Rarely has a subject been served by a book of this stature. Five years in the making, it covers all aspects of Art Nouveau in France in 624 authoritative pages and 740 illustrations. Arwas traces the evolution of the movement as it developed, primarily in Nancy and Paris, with the help of carefully chosen illustrations, many never published before. Ranging from the 1900 Paris exhibition to paintings, graphics and posters and such collecting fields as furniture, jewellery, ceramics, book bindings and sculpture, the informative, witty text ranges over architecture, haute couture, and the role of women in Art Nouveau with a particular look at such theatrical icons as Sarah Bernhardt, Loïe Fuller and the Grandes Horizontales. Destined to become the standard book on the subject, both content and design will appeal widely to the connoisseur, the specialist and the collector, as well as to the novice who will be introduced to the magical wonders of the style.

Against-all-odds actions by the 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Firsthand accounts from American and German soldiers. Details on Jochen Peiper and the notorious Malmedy Massacre.

Philip Vorwald retraces the fields of battle which were once bitterly contested killing grounds in the struggle to halt Hitler’s final gambit in the West. The battle touched dozens of towns and villages throughout the Ardennes and each is depicted through the photographer’s lens in 1944-45 and exactly 50 years later. Philip’s efforts to match precisely the wartime ­photographs with present-day comparisons are remarkable, all the more so because he has striven in many cases to achieve a ‘weather match’. Presented in an easy-to-use alphabetical format, the?precise location where each picture was taken is indicated on accompanying sketch maps, with instructions how to get there, giving this publication a secondary role as an indispensable guide book to historic sites of the Battle of the?Bulge.