The Cruel Sea

Author: Nicholas Monsarrat
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755131304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479

Book Description
The highly acclaimed 'Cruel Sea' is one of the all-time great naval and war thrillers. It covers the battle of the Atlantic and the people who fought it - their domestic triumphs, tragedies, worries and ambitions.The film was a smash hit when released and enjoys undiminished popularity, along with the book.

The Real Cruel Sea

Author: Richard Woodman
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844689751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 729

Book Description
The renowned maritime historian’s compelling study of the vital role played by merchant seamen during WWII in the Battle of the Atlantic. For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of merchant ships carrying food and supplies from America to feed the country and keep the war effort going. On top of that, they had to export manufactured goods to pay for it all. Britain's merchant navy, a disparate collection of private vessels, had become the country's lifeline. While its seamen were officially non-combatants, they bravely endured the onslaught of the German U-boat offensive until Allied superiority overwhelmed the enemy. Drawing extensively on first-hand sources, Richard Woodman establishes the importance of the British and Allied merchant fleets in the struggle against Germany. This important study elevates the heroic seamen who manned these ships to their rightful place in the history of the Second World War.

Doctor Who-Guide 1/3

Author: compiled from Wikipedia pages and published by Dr Googelberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291079815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
Almost everything about the good doctor, his companions and travels, his enemies and friends. Additionally the actors etc. Part three contains all summaries of all TV episodes. Compiled from Wikipedia pages and published by Dr Googelberg.

Decades Never Start on Time

Author: Michael Temple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 183871524X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 551

Book Description
Richard Roud, film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the twentieth century. Renowned for his close relationships with French New Wave directors such as Godard and Truffaut, he played a key role in bringing European art cinema to the attention of American and British audiences. This anthology brings together selected writings from his published works with previously unpublished archival material – from an unfinished study of Truffaut, to extracts from his books on film-makers such as Straub-Huillet and Ophüls, and articles for The Guardian and Sight & Sound. Charting Roud's journey through the world of film festivals and film criticism from the 1950s to the 1980s, Decades Never Start on Time provides a fascinating insight into the flourishing film culture of the era. With a preface by David Thomson.

Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time Omnibus

Author: Scott Tipton
Publisher: Titan Comics
ISBN: 1785853503
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
An epic 50th anniversary adventure featuring eleven incarnations of the Doctor! Don¡¯t miss this astounding journey, featuring the First through Eleventh Doctors in a universe ¨C and history ¨C spanning battle against an unseen (and unimaginable!) enemy! When a mysterious figure from the Doctor¡¯s past abducts his companions and freezes them outside of time, only a combination of ALL of the Doctor¡¯s past incarnations will be able to rescue them and safeguard the future! Collects the complete Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time.

The Field of Ice

Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description

Shakespeare and Comics

Author: Jim Casey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350401358
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision. Its chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from tebeo to manga, from independent to mainstream comics, texts explored include Y: The Last Man, Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (The Sandman #19), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I Am Alfonso Jones, Marvel 1602, Doom 2099, and manga adaptations of The Tempest and Macbeth, among many others. As comic books and their big-screen progeny dominate mainstream popular culture, the association of Shakespeare with comics offers creators and critics tools with which to interrogate the place of Shakespeare within the English and global literary and cultural traditions. Shakespeare and Comics argues that, at a moment when the reassessment and reimagining of literary canons has become more urgent than ever, thinking about Shakespeare through the lens of comics invites us to imagine a literary and cultural landscape in which so-called 'great works' exist alongside and in equal conversation with marginalized writers, topics and forms.

Where we Came In

Author: Charles Allen Oakley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317928660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Originally published in 1964, this book tells the history of the British cinematograph industry for the first time. It describes moments of splendid triumph and others of shattering failure. The mood switches from reckless optimism to demoralising pessimism, from years in which British films won the highest international awards to those when they were dismissed with scorn. It recalls a score of productions still ranked among the world's best, and the stars whose reputation was established in them. Attention is focused on the directors, those who kept to the fore during two and three decades and those with only one major success to their name. Behind them the men are identified who strove, often to their considerable financial loss, to gain a worthy place for British films in the world’s markets.

The Turnstone

Author: Geoffrey Dean
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0853237670
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
In this vivid and compelling memoir, Dr. Geoffrey Dean tells the story of his lifetime of travel, medical practice, and groundbreaking research. Born in Wales in 1918, Dean spent his early years in the north of England. After training to be a doctor in Liverpool, he served during the Second World War as a medical officer in Bomber Command. Following the war, as he recounts here, Dean relocated himself and his family to South Africa, where he established a busy medical practice that he continued for more than twenty years. During this period, he kept at the forefront of medical research, devoting the bulk of his attention to the epidemiology of porphyria, a disease that causes paralysis. All the while, his work kept him traveling, with stops in China, Sweden, Holland, Cyprus, and Spain—including a period as the personal physician to the millionaire governor of the Fiji Islands. Threaded through with surprising adventures and rich anecdotes of the author's travels in the course of his research, The Turnstone is a lively account of the life of a man whose commitment to medicine brought him to the ends of the earth—and kept him there for more than sixty years.

TLA Video & DVD Guide 2005

Author: David Bleiler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312316909
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 817

Book Description
This 2005 edition of the annual critical guide that focuses on independent and international films as well as the best in the mainstream contains reviews for more than 10,000 films, more than 300 photos, a comprehensive selection of cinema from more than 50 countries, and much more.