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Pink floyd/"the gnome" x-ray audio lost culture of bone music -in the ussr during the cold war,the music that people could hear was ruthlessly controlled by the statethe first time the culture of x-ray records and bone music was written about in the west was in the book’back in the ussr:the true story of russian rock’we hear some entertaining,comical,tragic,moving and frankly strange stories including tales of the‘stilyagi'soviet hipsters,the first disco in moscow,we ask if counterculture possible in the oppressive,repressive circumstances of the soviet union?and we hear how rock music evolved in secret before breaking into the light as perestroika transformed soviet societyplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteart appeared in our first bookand prohibited russian music to take the risk of making their own recordsincredibly,they built their own recording devices and used an exceptional means to copy prohibited jazz,rockfeb16(see picture ) pure collectible recording audible but of course not so good!) unique item on catawiki from the pink floyd debut albumthis is the unique/pink floyd/"the gnome"x ray/spine **original packaging from included** i see that two times when i visited the exhibition with my father who,like myself,was thrilled by this peculiar wonderful type of anti-suppression after an exhibition in/the horse hospital,london:/07the author of that book was veteran russian broadcaster,cultural commentator and journalist artemyi troitskycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablebut a secret underground subculture of music lovers and pirates opposed the censorshipour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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The beatles "she's leaving home" lost culture of bone music/ x-ray audio -in the ussr during the cold war,the music that people could hear was ruthlessly controlled by the statethe first time the culture of x-ray records and bone music was written about in the west was in the book’back in the ussr:the true story of russian rock’we hear some entertaining,comical,tragic,moving and frankly strange stories including tales of the‘stilyagi'soviet hipsters,the first disco in moscow,we ask if counterculture possible in the oppressive,repressive circumstances of the soviet union?and we hear how rock music evolved in secret before breaking into the light as perestroika transformed soviet societyplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteart appeared in our first bookthis is the unique/the beatles "she's leaving home" x ray/spine(included original packing from ) **the chain to be seen is unique for the x-ray exposure** i see that two times when i visited the exhibition with my father who,like myself,was thrilled by this peculiar wonderful type of anti-suppression after an exhibition in the horse hospital,london:-07feb 16(see picture ) pure collectible recording audible but of course not so good!) read morethe author of that book was veteran russian broadcaster,cultural commentator and journalist artemyi troitskycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableincredibly,they built their own recording devices and used an exceptional means to copy prohibited jazz,rock'n'roll and prohibited russian music to take the risk of making their own recordsbut a secret underground subculture of music lovers and pirates opposed the censorshipour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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The episodes are: 'the secrets of the proposal', 'the cheat in the retreat', 'el carnicero en el coche', 'the sense in the sacrifice', 'the lady on the list', 'the woman in white', 'the nazi on the honeymoon', 'the due in the dam', 'the fury in the jury', 'the mystery in the meat', 'the spark in the park', 'the ghost in the killer', 'big in the philippines', 'the master in the slop', 'the heiress in the hill', 'the source in the sludge', 'the repo man in the septic tank', 'the carrot in the kudzu', 'the turn in the urn', 'the high in the low', 'the cold in the case', 'the nail in the coffin', 'the drama in the queen' and 'the recluse in the recliner'in this season, bones (deschanel) tries to recover from booth (boreanaz)'s rejection of her proposal, sweets (john francis daley) takes a break from his job and brennan and the team investigate the murder of a cia informantoxfam shop kendal all 24 episodes from the ninth season of the us forensic investigation series starring emily deschanel and david boreanazsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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As the paths of communication breakdown the president of the united states and leaders from around the world face an appalling choice: should they allow the loss of thousands to save the lives of many more? this is the devil's alternative and in this incomparable and gripping thriller from the master of espionage and suspense, the cold war giants must fight a battle to the deathbut the politburo has other ideas: the invasion of western europe to commandeer the food for themselvesthey devise a plan to trade vital food resources with the russians in exchange for sensitive political informationthe usa is quick to offer assistancesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop evesham 'whichever option i choose, men are going to die' when the entire soviet union wheat crop is destroyed by a devastating string of failures, the population faces starvation
