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The Potter Cook Book
Over 150 Magical Recipes to bring to your Table
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Harry Potter's first taste of Hogwarts, as it were, is an eye- opener. While the Dursleys did not completely neglect to feed Harry, they never allowed him to eat as much as he wanted. So at his first Hogwarts feast, for the first time in his short life, he is allowed to eat as much as he likes (see...
Female Alliances
Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length...
British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature
Alternative domestic spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Embraced for the dramatic opportunities afforded by a house full of strangers, the British boarding house emerged as a setting for novels published during the interwar period by a diverse range of women writers from Stella Gibbons to Virginia Woolf. To use the single room in the boarding house or...
by Lt.-Col J. H. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
“Rare account by the C.O. of the Judeans - a unit of Jewish Zionists within the British army who helped drive the Ottoman Turks out of Palestine in 1917-18.
This is an extraordinary account of one of the most unusual units ever to have fought in the ranks of the British army. ‘The Judeans’ were...
It Happens with Gurkhas
Tales from an English Nepali, 1944-2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Gurkhas have served with the British for almost 200 years, first with the army of the East India Company, then with the Indian Army of the Raj, and then in 1947 becoming an integral part of the British Army. This anthology of articles from The Kukri by J. P. Cross covers much of the past sixty years...
Special Force
The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS)
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
The exploits of the British Army's elite 22nd Special Air Service Regiment - the regiment of the SAS that forms part of the Regular army - are shrouded in mystery and myths abound about its members. But what is the truth behind the public façade of clinical professionalism? How has such a small regiment...
Raising Churchill's Army
The British Army and the War against Germany 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2001
This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War. It sweeps away the myth that the army suffered from poor morale, and that it only won its battles thorugh the use of 'brute force' and by reverting to the techniques of the First World War. David...
We March Against England
Operation Sea Lion, 1940–41
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain – and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines, and the wearing...
by Nicholas Fellows, Mary Dicken
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 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...
by Andrew Holland, Nicholas Fellows
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 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...
by Andrew Holland, Nicholas Fellows, Mary Dicken
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 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...
by Viscount James Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
*Includes Volume 1 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...
Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century
A Tough Ask in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This volume is devoted to the shaping of British foreign and defence policymaking in the twentieth century and illustrates why it's relatively easy for states to lose their way as they grope for a safe passage forward when confronted by mounting international crises and the antics of a few desperate men.
by Ray Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
In his Army Reforms of 1906/07 the Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane, provided for an expeditionary force the Regular Army supplemented by the old Militia and a new organisation intended for home defence, the Territorial Force. This new 'Citizen's Army' was formed by the transfer...