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Loos is a small mining town between Lens and La Bassee in northern France. But on 25th September 1915, and for a few days after, it was the center of one of the most intense and bloody battles of the First World War.

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The biography of the General known as Britains answer to Rommel one of the most popular and charismatic of WW2 generals, a cult figure.

After the long winter of the Phoney War the invasion of the Low Countries and France by Hitler's rampaging armies threw the World into crisis. Chamberlain's Government fell, Churchill became Prime Minister. France was humiliated, the British Expeditionary Force was only saved by the miracle of Dunkirk but many men and huge amounts of equipment were lost to the Blitzkrieg. England trembled but the invasion never came.Philip Warner graphically r...

Beginning with an introduction to relevant genetic techniques, chapters cover all major groups of LAB, including the Bifidobacteria, plasmid biology, gene transfer, phage, and sugar metabolism, gene expression of various LAB, applications for genetically engineered LAB, including the emerging field of medical applications, and the legal and consumer issues that arise from such applications. This resource will set the benchmark for the state of...

Uncovering The Secrets Of The WW2 Special Forces Unit

* Fresh and provocative look at the battle for France in May and June 1940

Beginning with an introduction to relevant genetic techniques, chapters cover all major groups of LAB, including the Bifidobacteria, plasmid biology, gene transfer, phage, and sugar metabolism, gene expression of various LAB, applications for genetically engineered LAB, including the emerging field of medical applications, and the legal and consumer issues that arise from such applications. This resource will set the benchmark for the state of...

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Mord, Diebstahl, Einbruch und vieles mehr hat das Gangsterpärchen Ron (Travis Fimmel) und Dale (Teresa Palmer) auf dem Gewissen. Auf ihrer Flucht vor der Polizei stoßen die beiden auf das abgelegene Landhaus des ehemaligen Kunsthändlers Andrew (Stephen Moyer), der von seiner Umwelt nahezu isoliert lebt und panische Angst hat seine eigenen vier Wände zu verlassen. Ron und Dale dringen in Andrews Haus ein und nehmen ihn gefangen. Als die Suche n...

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Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck was born in India and raised in conditions of near poverty. Yet his talent ensured his career flourished despite his Indian Army background and he was the first Commander of 8th Army in North Africa. Despite great political interference, he stopped Rommel's Afrika Corps at 1st Alamein only to be sacked by Churchill. After a spell in the wilderness he became C in C India during the dark period of Partition an...

Everything has gone wrong for Ben Grey. He's messed up at college, his love life is in ruins & he's nearly got himself killed in a terrible accident. Now he's returning home to the north of England to lick his wounds & recuperate. But he quickly discovers a beautiful sixteen year-old has vanished & that he's deeply involved in her disappearance. Now he must attempt to discover what happened to the teenager, even though he's convinced he murder...

Drawing on veterans' accounts and diaries, the author tells how, on 25th September 1915, and for a few days afterwards, the small town of Loos, between Lens and La Bassee in Northern France, became the centre of one of the most intense and bloody battles of the First World War.

Among the British troops bound for the Black Sea in May 1854 was a young officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards named Richard Temple Godman, and throughout the entire Crimea campaign he sent many detailed letters to his family in Park Hatch, Surrey. This volume collects these letters, providing a graphic account of the bloody campaign.

On April 23, 1918 a force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines launched one of the most daring raids in history. The aim was to block the Zeebrugge Canal, thereby denying U-boat access, although this meant assaulting a powerfully fortified German naval base.

In July 1942, German and Italian forces seemed to be at the point of sweeping away British resistance in the Middle East and overrunning Egypt. But, Rommel's victorious army was checked on the Alamein line in what became the first battle of Alamein. Two months later, another Axis thrust was held in the second battle of Alamein. Eventually the Allied forces were on the offensive and, after two weeks of bitter fighting, Rommel's forces were retr...