Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914

Dork Diaries - Crush Catastrophe

Nikki Maxwells adventures continue in the twelfth instalment in the bestselling DORK DIARIES series! Now with over 30 million copies in print worldwide! In Nikkis newest diary, its the countdown to the end of the school year, and Nikkis juggling some big questions about how shell spend her summer. Shes also facing an unexpected crush catastrophe theres a new kid interested in ...

Dork Diaries - Crush Catastrophe

Nikki Maxwells adventures continue in the twelfth instalment in the bestselling DORK DIARIES series! Now with over 30 million copies in print worldwide! In Nikkis newest diary, its the countdown to the end of the school year, and Nikkis juggling some big questions about how shell spend her summer. Shes also facing an unexpected crush catastrophe theres a new kid interested in ...

Penny Dreadful is a Complete Catastrophe

Penny Dreadful is a magnet for disaster. Starring in three brand-new stories, Penny creates mishap, mayhem and misadventure wherever she goes! Ages: 8+ Penny Dreadful and the Rat Penny is charged with looking after Rooney the class rat for the weekend to learn about responsibility. But when the only thing shes responsible for is losing Rooney, and the class is overrun with rat babies thanks...

A Time to Remember - Book One in the the gripping, uplifting Rivenshaw Saga set at the close of World War Two

The first book in a heartwarming new Lancashire-based series by beloved and bestselling saga writer Anna Jacobs, set at the end of World War Two. 1945 the war in Europe is over. It should be a time of utter joy and celebration.Most women cant wait for their men to return, but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire, Judith Crossley fears having her husband back in the house. Hed grown ...

Iron Curtain - The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

Chosen 16 times as a Book of the Year the top non-fiction pick of 2012 The best work of modern history I have ever read A. N. Wilson, Financial Times At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a complet...

The Shadow of War

June; 1914: The beginning of another long; prosperous summer for Britain. But beneath the clear skies; all is not as it seemâas the chill wind of social discontent swirls around this sceptered isle. Shots ring out in a distant European landâthe assassination of a foreign aristocrat. From that moment the entire world is propelled into a conflict unlike any seen before. This is the story o...

War Cry | Prints and Canvas

The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness. -Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The art of great photography goes beyond mere images.

It captures a moment. An emotion. It is timeless yet always of the moment.

That special art is what Photographers Lane has sought,collecting the work of outstanding photographers from around the world. Work that we
now offer on hi...

Mao's Great Famine - The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962

An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of Chinas Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the Peoples Republic of China.Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the co...

War Horse DVD

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play.ÃÂ From director Steven Spielberg comes War Horse, an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, ...

World War I Tales - The War Game

Stories of the First World War from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful Horrible Histories. Flanders, 1914. The German and British soldiers in the trenches make an unofficial Christmas truce, with carols and a football match. But the officers arent happy A veteran soldier and a young recruit are celebrating Christmas in the trenches of Flanders in 1914. They hear ...

One Boy's War

Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon finds himself a long way from home in a frontline trench where reality and the rats begin to bite. Told through Sydneys optimistic letters home and his journal, this is his honest portrayal o...

The War Poems

No poetry has touched readers hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers of our present day. In later years, Sir Rupert Hart-Davis wri...

Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War

The first book in a new series that will explore Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...

War Horse DVD

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play.ÃÂ From director Steven Spielberg comes War Horse, an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, ...

War Clouds Gather - The Frontier Series 8

the home grown version of Wilbur Smith The Sunday Age Against the backdrop of impending war and the rise of the Nazi Party, the epic saga of the Macintosh and Duffy families continues. Its 1936. While Europe is starting to feel the shadow of the upcoming turmoil, George Macintosh is determined to keep control of his business empire. He takes extreme measures to prevent his nephew David fr...

South - The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expeditionthe first trek across Antarctica from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the South Pole. Shackletons third expedition would prove frought with adventureand peril.South is the remarkable tale of that ill-fated expedition as told in Shackletons own words, and illustrated here...

Adults In The Room - My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment

One of the greatest political memoirs of all time (Guardian) *** What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europes hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power. Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history ...

Australia's Great War - 1914

Louis Jullian and his older brother Thomas are on holiday in Sarajevo, enjoying the privileges of life in a diplomats family. But the peace is shattered as a bomb explodes and the heir to the Austrian Empire is assassinated in front of their eyes. As Europe descends into war, Louis convinces his parents to let him go to the front as a war correspondent. Sent to northern France, Louis witnesse...

How We Saw the War

How We Saw The War will retell to a new generation of New Zealanders how their mothers and grandmothers learned where their loved ones were and what they were doing during World War II. It will republish newspaper stories from the time which reported on the activities of New Zealand soldiers in the Middle East and the Pacific, North Africa and Italy; in the air and at sea. From Michael Joseph Sava...

The Proud Tower - A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914

The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it.Barbara W. TuchmanThe fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privi...

Come Home Soon - A First Look at When a Parent Goes to War

This new title in Barrons A First Look At series encourages kids of preschool through early school age to understand and overcome problems that might trouble them in social and family relationships. Written by an experienced psychotherapist and counselor on a level that is always understandable to younger children, this book seeks to promote positive interactions among children, parents, and...

Catastrophe - Europe Goes To War 1914