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he was down to the last 30 men. One of his motivations was that if the tide of victory turned he could be court- martialled for defeatism. These surveillance protocols also contain first hand descriptions of the murder of Jews. SS Oberscharffuhrer Fritz Swoboda describes shooting five or six hundred people day after day, including women. He admits that even veterans lost their nerve, and had to be persuaded with bonuses. On the Russian front, the murder of countless Red Army soldiers was usually an act of revenge or retribution. Red Army executions took place because “troops were so bitter about the dishonest fighting style of the enemy”. 438pp. Roughcut pages, small remainder mark. $30.50 NOW £6
75995 BRIEF HISTORY OF MODERN WARFARE
by Richard Connaughton
A series of thrilling recreations of eight of the most significant military encounters in the last three decades - Goose Green in Falklands 1982, the Invasion of Grenada, a member of the British Commonwealth by the United States in 1983, Operation Desert Storm 1990-91, the first modern Iraq War, the Liberation of Kuwait 1990-91, operations in Mogadishu 1992-93 as immortalised in the book and film Black Hawk Down, the Siege of Gorazde 1995, and Operation Barras in Sierra Leone 2000, as well as more recent events at Fallujah 2003-2004, Iraq, and in Helmand Province 2006-2007, Afghanistan. 452pp, paperback, photos. £8.99 NOW £2.75
75946 LONE SURVIVOR
by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious Al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold. Less than 24 hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs was alive. This is the story of Team Leader Marcus Luttrell and the four desperate days he spent fighting the Al-Qaeda assassins sent to finish him off. It is also the story of the men who fought ferociously beside him until he was the only one standing. Photos including one of the author being decorated in the Oval Office. Map, 388pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £4
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Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
76904 DIGITAL COMPACT CAMERA Release Your
Compact’s Full Potential by Mark Lucock For the vast majority of
photography and imaging needs, a good quality modern digital compact camera comfortably exceeds the capabilities of a ten-year-old SLR, but how many of the millions of us that today own one is aware of
what an incredibly versatile tool it is? A brief perusal of the marvellous images Mark Lucock has achieved was all it took to start investigating Bibliophile’s own Samsung digital camera’s potential. Even playing around with the simplest settings enables the user to indulge their creative and imaginative side. The author uses over 50 case studies on the subjects of travel, nature and landscape photography to explain how to improve your photos on a picture-by-picture basis. The nature shots, especially the close-ups, are particularly striking and will soon have you sneaking up on your unsuspecting moggy for a study of those magnificent whiskers! In addition, a section on video composition. Packed with splendid colour images. 144pp softback. £14.99 NOW £5
77192 FAST BRAIN WORKOUTS
by Dr Gareth Moore Looking after your brain is just as important as looking after the rest of your body. The puzzles in this book will provide a keen range of mental stimulants to help you keep sharp. Your brain loves to learn new patterns and associations and brain- training games, such as in this book, encourage your brain to thinking new
and novel ways. Each workout starts with a simple set of instructions and they are arranged in increasing level of difficulty. If you get really stuck, don’t be afraid to take a quick look at the solution on the following page to get you going. Sharpen your memory, increase your concentration, improve your thought processing speed, and enhance your reasoning and number skills with these logic, language, memory and observation puzzles. 192pp in paperback. Diagrams. £7.99 NOW £4
77160 PROFESSIONAL APPROACH TO MODEL
RAILWAYS Second Edition by John Wylie
With an author who is a professional model maker of more than 45 years’ experience whose work has included Thunderbirds, Joe 90 and James Bond, as well as hundreds of architectural and landscape planning
models, this book will help all railway modellers to improve their skills and produce better models. First published in 1987 and now available in this totally revised and expanded second edition, it is the complete guide to all the essential techniques used to create professional-looking layouts. Designed primarily to instruct railway modellers of all levels of experience, it shows the beginner how to create a basic layout using simple methods, and the expert how to create more complex layouts using more advanced techniques.
