” Enemy Of Rome”: The great Carthaginian general, Hannibal, has never forgotten the defeat & humiliation of his father by Rome. Now he plans his revenge & the destruction of the old enemy. ” Soldier Of Carthage”: While Hannibal prepares for war, the young son of one of his most trusted military commanders goes on an innocent adventure with his best friend
- & disappears. ” Slavery”: Captured by pirates, put up for sale in the slave market, one of the boys is sold as a gladiator, the other as a field slave. They believe they will never see home or family again. ”A World Aflame”: But their destiny
- interwoven & linked with that of their Roman masters
- is to be an extraordinary one. The devastating war unleashed upon Rome by Hannibal will last for nearly twenty years. It will change their lives
- & history
- forever.




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The killing fields of Cannae provide the setting for one of the bloodiest battles in history. But who will triumph? Hannibal & his warrior army, or the mighty legions of Rome. By the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Legion trilogy. Hannibal`s campaign to defeat Rome continues as he marches south to confront his enemy. With him is a young soldier, Hanno. Like his general, Hanno burns to vanquish Rome. Never has the possibility seemed so likely. But a stealthy game of cat & mouse is being played as Rome`s generals seek to avoid confrontation. Eventually the two armies meet under a fierce summer sun. The place is Cannae
- the fields of blood. The battle will go down in history as one of the bloodiest ever fought, a battle in which Hanno knows he must fight as never before
- just to stay alive.

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ADAC, Germany's equivalent of the British Automobile Association publishes an extensive series of street plans which provide detailed high-quality mapping of all the major towns & cities, including their outer suburbs. The plans name all the individual streets & indicate all the main landmarks & public buildings. All public transport facilities are shown: buses, trams, underground & overland rail lines. One way streets & car parks are indicated. Plans of larger cities include an enlargement for the city centre. The plans also show the administrative & postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. On the reverse, each plan has a road map at 1:100, 000, covering a very wide area around the city. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Hannover on a topographic map at 1:200, 000 from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Germany’s federal mapping agency. The map covers an area of Approx. 100 x 90km. This map is belongs to a series of 58 topographic maps from Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, the federal cartographic agency of Germany responsible for topographic mapping at 1:200, 000 & maps at smaller scales (the more detailed topographic & leisure maps are prepared & published by the survey organizations of the individual states). Cartography is from the 200K topographic survey & the maps have very elegant, modern look whilst retaining the traditional German presentation of names of smaller towns & villages in italics. Contours are at 12, 5m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, with colouring for woodlands, moors, marches, vineyards & hop plantations. Waterways & rivers are also described in detail, with currents, waterfalls, dams, & jetties clearly marked. Road network, graded into five types, highlights in colour national & regional roads; no driving distances are marked Railway network is also shown in detail, with stations, goods only lines, etc. The maps show administrative boundaries of states & counties, & have a UTM grid plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 2’ intervals. Map legend is in German only.PLEASE NOTE: maps in this series provide an excellent presentation of the areas covered by them, with plenty of place names & detailed representation of the road network, & will appeal to anyone who likes quality cartography, but they are not necessarily the best option for holiday & business travel. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Hannover
- Hildesheim Region Street Atlas in a series of detailed atlases covering the whole of Germany at 1:20, 000 with UTM
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About these maps: Street maps covering a slightly smaller area than that represented on the Falk Extra edition, thus folding down to a more handy size (10 x 17cm). Some of them are drawn with a varying scale which, for clarity, presents the city centre at a slightly larger scale than the outer districts. Main landmarks & public buildings are indicated, also one-way streets, car parks & all the public transport facilities eg. tram & bus routes, U-bahns. These plans of larger cities include a separate map of the town centre at a more detailed scale & a diagram of the U-Bahn & the suburban rail network. The plans also show the postal divisions & have an extensive street index on the reverse side which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. Also included is a smaller scale map of the city & its immediate environs, showing main roads & railways. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Street plan of the Hannover conurbation in Falk’s Special Fold format, designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps, others simply hate them!* About Falk street plans:* The plans indicate main landmarks & public buildings & show all the public transport facilities, one way streets & car parks. Plans of larger cities include a separate diagram of the public transport network & an enlargement of the town centre at a more detailed scale. The plans also show postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. * Map legend

Includes:: English.* Falk street plans are published in three different map formats, plus in a series of regional street atlases.* Falk Extra* plans are folded in a standard way, where the whole map can be opened to view the entire area it covers. In most plans on the reverse is a road map of the surrounding area. Latest editions have a UTM grid.* Falk Special Fold* plans, published only for larger cities, have a folding system designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps, others simply hate them!* Falk City Plans*, published only for main cities, use the same mapping but cover a smaller area then the Extra plans & have a larger map of the city centre.

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One of the titles in a series of regional street atlases providing detailed mapping of the main urban conurbations in Germany. The plans name all the individual streets & indicate all the main landmarks & public buildings. All public transport facilities are shown: buses, trams, underground & overland rail lines. One way streets & car parks are indicated. Each atlas also

Includes:: enlargements showing town centres at a more detailed scale, a general road map of the area, & diagrams of motorways with exits & service areas. The plans also show the postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. Map legend

Includes:: English. In this atlas: the area around Hannover, including Hildesheim, Nienburg, Celle, Stadthagen, Peine, & Hameln.



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”A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history”. (John Le Carre). Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf Hoss was a farmer & soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp & oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women & children. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators, Rudolf Hoss his most elusive target. In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full account of Hoss` capture. Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s, to the horror of the concentration camps & the trials in Belsen & Nuremberg, Hanns & Rudolf tells the story of two German men whose lives diverged, & intersected, in an astonishing way. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...