Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe - Souad

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Opis - Pierwsze na świecie świadectwo ofiary zbrodni honorowej. Miała siedemnaście lat i zakochała się: zhańbiła rodzinę. Więc rodzina wydała na nią wyrok śmierci... Pokochała go pierwszą miłością. Myślała, że się z nią ożeni. Ale ukochany zniknął, a ona odkryła, że jest w ciąży. A w jej świecie to najcięższa zbrodnia... W zapomnianej przez Boga wiosce w Cisjordanii kobiety są warte mniej niż zwierzęta domowe. Tu mężczyzna jest panem życia i śmierci żony, córki, siostry. Brat może bezkarnie zabić siostrę, matka - córkę, kolejną bezużyteczną dziewczynkę, jaka się urodzi. Tu kobiecie odbiera się godność, a nawet życie zgodnie z odwiecznym obyczajem i uświęconą tradycją. A śmierć jest karą dla dziewczyny, która zhańbi rodzinę. Tak jak Souad. Wyrok wydaje jej ojciec. Szwagier dokonuje egzekucji. Oblewa Souad benzyną i podpala... SOUAD przeżyła - cudem, ale rodzina usiłowała zabić ją nawet w szpitalu. Na zawsze jednak pozostanie straszliwie okaleczona - na ciele i duszy. I wciąż musi się ukrywać; dopóki żyje, jej rodzinę okrywa hańba. Spalona żywcem, opublikowana pod pseudonimem szokująca opowieść o piekle, jakim było jej dzieciństwo i młodość, stała się międzynarodowym bestsellerem. Wydana w 37 w krajach książka przerywa tabu milczenia wobec istniejącej nadal w krajach muzułmańskich barbarzyńskiej tradycji. Nieludzkiego obyczaju, prawa mężczyzn, na mocy którego co najmniej pięć tysięcy kobiet pada co roku ofiarą zbrodni honorowej. Nazwa - Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe Autor - Souad Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Amber Kod ISBN - 9788324159406 Kod EAN - 9788324159406 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2016 Tłumacz - 31182,maria rostworowska; Format - 110 x 175 x 14 Ilość stron - 224 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2016-06-23

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Death on Gokumon Island Pushkin Press

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A fiendish, classic locked room murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writersLoosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries. Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news--the son of one of the island's most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger--with his last words, the dying man warned that his three step-sisters' lives would now be in danger. The scruffy detective is determined to get to the bottom of this mysterious prophesy, and to protect the three women if he can. As Kindaichi attempts to unravel the island's secrets, a series of gruesome murders begins. He investigates, but soon finds himself in mortal danger from both the unknown killer and the clannish locals, who resent this outsider meddling in their affairs.

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Przyjezdni w strukturze miasta - miasto wobec przyjezdnych: studenci i turyści w mieście w kontekście koncepcji city users - Jacek Kotus

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Opis - Książką tą autorzy chcieli wywołać dyskusję i o istniejących teoriach w zakresie city users, i o ich mocy sprawczej wyjaśniania, i o metodach badania tych zjawisk, i wreszcie o rzeczywistości w przedmiotowym zakresie w latach 2012-2016 w kontekście dwóch poligonów empirycznych: Poznania i Trójmiasta. Nazwa - Przyjezdni w strukturze miasta - miasto wobec przyjezdnych: studenci i turyści w mieście w kontekście koncepcji city users Autor - Jacek Kotus Oprawa - Twarda Wydawca - Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe S.C. Kod ISBN - 9788379860845 Kod EAN - 9788379860845 Rok wydania - 2015 Ilość stron - 292 Podatek VAT - 5%

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The Summer Wives Harper Collins Publishers

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"The Summer Wives is an exquisitely rendered novel that tackles two of my favorite topics: love and money. The glorious setting and drama are enriched by Williams's signature vintage touch. It's at the top of my picks for the beach this summer." -Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect CoupleNew York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season-an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast . . .In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda's catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister-all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion-is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society.But beneath the island's patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel's privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he's determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph's enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda's caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop's hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades.Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same-determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda's stepfather eighteen years earlier. What's more, Miranda herself is no longer a na?ve teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.