Beginning with an introduction to understanding maps and contours, the author guides readers through the process of designing and building a layout and making the scenery. He continues with detailed explanations of how to make buildings and rolling stock - stations, bridges, shops, coal yards, churches in stone, ‘scratch’ buildings as well as card kit models; bases, multi-levels, chassis assembly and building your first metal kit, even photography, along with track laying, wiring, signalling and timetables. Finally, a thorough introduction to photography is provided. This is intended both as a tool for gathering reference material and also to record the models that have been made. A modeller’s delight. 219 pages 28cm x 21.5cm lavishly illustrated in colour and b/ w with more than 600 photos and drawings, glossary, sketches, plans and photos. £19.99 NOW £8
77138 SCOUT TESTS AND
HOW TO PASS THEM: Commemorative Centenary Edition
edited by Louise Dixon et al From the 1914 original text of Scout Tests, with a foreword by Chief Scout Bear Grylls. Scouts wanted adventure, the opportunity to try new things and the chance to prove themselves. Gaining badges promotes self-sufficiency and
resourcefulness. It encourages Scouts to continue learning, to teach others and to develop new skills. Originally, the badges were highly practical, even vocational, and were designed to prepare young people for work. Even today, many of them could feasibly be tackled. We were astonished by the difficulties that young people were expected to overcome. The Sea Fisherman demanded experience of catching fish at sea using trawls, nets and lines while the Boatman badge could be achieved only if boys could familiarise themselves with the names of the 47 sails of a tall ship. There were even Miner, Bee Farmer, Poultry Farmer and Plumber badges, and one of the tasks for the Cook badge was to prepare a savoury goose for six people - plus all the trimmings! Tasks here many modern teenagers would baulk at! 288 pages illustrated in b/w. £14.99 NOW £5
77137 READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC:
Mastering the Three Rs of an Old-Fashioned Education by Daniel Smith
The more mature of our readers will remember with nostalgia the good ol’ days when ‘the Three Rs’ (Reading, Riting and Rithmetic) were the basics of a solid education. Here is a chance for them to reawaken their brain cells with a book that is
not only informative but also entertaining. Are they unsure of a comma’s rightful place? Does the idea of long division bring them out in a cold sweat? Do they stumble over spellings or forget something they have only just read? Within these pages, they will find a range of exercises to train their brain in the essentials, including handwriting tasks, posers on percentages, comprehension teasers, grammar conundrums, speed- reading challenges and much more besides. We particularly liked the pieces which tested whether we had read a passage carefully enough, especially when it came to pretending to be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and giving reasons for our opinion. 224 pages with answers. £12.99 NOW £4
74010 MY MASTERPIECE: Byzantine Mosaic Kit by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art A super complete easy-to-use kit containing everything needed to make and frame a masterpiece based on a marble and glass Byzantine mosaic of a beautiful woman with gold and pearl earrings and matching headdress, brown hair and big wide brown eyes. Simply
tuck your completed mosaic into the pocket inside this box and hang your work on a wall for everyone to admire. Includes 12 page instruction booklet, one mosaic backing card with pre-printed tile map, and adhesive-backed foam tiles in six colours. £9.99 NOW £4
75538 TRADITIONAL DOODLES TRANSPORT by W. F. Graham
A VW camper van, a Beetle, hot air balloons, sailing ship, pick-up truck, train, sail boat, tractor, vintage car, airplanes, are among the 24 black and white outline designs on each right hand page ready for colouring. Use watercolours, crayons, pencils, felt tip pens to create your own masterworks. With the outline and perspective all ready in this ingenious series. 24 ready- to-colour artworks. Softback, 8" x 11½”. ONLY £1.75
75558 AA WALKING IN ENGLAND by AA Publishing
20 superb walks selected around scenes and characters that define the beautiful landscape of England. Each is carefully written and compiled by expert local authors and has clear, easy-to-follow route descriptions, a map and a gradient and difficulty rating. We begin on a medieval walk from Fountain’s Abbey to the medieval manor of Markenfield Hall with its wonderful cloisters, out on the tiles looking at village mosaics and distant views on a quiet section at Boltby and Thirlby Bank, to Ullswater, magnificent views from Kinder Scout Downfall and the South Downs at Devil’s Dyke among them. 112 glossy pages, colour photos and maps. £14.99 NOW £3
75890 CHESS ENDINGS MADE SIMPLE by Ian Snape
Sub-titled ‘How to Approach the Endgame with Confidence’, most chess players are all too painfully aware of how many half-points and even full-points we squander due to poor endgame play. Based on learning patterns, concepts and plans rather than memorising or
calculating, the first half of the book discovers the areas of endgame theory that are most relevant to practical success. The second half features 100 exercises to solve together with full solutions taken from real games. 144pp in illus paperback. £12.99 NOW £4
76121 PURPLE RONNIE’S TOTALLY
