The Still-Room is a comprehensive and practical guide to the domestic arts of preserving, pickling, distilling, and preparing a wide variety of household remedies and delicacies, as practiced in the 18th and 19th centuries. This book serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in traditional home management, offering detailed instructions on making jams, jellies, syrups, cordials, and conserves, as well as recipes for medicinal waters, herbal infusions, and beauty preparations. The...

The Red Star and the Roundel are the symbols of organisations that share a century of existence, a century with a full quota of conflict as well as harmony. The Russian red star has maintained its impact in the hundred years since the Revolution. The Royal Air Force's red white and blue roundel has seen action in the air world-wide for the same period. Phil Wilkinson had forty years of Royal Air Force service--the final three and a half were in Russia. With this unusual double qualificatio...

In "A Century of Roundels," Algernon Charles Swinburne offers a breathtaking exploration of the roundel form'Äîan elegant poetic structure characterized by its intricate rhyme scheme and refrains. The collection, embodying the stylistic richness of the Victorian era, demonstrates Swinburne's mastery of rhythm and sound, richly layered themes of love, beauty, mortality, and nature. Each poem is an exquisite harmony of musicality and emotion, reflecting the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite mo...

1942: Amid the Siege of Malta, one of the most crucial battles in modern history, only extraordinary courage and willpower can turn looming defeat into victory.The war in the Mediterranean, 1942: The outcome of World War II hangs, as Churchill says, by “a slender thread.” Erwin Rommel, Hitler’s “Desert Fox,” is poised to defeat the reeling British army in Egypt and thwart America’s first operation in Europe. Only the tiny, embattled, half-starved Mediterranean island of Malta stands in Rom...

1940: Hitler’s aerial assault on England reaches a crescendo on Battle of Britain Day when, against all odds, the Luftwaffe is turned back by the outnumbered pilots of Fighter Command. Infinite Stakes—picking up where Breaking Point left off—puts you both inside the cockpit as the pilots duel and at RAF Headquarters with Winston Churchill on that fateful day and through the year that follows, when Britain must fight on alone.Johnnie Shaux, a battle-hardened fighter pilot, now leads a squad...

World War II is now in its sixth agonizing year. In Europe, the Allies are closing in on Hitler’s horrific Third Reich, but victory remains elusive. In the Pacific, US forces are locked in a grinding island-by-island struggle against Imperial Japan.Summoned from the battlefields of Europe, veteran tactical analyst Eleanor Shaux finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the greatest secret of the war: the Manhattan Project. Agonizing decisions must be made about the d...

It is 1943. In the skies above war-torn Europe a savage battle continues as Allied bomber crews rain down fire and destruction on Hitler’s cities and Luftwaffe fighters tear the bombers to pieces. Faced with the destruction, Churchill asks, “Are we barbarians?”Back in England, after the Siege of Malta and continents away from her estranged husband, fighter pilot Johnnie Shaux, strategic military analyst Eleanor Shaux is ordered to develop plans for the systematic destruction of Hit...

A roundel is a form of verse used in English language poetry devised by Algernon Charles Swinburne . It is a variation of the French rondeau form. It makes use of refrains, repeated according to a certain stylized pattern. A roundel consists of nine lines each having the same number of syllables, plus a refrain after the third line and after the last line. The refrain must be identical with the beginning of the first line: it may be a half-line, and rhymes with the second line. It has thre...

The Allies prepare for the largest military operation of World War II: the invasion of Normandy. Two German armies stand ready to hurl them back into the sea. As D-Day approaches, the balance of power in Europe teeters on a knife’s edge.After undergoing grueling special forces training in preparation for the mission, celebrated RAF pilot Johnnie Shaux arrives in Normandy—not in the sky, but on one of the first landing crafts, dispatched to call in air supp...

The book consists of two hundred new poems from David Sanders, including You Have Become Inside of Me. You have become inside of me. There is no moment when it became. Like a raindrop that falls into sea You have become inside of me. I no longer understand the shame. We have a passion that has burst into flame. Two men who love do love the same. You have become inside of me. Silently, endlessly, I hear your name. Like a whisper that ripples in the sea You have become inside of me.

Two hundred new poems from David Sanders including: Just to the East of Despair Just to the east of despair Is a land of devil-may-care, A place to go when nothing is fair Just to the east of despair. Your chances to dismiss This potentially harmful abyss Are better if you forget what you miss. Just to the east of despair Is a land of truth-or-dare, A place to go at the end of an affair Just to the east of despair.

Two hundred new poems from David Sanders including: Love Is Always In Your Heart Love is always in your heart. In a busy world that tends to isolate We all feel, at times, like a spare part. But love is always in your heart. If you can’t feel it, you can’t relate, Please don’t despair or hesitate, It’s still there–ready for your next date. Love is always pretty smart. It’s always there, always in wait. It’s the place it gets its start: Love is always in your heart.