Conway imprint: 59 books
Harry's War
A British Tommy's experiences in the trenches in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This touching, brutally honest diary of a First World War soldier makes a fascinating contribution to our understanding of what life was like for the British Tommy. It combines frank, unadorned prose with the author's own evocative paintings to form a unique historical document, admirable for its unromantic,...
An Officer's Manual of the Western Front
1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Many people have the idea that the 'Great War' on the Western Front was simple, if ghastly, to fight – with few tactics, and unbroken, monotonous, trench lines as the main feature of the battlefield. In such a scenario the archetypal image of battle is of soldiers with rifles and bayonets charging...
Empire of the Seas
How the navy forged the modern world
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This new book, a tie-in to a major BBC TV series presented by Dan Snow, is written by one of the nation's foremost naval historians, and tells the story of how the Royal Navy shaped the politics, culture and economy of Britain, leaving its imprint on everything from our landscape, to our democracy and...
Churchill's Navy
The ships, people and organisation, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
In this remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, Brian Lavery examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was put under acute strain during the period, yet rose to the...
The Adventurer's Guide to Britain
150 incredible experiences on land and water
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
This exciting, inspiring and informative guide is perfect for anyone who loves a challenge and an adventure. There are soaring ridgelines to run, exciting river descents to swim, secret coves to explore by boat, and achievable interesting scrambles, all in stunning locations.
Each of the 150 featured...
by George Bradshaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Hard to put down ... truthful and opinionated, often funny but never predictable ... the finest travelling companion.' – Michael Portillo on Bradshaw
Unavailable for many years and much sought after, this classic guide book is now faithfully reissued for a new generation. Bradshaw's Railway...
Bradshaw's Railway Handbook Vol 4
Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertford, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Rutland, Leicester, Nottingham, …& the South-Eastern Counties of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
'Hard to put down ... truthful and opinionated, often funny but never predictable ... the finest travelling companion.' – Michael Portillo on Bradshaw
A superb guide to Britain's villages, towns and connecting railways, dating from 1866. Unavailable for many years and much sought after, this...
Bradshaw's Railway Handbook Vol 2
Tours in North and South Wales (Plus Western and Southwestern England and parts of Ireland)
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
'Hard to put down ... truthful and opinionated, often funny but never predictable ... the finest travelling companion.' – Michael Portillo on Bradshaw
A superb guide to Britain's villages, towns and connecting railways, dating from 1866. Unavailable for many years and much sought after, this...
Captain of the Carpathia
The seafaring life of Titanic hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of 15 April 1912, Captain Arthur Rostron raced the Cunard liner Carpathia to the scene of the sinking, rescued the seven hundred survivors of the world's most famous shipwreck and then carried them to safety at New York. After twenty-five years...
The Tattie Lads
The untold story of the Rescue Tug Service in two world wars and its battles to save cargoes, ships and lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Enduring great danger and often terrible conditions in heavy seas, the Rescue Tug Services worked tirelessly to bring to port damaged vessels and keep up the supply of food and essential items during two world wars.They were first deployed towards the end of the First World War to support and if necessary...
by Huw Lewis-Jones, Kari Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very end of the earth, as two men raced to conquer the South Pole. A hundred years after Roald Amundsen's triumph and Robert Scott's tragic demise, our fascination with the Antarctic remains as acute as ever....
The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual
1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most famous and successful heavy bomber of the Second World War. Used predominantly at night, 'Lancs' dropped 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties in the period 1942-1945. Some of these missions were incredibly daring – notably the 'dambusters' raid of 617 squadron...
Britain's Living Past
A Celebration of Britain's Surviving Traditional Cultural and Working Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Britain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community. It is a book in which the emphasis is very much on the word 'living'; looking at traditions, pastimes and working practices, some centuries old, that survive...
by Chris Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Hornby is a household name with a history that goes back over 80 years. This book looks at the Hornby range in depth, and shows how Hornby models can be used to build a model railway layout to suit the space available and all levels of modelling skill.
Now completely revised and updated, it...