William Collins Operation Pedestal. The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 Hastings Max

В августе 1942 года осажденная Мальта была в нескольких неделях от капитуляции перед странами Оси, потому что ее 300 000 человек больше нельзя было прокормить. Черчилль принял личное решение, что "островная крепость" должна быть спасена любой ценой. Это был не просто вопрос стратегии, но и национального престижа, когда благосостояние и моральный дух Британии упали до самого низкого уровня • Самый большой флот Королевского флота,задействованный в любой операции войны на западе,был собран для сопровождения четырнадцати быстроходных торговых судов через тысячу миль моря, защищаемых шестьюстами немецкими и итальянскими самолетами, а также группами подводных лодок и торпедоносцев. Сражения в Средиземном море,последовавшие между 11 и 15 августа,были самыми жестокими за всю британскую войну на море, в них участвовали четыре авианосца, два линкора, семь крейсеров,десятки эсминцев и судов меньшего размера

Следуйте за биоархеологом Кэт Джарман - и за передовыми судебно-медицинскими методами, занимающими центральное место в ее исследованиях, - когда она раскрывает эпические истории эпохи викингов и прослеживает маленькую бусину из сердолика, найденную в могиле викингов в Дербишире, к ее истокам за тысячи миль к востоку в Гуджарате • Доктор Кэт Джарман - биоархеолог, специализирующийся на криминалистических методах исследования путей викингов, которые нашли пристанище на британской земле. Исследуя зубы, которым сейчас более тысячи лет, она может определить рацион питания в детстве и, таким образом, где, вероятно, родился человек. С помощью радиоуглеродного анализа она может установить дату смерти с точностью до нескольких лет. И ее исследование предлагает новое видение вероятной роли женщин и детей в культуре викингов

"Катастрофа. Европа вступает в войну 1914" - это авторитетная хроника бедствия, постигшего Европу в 1914 году, когда континент перешел от очарования эдвардианской эпохи к трагедии тотальной войны • В 1914 году Европа погрузилась в первый ужасный акт самосожжения 20-го века - то, что тогда называлось Великой войной. Накануне его столетнего юбилея Макс Гастингс стремится объяснить, как возник конфликт и что выпало на долю миллионов мужчин и женщин в первые месяцы противостояния • Книга на английском языке • The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war • In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come • What if intelligent life on earth not only evolved on land, but also in the sea? • Other Minds is a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development over millennia, Other Minds explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods. What kind of intelligence do they possess? And how did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? • Heralded as the ‘scuba-diving philosopher’ when Other Minds first published, Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the underwater world and the concept of sentience to trace the question of inner life back to its roots

Coal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acted as a midwife to genius. It drove industry, religion, politics, empire and trade. It powered the industrial revolution, turned Britain into the first urban nation and is the industry that made almost all others possible • In this brilliant social history, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of coal mining in England, Scotland and Wales from Roman times, through the birth of steam power to war, nationalisation, pea-souper smogs, industrial strife and the picket lines of the Miner’s Strike • Written in the captivating style of his bestselling book The English, Paxman ranges widely across Britain to explore stories of engineers and inventors, entrepreneurs and industrialists – but whilst coal inevitably helped the rich become richer, the story told by Black Gold is first and foremost a history of the working miners – the men, women and often children who toiled in appalling conditions down in the mines; the villages that were thrown up around the pit-head

There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders • Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insect world, wasps are much older, cleverer and more diverse. They are the bee’s evolutionary ancestors – flying 100 million years earlier – and today they are just as essential for the survival of our environment. A bee, ecologist Professor Seirian Sumner argues, is just a wasp that has forgotten how to hunt • For readers of Entangled Life, Other Minds and The Gospel of Eels, this is a book to upturn your expectations about one overlooked animal and the wider architecture of our natural world • With endless surprises, this book might teach you about the wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig, about stinging wasps, about parasitic wasps, about wasps that turn cockroaches into living zombies, about how wasps taught us to make paper

Starting from the ocean and from the forgotten histories of ocean-facing communities, this is a new history of the making of our world • After revolutions in America and France, a wave of tumult coursed the globe from 1790 to 1850. It was a moment of unprecedented change and violence especially for indigenous peoples. By 1850 vibrant public debate between colonised communities had exploded in port cities. Yet in the midst of all of this, Britain struck out by sea and established its supremacy over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, overtaking the French and Dutch as well as other rivals • Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram brings together his work in far-flung archives across the world and the best new academic research in this remarkably creative book

The essential companion to the Sunday Times bestselling Jog On – a funny, practical guide to managing your mental health through exercise • Bella Mackie isn’t your average coach – she’s much swearier, and she’s never going to give you a nutrition plan or join you on a marathon. But through her inspiring personal story and realistic approach she’s already inspired thousands of men and women to manage their mental health through exercise. In this journal, Bella takes you on a journey from the sofa to the open road, helping you to • Gain a new awareness of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression • Cope with side effects such as panic attacks and intrusive thoughts • Learn and memorise calming strategies such as breathing exercises • Build a checklist of everything you need to start running • Develop a regular running schedule, with realistic targets • Use exercise to gain confidence and manage mental health problems • Packed with insights from athletes and psychologists and step-by-step achievable goals, The Jog On Journal has everything you need to get you up and running

A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet • Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. These adaptations can be truly extraordinary: fish that walk or lay eggs on leaves in mid-air; snakes that fly; flightless birds that graze like deer; and bears that grow hair on the soles of their feet • In The Living Planet, David Attenborough’s searching eye, unfailing curiosity and infectious enthusiasm explain and illuminate the intricate lives of the these colonies, from the lonely heights of the Himalayas to the wild creatures that have established themselves in the most recent of environments, the city

This book celebrates the Arctic, exploring the natural history that has so inspired generations • Early travellers to the Arctic brought back tales of amazing creatures and of the endurance required of visitors, the Arctic becoming a land of inspiration and imagination. Adventurers test themselves against it. Its wildlife still amazes – when film and television show Earth’s natural wonders it is always the polar regions that draw the biggest audiences. But today the Arctic is in retreat. Humanity’s relentless exploitation of the Earth’s resources in the pursuit of progress has, it seems, altered the climate and threatens the ice and ice-living organisms. It is a cliche that the loss of a species diminishes us, but it is true nonetheless. Even to people who have never seen a Polar Bear its loss will be immeasurable as the bear is iconic, both defining and reflecting the Arctic

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back • In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims on the thousands of acres of unclaimed pastures and meadows. Across the twentieth century, water was dammed and drained in Holland so that a new province, Flevoland, rose up, unchartered and requiring new thinking. In 1850, California legislated the theft of land from Native Americans. An apology came in 2019 from the governor, but what of the call for reparations or return? What of government confiscation of land in India, or questions of fairness when it comes to New Zealand’s Maori population and the legacy of settlers? • The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside

Любовь и преступление причудливо переплелись в судьбе юной Тэсс, нищей наследницы древнего рода, обреченной на роль содержанки - и готовой переломить эту судьбу ценой собственной жизни! Став жертвой богатого повесы-соблазнителя, она протестует против грубого посягательства на человеческое достоинство и вынуждена пойти на крайние меры • "Тэсс из рода д`Эрбервиллей" Томаса Гарди - классический роман о страсти, трагедии и об испытаниях, стоящих на пути к счастью • Книга на английском языке • "Hardy watches over Tess like a stricken victim. He is as tender to Tess as Tess is to the world. Tender and helpless" - Irving Howe Into his story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder, Hardy wove a luminous tenderness and longing