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1796: A diminutive, Corsican-born French general has inherited a ragtag army and turned it into an unstoppable fighting force. Within months Napoleon`s storm rolls across Italy and strikes a lethal blow against the Austrian empire. But while the soil of Piedmont and Tuscany runs with blood, another battle takes shape on the mysterious Adriatic Sea. Alan Lewrie and his eighteen-gun sloop, HMS Jester, part of a squadron of four British warships, sail into the thick of it. But with England’s alies failing, Napoleon busy rearranging the world map, and their squadron streched dangerously thin along the Croation coast the British squadron commander strikes a devil’s bargain: enlisting the aid of Serbian pirates..
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THIS TWELTH EDITION by art historian Paul Blanchard covers some of the most-renowned towns and cities in the world, focusing on the artists, architects, and patrons who contributed to their country's legacy. With detailed walks through parts of the most stunning landscape in Europe and up-to-date information on festivals, where to stay, and what to eat, "Blue Guide Northern Italy is a perfect guide for anyone interested in getting the most out of their stay..
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Called by some a 'Mediterranean Jutland,' the Battle of the Otranto Straits involved warships from Austria, Germany, Italy, Britain, and France. Although fought by light units with no dreadnoughts involved, Otranto was a battle in three dimensions - engaging surface vessels, aircraft, and subsurface weapons (both submarines and mines). An attempt to halt the movement of submarines into the Adriatic using British drifters armed with nets and mines led to a raid by Austrian light cruisers.The Austrians inflicted heavy damage on the drifters, but Allied naval forces based at Brindisi cut off their withdrawal. The daylight hours saw a running battle, with the Austrians at considerable risk. Heavier Austrian units put out from Cattaro in support, and at the climactic moment the Allied light forces had to turn away, permitting the Austrians to escape. In the end, the Austrians had inflicted more damage than they suffered themselves. The Otranto action shows the difficulties of waging coalition warfare in which diplomatic and national jealousies override military efficiency..
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Covering the Adriatic coasts of Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania, all the information is based on visits in 2002 and 2003. During the last few years the political stability that has come to the region has encouraged a remarkable growth in the tourism industry. A major investment has been put into new facilities, new yacht harbours and other support services meaning more yachts visit this area than ever before..
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"Croatia" is 340 pages, full color, 11x14 and cloth bound by hand, with superb printing in Italy by ArtGrafiche Amilcare Pizzi. Each book comes in an individual box. The quality of the photography is superb, all images were shot with large format film cameras The poetic, in-depth, and informative text is by Damir Konestra. Besides English, also available in Croatian Language >> FINNALIST for PMA 2008 Benjamin Franklin Awards in category Art/Photography.
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An ordinary woman is caught in extraordinary circumstances, in the crackling new thriller from a major new talent.

John Altman's first two suspense novels won remarkable praise. Now, Altman gives us his best yet.

Hannah Gray is on the run. Unwittingly involved in an insurance fraud, she's leapt upon a friend's offer of tickets to an Adriatic cruise just to clear her head and figure things out. Maybe the fraud has been discovered-or maybe the threat of exposure exists only in her mind. Couldn't it be? But on the ship, she meets Renee Epstein, and that's when her life changes. Renee's husband is a scientist, and he's on the run himself. He's taken off with equations about to be used for a purpose he had not at all intended, but while he's trying to figure out what to do with them, he's scribbled them on the flyleaf of a book.

And now his wife has given the book to some fool woman she's met on the boat.

Before he can retrieve it, the Epsteins are murdered, Hannah herself is targeted, and an extraordinary adventure begins through the Greek islands and Turkey, as Hannah Gray must use all of a hitherto-unsuspected resourcefulness to battle her way through a situation that only becomes more perilous by the minute. Filled with vivid characters, breathtaking suspense, and delicious atmosphere, Deception is indeed what thrillers ought to be and seldom are..
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A nightgown model and a soap opera star meet in Valselo, a Croatian village where millions believe the Mother of God appears to three visionaries. Yugoslavian born Maya Lidovic owns Intimate Whispers, a New York based sleepwear company. Determined not to lose her faith in a secular world, she spends her vacations leading tours in Valselo where her parents run an inn. Colin O'Reilly plays heartthrob, Dr. Brock Stone, on the soap opera Tides Of Tomorrow. Through various setbacks in life he's managed to keep God first. But now he's furious at God for taking his mother. Colin doesn't believe that God has sent the Virgin Mary to earth with messages of hope. He doesn't believe that God cares about the world. A series of apparitions, prophetic dreams and earthy attraction draw these different people together. Human frailties obscure the intention of the call that brought them to their destinies..
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"Goli Otok - Hell in the Adriatic" is one man's story of life, death, escape, and punishment in post-World War II Yugoslavia. The man was Josip Zoretic and the setting is Goli Otok, the "Naked Island" prison camp in the Adriatic Sea. The story is straight forward and brutally frank in its descriptions of day-to-day life on the island-prison. Some years ago Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave a similar picture in "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" about life in the Gulags of the Soviet Union. This book brings light to the other gulags in the former Yugoslavia and puts to rest once and for all the myth of "Communism with a Human Face." C. Michael McAdams University of San Francisco, retired Author of "Croatia: Myth & Reality".
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