Peter Hart: 19 books
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
A Combat History of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The...
Fire and Movement
The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended. The British Expeditionary Force fought a mesmerizing campaign, outnumbered and outflanked but courageous and skillful, holding the line against impossible odds, sacrificing themselves to stop the last great...
Voices from the Front
An Oral History of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Peter Hart, then a young oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, conducted 183 interviews with British World War I veterans. After the death of the last veteran in 2009, these interviews have become a rare and invaluable record of the Great War, as remembered...
The Last Battle
Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Author of The Great War, as well as celebrated accounts of the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Jutland, and Gallipoli, historian Peter Hart now turns to World War One's final months. Much has been made of-and written about-August 1914. There has been comparatively little focus on August 1918...
by Peter Hart
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings--which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from airplanes overhead--to the desperate...
by Peter Hart
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
One of the bloodiest battles in world history—a military tragedy that would come to define a generation.
On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the “Big Push” that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between British, French, and German forces....
Bloody April
Slaughter in the Skies Over Arras, 1917
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917
As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete planes. The new German Albatros scouts massively...
by Peter Hart
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the...
The 2nd Norfolk Regiment
From Le Paradis to Kohima
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the...
The Oh Really? Factor
Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Since emerging from tabloid-television infamy as the former host of Inside Edition, Bill O’Reilly has taken his brand of provocative rhetoric to the next level: from shock-TV to the No Spin Zone. Despite his outspoken support for Bush’s tax cuts and a war with Iraq, and his attacks on everything...
Somme Success
The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of The Somme 1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
High above the blood soaked trenches of the Somme during the Summer and Autumn of 1916, the Royal Flying Corps were acting out - and winning - one of the first great aerial battles of history.
Even in those pioneering days of flying, primitive aircraft flown by brave young men were of significant...
Aces Falling
War Above The Trenches, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western Front
At the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their enemies, as each side struggled to keep control...
Jutland, 1916
Death in the Grey Wastes
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.
On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries,...
by Peter Hart
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Combine the thrill, freedom and exhilaration of surfing, skiing and sailing, and you have an understanding of the attraction of windsurfing. This book is the ultimate guide to windsurfing; packed full of information and with photographs by John Carter, it offers a full explanation of equipment, a...
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