Anthony Jones: 68 books
The Vietnam War
The Tet Offensive 1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
On 30 January 1968 the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack – the Tet Offensive – across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved to be a major psychological victory for the...
Word Drops
A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, that scandal derives from the Latin for “stumbling block” and originally described a trap for a wild animal? In nineteenth-century...
by Paul Anthony Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Brimming with hidden histories and tantalizing twists, The Accidental Dictionary tells the extraordinary stories behind ordinary words.
Our everyday language is full of surprises; its origins are stranger than you might think. Any word might be knocked and buffeted, subjected to twists and...
Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons
The Origins of English in Ten Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
What do the following ten words all have in common - haggard, mews, codger, arouse, musket, poltroon, gorge, allure, pounce and turn-tail? All fairly familiar and straightforward words, after a little digging into their histories it turns out that all of them derive from falconry: the adjective haggard...
Jedburgh Justice and Kentish Fire
The Origins of English in Ten Phrases and Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Did you know that Jedburgh Justice is `executing someone first, then giving them a trial?? Or that Kentish Fire is `applauding sarcastically to silence your opponents??
From the author of Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons, this is a fascinating collection of curious phrases and expressions...
by Anthony Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
The Seven Devils of Hell have been summoned to Naraka, the capital city. There is unrest throughout the regions regarding the Emperial Empress Lilith's son. Something must be done with this young trouble maker before things get out of hand in the underworld and only Lucifer has the answer.
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities
A Yearbook of Forgotten Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2019
Open The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities and you’ll find both a word and a day to remember, every day of the year. Each day has its own dedicated entry, on which a curious or notable event—and an equally curious or notable word—are explored.
On the day on which flirting was banned in New York...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
The German Tiger I and Tiger II (known to the Allies as the 'King Tiger' or 'Royal Tiger') were the most famous and formidable heavy tanks of the Second World War. In their day their awesome reputation inspired such apprehension among Allied soldiers that the weaknesses of these brilliant but flawed...
Daesh
Islamic State’s Holy War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Anthony Tucker-Jones is only too familiar with the modern architects of terror. For the past decade and a half he has worked as the terrorism and security correspondent for the highly respected intersec – The Journal of International Security. During that time he has written extensively on al Qaeda...
Operation Dragoon
The Liberation of Southern France 1944
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, is often seen as a sideshow supporting Operation Overlord, the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. And often the operation is criticized as an expensive diversion of men and equipment from the struggle against the German...
Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign
1943 to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The Second World War campaigns in North Africa, on the Eastern Front and in northwest Europe were dominated by armored warfare, but the battles in Italy were not. The mountainous topography of the Italian peninsula ensured that it was foremost an infantry war, so it could be said that tanks played...
Stalin's Revenge
Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history. Operation Bagration - launched almost exactly three years after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union - was Stalin's retribution for Hitler's Operation Barbarossa.
Earlier battles...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s series of photographic histories of armored warfare records in graphic detail the role played by tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery during the decisive campaign in northwest Europe in 1944-5. In a sequence of over 200 archive...
The Rise of Militant Islam
An Insider’s View of the Failure to Curb Global Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
At the end of the Cold War the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction replaced the Soviet Union as the new enemy of world peace. The pariah WMD states became enemy No. 1. The significance of militant Islam’s growing disgust with Western foreign policy and apparent indifference to the suffering...