the townsfolk accuse the baker of murder...

Both plays, "The Cemetery" and 'The Confession", should be performed together in one evening, as a double-bill. "The Cemetery" follows "The Confession". The MAN and TRENT are performed by the same actor. Each play is performed without an intermission. The scenes are changed quickly in full view of the audience to J.S.Bach’s "Art of the Fugue".

This guide book covers the present-day battlefield, and the actions that took place on and immediately behind the D-Day beaches, and Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Guide to Normandy has been put together to take you around the area.This book, part of a new series of guides, is designed conveniently in...

This fully revised second edition of Christina Holstein’s acclaimed Battleground guide to Fort Douaumont will be essential reading for students of the Battle of Verdun, for visitors to the battlefield, and for anyone who is interested in the history of twentieth-century fortifications. The...

Four turn-of-the-century fiends whose “crimes, even by today’s standards, are still shocking—because they were committed by women” (Yorkshire Magazine). Their names may not be as familiar as such notorious female serial killers as Aileen Wuornos, Myra Hindley, Martha Beck, or Belle...

Many railway historians and enthusiasts only know about the railways in the Barry area, because of Woodham Brothers scrap yard, where so many locomotives were rescued for preservation. However, there is a wider story to be told of the development and history of the railway and docks and John...

This is the second in a new series on the South Wales Valleys by John Hodge, author of the South Wales Main Line series and North and West series, each of four volumes. The South Wales Valleys were famous for coal mining, iron and steel, tinplate works and the railways that served both industries,...

January, 1951, while the country is in the grip of war in Korea, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and Senator Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare, the residents of St. Adele, Michigan, are more concerned with staying warm and shoveling snow until a bizarre ice storm brings down a towering pine. Entangled in...

James Jacob Chesterfield must live with his Great Grandma Stella Chesterfield. Neither of them is very happy about it.They get used to each other, even after JJ learns Stella is a vampire.When JJ is bitten and becomes a vampire himself, it brings an old enemy of Grandma’s into the...