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They had frozen feet, and fingers too numb and cramped with the cold to wipe the tears from their eyesleft to die is gary collins's most ambitious and creative work of non-fiction, a storytelling masterpiecemen both young and old left their homes from all over the province that year to pursue the annual seal huntwith new photos and new research revealed, he recalls with stunning clarity what history remembers about the sealing disaster ofthe men who died didn't just drop like fliesthere was nothing quick or easy about itwith no wireless aboard the *, the stage was set for seventy-eight of the men who went over the side and their fates sealedoh no, it wasn't like that a'tallthis book grew from that encounter and stands alone as the defining tale of the bonavista bay men who were left to die on the icethe historic convergence of ice, seals, and men in late march marked the end of newfoundland's innocenceoxfam bookshop wallingford "they didn't die like flies, you know, like i've heard some reporters say over the yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read more"cecil mouland, the last living survivor of the ss newfoundland sealing disaster, told his story to gary collins in the fall of while travelling to stjohn's, where the old ice hunter would live out his final daysamong the vessels that took them to the ice was the newfoundland, a wooden-walled steamship captained by the famous captain westbury kean
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Twenty-four years later, in the summer of - the summer of nixon's visit to moscow, of the fischer-spassky chess match, of the munich olympics and their hostage crisis - the cold war is entering d?tente, and the values that shaped aleksandr's life are starting to dissolve into uncertaintyfollowing on from the success of his prize-winning debut, david szalay returns with a searing work of acute realism and bleak beauty, the breathtaking next stage of a major literary career"this book is in good condition with slight discoloration of the edgesoxfam bookshop lincoln winner of the betty trask prize from the back cover: "it is spring and aleksandr, a major in the mgb - forerunner of the kgb - is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic in the ural mountains to investigate one of the patients there, anatoly yudin, a man long presumed dead, once a famous pianist, now a severely incapacitated veteran of the second world warwe know the horrors of the police state and the purges, but the innocent takes us on a journey into the everyday of communist russia, bringing alive the intensely personal consequences of a regime, the power of institutions and ideologies to define a life - to crush it or invest it with meaningsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehaunted by the events of the past, and with his stalinist faith once more under threat, he interrogates his memories of the yudin case, and tries to trace its effects on himself, and on those he loved most
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The diplomatic crisis leading up to the war shook both french and american perceptions of each other and revealed cracks in the transatlantic relationship that had been building since the end of the cold warbased on exclusive french archival sources and numerous interviews with former officials in both france and the united states, a history of the iraq crisis retraces the international exchange that culminated in the iraq conflictfrance, under president jacques chirac and foreign minister dominique de villepin, spectacularly opposed the united states and british invasion, leading a global coalition against the war that also included germany and russiait shows how and why the iraq crisis led to a confrontation between two longtime allies unprecedented since the time of charles de gaulle, and it exposes the deep and ongoing divisions within europe, the atlantic alliance, and the international community as a wholeoxfam bookshop glossop road scuffing to dust cover, otherwise good condition in march , the united states and great britain invaded iraq to put an end to the regime of saddam husseinsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe war was launched without a united nations mandate and was based on the erroneous claim that iraq had retained weapons of mass destructionthe franco-american narrative offers a unique prism through which the american road to war can be better understood
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This period from to straddles the fall of the berlin wall and with it the end of the cold war; an end also to the relative certainty of the bipolar world that had dominated uk's security concerns sincethese operations were fertile territory for sappers as the history relateswith shelfwear and bumping to edges and corners, otherwise a very good copysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis was replaced by a less direct but much more complex array of challenges which saw the army committed to un and nato operations under the 'force for good' notion of human interventionoxfam bookshop wallingford the twelfth volume of the history of the corps of royal engineers chronicles the final two decades of the second millennium ad
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He aspired to make his mark on the world stage instead, and his opening to china was the first great crack in the cold warwithin four years of that first win, nixon would be a senator; in six, the vice president; and then presidentbeginning in , when young navy lieutenant 'nick' nixon returned from the pacific and set his cap at congress, farrell traces how this idealistic dreamer became the ruthless man we remember nixon as todayit was nixon who launched the mccarthy era, who set south against north, and who spurred the silent majority to despise and distrust the country's eliteit was a fine legacy, but nixon cared little for itoxfam books & music lichfield a sunday independent book of the yearbut nixon had another legacy: an america divided and polarisedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis staff of bright young men devised forward-thinking reforms addressing health care, poverty, civil rights, and protection of the environmentin richard nixon, award-winning biographer john afinally, in august , two years after the watergate scandal, nixon became the only president to resign in disgracefarrell examines the life and legacy of one of america's most controversial political figuresa deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of america's most complex presidentrichard nixon is a magisterial portrait of the man who embodied post-war american political cynicism - and was destroyed by it
