British list 49

Queen and Country

Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-45

by Emma Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

Using a rich array of oral histories and previously unseen archival sources, Queen and country provides the first detailed academic study of the complex intersection between same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945. It illuminates how men and women lived,...

The Last Lion: Volume 2

Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940

by William Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

The second volume of William Manchester's masterful account of Winston Churchill's life. Alone is the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this volume, we witness the war within, before the colossal war to come. During this period,...

OCR A Level History: Britain 1603-1760

by Nicholas Fellows, Mary Dicken
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015

Exam Board: OCR Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 This is an OCR endorsed resource Build strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the in-depth analysis and structured support in this tailor-made series for OCR's British...

The Duke

by Philip Guedalla
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), was the outstanding soldier of his age. He joined the army and rose rapidly to command a Division in India. After great military and administrative success, he was knighted on his return to England in 1805, and in 1809 this ‘sepoy general’...

Koh-i-Noor

The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

by William Dalrymple, Anita Anand
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the...

Studies in History and Jurisprudence: Volume 2 (Illustrated Edition)

by Viscount James Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012

*Includes Volume 2 of Bryces essays and articles on the Roman and British Empires, constitutional history and theory in the United States, sovereignty, the law of nature, and legal history. Viscount James Bryce (1838-1922) was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician who was well...

All the King's Men

by Robert Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012

First published in 1988, this is the story of how Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, infiltrated Henri Déricourt, double agent extraordinaire, into the rival British wartime secret service, SOE. The ensuing trail of destruction and betrayal led to the loss of over four hundred British and French...

Clement Attlee

The Man Who Made Modern Britain

by John Bew
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill's wartime heroics and larger-than-life personality propelled him to the center of the world stage. To most, he remains Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister, his fame and charisma overshadowing those who followed in his footsteps....

The First Seven Divisions, Being A Detailed Account Of The Fighting From Mons To Ypres. [Illustrated Edition]

by Captain Lord Ernest William Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012

The opening of the First World War pitted the huge continental armies against each other; massed conscription filled their ranks, Britain’s soldiers, however, were to a man volunteer, long-service professionals. Disciplined, few in number but thoroughly trained to shoot 15 aimed shoots in a “mad-minute”,...

Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

by Mark G. Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by...

That Sweet Enemy

Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship

by Robert Tombs, Isabelle Tombs
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009

That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel...

The Model Occupation

The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945

by Madeleine Bunting
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014

‘A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph What would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people have responded – with resistance or collaboration? In Madeleine Bunting’s pioneering...

A Damn Close-Run Thing

A Brief History of the Falklands War

by Russell Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011

In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs,...

Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

by Richard Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011

Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them. Delving into the history of the period – charting events including Wolfe's victory and death at Quebec, Wellington's Peninsular...