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Koszulki CCG Premium 66x91 niebieskie (80szt) Mayday Games Mayday Games

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Niebieskie koszulki ochronne na karty do gier, wykonane z czystego polipropylenu, bez zawartości PVC, grubość 40 mikronów. Lista gier do których pasują koszulki: Magic the Gathering(TM) ,Pokemon(TM) 1960: Making of the President, 2 de Mayo,51st State (2010), A Game of Thrones LCG - Chapter Pack, A Game of Thrones LCG - Core, Acquire (2008), Alien Frontiers (2010), Arcana by Agi, Arena Assault, Arena Assault Expansions, Arctic Scavengers (2009), Ascension CCG by Pro Tour Champions, Attack!, Bargain Hunter (2010), Battlecry, Battleground: Fantasy Warfare, Battleline, Battles of the American Revolution - Savannah, Battles of the American Revolution - Pensacola, Bugs (2010), Burn Rate, Cabo (Slugfest), Call of Cthulhu CCG, Call of Cthulhu LCG, Call of Cthulhu LCG - Asylum Pack, Call of Cthulhu LCG - Core Set, Camelot Legends, Catacombs, Claustrophobia (2009), Cold War: CIA Vs. KGB, Combat Commander: Europe, Combat Commander: Mediterranean, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors Ancients Exp #5 (Epic), Commands & Colors: Ancients, Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel, Conquest of Paradise, Conquest of Planet Earth, Conquest of the Empire, Corunea, Cutthroat Caverns + Deeper, Cutthroat Caverns: Deeper & Darker (2007), Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin (2008), Cutthroat Caverns: Tombs & Tomes (2009), Deadlands: Doomtown, Deadlands: The Battle for Slaughter Gulch, Defenders Of The Realm, Down in Flames - Aces High, Down in Flames - Guns Blazing, Duck Duck Go, Duck Duck Safari, Duel Of The Ages, Dungeoneer, Dungeoneer: Vault of the Fiends, Dwarven Dig, Eminent Domain (2010), Empire Of The Sun, En Guarde (Slugfest), Face Cards (Poker NOT Bridge), Fightball, Fishing For Terrorists (Slugfest), Florenza (2010), For Sale (Fred Edition), For the People, Forbidden Island, Frontline D-Day, Game of Thrones CCG, Gem Dealer, Get Bit, Guillotine, Halls of Montezuma, Hera and Zeus, Here I Stand, Hordes,Hornet Leader - Carrier Air Operations, Iliad, Illuminati: New World Order, Incan Gold (2009 Fred Version), Incursion, Inquisitio (2009), Invasion From Outer Space (Flying Frog), Island of Doctor Necreaux, K2 (2010), Ka Ching, Killer Bunnies Base (Blue & Yellow), Killer Bunnies expansions, Killer Bunnies Ultimate Odyssey, Kingmaker (AH), Kung Fu Fighting (Slugfest), Kung Fu Fighting: More (Expansion), Last Night On Earth, Last Night On Earth (Stock Up Supplements),Last Night On Earth, Legend of the Five Rings, Legitimacy, Loot, Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game, Lunch Money, Magestorm (2010), Magic The Gathering,Masters Gallery,Micro Mutants, Mimic (4-player xpansion),Modern Art Card Game (Fred Version), dern Society (2009), Money(Fred Version), MtG (Magic The Gathering), Munchkin Quest, Mystery Express, Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper, Mystery Rummy: Jekyll & Hyde, Myth: Pantheons (2010), Netrunner, Nexus Ops, Nightfall (2011), Nile (Minion Games), Nostra City, Pandemic (US version), Pandemic (wersja polska), Pandemic: On The Brink Expansion, Paths of Glory, Penny Arcade, Pesky Humans, Phantom Leader, Phase by Agi, Pig Pile, Pirate King, Pokémon Trading Card Game, Poker Cards, Princess Bride: Storming the Castle, Prodigy (2010), Race For The Galaxy, Race For The Galaxy Rebel Vs. Imperium, Race For The Galaxy The Gathering Storm, Race For The Summit, Railroad Tycoon, Red Dragon Inn (Slugfest), Red Dragon Inn 2 (Slugfest), Rheinlander, Rowboat by Moosetache Games, Scum, Seppuku, Shadow Hunters, Shadowrun TCG, Shifting Sands, Sleuth, Snarf Quest, Soul Hunters (2009), Space Station Assault, Stalin's War, Star Trek CCG, Star Trek: Customizable Card Game (1st Ed), Star Wars CCG, Street Illegal, Stronghold (2009), Sturgeon (Minion), Successors (3rd Edition), Sylla, The Phantom League (2010), Thunderstone, To Court the King, Tomb, Tornado Alert! (2010), Touch of Evil, Tower of Mystery, Traders of Carthage, Twilight Struggle, Twilight Struggle Deluxe Edition (2010), UFS, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, Vegas Showdown, Veto ! Szlachecka Gra Karciana (2007), War for Eda