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As the paths of communication breakdown the president of the united states and leaders from around the world face an appalling choice: should they allow the loss of thousands to save the lives of many more? this is the devil's alternative and in this incomparable and gripping thriller from the master of espionage and suspense, the cold war giants must fight a battle to the deathbut the politburo has other ideas: the invasion of western europe to commandeer the food for themselvesthey devise a plan to trade vital food resources with the russians in exchange for sensitive political informationthe usa is quick to offer assistance'Â when the entire soviet union wheat crop is destroyed by a devastating string of failures, the population faces starvationsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brigg 'whichever option i choose, men are going to die
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*beat the cold snap and treat your hands to warm seamless fingerless gloves made by you at this fantastic workshop*this is a full day workshop, 10am - 4pm on monday 4th february and costs £50 which includes all the materials, tuition and all day refreshments but please bring your own lunch * group is small so plenty of help and attention will be given throughout the day and this workshop is suitable for beginnersunder the tuition of textile artist erika you will be combining soft merino wool tops, lustrous silks and textural wool nepps using simple but effective techniques with the wonderful result of your own pair of fingerless gloves
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The history of these covert actions has been a long-buried secret and this book will be the first english publication to detail the only instance when the cold war between russia and the us became "hota total of 52 soviet pilots scored five or more victories in the korean warwith access to extensive russian archives, the authors offer an enthralling insight into an air war that has been largely covered up and neglected, illustrated with previously unpublished photographs and detailed full-color profileschina's involvement in the korean war in late october inevitably drew soviet pilots into the waroxfam bookshop truro the soviet union began assisting the people's republic of china in its establishment of a modern air force in , when soviet air force regiments were sent to train local pilots" this book uncovers soviet combat experiences during the korean war from detailed unit histories and rare first-hand accountssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Here he sets about leading his fellow inmates in a revolt against the cold and inflexible nurse ratched (louise fletcher) and the hospital's systematic oppression of its patientsthe film won five academy awards including best picture, best actor (nicholson) and best actress (fletcher)see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston milos forman's acclaimed adaptation of the ken kesey novelafter being imprisoned for statutory rape, an unrepentant randle patrick mcmurphy (jack nicholson) is transferred to a state mental hospital where he must serve out the remainder of his sentence
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Set during the early s when the cold war between russia and the usa was reaching boiling point, the programme follows elizabeth and phillip jennings (keri russell and matthew rhys) as they attempt to juggle the usual suburban responsibilities of childcare and socialising with the less conventional demands of managing informants, transmitting highly sensitive information and attending clandestine meetingscase and disks are in good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe episodes are: 'pilot', 'the clock', 'gregory', 'in control', 'comint', 'trust me', 'duty and honour', 'mutually assured destruction', 'safe house', 'only you', 'covert war', 'the oath' and 'the colonel'oxfam shop kendal all the episodes from the first season of the us tv drama which follows a married couple assigned to spy for the kgb in washington d
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Set during the early s when the cold war between russia and the usa was reaching boiling point, the programme follows elizabeth and phillip jennings (keri russell and matthew rhys) as they attempt to juggle the usual suburban responsibilities of childcare and socialising with the less conventional demands of managing informants, transmitting highly sensitive information and attending clandestine meetingsoxfam books & music romsey all the episodes from the first season of the us tv drama which follows a married couple assigned to spy for the kgb in washington dthe episodes are: 'pilot', 'the clock', 'gregory', 'in control', 'comint', 'trust me', 'duty and honour', 'mutually assured destruction', 'safe house', 'only you', 'covert war', 'the oath' and 'the colonel'see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham from pulitzer prize nominee and award winning author of homeland, the poisonwood bible and flight behaviour, the lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of mexico and the cold embrace of s america in the shadow of senator mccarthya violent upheaval sends him back to america; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumptionwhen he starts work in the household of mexican artists diego rivera and frida kahlo - where the bolshevik leader, lev trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolutiona compulsive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with diego rivera, frida kahlo and trotsky in the midst of the mexican revolutionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreborn in america and raised in mexico, harrison shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, salome
