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Resistance (DVD)
Michael Sheen, Stanislav Ianevski, Iwan Rheon, Andrea Riseborough, Kimberley Nixon, …
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Amit Gupta directs this adaptation of Owen Sheers' debut novel
starring Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen. It's 1944 and D-Day
has failed. The United Kingdom is now under Nazi occupation. In the
remote Welsh village of Olchon, farmer's wife Sarah Lewis
(Riseborough) wakes up one morning to find her husband has
mysteriously disappeared along with all the other men in the
village. Then, as they wait for news, a German patrol arrives in
their valley on an undisclosed mission. During the harsh winter
that follows, the two groups are forced to pull together to survive
the last days of the war. Cut off from the conflict around them,
both the villagers and the Nazis find the lines between
collaboration, duty, occupation and survival becoming less defined
as time goes on...
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The Third Death (Hardcover)
Murat Tuncel; Translated by Stuart Kline; Edited by Richard Holmes
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R751
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Derry (Hardcover)
William Dugan, Richard Holmes
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R702
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Defence managers, like their counterparts in both the public and
private sector need to learn to cope with change and the resulting
uncertainty. This is no easy task for uncertain situations meaning
that there are no sure answers or solutions. This volume represents
the attempts of its contributors, military and academic, to assist
in the process. To some extent uncertainty is nothing new, indeed
it may be the only certainty in an era of rapid social change,
increasing economic pressures. The end of the Cold War, a rise in
global terrorism and rapid developments in informatics have
accelerated the pace of change. Tried and trusted techniques that
served well in the past are no longer appropriate in an era where
defence services must be ready to challenge unknown adversaries,
accept a range of responsibilities in operations other than war,
and where even fundamental social values are being changed and
challenged. This volume maintains a practical focus by offering
contributions from serving officers as well as academics. Subjects
covered range from the broad context of international affairs since
11 September 2001, to the finer detail of maintaining a proper
work-life balance for se
The Gothic tradition continues to excite the popular imagination.
John C. Tibbetts presents interviews and conversations with
prominent novelists, filmmakers, artists, and film and television
directors and actors as they trace the Gothic mode across three
centuries, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, through H.P.
Lovecraft, to today's science fiction, goth, and steampunk culture.
H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Robert (Psycho) Bloch,
Chris (The Polar Express) Van Allsburg, Maurice Sendak, Gahan
Wilson, Ray Harryhausen, Christopher Reeve, Greg Bear, William
Shatner, and many more share their worlds of imagination and
terror.
'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill
declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was
from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly
inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory.
Built in 1938 as a temporary refuge in case of air raid attack,
this secret bunker became a second home to Churchill - and to large
numbers of military personnel and civil servants whose work until
now has been largely unsung. Drawing on a fascinating range of
original material, including newly available first-hand accounts of
the people who lived there, Holmes reveals how and why the bunker
and its war machine developed; how the inhabitants' lives were
transformed; and how their work led to victory. Elegant and
illuminating, Churchill's Bunker is a unique exploration of one of
the most important sites in British history.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY
JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF
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BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NONFICTION From
ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to
war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to
the air in this heart-lifting history of pioneer balloonists.
Falling Upwards asks why they risked their lives, and how their
flights revealed the secrets of our planet. The stories range from
early ballooning rivals to the long-distance voyages of American
entrepreneurs; from the legendary balloon escape from the Prussian
siege of Paris to dauntless James Glaisher, who in the 1860s flew
seven miles above the earth - without oxygen. Falling Upwards has
inspired the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts - in cinemas SOON.
In a glorious fusion of history, art, science and biography, this
is a book about what balloons give rise to: the spirit of
discovery, and the brilliant humanity of recklessness, vision and
hope.
James Arbuckle (c.1700-1742), poet and essayist, was born in
Belfast to a Presbyterian merchant family of Scottish origin and
educated at Glasgow University (1717-1723). In Glasgow, his poetry,
influenced by Pope and the Latin classics, won praise from leading
members of Scotland's literary and political establishment,
including Allan Ramsay. In 1723 he moved to Dublin, producing under
the name "Hibernicus" Ireland's first literary journal, in
collaboration with a group of young Whig intellectuals forming the
"Molesworth circle". He aimed at first to avoid politics, but in
the highly politicized Dublin of Dean Swift that proved impossible.
