Jack Martindale Books

A pragmatic and moving account, of how the author came to terms with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and learned to live life to the full once more. The fact that the author was only twenty-one at the time makes this portrayal all the more poignant.It is hoped that this book will reach others in similar positions and help them realise that some of the emotions they feel may be unique to them but that the frustrations they feel are felt by others and they are not alone in having these feelings. The author advocates never giving up and he is proof, that with determination, people who suffer TBIs can go on and achieve many things, he went on to complete his degree coming out with a 2:1, an inspiration indeed.

Darren Brown is 27. Finishing growing-up around northeast London's Higham's Park, this SNAPSHOT provides a glimpse, as entertaining as it is painstaking, upon the burdens consuming our post-modern millennial generation. Could be plugged as a bloke's equivalent of Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary, the unspoken voice of the overlooked achiever facing less clear-cut yet equally fierce modern pressures resonations. The lack of fulfillment is explored through a sample of a persona forced to live through superficial and instant gratification. This is as the fallacy of the myth they were fed of being able to do anything provided that they work for it becomes increasingly exposed. The challenges of living through an ambiguously fragile male identity are explored through a protagonist as sympathetic as he is flawed. Then throw a burning potential love into the mixâ€]

Jake Preston, travelling with his wife and children, takes the Tumbleweed Trail, heading for Kansas City. And if the mile after mile of inhospitable terrain was not enough to contend with, there is the added complication of a gang of marauding bandits led by the notorious Sam Brady who have vowed to kill Jake and his entire family. The family have only one hope and that is the mysterious stranger named Arkansas Smith, a man who some claim is an outlaw himself, a violator of women, a man as cold-hearted as the bitter winds that blow across the trail. But there are others who swear he is some sort of special lawman, a man bringing gun justice to those who need it. There is only one certainty and that is that blood will flow along the Tumbleweed Trail.

Organised by class, Battleships of World War I and World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main battleships used by both sides during the conflicts of the 20th century. Packed with 110 artworks with detailed specifications, it is a key reference for both naval modellers and WWI and WWII enthusiasts.

Książka ta, zilustrowana ponad setką barwnych rycin oraz historycznych zdjęć, jest szczegółowym przewodnikiem po najważniejszych pancernikach i krążownikach liniowych z obu wojen światowych oraz okresu międzywojennego. Przedstawione zostały w niej m.in. HMS Dreadnought, czyli pierwszy z drednotów, uzbrojonych w działa wielkiego kalibru okrętów liniowych z początków XX wieku; wielkie okręty wojenne, które starły się w bitwie jutlandzkiej, w tym niemiecki krążownik pancerny Derfflinger. W niniejszej publikacji można się też zapoznać z okolicznościami zniszczenia krążownika liniowego HMS Hood, który eksplodował trafiony pociskiem wystrzelonym z pancernika Bismarck, a także dziejami tego drugiego pancernika, zatopionego na Atlantyku po dramatycznym pościgu przez samoloty bombowo-torpedowe Royal Navy. Znalazł się tu także opis zdumiewającego superpancernika Yamato, który, pomimo swoich kolosalnych wymiarów i wielkiej siły ognia, tylko w minimalnym stopniu wsparł japoński wysiłek wojenny i zatonął na skutek ataków powietrznych podczas walk o Okinawę.