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Can castus keep his promise to a woman he has sworn to help? and is anything about this doomed enterprise what it seems? war at the edge of the world is the epic first instalment in a sequence of novels set at the end of the roman empire, during the reign of the emperor constantineoxfam bookshop cheltenham an empire in declinesee oxfam website for delivery information read morecenturion aurelius castus - once a soldier in the elite legions of the danube - believes his glory days are over, as he finds himself in the cold, grey wastes of northern britain, battling to protect an empire in declinehere he must face the barbarians beyond hadrian's wall, in a mission riven with bloodshed and treachery
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Set during the early s when the cold war between russia and the usa was reaching boiling point, the programme follows elizabeth and phillip jennings (keri russell and matthew rhys) as they attempt to juggle the usual suburban responsibilities of childcare and socialising with the less conventional demands of managing informants, transmitting highly sensitive information and attending clandestine meetingsoxfam bookshop swanage all the episodes from the first season of the us tv drama which follows a married couple assigned to spy for the kgb in washington dsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the first world war and the end of the cold warglobalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most peoplesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is niall ferguson's masterpiecewhat went wrong? how did we do this to ourselves? the war of the world comes up with compelling, fascinating answersoxfam shop crosby the world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign
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' see oxfam website for delivery information read moreepisodes are: 'selected target'; 'in from the cold'; 'visiting fireman'; 'tomorrow man'; 'taste of fear'; 'bad apple'; 'sweet smell of succession'; 'may'; 'down to you brother'; 'payoff'; 'loving arms'; 'lady luck' and 'on the runoxfam bookshop st albans all thirteen episodes from the third series of the gritty, influential british police television dramaregan (john thaw) and carter (dennis waterman), elite cops serving on the met's flying squad, bring a no-holds-barred approach to their police work, taking on underworld villains with violent resultsin this series the duo have to deal with a personal vendetta, go undercover to investigate possible police corruption, and foil a bank robbery being plotted by two ex-cons
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When he actually meets this dream woman in reality, he begins to suspect that something strange must be responsibleas he attempts to solve the enigma of his troubling dreams, he is falling deeply in love with the mysterious womanin these, he seems to be involved in the murder of a beautiful young womanin the end, he uncovers a diabolical and sinister plotsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle scott is a fashion photographer concerned about the sudden appearance of nightmares in his nightly dreams
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The seven sisters series collection of books by lucinda riley £20 inc p&p lucinda riley’s storytelling makes me feel like i’m wrapped up in a fluffy blanket, with a mug of hot cocoa (with whipped cream and toasted marshmallows, obviously!), sitting in front of a cosy fire – so these books are perfect to shut out the cold winter weather – and as we’ve nowhere to go – let’s read! this collection contains all of the seven sisters seriesit’s a 6 book collection set: the seven sisters, the storm sister, the shadow sister, the pearl sister, the moon sister & the sun sister
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Oxfam shop hebden bridge the complete seventh and final season of the award-winning drama series starring martin sheenepisodes comprise: 'the ticket', 'the mommy problem', 'message of the week', 'mrsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrost', 'here today', 'the al smith dinner', 'the debate', 'undecideds', 'the wedding', 'running mates', 'internal displacement', 'duck and cover', 'the cold', 'two weeks out', 'welcome to wherever you are', 'election day (part 1)', 'election day (part 2)', 'requiem', 'transition', 'the last hurrah', 'institutional memory' and 'tomorrow'in this season president bartlet (sheen) confronts nuclear saber rattling, and is forced to deal with the untimely death of a close friend and colleague
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A tight, clean of the true first ubook condition is good; black cloth, black lettering on the red spine minor rubbingsuse your credit card and pay me with paypalfree uk postage! coward-mccann, new yorkmore scans of the book availabledust jacket condition is goodedition of this classic spy novel and still, arguably, the author's best work to date in which is the author's third book which won an edgar award in the same year of publicationbook condition is goodcoward-mccann, ny, hard-coverfirst american editiondust jacket condition is good un-price-clipped, minor rubbing one light stain to inside front flap with rubbing on front and rear
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Our greenhouse is ideal for seeding, or just to protect your young plants from the cold weatherthis brand new !! 4 x 2 x 2 m walk-in greenhouse tunnel is ideal for year-round gardeningthis greenhouse design brings the protective surroundings that you need, for a purpose-built greenhousefeatures: • full closed cover maintains the high humidity level for growing tropical plants, vegetables and herbs • tough and durable green pe cover is waterproof and uv resistant • built with rust resistant galvanised metal frame for stability against the harsh elements already packed in a box untouched !!
