Make notes & jot down your daily thoughts in this character inspired Odd-Bods” A5 chunky Notebook. The notebook contains lined pages & a spiro-bound spine meaning you can turn over the pages with ease. There is also an elastic page divider so you can keep to the page you are need. " ...

Make notes & jot down your daily thoughts in this handy project book. With a colourful character inspired pattern it will become you new favourite notebook! The book features lined perforated paper allowing you to tear out the pages to A5 size. The pad features a wiro-bound spine meaning you can turn the pages over with ease. There are also 3 page dividers allowing you to split your projects up. ...

Store all of your stationery essentials in this square pencil case. The case is decorated with a unique “ Character!” pattern & features a main internal pocket together with a pocket to the front & back. The pencil case measures W 21cm x D 5cm. ...

Everything you need for your stationery collection. Included in this delightful Odd-Bodds stationery set are 2 HB pencils ruler eraser pencil sharpener & A4 notebook. Each item features the unique & colourful Odd-Bods design. Carries the EU directive not suitable for children under 36 months. ...

Have you ever fallen flat on your face when you're carrying an ice cream? Or put down a drink gone back to get it & it's nowhere to be seen? That's the Odds at work! A family of Professional Pranksters who delight in playing the most rib-tickling tricks on the townspeople of Trott. This time the Odds face inspection by the Head Prankster to ensure they're still up to their meddling best. But the new man who'll be doing it is none other than Mr Nobody sworn enemy of Mr Odd! This calls for a spectacular pranking plan...A hilarious second book about a fabulously funny family from Adam Perrott. Your sides will be splitting as you read about their outrageous pranks. The Odds will delight both boys & girls with their comic capers & super-high levels of silliness. ...

In the long hot Roman Summer of AD74 Marcus Didius Falco private informer & spare-time poet gives a reading for his family & friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus a wealthy Greek banker & patron to a group of struggling writers who offers to publish Falcos work
- a golden opportunity that rapidly palls. A visit to the Chrysippusscriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder so when Petronius Longus the over-worked vigiles enquiry chief commissions him to investigate Falco is forced to accept. Lindsey Davis twelfth novel wittily explores Roman publishing & banking taking us from the jealousies of authorship & the mire of patronage to the darker financial world where default can have fatal consequences...
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Earth hath not anything to show more fair said Wordsworth of London in 1802 & hundreds of years on the same can be still be said of Britains largest metropolis. Ode to London is a wonderful anthology of poetry celebrating Englands capital & life as a Londoner. Verses from our best-loved authors such as William Wordsworth William Blake & John Betjeman among others are accompanied by beautiful illustrations
- often taken from iconic tube posters
- of Londons famous sights green parks & Londoners in their daily lives. Epic poems celebrating Londons vast & majestic presence sit alongside Cockney ditties about pie mash & jellied eels in this new collection. Celebrating every aspect of the big smoke
- from the Houses of Parliament & the Blitz spirit through to red double-decker buses & infamous rainy English summers
- this is the perfect gift for any Londoner or visitor to the city. Other successful titles in the series include Ode to the Countryside (9781905400959) & Ode to the Sea (9781907892141).



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* Some of the best poetry ever written in celebration of the English countryside * From Shakespeare to Coleridge to Betjeman *



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A wonderful anthology of poetry celebrating the British coastline & life above & below the deep blue sea. Verses from our best-loved authors
- such as WB Yeats RL Stevenson & Rudyard Kipling
- are accompanied by beautiful illustrations of idyllic days at sea haunted shipwrecks & tempestuous storms. Sea shanties & siren's songs sit alongside the classic song from The Tempest & Coleridge's ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' in this beautiful anthology of the mystical world beaneth the waves.

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Nazi Germanys fall is regularly depicted through the dual images of Adolf Hitler directing the final battle for Berlin from his claustrophobic Fuhrerbunker & the subsequent Soviet victory immortalized by the flying of the Hammer & Sickle over the burnt-out Reichstag. This popular view that Germanys last battle of World War II was a deliberate yet fatalistic defense of Berlin planned & conducted by Hitler is largely a historically inaccurate depiction that fits a popularized characterization of the Third Reichs end. Germanys final battle began when Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici took command of Heeresgruppe Weichsel (Army Group Vistula) on 20 March 1945 not when the massive Soviet offensive intended to capture Berlin was launched on 16 April. Heinrici not Hitler decided that there was only one strategic course left for Germany-hold the Soviets back along the Oder Front long enough to entice the Western Allies across the Elbe River. Heinrici knew two things: the war was lost & what remained of Germany was destined for postwar Soviet occupation. His intent was that a protracted defense along the Oder Front would force General Eisenhower to order the Western Allies into the postwar Soviet Zone of Occupation outlined in the Top Secret Allied Plan known as Eclipse thereby sparing millions of Germans in the east the dismal fate of Soviet vengeance everyone knew was at h&. Berlin Heinrici ordered would not be defended. The capital of Germany would not become another Stalingrad as Heinrici told his subordinates. A decision by OKW on 23 April to defend Berlin in a final decisive battle forced Heinrici into direct conflict with his superiors over the conduct of operations along the Oder Front
- a conflict that undermined his capability to defend against the Soviets & ultimately cost Heinrici his comm&. In a companion volume to his successful & highly-regarded study of the Soviet assault on the city of Berlin Bloody Streets" author A. Stephan Hamilton describes the planning & execution of the defense of the Oder Front reconstructing it day-by-day using previously unpublished personal diaries postwar interviews Heeresgruppe Weichsels war diary & daily command phone logs. Operations of the 3. Panzer Armee 9. Armee 12. Armee & 21. Armee are covered in detail with their unit movements depicted on over 60 wartime operational maps. The narrative is supported by an extensive selection of appendices including translations of post-war narratives relating to Heeresgruppe Weichsel penned by senior German officers biographical notes on notable officers of the Heeresgruppe & highly detailed orders of battles. In addition to a number of bw photographs this study features 64 pages of operational maps reproduced in full colour."
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