Phil Carradice: 33 books
by Phil Carradice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
At the beginning of the year, the Battle of Guadalcanal was still raging on, but the Americans had secured their first complete victory in the Pacific by the end of February, although the war in this theatre was far from over, with several further engagements taking place throughout the year. ‘Black...
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
The Great War
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
The Great War - An Illustrated History looks at the causes of the war and the actual events themselves. Naturally, much of it covers the war on the Western Front but there are also sections about other theatres of war - the Middle East, Gallipoli, the war in Africa, etc. The war at sea and in the...
Bay of Pigs
CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, badly organized, the affair was littered with mistakes...
Charles Dickens
A Pictorial History of the World's Greatest Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr...
by Phil Carradice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Behind Many Doors is a vivid and revealing portrait of an Edwardian psychiatric hospital in Cardiff, created by those who know it most intimately. Whitchurch Hospital, formerly Cardiff Asylum, will cease to admit in-patients from 2016, marking the beginning of its gradual closure over the following...
Masada
Mass Suicide in the First Jewish-Roman War, c. AD 73
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In the spring of 73 AD the rock fortress of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea was the site of an event that was breathtaking in its courage and self-sacrifice. Here the last of the Jewish Zealots who, for nearly eight years, had waged war against the Roman occupiers of their country made...
by Phil Carradice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Herbert Williams is one of Wales' most celebrated and distinguished writers. A man of many talents, he is a poet, novelist, short story writer and historian. This book provides a critical survey of his life and writing. It is a combination of biography and critical appraisal and the chapters dovetail...
by Phil Carradice
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
It's November 1953 and Dylan Thomas, Britain's finest poet, is dying in a hospital bed in New York. What brought him to this end is not clear. But he is a man tormented by fear - fear of failing as a writer, fear of a marriage doomed to end in disaster, even fear of death itself - all of which have...
Pembroke Dock 1814-2014
A Bicentennial Look Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In 2014 Pembroke Dock celebrates 200 years since its founding, when a Royal Dockyard - the only one ever to exist in Wales - was established here on the banks of Milford Haven. The dockyard was the reason for the rapid development of the town, with people from rural Pembrokeshire and from all around...
A Town Built to Build Ships
The History of Pembroke Dock
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The story of Pembroke Dock is one of triumph and disaster, of hope and terrible failure. Nearly three hundred ships were built in the yards, including some of the most powerful ships in Queen Victoria's navy - as well as four famous Royal Yachts. Then in 1926, the dockyard was suddenly closed, leaving...
The Zeppelin
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
For a brief period in the early Twentieth Century, it seemed as if the future of air travel lay with the giant airships of Count von Zeppelin. The First World War ended that dream, fixed-wing aircraft superseding the slow moving and unwieldy airships. As weapons of war, the Zeppelins were never truly...
by Phil Carradice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The four years between 1914 and 1918 saw an incredible growth in air power. Beginning with the flimsy early aircraft, seemingly held together just by string and fabric, the author paints a picture of a bygone era when nobody knew quite what could be achieved, or how aircraft could be used. From the...
1914 The First World War at Sea in photographs
Grand Fleet vs German Navy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The arms race that led to the First World War started in 1897 at the Spithead Naval Review, when Kaiser Wilhelm saw the might of Britain's Navy. He wanted to equal or better the fleet of Britain, and set about a huge building programme of warships. By 1914, tensions in Europe were at a breaking point...