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Koszulki Standard CCG 66x91 niebieskie (80szt) Mayday Games

Niebieskie koszulki ochronne na karty do gier, wykonane z czystego polipropylenu, bez zawartości PVC, grubość 40 mikronów. Lista gier do których pasują koszulki: Magic the Gathering(TM) ,Pokemon(TM) 1960: Making of the President, 2 de Mayo,51st State (2010), A Game of Thrones LCG - Chapter Pack, A Game of Thrones LCG - Core, Acquire (2008), Alien Frontiers (2010), Arcana by Agi, Arena Assault, Arena Assault Expansions, Arctic Scavengers (2009), Ascension CCG by Pro Tour Champions, Attack!, Bargain Hunter (2010), Battlecry, Battleground: Fantasy Warfare, Battleline, Battles of the American Revolution - Savannah, Battles of the American Revolution - Pensacola, Bugs (2010), Burn Rate, Cabo (Slugfest), Call of Cthulhu CCG, Call of Cthulhu LCG, Call of Cthulhu LCG - Asylum Pack, Call of Cthulhu LCG - Core Set, Camelot Legends, Catacombs, Claustrophobia (2009), Cold War: CIA Vs. KGB, Combat Commander: Europe, Combat Commander: Mediterranean, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors Ancients Exp #5 (Epic), Commands & Colors: Ancients, Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel, Conquest of Paradise, Conquest of Planet Earth, Conquest of the Empire, Corunea, Cutthroat Caverns + Deeper, Cutthroat Caverns: Deeper & Darker (2007), Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin (2008), Cutthroat Caverns: Tombs & Tomes (2009), Deadlands: Doomtown, Deadlands: The Battle for Slaughter Gulch, Defenders Of The Realm, Down in Flames - Aces High, Down in Flames - Guns Blazing, Duck Duck Go, Duck Duck Safari, Duel Of The Ages, Dungeoneer, Dungeoneer: Vault of the Fiends, Dwarven Dig, Eminent Domain (2010), Empire Of The Sun, En Guarde (Slugfest), Face Cards (Poker NOT Bridge), Fightball, Fishing For Terrorists (Slugfest), Florenza (2010), For Sale (Fred Edition), For the People, Forbidden Island, Frontline D-Day, Game of Thrones CCG, Gem Dealer, Get Bit, Guillotine, Halls of Montezuma, Hera and Zeus, Here I Stand, Hordes,Hornet Leader - Carrier Air Operations, Iliad, Illuminati: New World Order, Incan Gold (2009 Fred Version), Incursion, Inquisitio (2009), Invasion From Outer Space (Flying Frog), Island of Doctor Necreaux, K2 (2010), Ka Ching, Killer Bunnies Base (Blue & Yellow), Killer Bunnies expansions, Killer Bunnies Ultimate Odyssey, Kingmaker (AH), Kung Fu Fighting (Slugfest), Kung Fu Fighting: More (Expansion), Last Night On Earth, Last Night On Earth (Stock Up Supplements),Last Night On Earth, Legend of the Five Rings, Legitimacy, Loot, Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game, Lunch Money, Magestorm (2010), Magic The Gathering,Masters Gallery,Micro Mutants, Mimic (4-player xpansion),Modern Art Card Game (Fred Version), dern Society (2009), Money(Fred Version), MtG (Magic The Gathering), Munchkin Quest, Mystery Express, Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper, Mystery Rummy: Jekyll & Hyde, Myth: Pantheons (2010), Netrunner, Nexus Ops, Nightfall (2011), Nile (Minion Games), Nostra City, Pandemic (US version), Pandemic (wersja polska), Pandemic: On The Brink Expansion, Paths of Glory, Penny Arcade, Pesky Humans, Phantom Leader, Phase by Agi, Pig Pile, Pirate King, Pokémon Trading Card Game, Poker Cards, Princess Bride: Storming the Castle, Prodigy (2010), Race For The Galaxy, Race For The Galaxy Rebel Vs. Imperium, Race For The Galaxy The Gathering Storm, Race For The Summit, Railroad Tycoon, Red Dragon Inn (Slugfest), Red Dragon Inn 2 (Slugfest), Rheinlander, Rowboat by Moosetache Games, Scum, Seppuku, Shadow Hunters, Shadowrun TCG, Shifting Sands, Sleuth, Snarf Quest, Soul Hunters (2009), Space Station Assault, Stalin

