Max Arthur: 25 books
by Max Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular ‘Forgotten Voices’ series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era. The Edwardian era is often eclipsed in the popular imagination by the Victorian era that preceded it and the First World War that followed. In...
Dambusters
A Landmark Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
On the night of 16-17 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron headed for Germany. Their mission, for which they had been trained under a cloak of absolute secrecy, was to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley and in doing so cripple the Nazi industrial war effort. It was to become one...
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War
A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers spent hundreds of hours digging deep into this...
by Max Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Acclaimed historian Max Arthur pays tribute to the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1945. Drawing on the personal stories of those who have served during this period, he has created a unique narrative history of the senior service.
FORGOTTEN VOICES: THE ROYAL NAVY is a memorable and moving testament...
by Max Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Max Arthur, bestselling author of FORGOTTEN VOICES: THE GREAT WAR, presents this moving collection of first-hand accounts of life in the Royal Air Force, from 1918 to the present day.
LOST VOICES OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE records the role of the RAF in World War II, and, particularly, the Battle...
The Busby Babes
Men of Magic
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
On 6 February 1958, a plane took off from a snowy Munich airport carrying probably the finest club side the world has ever known. Moments later, the aircraft crashed, killing some of the most legendary names in British football. This book is dedicated to those players - Roger Byrne, Tommy Taylor,...
Last Post
The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The 'Forgotten Voices' of the First World War speak for the final time.
LAST POST is very consciously the last word from the handful of First World War survivors who were left alive in 2004. Now they have passed away, our final human connection with the First World War has been broken.
Max...
by Max Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Personal stories from the men and women who volunteered to fight for a cause they passionately believed in. The Spanish Civil War, which raged from 1936-9, was a brutal and intense war which claimed well over 500,000 lives. Rightly predicting that the rise of Fascism in Spain could develop into a...
The Paras
'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Tough, highly adaptable and efficient, the Parachute Regiment has established itself as one of the finest fighting forces in the world. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its founding, renowned historian Max Arthur has compiled this enthralling oral history of the modern Parachute Regiment.
This...
by Max Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important...
Last of the Few
The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Full of eyewitness accounts from those who fought in the early days of World War II “You couldn’t get closer to the Battle of Britain than this book” (Aviation Book Reviews).
After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk—and...
We Will Remember Them
Voices From The Aftermath Of The Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
How the men and women of Britain found 'the road home' after the Great War. From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE LOST POST.
11am, 11.11.1918: the war is finally over.
After four long years Britain welcomed her heroes home. Wives and mothers were reunited with loved ones they'd...
Naga Queen
Ursula Graham Bower and Her Jungle Warriors, 1939-45
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
In 1937, Ursula Bower visited Nagaland at the invitation of a friend, and on a dispensary tour encountered the Naga people. She was so taken was with their striking dignity, tribal pride, and unique culture that she arranged to live among them to write an anthropological study. But she became more...
The Road Home
The Aftermath of the Great War Told by the Men and Women Who Survived It
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
How the men and women of Britain found 'the road home' after the Great War. From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE LOST POST.
11am, 11.11.1918: the war is finally over.
After four long years Britain welcomed her heroes home. Wives and mothers were reunited with loved ones they'd...
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