The Bridge On The River Kwai

The gripping and fascinating story of the man who was really in charge of the construction of the infamous bridge on the river Kwai, by his grandda...

Award-winning war fiction about three POWs who endure Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway.

The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed-...

Superb example of the ever popular Japanese POW memoir genre.

After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway Colonel Cary Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Ch...

Publisher: Anthroposophic Press IncAuthor(s): J. AnonymousIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsTranslator: J. WetzlNumber of pages: 108Publi...

This volume is considered the most comprehensive monograph about the life and career of the female pioneer who integrated abstract painting, music,...

Contributor(s): Author: Mai DonohueThis vivid, compulsively readable memoir of courage, grief and redemption illuminates the life of Mai, a young g...

Reducere. A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the Americas On Sunday, ...

Reducere. First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku K...

Reducere. "In Bridge Over the River Why, the Coopers have succeeded in a dual task documenting their own journey through the grief of losing their son Eli by...

Reducere. DescriptionOver 900, 000 copies sold in the series When kids step into the Imagination Station, they experience an unforgettable journey filled wit...

A stranger in need - would you invite them into your home? The electrifying new thriller from Holly Seddon.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s):...

A breathtakingly original history of the slave rebellion that almost changed the face of the Americas.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Marjol...

Reducere. Pack your paints and your paddle; we're going on a 2, 552-mile creative adventure from source to sea on the mighty Mississippi River in a 14-1/2 fo...

Publisher: Troika BooksAuthor(s): Hilda OffenIllustration(s): Colour throughoutNumber of pages: 32Collection: Rita the RescuerPublication date: 201...

Rare and previously unpublished images throughout, this book tells the fascinating history of these hubs of business and activity.Publisher: Amberl...

The life-affirming memoir of mental health activist Jonny Benjamin and his inspirational journey from despair to hope

Reducere. Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan...

The work that launched the picturesque movement and changed our ways of looking at landscape forever. A witty, elegant, opinionated pilgrimage of t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this unusual book, David Bird and Larry Cohen combine to present cardplay instruction in a new way. 100 pairs of deals are shown ‒ on...

Dupa ce prizonierii de razboi britanici au construit un pod de cale ferata foarte important, in Burma ocupata de inamic, comando-urile Aliatilor pr...

DescriptionIn this remarkable first book, Hornik's poems carry a quiet power rooted in nature, place, and family. We find our own lives in hers--in...

Publisher: Guernica Editions, CanadaAuthor(s): Carl HareNumber of pages: 100Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 46Cover type: Paperback /...

A lavishly illustrated celebration of the dockland heritage of the Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): ...

How do you dig up a 13, 000 year-old footprint? Why do kelp forests need sea otters? How do you measure a shrinking glacier from an airplane? What ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Anna LevinIllustration(s): 200 colour photographsNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Publisher: Little, BrownAuthor(s): Christine FeehanPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 233 x 153 x 39Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Publisher: SkyhorseAuthor(s): Matthew DowdNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 x 216 x 22Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

Medway TalesPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Wilf LowerNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 245 x 174 x 10Cover type: Pa...

Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Christine FeehanNumber of pages: 448Collection: Sunrise LakePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 2...

Reducere. DescriptionABOUT THE AUTHOR (FROM DAVE'S FRIENDS)"When they travel to tournaments, Dave chooses their hotel by the comfort of the sofas." Chris Com...

Reducere. Escaping on the Danube River is their only hope for survival.Europe, 1939: Hanne is an adolescent boy, born into a wealthy family from Belgrade. Re...

Looking Back on the Future takes the reader on a mystical journey into the Andean Cosmo-Vision, the ancient teachings of Andean spirituality, and t...

DescriptionLights with no apparent source, heating her back while she walks along a riverbank, initiate American anthropologist Judith Hoch into an...

Reducere. DescriptionOn a cold November afternoon in 1833, two wagons are about to cross the dark Mississippi River into Iowa Territory on a tiny boat. Penny...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet Tara Thorpe - she's Cambridge Police's newest recruit... but her dark past is never far behind her. Perfect for fans of Faith Marti...

Reducere. Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventaz n, John Lane sets out wi...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingThere is no record of Marco Polo ever visiting the An...

Reducere. Highly anticipated follow-up to the winner of the 2019 ABTA (American Bridge Teachers Association) Book of the Year Award The latest installment of...

Reducere. Ross Cox was a fur trader for the Pacific Fur Company. In 1811 he sailed form New York, around the Horn, to Hawaii, and on to the Columbia River, e...

Publisher: Unity Print and Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Andrew WilsonIllustration(s): Over 300 colour pictures; Over 300 colour picturesNumber of pages...

Reducere. Each spring, formations of sandhill cranes crisscross the skies along Nebraska's Platte River in one of the last great migratory spectacles on the ...

Reducere. Emmy Perez's poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river's mouth in the Rio Gra...

Reducere. A big fish contest at The Trading Post, the Hollisters' sporting goods store, has everybody in Shoreham excited. After Pete catches a large fish wi...