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Koszulki Standard CCG 66x91 czerwone (80szt) MAYDA Mayday Games

Czerwone koszulki ochronne na karty do gier, wykonane z czystego polipropylenu, bez zawartości PVC, grubość 40 mikronów. Lista gier do których pasują koszulki: Magic the Gathering(TM) ,Pokemon(TM) 1960: Making of the President, 2 de Mayo,51st State (2010), A Game of Thrones LCG - Chapter Pack, A Game of Thrones LCG - Core, Acquire (2008), Alien Frontiers (2010), Arcana by Agi, Arena Assault, Arena Assault Expansions, Arctic Scavengers (2009), Ascension CCG by Pro Tour Champions, Attack!, Bargain Hunter (2010), Battlecry, Battleground: Fantasy Warfare, Battleline, Battles of the American Revolution - Savannah, Battles of the American Revolution - Pensacola, Bugs (2010), Burn Rate, Cabo (Slugfest), Call of Cthulhu CCG, Call of Cthulhu LCG, Call of Cthulhu LCG - Asylum Pack, Call of Cthulhu LCG - Core Set, Camelot Legends, Catacombs, Claustrophobia (2009), Cold War: CIA Vs. KGB, Combat Commander: Europe, Combat Commander: Mediterranean, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors Ancients Exp #5 (Epic), Commands & Colors: Ancients, Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel, Conquest of Paradise, Conquest of Planet Earth, Conquest of the Empire, Corunea, Cutthroat Caverns + Deeper, Cutthroat Caverns: Deeper & Darker (2007), Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin (2008), Cutthroat Caverns: Tombs & Tomes (2009), Deadlands: Doomtown, Deadlands: The Battle for Slaughter Gulch, Defenders Of The Realm, Down in Flames - Aces High, Down in Flames - Guns Blazing, Duck Duck Go, Duck Duck Safari, Duel Of The Ages, Dungeoneer, Dungeoneer: Vault of the Fiends, Dwarven Dig, Eminent Domain (2010), Empire Of The Sun, En Guarde (Slugfest), Face Cards (Poker NOT Bridge), Fightball, Fishing For Terrorists (Slugfest), Florenza (2010), For Sale (Fred Edition), For the People, Forbidden Island, Frontline D-Day, Game of Thrones CCG, Gem Dealer, Get Bit, Guillotine, Halls of Montezuma, Hera and Zeus, Here I Stand, Hordes,Hornet Leader - Carrier Air Operations, Iliad, Illuminati: New World Order, Incan Gold (2009 Fred Version), Incursion, Inquisitio (2009), Invasion From Outer Space (Flying Frog), Island of Doctor Necreaux, K2 (2010), Ka Ching, Killer Bunnies Base (Blue & Yellow), Killer Bunnies expansions, Killer Bunnies Ultimate Odyssey, Kingmaker (AH), Kung Fu Fighting (Slugfest), Kung Fu Fighting: More (Expansion), Last Night On Earth, Last Night On Earth (Stock Up Supplements),Last Night On Earth, Legend of the Five Rings, Legitimacy, Loot, Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game, Lunch Money, Magestorm (2010), Magic The Gathering,Masters Gallery,Micro Mutants, Mimic (4-player xpansion),Modern Art Card Game (Fred Version), dern Society (2009), Money(Fred Version), MtG (Magic The Gathering), Munchkin Quest, Mystery Express, Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper, Mystery Rummy: Jekyll & Hyde, Myth: Pantheons (2010), Netrunner, Nexus Ops, Nightfall (2011), Nile (Minion Games), Nostra City, Pandemic (US version), Pandemic (wersja polska), Pandemic: On The Brink Expansion, Paths of Glory, Penny Arcade, Pesky Humans, Phantom Leader, Phase by Agi, Pig Pile, Pirate King, Pokémon Trading Card Game, Poker Cards, Princess Bride: Storming the Castle, Prodigy (2010), Race For The Galaxy, Race For The Galaxy Rebel Vs. Imperium, Race For The Galaxy The Gathering Storm, Race For The Summit, Railroad Tycoon, Red Dragon Inn (Slugfest), Red Dragon Inn 2 (Slugfest), Rheinlander, Rowboat by Moosetache Games, Scum, Seppuku, Shadow Hunters, Shadowrun TCG, Shifting Sands, Sleuth, Snarf Quest, Soul Hunters (2009), Space Station Assault, Stalin

