Although he is mostly remembered for his part in the campaign in Italy from 1943 to 1945, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring was also chief of staff of the Luftwaffe in 1936-37, playing a crucial role in the shaping of the service for the coming war. This book offers a detailed study of one of the most famous German commanders of World War II. ...

Although he is mostly remembered for his part in the campaign in Italy from 1943 to 1945, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring was also chief of staff of the Luftwaffe in 1936-37, playing a crucial role in the shaping of the service for the coming war. As commander of Luftflotte 1 in Poland & Luftflotte 2 in France & the Low Countries, he was responsible for supporting the armoured spearheads of the German Army as they undertook their Blitzkrieg campaigns. With the Fall of France, the Battle of Britain began & Luftlotte 2 was the main force in the air attack against the British air defences, with Kesselring planning many raids. Following the war Kesselring was tried & convicted of war crimes following a number of massacres of civilians in Italy. He was sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment before being released on the grounds of ill health in October 1952. Here Pier Paolo Battistelli provides a detailed study of one of the most famous German commanders of World War II. ...

An uplifting story about a bear without a smile from the bestselling creator of Percy the Park Keeper. When Albert le Blanc arrives in Mr Jolly's toy shop, the other toys think he's the saddest-looking bear they have ever seen. They decide to put on a show to cheer him up. Albert tries to tell them he's not sad, he just looks sad, but they are all too busy making preparations! As a finale, Sally the hippo puts on a lipstick & performs ballet, but she falls on top of Albert & leaves a huge lipstick grin on his face. Everyone laughs!especially Albert! ...

An uplifting story about a bear without a smile from the bestselling creator of Percy the Park Keeper. When Albert le Blanc arrives in Mr Jolly's toy shop, the other toys think he's the saddest-looking bear they have ever seen. They decide to put on a show to cheer him up. Albert tries to tell them he's not sad, he just looks sad, but they are all too busy making preparations! As a finale, Sally the hippo puts on a lipstick & performs ballet, but she falls on top of Albert & leaves a huge lipstick grin on his face. Everyone laughs!especially Albert! ...

The wonderful sequel to Albert le Blanc, from the highly-regarded creator of the Percy the Park Keeper books. Albert le Blanc's friend, Sally the toy hippo, has been bought by a little girl. Every day, they walk past the shop & Sally gives Albert a wink, as he sits in the window. Albert waves back & wonders if he will ever be chosen as a child's best friend. The, one day -- disaster -- Sally tumbles out of the girl's rucksack & is snatched away by a stranger before anyone can stop them. Stuck inside the toy shop, not daring to move, it seems there is nothing Albert can do to help his friend! Will there be a happy ending for Sally? &, will there ever be a happy new home for Albert? ...

Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more on overcoming formal limitations & on experimentation than on the subject of the work. Music has played a central part in the artist s output, serving as a metaphor for his method of working in which fusion & rhythm, improvisation & repetition, & density & harmony of sounds are turned into pictorial gestures. This monograph maps out a route through the whole of Albert Oehlen s production, from his best-known works to less familiar ones & from the 1980s to the present day, with reproductions of paintings in the Pinault Collection & other major private collections & international museums ...

Albert is a duck-billed platypus, who has escaped from a zoo in Adelaide to look for somewhere that may, or may not, exist: Old Australia, a place where humans never venture, & animals still rule. Albert knows it's somewhere in the middle of the Outback
- not the ideal habitat for a water-loving animal
- but now he's lost & close to death.

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This is a story of the Australian Outback, a duck-billed platypus on a quest, & what it means to be a hero. Albert is a duck-billed platypus, who has escaped from a zoo in Adelaide to look for somewhere that may, or may not, exist: Old Australia, a place where humans never venture, & animals still rule. Albert knows it's somewhere in the middle of the Outback
- not the ideal habitat for a water-loving animal
- but now he's lost & close to death. He's saved, though, by Jack, a pyromaniac, sardine-loving wombat, who promptly gets him into even worse trouble taking him to a marsupial-only bar run by a kangaroo called O' Hanlin, getting him drunk & then burning the bar down. & this is just the beginning of Albert's adventure...A glorious romp of a novel, Albert of Adelaide is a story of friendship, loyalty & heroism. & marsupials. Pacy & poignant, it's completely original
- a book for people (and animals) of all ages.


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Anyone who has ever had the privilege of watching Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals knows the sound of a hit. It's the sound his bat makes when it connects with the ball. It's a sound that's been heard countless times since his 2001 rookie season. That year, he took the league by storm by posting some of the most fantastic offensive stats of any rookie ever-and he's been doing the same ever since, shattering records & helping his team win games, including the 2006 World Series, with clutch hits & amazing home runs.

This biography offers an up-close look at this superstar's life & the most memorable moments of his outstanding career to date.

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Albert Speer was Hitler's architect before the Second World War. Through Hitler's great trust in him & Speer's own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in Spandau Prison at the Nuremberg Trails, Speer attempted to progress from moral extinction to moral self-education. How he came to terms with his own acts & failures to act & his real culpability in Nazi war crimes are the questions at the centre of this book. The author had access to Speer, his family & friends & his private papers. ...