<p>This is a colorful and insightful book...Sympathy and compassion flow from the human story de Villiers tells, not from a preconceived bias.  It is impossible not to feel for the common folk he describes who have lost all hope, or for the Stalingrad veterans who declare bitterly that the cause for which they fought and others died has proved to be rotten to the core.</p>

Down the Volga in a time of troubles: A journey revealing the people and heartland of post-perestroika Russia

History

DE VILLIERS, Marq

Russia

HarperCollinsPublishers

Tapestry of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great War

Tapestry of war: A private view of Canadians in the Great War

Gwyn, Sandra

Military

Witchcraft has always intrigued the imagination, sparking visions of Macbeths hags, complete with heathland and bubbling cauldrons. But throughout European history, particularly from the 14th- to the 17th-century, ordinary people were tried and put to death for witchcraft, often in a brutal and grotesque manner. So who were the witches? What were their practises? Who believed in them? What was their place in society? Why were they so feared? How were they accused, tried and executed? Robin Briggs attempts to answer these questions, broadening his scope as he looks beyond the persecutions themselves, to concentrate upon the society they illuminate. Between 1560 and 1660, more people were tried for witchcraft than at any other time in history. The detailed records of many of the trials have allowed the author to build up a description of life among the European peasantry some 400 years ago: the minutiae of social life, daily activities, neighbourhood and kinship ties, the pervasive force of superstition and family relationships.

Witches & neighbours: The social and cultural context of European witchcraft

Briggs, Robin

Europe

G.M.Trevelyan, as well as being a best-selling historian, was Regius Professor of History and Master of Trinity College Cambridge, Chancellor of the University of Newcastle, he was awarded the Order of Merit and was offered, but refused, the Presidency of the British Academy. This book provides a study of the man and an account of his generation. David Cannadine is the author of "The Pleasures of the Past".

G.M. Trevelyan: A life in history

CANNADINE, David

Gregory Martyn returns to his estate in County Mayo to find his wife has died giving birth to Elinor, their fourth child. His hatred towards Elinor is undiminished by the passing years and is shared by his other daughter, Esther. As Elinor grows up she seeks refuge amongst the servants.

The house of mirrors

Mullen, Michael

Light in the company of women

Keith Maillard

Stone Angels

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mike Jefferies

Fantasy

Growing Rich

Literature & Fiction

Weldon,Fay

Contemporary

Coelestis

Park, Paul

<p>In Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth and the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the legends of the Elder Days, as they were evolved and transformed by his father in the years before he completed The Lord of the Rings. The text of the Annals of Aman, the "Blessed Land" in the far West, is given in full. And in writings never before published, we can see the nature of the problems that J.R.R. Tolkien explored in his later years as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the heart of the mythology. At this time Tokien sought to redefine the old legends, and wrote of the nature and destiny of Elves, the idea of Elvish rebirth, the origins of the Orcs, and the Fall of Men. His meditation of mortality and immortality as represented in the lives of Men and Elves led to another major writing at this time, the "Debate of Finrod and Andreth," which is reproduced here in full. "Above all," Christopher Tolkien writes in his foreward, "the power and significance of Melkor-Morgoth...was enlarged to become the ground and source of the corruption of Arda." This book indeed is all about Morgoth. Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power (Tolkien wrote) was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: "The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring."</p>

Morgoth's ring: the later Silmarillion, part one, the legends of Aman. Edited by Christopher Tolkien

Tolkien, J. R. R. [, edited by Christopher Tolkien]

History & Criticism

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