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Battle of Britain
An Epic Conflict Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
In time for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, we now have—thanks to Swedish historian Bergström—perhaps the most thorough, expert examination of the topic ever written. Illustrated throughout with maps and rare photos, plus a color section closely depicting the aircraft, this work...
by G. L. D. Alderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The British Army has always set great store by its cap badges, which, in miniature, encapsulated the history and traditions of the units that wore them. They were worn with pride by the County regiments (that formed the bulk of the infantry) throughout the two world wars. Here is a comprehensive illustrated...
British Battlefields - Volume 1 - The South
Battles That Changed The Course Of British History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Very few living men have taken part in a battle, and many must wonder how they would acquit themselves if ever they had to. A medieval battle was a very complex affair; it was far from being a simple kill or be killed. It could be won or lost at any stage; it could turn on the action of one man, and...
British Battlefields - Volume 4 - Scotland & The Border
Battles That Changed The Course Of British History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Very few living men have taken part in a battle, and many must wonder how they would acquit themselves if ever they had to. A medieval battle was a very complex affair; it was far from being a simple kill or be killed. It could be won or lost at any stage; it could turn on the action of one man, and...
British Battlefields - Volume 2 - The North
Battles That Changed The Course Of British History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Very few living men have taken part in a battle, and many must wonder how they would acquit themselves if ever they had to. A medieval battle was a very complex affair; it was far from being a simple kill or be killed. It could be won or lost at any stage; it could turn on the action of one man, and...
Britain's Anglo-Indians
The Invisibility of Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Anglo-Indians form the human legacy created and left behind on the Indian subcontinent by European imperialism. When Independence was achieved from the British Raj in 1947, an exodus numbering an estimated 50,000 emigrated to Great Britain between 1948–62, under the terms of the British Nationality...
by Major-General Sir Charles E. Calwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
These two volumes form the official biography of Sir Henry Wilson, a key figure in the British Army during the First World War, who was a passionate “Westerner” and advocate of the Anglo-French alliance. Major-General C. E. Callwell recounts the story of the outspoken, opinionated and well connected...
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by Lieut.-Col. W. S. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Over 40 Illustrations of the officers, men and battles they engaged in.
The Rifle Brigade has a long and distinguished history in the British Army as a corps of elite troops with a fighting pedigree stretching back to the times of Wellington, the Peninsular War and Waterloo. During the First World...
by Robert Leader
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Containing: death, Danes, and disaster in Dark Age Ipswich! Saxons at Sutton Hoo! The castles are burning! Attacks, rebellions, battles, and wars in ancient Suffolk. Queen of blood and fire! The dark days of Bloody Mary revealed! Tower of ghosts! A grim tale of storms and specters in ancient Dunwich....
Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints that cast Methodists as primitive, irrational, or deluded also betrayed a thinly cloaked fascination...
Victorians Against the Gallows
Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there was a growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding...
The British World and an Australian National Identity
Anglo-Australian Cricket, 1860–1901
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book explores the dynamics of Anglo-Australian cricketing relations within the ‘British World’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores what these interactions can tell us about broader Anglo-Australian relations during this period and, in particular, the evolution...
by Adela Pinch
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thing to do. In this book, Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or...
The Flyer
British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin Francis provides the first scholarly study of the...