BRILLIANT DOODLE BOOK by Purple Ronnie With his stick men characters, wobbly bits, frilly knickers, accidents, dancing, nights out, nights in by the sofa, add your own words to what grandma is saying, what’s on top chefs menu tonight?, design a t-shirt, add your own favourite poetry to the speech bubbles and draw your own morning- after face in the mirror in this fabulous doodle book full of bits of Purple Ronnie’s drawings and poems to finish off for yourself! May be a little rude! Large page softback, line art. £7.99 NOW £2
76176 ULTIMATE BOOK OF FAMILY CARD GAMES by Oliver Ho
Pick a card game, any game, from the 56 inside this super book and we guarantee that you will have a riotous time. These games are played by families across the globe, from Go Fish to Comet and from Snip Snap Snorem to Crazy Eights. Each game is categorised as easy, medium or hard. The deck, with its sides, ranks and suits, is clearly explained as are all the possible names and terms you might come across. Each game is laid out to be as easy as possible to understand, with different colours for different sections and a brief history of where it originated. 118 paperback pages 25.5cm x 20.5cm in colour. $9.95 NOW £3
76267 SPOT THE DIFFERENCES: Book 3 Art
Masterpiece Mysteries by Diane Teitel Rubins Enjoy spot the difference in two reproductions of The Railroad by Manet, The Graham Children by Hogarth, Starry Night by Van Gogh, The Card Players by Cézanne, Arcimboldo’s Summer, Tea by Mary Cassatt and The Complicated Children’s Games by Bruegel among them. Here 25 of the world’s most famous paintings are seen under close scrutiny, with fact boxes, score tallies and solutions at the end. 64 page large softback, all in colour. £7.95 NOW £3
76272 GO PACK by Matthew Macfadyen Go was invented in the Far East many thousands of years ago and has long been popular in Japan and China, but now it is a truly global game. Confucius spoke of the game and legend has it that Samurai warriors played it in preparation for battle, while Shinto monks learned it as part of their training. It is easy to learn - two players take it in turn to place their ‘stones’ on the board, one player playing white and the other black. The object of the game is to claim more territory on the board than your opponent by surrounding it more efficiently or by attacking your opponent’s stones to greater effect. Illustrated step-by-step guide, a full size playing board and 180 black and 180 white Go stones. £16.99 NOW £6
76327 WIZARDS & DRAGONS: Stained Glass
Colouring Book by Eric Gottesman A wondrous colouring book of startling stained glass-like illustrations inviting fantasy enthusiasts, dragon hunters and wizards of all ages to boldly bring to life 16 images. They depict bearded sorcerers wearing long robes and pointy hats, reading mysterious books about magical feats, astride fearsome beasts accompanied by wide- eyed owls or fighting off dragons, a castle in the background, the wizard clutching a crystal ball and staff with his young conjuror or pet dragon. 13 enchanting scenes rendered with bold outlines and details to colour useing crayon, felt tip pen, acrylic, watercolour, tempera or oil paint or mix the methods. A4 sized softback. £7.99 NOW £3
76540 BEST WALKS IN NORTH WALES by Richard Sale
For walkers of all abilities, ages and levels, beginning with short, easy strolls for the family and continuing all the way to challenging hikes for the fittest enthusiast, outlining mountain safety and the countryside code, and giving a short list of terms in the Welsh language. There are 36 walks, mostly circular, with up-to-date route maps and instructions on how to get to the start of each walk, and sections on local history, geography, place names and locations. The Snowdonia National Park and the surrounding countryside have deservedly become one of the most popular walking areas in Britain. 276 pocket sized pages with irresistibly beautiful colour photos and detailed maps, useful addresses and details of weather and transport. £12.99 NOW £4.50
76541 BEST WALKS IN THE WELSH BORDERS by Simon Whaley
Offering routes for walkers of all ages and abilities, this book selects 35 of the most rewarding circular walks and grades them, as well as telling readers when to walk, where there are open access and permitted paths and what safety measures to take, and providing up-to-date maps and directions. There is also a knowledgeable commentary on local history and geography. From beyond Llangollen in the north to Symonds Yat near Chepstow in the south, this area now offers some of the quietest and most remote walking in Southern Britain - Offa’s Dyke, castles, abbeys, villages and relics of industrial and military activity. 304 pocket-sized pages with over 80 stunning colour photos. £11.99 NOW £4.50
76761 BEST WALKS: Set of Two Buy both and save even more. £24.98 NOW £7.50
76078 DIGITAL FILM MAKING HANDBOOK by Mark Brindle
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It is now possible to shoot a beautiful looking film completely on DSLR with minimal or no crew. The book will show you how - and how easy it is to progress from a little smartphone video to a well-shot short or even feature film. Includes composition, sound, lighting, storyboarding, scriptwriting, casting and the shoot, importing footage, editing, sound mixing and making a DVD, plus how to get it out there with social media, promotion and distribution and film festivals. Plus all the best equipment for your budget. Action! Softback, 224pp, colour photos. £9.99 NOW £4.75
Hobbies Art & Artists
The TV series with Una Stubbs is so popular, it brought these books to mind...