He was satirized by members of Swift's circle and responded with
the ironic Panegyric on the Rev Dean Swift. His later work,
especially The Tribune, developed a radical and anticlerical
critique of contemporary Ireland, in which Swift was represented
more as Church Tory than Irish patriot. Arbuckle was well-known in
his day, but his work has not been published since the end of the
eighteenth century. He has often been discussed in modern scholarly
work across a range of disciplines: on Swift and Pope; Scottish
poetry and especially Allan Ramsay; Francis Hutcheson and the early
Scottish Enlightenment; the background to the United Irishmen of
1798; the history of Irish presbyterians. Arbuckle himself has not
been the focus of detailed scholarly inquiry until now. This
edition presents an annotated selection of Arbuckle's work in
poetry and prose. It begins with a substantial introduction dealing
with his biography and political and literary context. It is then
divided into three parts. The first, on his Scottish period,
includes the annotated texts of his two principal poems, Snuff and
Glotta. The second presents a selection of the "Hibernicus" essays,
grouped by four themes: literary (which will include a selection of
his Horace translations); philosophical (responding principally to
Francis Hutcheson); political (placing him in the contemporary
varieties of Whiggism, and especially the dispute between Walpole
and "Opposition" Whigs); religious (the focus here is on his
writing on toleration). The final section deals with his response
to Swift's Irish writing, as demonstrated in selected essays from
The Tribune and in A Panegyric.
D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on 6
June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a
million men, and helped seal the fate of The Third Reich. This is a
graphic account of the planning and execution of Operation
Overlord, as well as the campaign which effectively destroyed the
German forces in France, opening the way for the Allied advance.
Including a wealth of superb photographs and maps, the book also
contains 10 facsimile items of rare memorabilia, including diaries,
letters and memos. This title includes top-secret hand-drawn map
showing the minute-by-minute position on the way in to the drop
zone just west of Ste-Mere-Eglise for elements of the 505th
Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. This is
an extract from the pocket diary of Sergeant G.E. Hughes, then a
corporal, landed with the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment at
Arromanches.
It has been widely believed that psychology in Germany, faced with
political antipathy and mass emigration of its leading minds,
withered under national Socialism. Yet in The Professionalisation
of Psychology in Nazi Germany Ulfried Geuter tells a radically
different story of how German psychology, rather than disappearing,
rapidly grew into a fully developed profession during the Third
Reich. Geuter makes it clear that the rising demands of a modern
industrial nation gearing up for a war afforded psychology with a
unique opportunity in Nazi Germany: to transform itself from a
marginal academic discipline into a state-sanctioned profession.
This opportunity was mainly presented by Wehrmacht, whose demand
for psychological expertise led to increasing support for academic
departments, and to the expansion and standardisation of training
programmes - a process of professionalization which culminated in
1941 with the creation of a state examination for Diplom, a
professional psychology degree. Although the Wehrmacht's demand for
its services fell along with the fortunes of the Nazi regime, the
professional base psychology has carved for itself remained for the
duration of the war and to this date.
Defence managers, like their counterparts in both the public and
private sector need to learn to cope with change and the resulting
uncertainty. This is no easy task for uncertain situations meaning
that there are no sure answers or solutions. This volume represents
the attempts of its contributors, military and academic, to assist
in the process. To some extent uncertainty is nothing new, indeed
it may be the only certainty in an era of rapid social change,
increasing economic pressures. The end of the Cold War, a rise in
global terrorism and rapid developments in informatics have
accelerated the pace of change. Tried and trusted techniques that
served well in the past are no longer appropriate in an era where
defence services must be ready to challenge unknown adversaries,
accept a range of responsibilities in operations other than war,
and where even fundamental social values are being changed and
challenged. This volume maintains a practical focus by offering
contributions from serving officers as well as academics. Subjects
covered range from the broad context of international affairs since
11 September 2001, to the finer detail of maintaining a proper
work-life balance for se
Human Resource Management in the British Armed Forces continues to
grow in importance. A great deal of emphasis has now been placed on
people issues and these will grow in importance, particularly for
the services, as the full effects of the Human Rights Act 1998 and
implications of the Macpherson Report begin to hit home.
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD This unique series - edited by Richard
Holmes - recovers the great classical tradition of English
biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece - still
thrilling to read and vividly alive. The philosopher William Godwin
fell in love with and married the radical feminist Mary
Wollstonecraft, only to attend her deathbed (giving birth to their
child, the late Mary Shelley). Heartbroken, Godwin immediately shut
himself up in his study and wrote this intensely moving biography.
True to his philosophical belief in absolute sincerity, Godwin
coolly describes Wollstonecraft's previous love affairs, her time
in revolutionary Paris, her illegitimate child, and her two suicide
attempts. The book almost wrecked both their reputations, but can
now be seen as a masterpiece of indiscretion and human honesty.
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD Part of a radical new series - edited by
Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of
English biography. Gilchrist's 'The Life of William Blake' is a
biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly
alive. This was the first biography of William Blake ever written,
at a time when the great visionary poet and painter was generally
forgotten, ridiculed or dismissed as insane. Wonderfully vivid and
outspoken (one chapter is entitled 'Mad or Not Mad'), it was based
on revealing interviews with many of Blake's surviving friends.
Blake conversed with spirits, saw angels in trees, and sunbathed
naked with his wife 'like Adam and Eve'. Gilchrist adds detailed
descriptions of Blake's beliefs and working methods, an account of
his trial for high treason and fascinating evocations of the places
in London, Kent and Sussex where he lived. The book ultimately
transformed and enhanced Blake's reputation.