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Practical Atlas of Tung's Acupuncture Müller & Steinicke

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Throughout the history of Chinese medicine there have been several currents of Chinese medical practice. Some were well seated in the Confucian scholar tradition associated with the transmission of canonical writings such as the Huang Di Nei Jing. Alongside and concurrent to these traditions China also had family lineages that were more or less kept as trade secrets among small groups of people. Over the last two thousand years of Chinese history these family lineages have come and sometimes gone entirely if there were no appropriate heir to receive the information. Furthermore, even when these secret family traditions were taught, sometimes the true depth of information was withheld. This very traditional aspect of Chinese culture is certainly a negative and dark one, especially in the realm of medicine. In Chinese there is a phrase that "Medicine is the Art of Compassion" (Yi Wei Ren Shu). Secret lineages that are not taught openly for the benefit of all suffering beings is the direct opposite of compassion. Tung's acupuncture is one such ancient family lineage of medicine that, thanks to the great willingness and openness of its last proponent, has survived and even flourished to the present. Tung Ching Ch'ang and the History of Tung Acupuncture According to the oral tradition of the Tung (in Pinyin Romanized 'Dong') family, Tung's Acupuncture dates back to the Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE), although this cannot be verified historically in an academically rigorous sense. According to Chinese tradition the system of acupuncture was passed down only from father to eldest son until it reached the 20th century. The last descendant of the Tung family to practice was Tung Ching Ch'ang (Dong Jing Chang), born in 1916 in Ping Du County, Shandong Province, Republic of China (ROC). As a young man Tung (affectionately known as 'Master Tung' by many of his students) learned acupuncture at the footstep of his father. Unfortunately Tung lived during a very tumultuous time in Chinese history, and eventually as a young man he joined the Kuo Min Tang (KMT, Guo Min Dang in Pinyin) army to fight first against the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (at the dawn of World War II), and then against the Maoists during the Nationalist-Communist Civil War. In 1949 the Maoists reigned victorious and the Nationalists (i.e., the KMT) retreated to the island of Taiwan where they established the new seat of the ROC, while on the mainland the People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded. Master Tung, as a Nationalist soldier, also left permanently for the island of Taiwan. In the early 1960s Master Tung retired from military service and opened a private acupuncture clinic. At the time he became so well known that he was frequently called to treat high level ROC cabinet members, at one point he was sent as a cultural ambassador to Cambodia to treat the Cambodian Prime Minister, Lon Nol (1913 - 1985), after he suffered a stroke.

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Helmet for My Pillow Random House Publishing

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Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country.§§ From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckie's hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow will leave no reader untouched. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.§§Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind Band of Brothers , have adapted material from Helmet for My Pillow for HBO's epic miniseries The Pacific , which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.

