Northumberland, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Grundy, Grace McCombie , Peter Ryder, Humphrey Welfare

Northumberland, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Grundy, Grace McCombie , Peter Ryder, Humphrey WelfareNew Hardback The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the most elegant nineteenth century city centre in England. Elsewhere the distinctive smaller towns include Alnwick, dominated by its castle, Hexham with its priory, brick

While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon

shape him into Rome itself – the one all must kneel before

Five years later

An engaging

Narva and Ivangorod – the two fortresses on both sides of Narova River – comprise a nowadays-unique fortification ensemble that has gone through many historical periods of the Baltic region

The pair come together in Rome during the making of Cleopatra

in every season

it also brings us closer to the natural world on our doorstep

accompanied by useful and sometimes very beautiful maps

The Haynes Falklands War Operations Manual looks at the planning and logistics that made the whole operation possible

pushing at boundaries

On 25 April he was towed ashore to Gallipoli