Holmes' poignant book contains 500 photographs, almost all of them black-and-white and most drawn from Britain's Imperial War Museum. A few were taken by prominent photographers, such as Cecil Beaton and Robert Capa, but many of the photographers--some destined to remain unknown, others ordinary officers and men--served with army film and photographic units. There are also captured German and Japanese official photographs. Presentation is by year, from 1939 to 1945. Holmes prefaces each year with an account of its major events and briefly introduces each block of photos within a year. Although most of the pictures are war photos, some reflect the fact that millions of civilians were affected--young children being evacuated from London, a British air raid warden comforting a child rescued from a bombed-out home, German citizens made to view the horrors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, shaven-headed French women accused of sexually consorting with the Germans. World War II enthusiasts will want both books.

Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece.
    * Explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets, and figurines, and the practitioners of magic in the ancient world
    * Uncovers how magic worked. Was it down to mere superstition? Did the subject need to believe in order for it to have an effect?
    * Focuses on detailed case studies of individual types of magic
    * Examines the central role of magic in Greek life

A nice book for children who need to know more about the basics of Geography.

One of the most comprehensive film histories ever, allowing insight into its complex subject from a number of different perspectives.

A meticulously researched, highly entertaining, idiosyncratic look at the how, why and what of bad language around the world.