It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin's power-hungry brutality.In St Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this absurd and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when - once more - its fate hangs in the balance.
In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail but ran aground off the desolate West African coast. This book presents the study of the Medusa tragedy.
In Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-ffin Jonathan Miles explores the four years which Gill and Jones spent in Gill''s religious and artistic community in the Black Mountains of Wales and discovers that it was hugely significant time for both. For Jones it was a cultural homecoming. For Gill it was an opportunity to experiment spiritually and sexually.
Following the successful Stanmore series, this is a definitive but highly practical guide to musculoskeletal trauma surgery, with the emphasis on the techniques employed and the reasoning behind these techniques, for all trainee orthopaedic surgeons.
'Spies should be glamorous - James Bond in a Savile Row suit rather than Harry Palmer in a grubby mac .
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