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• Through the Garden Gate - A Diary of the English Countryside with Wildlife Cameraman Stephen de Vere | DVD | (01/05/2010) from £10.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (23.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Wildlife cameraman Stephen de Vere, who worked on the BBC's Life and Frozen Planet series, turns his camera on the natural world discovered in his own backyard - the British countryside. Through the changing seasons of a year Stephen observes and films the animals and birds hidden in hedgerows, woods and fields beyond his garden. Hearing only the sounds of the wild and the cameraman's narration, we re-live his experiences of being there to capture month-by-month highlights such as hares boxin...

• Fellini's Casanova | DVD | (01/05/2010) from £11.59   |  Saving you £1.40 (12.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A film of rare visual daring and imagination in which each frame is meticulously and attentively designed Fellini's Casanova is one of the Italian maestro's most sumptuous productions. In an astonishing piece of screen acting Donald Sutherland portrays Casanova in his waning days engaging in various amorous and political adventures with an air of bored detachment as he travels through a disease-ridden Europe. Imbued with a romantic pessimism the film debunks the myth of Casanova as a great lover and instead presents him as an ordinary man swept along by extraordinary circumstances. Featuring a compelling and complex score by long-standing collaborator Nina Rota Fellini's Casanova also boasts Oscar-winning costume design by Danilo Donati. Shot entirely on the lavish soundstages of Rome's Cinecitta Studios the film is popularly viewed as the directors elegiac farewell to a bygone era of Italian Cinema.

• Wittmann vs Ekins - The Death of a Panzer Ace | DVD | (01/05/2010) from £16.42   |  Saving you £3.57 (21.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of two men destined to face each other on the battlefields of Normandy is told in this programme. Michael Wittmann was a knight of the Nazi empire a natural and accomplished soldier and highly decorated. Like Wittmann Trooper Joe Ekins a shoemaker from Northamptonshire was a volunteer for military service but there the similarities ended. Joe was a reluctant soldier in a county yeomanry armoured regiment while Wittmann served in the Waffen SS s elite Tiger Battalion. Panzer ace Wittmann had 138 tank kills to his name including an impressive score against 7th Armoured Division at Villers Bocage early in the Normandy Campaign but by August 1944 the Allied breakout was gaining momentum and I SS Panzer Corps were struggling to contain the British and Canadians as they fought towards Falaise. In the fields south of Caen Wittmann s Tiger and Joe Ekins s Sherman Firefly were pitted against each other but how was the Panzer Ace finally knocked out? Joe Ekins Veteran of the Battle of Normandy and the North West European Campaign Joe Ekins fought with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry and during Operation Totalise the British and Canadian breakout from the Normandy Beachhead he was a gunner in a Sherman Firefly. This was the only Allied tank that could knock out the much feared mighty German Tiger tank at anything other than the closest of ranges. During the desperate battle he knocked out three Tigers and a Panzer Mark IV. At the end of the war preferring the anonymity of being a shoemaker in civi-street Joe attempted to keep a low profile but over the years his achievement of knocking out the vaunted German SS panzer ace Michael Wittmann denied him obscurity. Stung by some wilful misrepresentation of facts and his views Joe has for the first time told his story for this DVD in full and in detail.

• Berliner Platz 2 NEU: Deutsch im Alltag. 2 Audio-CDs (Berliner Platz NEU): CDs zum Lehrbuchteil 2 (2) | DVD | (01/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• In the Driving Seat - PSHE/Citizenship DVD and lesson plan resource | DVD | (01/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Die Hard Trappola Di Cristallo (30th Anniversary Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (01/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A