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What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. De...

The New South-replete with shopping malls, hub airports, educated African Americans, and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Haiti-is still haunted by the Gothic ghosts of its past. Does the collision between past and present account for the continued preeminence of Southern writers in America's literary culture? Bobbie Ann Mason, Ernest Gaines, Rita Mae Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Cormac McCarthy, Dorothy Allison, and Allan Gurganus are jus...

For most people, the worst thing that can happen when you read a comic book is that it gives you something to complain about on social media. But Harley Quinn ain't most people. And when she stumbles across a mysterious comic that contains her own real-life (mis)adventures, the entire DC Universe is doomed!With the turn of a page, the Clown Princess shatters DC continuity into a bajillion pieces. Familiar heroes and villains get weird (like, e...

EINE FURIE KOMMT SELTEN ALLEIN Harley Quinn, die verrückteste Antiheldin aller Zeiten, stellt sich allen Albträumen - selbst jenen, in denen finstere Batman-Schurken wie Professor Pyg, der Reaper oder Lord Death Man die Hauptrolle spielen! Außerdem endet ihr wohlverdienter Urlaub im Hier und Jetzt damit, dass die Clownprinzessin auf Darkseids finsterem Heimatplaneten Apokolips landet. Hier muss Harley der grausamen Granny Goodness und ihren Fu...

HARLEY ZERSTÖRT DIE DC-CONTINUITY! Unglaublich, aber wahr: Harley Quinn vernichtet die Historie des gesamten DC-Universums, und so werden aus Batman und Superman plötzlich mal Piraten, mal tobende Urzeit-Viecher. Und als wäre das noch nicht genug, reißt das ganze Chaos, das sie angerichtet hat, auch noch den 40er-Jahre-Helden Captain Triumph ins 21. Jahrhundert, in dem sich der strahlende Recke alter Zeiten so gar nicht wohlfühlt. Wie gut, das...

I. Introduction 1. The Two-Front War and Comparison of Strengths 2. The Outbreak of War 3. The War's Duration and Economic Management

A new interpretation of the 19th century search for the source of the River Nile.

A guide to eighteenth and nineteenth century performance practice on the horn.

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The true, action-packed account of how a bogus Welsh nationalist infiltrated German Military Intelligence during the Second World War.

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This multi-volume series in six parts is the first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the inside story of Germanys experience on the Western front. Recorded in the words of its official historians, this account is vital to the s...

John Rees, soldier and freedom fighter, was a shadowy figure who surfaced during two crucial nineteenth-century revolts and then disappeared from history. For the first time, author John Humphries reveals the fate of the man, first mentioned as a member of the New Orleans Greys, who fought for Texan Independence at the Alamo and narrowly escaped execution at the Goliad Mission. Later, Rees was one of the main agitators in the doomed Welsh Char...

Phil Humphries suffered for years with a severe debilitating affliction or phobia - aviophobia, the fear of flying. This is shared apparently by millions of people worldwide. This book begins by briefly following the author's career as a rugby player in Wales with his ambition of becoming a successful rugby coach. Confronting a phobia of flying would help to enrich the author's experiences, expand horizons and improve his prospects of achievin...

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A guide to eighteenth and nineteenth century performance practice on the horn.

As any student of Welsh history is keenly aware, the societal upheaval of the 1960s is inextricably intertwined with to the activities of the Movement for the Defence of Wales (Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, or MAC) and its two main protagonists, Owen Williams and John Jenkins. This book tells the story of the MAC's remarkable campaign from its inception in 1963 to the establishment of the Welsh assembly in 1969, charting the clandestine extremist or...

Der Weltkrieg" is the untold story of Germany's experience on the Western front, in the words of its official historians, making it vital to the study of the war and official memory in Weimar and Nazi Germany. This title presents the English-language translation of "Der Weltkrieg", the German official history of the First World War.