76126 SCHOOL OF GENIUS: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts by James Fenton
For all visitors to Burlington House, we can now better appreciate the collections of paintings, sculptures and drawings in this most elegant exhibition space be it to visit a Van Dyck show or to experience African or Aztec art, or the annual Summer Exhibition. Charles West Cope RA’s ‘The Council of the Royal Academy Selecting Pictures for the Exhibition’ 1876 has been chosen together with John Constable’s The Leaping Horse 1825 and John William Waterhouse RA’s A Mermaid for the opening double page spreads of this weighty and substantial history of the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768. James Fenton delights in colourful Academy characters and
focuses on the many storms weathered, successes and failure and hopes for the future. Posters, cartoons, archive and new photos. 320pp, 26.5 x 21cm. Rare April 2006 publication.
£35 NOW £14 76461
IMPRESSIONIST GARDEN: Ideas and Inspiration from the Gardens and Paintings
of the Impressionists by Derek Fell You can almost smell the fragrance of the flowers in the paintings by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Caillebotte and many others, not to mention the inviting photos of the gardens they cherished and recorded for posterity. The author explores the relationship between the colour theories of the Impressionists and their art of gardening. Using actual gardens and paintings by the artists, he shows how to reinterpret the Impressionist vision in gardens today, with advice on design, colour schemes, planting and cultivation. 144 pages, sumptuous colour with plans, diagrams, photos, paintings and list of places to visit. £15.99 NOW £5.50
75206 10,000 YEARS OF ART by Phaidon Press Limited
A compact guide to the whole of art history, from 8,000 BC to the present day. 500 masterworks from all cultures are presented in chronological order so that readers can compare what was being created across the globe at the same time. Only here can you find for example Leonardo da Vinci’s Ginevra de’ Benci next to an ink painting from the Chinese Ming Dynasty, or Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon alongside a face mask from Gabon. With descriptive text that sets each work in context explaining its contribution to the development of art, and the medium in which it was created. Roughly 40 consultants and writers were involved in its production. 544 pocket sized softback pages, colour reproductions, glossary. £7.95 NOW £4.75
74658 GREAT WORKS: 50 Paintings Explored by Tom Lubbock
First published in the Independent, here are 50 of Lubbock’s best essays on painting, which span 800 years of Western art from Giovanni Bellini to Jeremy Moon and from Rembrandt van Rijn to Jackson Pollock. Why was Edouard Vuillard’s genius confined to the decade when he worked at home? Having done Germolene, sticking plaster, marshmallows, prawn cocktail, pork paté and sausage meat, how many other ways could Philip Guston have found to paint pink? Lubbock’s writing is original and exciting. It finds Hitchcock’s lighting tricks on Suspicion compared to a still life by Francisco de Zurbaràn and the figure in Gwen John’s Girl In A Blue Dress withdrawing from life, ‘fading into its surface, pressed like a flower’. 216 pages, colour plates. £18.99 NOW £7.50
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75932 HOW TO MAKE AN INCOME FROM YOUR ART by Ann Gadd
Here is the only book we have
ever come across to turn your craft or hobby into viable income. Covers all the practical and psychological aspects of creating a business plan, marketing and selling your work, engaging with the galleries, creating an internet presence, valuing your work and dealing with commissions, plus potential pitfalls, copyright and other legal stuff and creating more sales. Turn your passion into profit. 176pp in large softback, illus. £14.99 NOW £6
76254 CREATING RADIANT FLOWERS IN
COLOURED PENCIL by Gary Greene Flowers are a perennial favourite for artists because of their complexity of colour, texture and details. Their vibrant natures can be captured realistically with a simple coloured pencil and here seven respected artists show you in 64 step-by-step demonstrations techniques such as layering, burnishing and under painting, together with advice on the best tools and reference materials. In beautiful colour are dozens of flowers including the amaryllis, aster, camellia, dahlia, fuchsia, hyacinth, iris, poinsettia, primrose, trillium, water lily and many more - 50 beautiful blooms in all their glory. 128 very large pages, softback. £16.99 NOW £4
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