'Lives that Never Grow Old' is a wonderful series- edited by
Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of
English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still
thrilling to read and vividly alive. Zelide lived in her father's
moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She
was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom
Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's
story was unknown until the brilliant young Boswell scholar
Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and
essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a
celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant),
and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to
another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This tender, funny,
faintly salacious portrait of a 'belle-esprit' is one of the most
exquisite biographical miniatures ever written.
Part of the outstanding biographical series - edited by Richard
Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English
biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still
thrilling to read and vividly alive. In this pioneering series,
Richard Holmes, the world's leading Romantic biographer, sets out
to recover the great forgotten tradition of English biographical
writing. 'I have had no time for dusty tomes,' writes Holmes, 'I
have looked for brevity, intelligence and style. Above all, I have
sought out great biographical writers: biographers with passion,
biographers who have found a way to the heart and soul of a
memorable subject.' Jack Sheppard was an 18th-century Houdini - a
handsome young escape artist who broke out of his cell on Newgate's
grim Death Row three times. Jonathan Wild was the infamous
Thief-Taker General who helped to recapture him and many other
criminals, only to be tried and executed himself for racketeering,
among scenes of mayhem at Tyburn. Daniel Defoe, the master of
adventure fiction, was fascinated by 'True Confessions' and the
workings of the criminal personality (including its daring, its
stoicism and its humour). He was the first to retell these stories,
based on personal interviews in Newgate, which also include a
thrilling (sometimes hour by hour) reconstruction of events.
"Redcoat is the story of the British soldier from the Seven Year War through to the Mutiny and the Crimea. It is consistently entertaining, full of brilliantly chosen anecdotes, and rattles along at a good light infantry pace." DAVID CRANE, 'Spectator' Books of the Year "It would be hard to exaggerate the excellence of this book. It is vivid, comprehensive, well written, pacy, colourful, and above all, highly informative. The author has a command of his subject of Wellingtonian proportions, and his enthusiasm communicates itself to the reader on every page." SIMON HEFFER, 'Literary Review' "A wonderful book, full of anecdote and good sense. Anyone who has enjoyed a Sharpe story will love it." BERNARD CORNWELL, 'Daily Mail' "All the best-known soldier writers are discussed here, and their anecdotes are told with enthusiasm and aplomb…This is an army from another world, and 'Redcoat' is a splendidly entertaining, moving and informative description of its strengths and foibles." HEW STRACHAN, 'Daily Telegraph' "Beautifully written, 'Redcoat' is a vivid account of squalor and suffering almost beyond belief, for the men, their wives and camp followers, and their horses. One of the best chapters is a description of barrack-room life that will turn a few stomachs in this more fastidious age." JOHN CANNON, 'Times Literary Supplement'
Commissioned out of Sandhurst in 1943, nineteen-year-old Bill
Bellamy joined the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. Following the
Normandy landings in June 1944, he was involved in the great tank
battles around the town of Caen, the battle of Mont Pincon, and
then the Allied breakout into Belgium. There followed the advance
into Holland and onwards to the River Maas. In October 1944, during
this phase of the fighting, he was awarded an immediate Military
Cross for bravery during the battle to secure the Dutch village of
Doornhoek. In the spring of 1945, the 8th Hussars thrust into
Germany and on towards Hamburg, eventually winding up at the very
heart of Hitler's Reich, Berlin.
Bill kept diaries and notes of his experiences, and shortly
after the war he used them to write up a series of articles
recounting his part as a junior officer in the hard-fought battles
to free Europe from the Nazis.
His accounts of tank fighting in the leafy Normandy bocage at
the height of summer, or in the iron-hard fields of Holland in
winter, are graphic and compelling. This personal account of a
British tank commander in the battles for Normandy and the Low
Countries is illustrated with archive and personal photographs,
some never previously published.
Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies
of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography
of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan'
forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the
brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he
was. This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge's
career (1804-1834) during which he travelled restlessly through the
Mediterranean, returned to his old haunts in the Lake District and
the West Country, and finally settled in Highgate. It was a period
of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage broke up, his
opium addiction increased, he quarrelled with Wordsworth, his own
son Hartley Coleridge (a gifted poet himself) became an alcoholic.
And after a desperate time of transition, Coleridge re-emerged on
the literary scene as a new kind of philosophical and meditative
author.
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Beyond the Border (Swedish, DVD)
André Sjöberg, Bjorn Sundquist, Antti Reini, Marie Robertson, Robert Follin, …
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WWII action drama about the rescue of two missing Swedish soldiers
in Nazi-occupied Norway. In December 1942, prior to the invasion of
their country by the German army, two Swedish soldiers manning a
roadblock in the densely wooded border area leave their post to
catch a glimpse of the potential enemy. Events, however, quickly
take a turn for the worse, and the soldiers soon find themselves
lost on the wrong side of the border. After Lieutenant Aron
Stenström (André Sjöberg) discovers that one of the missing
soldiers is his brother, he quickly gathers together an elite
rescue team and sets out into the snowbound forests in a race
against time to find the soldiers before the Germans do.
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