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Helmet for my Pillow Ebury Publishing

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The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifice of war, painting an unsentimental portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and all too often die in the defence of their country. From the live-for-today rowdiness of Marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what it's really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow tells the gripping true story of an ordinary soldier fighting in extraordinary conditions.This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come. 'Helmet for My Pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. Robert Leckie's theme is the purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who - somehow - survived' Tom Hanks

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Crucible of Hell HarperCollins Publishers

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'Excellent' Antony Beevor 'Saul David is a brilliant historian ... In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater prominence and understanding vividly back to life' James Holland From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa - the last great clash of the Second World War, and one that had profound consequences for the modern world. For eighty-three blood-soaked days, the fighting on the island of Okinawa plumbed depths of savagery as bad as anything seen on the Eastern Front.When it was over, almost a quarter of a million people had lost their lives, making it by far the bloodiest US battle of the Pacific. In Okinawa, the death toll included thousands of civilians lost to mass suicide, convinced by Japanese propaganda that they would otherwise be raped and murdered by the enemy. On the US side, David argues that the horror of the battle ultimately determined President Truman's choice to use atomic bombs in August 1945.It is a brutal, heart-rending story, and one David tells with masterly attention to detail: the cramped cockpit of a kamikaze plane, the claustrophobic gun turret of a warship under attack, and a half-submerged foxhole amidst the squalor and battle detritus. The narrative follows generals, presidents and emperors, as well as the humbler experiences of ordinary servicemen and families on both sides, and the Okinawan civilians who were caught so tragically between the warring parties. Using graphic eyewitness accounts and declassified documents from archives in three continents, Saul David illuminates a shocking chapter of history that is too often missing from Western-centric narratives of the Second World War.

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Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition) WISEHOUSE CLASSICS

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THE GREAT GATSBY is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.Fitzgerald-inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore-began planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, "something new-something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Progress was slow, with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was vague and persuaded the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald was repeatedly ambivalent about the book's title and he considered a variety of alternatives, including titles that referenced the Roman character Trimalchio; the title he was last documented to have desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue.In its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel". In 1998, the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second best English-language novel of the same time period.

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Theodore Taylor - Cay Penguin Random House Children's UK

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A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. The Cay is a tense and compulsive survival story by Theodore Taylor of a young boy and an old man adrift on the ocean, then marooned on a tiny, deserted island. It is also a fascinating study of the relationship between Phillip, white, American, and influenced by his mother's prejudices, and the black man upon whom Phillip's life depends. Theodore Taylor was born in 1921 in North Carolina, USA. The idea for The Cay, his first novel for children, came when he was researching an adult book about German submarine attacks in the Second World War. The Cay was first published in 1969 and has won many literary awards. Theodore Taylor died in 2006. Also available in A Puffin Book: Goodnight Mister Tom and Back Home by Michelle Magorian; Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little And The Trumpet Of The Swan by E. B. White; The Borrowers by Mary Norton; Stig Of The Dump by Clive King; Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor; A Dog So Small by Philippa Pearce; Gobbolino by Ursula Moray Williams; Carrie's War by Nina Bawden; Mrs Frisby and The Rats Of Nimh by Richard C O'brien; A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'engle; The Cay by Theodore Taylor; Tarka The Otter by Henry Williamson; Watership Down by Richard Adams; Smith by Leon Garfield; The Neverending Story by Michael Ende; Annie by Thomas Meehan; and The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett.

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Dawnlands Simon & Schuster

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

The new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides.The spellbinding Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in seventeenth-century England. It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister Alinor that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant Rowan to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands, and Alinor could rule where she was once lower than a servant. Alinor's son, Rob, is determined to stay clear of the war, but when he and his nephew set out to free Ned from execution for treason and Rowan from a convict deportation to Barbados, they find themselves enmeshed in the creation of an imposter Prince of Wales - a surrogate baby to the queen. From the last battle in the desolate Somerset Levels to the hidden caves on the slave island of Barbados, this third volume of an epic story follows a family from one end of the empire to another, to find a new dawn in a world which is opening up before them with greater rewards and dangers than ever before.

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Generalissimo Harvard University Press

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong - his archrival for leadership of China - he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his 'white terror,' controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan's evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization.Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang's diaries, "The Generalissimo" provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang's life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan.

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