Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life
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Published to tie-in with the new BBC TV adaptation. A man died for a crime he didn`t commit.. . & a murder had to be solved twice! No one felt sorry when Jacko Argyle died in prison. Everyone knew he had bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker from the fire. But when a doctor turns up at the house two years later with proof of Jacko`s innocence, the whole family is horrified. Because it can mean only one thing
- that their mother`s killer is still among them... Ordeal by Innocence was cited by Agatha Christie in An Autobiography as one of her favourite novels, a detective story which plays on the shock of an innocent man`s conviction & its impact on his family. Following the success of & Then There Were None & The Witness for the Prosecution, a brand new adaptation by Sarah Phelps for the BBC shines new light on one of Agatha Christie`s darkest & most accomplished whodunits.
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Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized & helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central & southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable
- between 12, 000, 000 & 14, 000, 000 civilians, most of them women & children
- & the losses horrifying
- at least 500, 000 people & perhaps many more died while detained in former concentration camps, while locked in trains en route, or after arriving in Germany exhausted, malnourished & homeless. This book is the first in any language to tell the full story of this immense man-made catastrophe. Based mainly on archival records of the countries that carried out the forced migrations & of the international humanitarian organizations that tried but failed to prevent the disastrous results, Orderly & Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War is an authoritative & objective account. It examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the expulsions were conceived, planned & executed & how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The book is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call ”ethnic cleansing”, & it may also be the most significant untold story of the Second World War.


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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Ordesa & Monte Perdido National Park in an extensive & very popular series of walking maps from Editorial Alpina covering the Pyrenees, Catalonia & other selected hiking areas in Spain, including Picos de Europa, Sierra Nevada & parts of Andaluc ...

Ordesa & Monte Perdido National Park at 1:25, 000 in a set of two GPS compatible recreational maps in an extensive & very popular series from Editorial Alpina, providing more detailed coverage of this popular hiking area. Contours are at 10m intervals, with relief shading & vegetation colouring. An overprint highlights waymarked PR hiking paths, the GR11, HRP & other long-distance routes, plus other footpaths & mountain trails. Symbols indicate climbing & potholing sites, alpine & cross-country skiing areas, various types of accommodation (hotels, youth hostels, campsites, refuges, mountain huts), information centres, places of interest, locations of petrol stations in the local villages & on access roads, etc. The map has a UTM grid & 1’ margin ticks. Map legend

Includes:: English.PLEASE NOTE:
- The same area is also covered by the Editorial Alpina’s map at 1:40, 000 which comes with a booklet providing English language descriptions of 16 recommended walks, 9 more difficult ascents, etc- To see the full list of all the titles is this series, covering the Pyrenees & other areas of Spain, please click on the series link.


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Ordesa & Monte Perdido National Park at 1:40, 000 on a GPS compatible recreational map in an extensive & very popular series from Editorial Alpina, including a booklet with English language descriptions of several walks, climbs, etc. Contours are at 20m intervals, with relief shading & altitude colouring. An overprint highlights waymarked PR hiking paths, the GR11, HRP & other long-distance routes, plus other footpaths & mountain trails. Symbols indicate climbing & potholing sites, alpine & cross-country skiing areas, various types of accommodation (hotels, youth hostels, campsites, refuges, mountain huts), information centres, places of interest, locations of petrol stations in the local villages & on access roads, etc. The map has a UTM grid & 1’ margin ticks. Map legend

Includes:: English. The accompanying booklet

Includes:: English language descriptions of 15 walks, 9 more strenuous ascents, 5 ski mountaineering trails, a list of shelters & youth hostels, plus general information about the area.PLEASE NOTE:
- The same area is also covered by the Editorial Alpina’s set of two maps at 1:25, 000 but without a booklet.- To see the full list of all the titles is this series, covering the Pyrenees & other areas of Spain, please click on the series link.




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Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world & is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of one squad from the Nazis` extermination groups & explores in detail its composition, its actions, andthe methods by which it was trained to perform acts of genocide on an industrial scale. He introduces us to cheerful, friendly, ordinary men who killed without hesitation or apparent remorse for years on end, in docile obedience to an authority theyhappily accepted as legitimate. It is a valuable corrective to the idea of German uniqueness & offers a much more chilling picture of human beings as avidly suggestible & desperate for an organising purpose in their lives, however disgusting. ...

One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter & a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything
- home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money
- never to get them back. With the police & a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground, joining the ranks of the disappeared, struggling to understand how his life has unravelled so spectacularly. His journey of discovery will take him along the Thames from Chelsea to the sink estates of the East End. On the way he encounters aristocrats, priests, prostitutes & a policewoman
- but will he ever find himself again?


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This set consists of 403 waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Explorer Maps which cover the whole of Engl&, Scotland & Wales. These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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