Rommel's Desert Army
The desert war produced commanders of dash and originality on both sides. The memory of the German commanding general, Erwin Rommel, has endured as the epitome of skill, daring and soldierly integrity. His victories were brilliant until he was bes...
French Foreign Légionnaire 1890-1914
As France emerged from the Franco-Prussian War she embarked on a period of active colonialism, acquiring territories in South-East Asia and Africa. By the turn of the century much of north, west and central Africa was under French control. In orde...
French Foreign Légionnaire vs Viet Minh Insurgent
The French Indochina War (1946-54) was the largest of the first generation of post-World War II wars of decolonization as Vietminh insurgents sought to topple their French colonial masters. It was also unique in that the insurgency evolved from lo...
French Foreign Legion
It is arguable that no group of fighting men in the history of European arms has been so misrepresented by ill-informed publicity as the French Foreign Legion. Though initially conceived in 1831 as a means of drafting recently discharged foreign s...
Our Friends Beneath the Sands
The gripping true story of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara. Ever since the 1920s the popular legend of the French Foreign Legion has been formed by P.C. Wren's novel BEAU GESTE - a world of remote forts, warrior tribes, and desperate men o...
Dien Bien Phu 1954
A highly illustrated study of the battle at Dien Bien Phu, the 56-day siege that eventually led to the surrender of the remaining French-led forces, this iconic battle provided the climax of the First Indochina War. In late 1953, the seventh year ...
Last Valley
Stalingrad in the jungle: the battle that doomed the French Empire and led America into Vietnam In winter 1953-54 the French army in Vietnam challenged its elusive enemy, General Giap's Viet Minh, to pitched battle. Ten thousand French paras and l...
Rif War 1921-26
An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco. In June 1921, Abd el Krim, a Berber leader in the Rif highlands of Mo...
Martin Scorsese
From the moment he captured the film world's attention with Mean Streets (1973), a portrait of life at the fringes of the Mob, it was clear that a dazzling cinematic talent had arrived on the scene. With Robert DeNiro, one of the most talented you...
Martin Johnson Autobiography
Martin Johnson is the towering second row forward who has come to set the standards of what a professional rugby player should do. His drive and physical presence mean that he is a natural leader on the pitch - and off it, too. In this, his long-a...
Martin Buber Reader
Martin Buber was professor of the history of religions and Jewish religion & ethics from 1923 to 1933 at the University of Frankfurt. He resigned in 1933, after Hitler came to power, and immigrated to Israel where he taught at the Hebrew Unive...
Maison Martin Margiela
Graduating from Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to lux...
Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger
This revised and expanded edition of Martin Heidegger's Basic Writings includes ten key essays and the Introduction to Being and Time. Basic Writings is a concise introduction to the thought of this controversial and important twentieth-century ph...
Martin Parr Coloring Book!
Photography and Pop-culture buffs, get out your crayons and colored pencils! Martin Parr's colorful and tongue-in-cheek photographs-his comedy of contemporary manners-have been transformed into a coloring book. Here is Parr's affectionate and hila...
Martin Gardner's Science Magic
The Master of Mathematical Puzzles collects 89 of his finest magic tricks that will teach both children and adults the scientific principles behind electricity, magnetism, sound, gravity, water, and more. Fun and fascinating, the simple demonstrat...
Kombinationsträning med Martin Lidberg
Martin Lidbergs metod ger styrka, balans, koordination och kondition. En världsmästare i brottning med massor av muskler vinner plötsligt en danstävling och börjar nästan likna Fred Astaire hur gick det till? Till att börja med handlar det om en målmedveten satsning på att alltid vilja bli bäst. Dessutom är den träning som brottare genomför en bra grund för att både bli stark, smidig, koordinerad och uthållig.
Hundesenioren mit Martin Rütter
Hundesenioren mit Martin Rütter
Guy Martin: My Autobiography
The Phenomenal Sunday Times No1 Bestseller 'It was the start of the third lap of the 2010 Senior TT, the last race of the fortnight. The last chance to get a TT win for another year, and I was pushing hard. Ballagarey. The kind of corner that make...
Martin Crimp Plays 2
This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country. 'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The outside world is described with almost hallucinator...