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The picture may not reflect the books condition or specific editionused book conditionpages maybe folded due to previous owners usewe take pride in serving youa copy that has been previously owned
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A very good book on the lives of the pilots engaged in the cold war by group captain nigel walpole a very respected writer on aviation250 pages limited edition collectors bookplate signed by 8 pilots
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After an opening chapter comparing the bible as a fragmented yet unified collection of 46 books with the fragmented yet unified first folio collection of shakespeare's 36 plays, each of the following six chapters matches a book of the bible with a representative play: the creation myth of genesis with the first play in the folio, the tempest, the historical epic of exodus with henry v, the tragedy of job with king lear, the tragicomedy of the gospel of matthew with measure for measure, the homiletic disputation of paul's epistle to the romans with the merchant of venice, and the apocalyptic masque of the book of revelation with the tempest againits intertextual readings are framed by descriptions of the historical circumstances of each work's composition and reception and by an emergent theory of allusion as a principle of creation and understandingeach book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subjectthough its subject matter and style appeal to a broad audience, this book is grounded in recent scholarship in shakespeare and biblical studiesdespite the presence of hundreds of biblical allusions in shakespeare, this is the first book to explore the pattern and significance of those references in relation to a selection of his greatest playsit reveals the bible as a rich source for shakespeare's uses of myth, history, comedy and tragedy, his techniques of staging, and his ways of characterizing rulers, magicians and teachers in the image of the bible's multifaceted godthis book also discloses ways in which shakespeare's plays offer both pious and irreverent interpretations of the scriptures comparable to those presented by his contemporary writers, artists, philosophers and politicianssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston oxford university press, , paperback like new oxford shakespeare topics provides students and teachers with short books on important aspects of shakespeare criticism and scholarshipnotes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research
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There is an introduction by aldous huxleycorners and edges are worn and there is a small tear at the top of the front coverthe blue-cloth boards are gilt-stamped on the front cover and the spine see oxfam website for delivery information read morethere are a few notes in pencil made by a previous owner on the final endpaperoxfam bookshop hexham the bhagavad gita is a 700-verse hindu scripture that is part of the epic mahabharata, commonly dated to the second century bcethe binding is cracking but holdingit is in a fair, used condition overallthere is a previous owner's name inscribed in blue ink on the first endpaperit is discoloured and faded, particularly on the spinethe text block is yellowing but appears clean this , fifth impression, revised edition published by phoenix house limited, was translated by swami prabhavananda and christopher isherwoodagain, the spine is very fadedthe gita is set in a narrative framework of a dialogue between pandava prince arjuna and his guide and charioteer krishnathe unpriceclipped dustjacket is intact but is tanned and chipped at the head and foot of the spine
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Uhtred of bebbanburg's mind is as sharp as his swordbranded a pagan abomination by the church, he sails northuhtred - sword of the saxons, bane of the vikings - has been declared outcastpeace in britain has given uhtred time to cause trouble - for himselfyet uhtred's fate is bound to the saxonsto aethelflaed, bright lady of mercia and to a dead king's dream of englandoxfam bookshop brigg the seventh novel in bernard cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of england and the fate of his great hero, uhtred of bebbanburgsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor great battles must still be fought - and no man is better at that than uhtredbbc2's major autumn tv show the last kingdom is based on the first two books in the seriesa thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this saxon raised by vikings is torn between the life he loves and those he has sworn to servefor, despite suspecting that viking leader cnut longsword will attack the saxons again, uhtred is heading for bebbanburg, fearing that if he does not act now he will never reclaim his stolen birthright
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