Conway imprint: 59 books
by John Jordan, Stephen Dent
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Warship 2016 is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery...
Nelson's Victory
101 Questions and Answers About HMS Victory, Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar 1805
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
With the approach of the 200th anniversary of the Royal Navy's greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on October 21st 1805, much attention will be given to our most tangible symbol of that most ferocious engagement, Nelson's fully preserved flagship HMS Victory. Much has been written about HMS Victory...
The Commando Pocket Manual
1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Commandos were created by Winston Churchill in 1940 as a 'butcher and bolt' raiding unit to destroy vital targets in German occupied Europe. Recruits for this 'special service' were all volunteers, drawn from the British Army, and later from the Royal Marines and other Allied armies. Commando training...
A Family in Wartime
How the second world war shaped the lives of a generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
During the Second World War the fabric of family life radically changed. Men left to join the front line, some never to return. Women entered the workforce on a scale not seen before, some to join the services, others to enter the factories. Mothers were separated from their children, or raised them...
by John Jordan, Stephen Dent
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Warship 2017 is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery...
Churchill Goes to War
Winston's Wartime Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
More than an account of Churchill's momentous meetings with Roosevelt, Stalin and other leaders at the height of the Second World War, this book illuminates the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of global war. No life was more...
by John Jordan, John Jordan, Stephen Dent
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Warship 2015 is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery...
The Girl Outdoors
The Wild Girl’s Guide to Adventure, Travel and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
An adventurous best mate in book form, The Girl Outdoors offers up support and knowledge and empowers the reader, whether she's thinking about cycling the length of Vietnam or just needs some help fixing her bike. Packed with stunning photography, the book is organised into four main parts:
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Winston Churchill Soldier
The military life of a gentleman at war
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
As a young man Winston Churchill set out to become a hero, to make a name for himself in the public eye as a soldier and so make possible a life of politics and statesmanship. There were many chances to fail and many close calls in the face of sword, spear and bullet along the way. Yet Churchill survived...
The Kaiser's Army
The German Army in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In this comprehensive book, David Stone describes and analyses every aspect of the German Army as it existed under Kaiser Wilhelm II, encompassing its development and antecedents, organisation, personnel, weapons and equipment, its inherent strengths and weaknesses, and its victories and defeats as...
Twilight of the Gods
The decline and fall of the German General Staff in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
When Hitler enabled the transformation of the Truppenamt into the general staff in 1935, General Beck saw an opportunity to re-establish a command of great power and influence that would act as a stabilising influence on Germany as a whole. Such a vision ran directly contrary to Hitler's ideology, however,...
Hitler's Army
The men, machines and organisation 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
'I swear by God this sacred oath that I shall render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler, the Führer of the German Reich, supreme commander of the armed forces, and that I shall at all times be prepared, as a brave soldier, to give my life for this oath.' (German armed forces oath of loyalty, instituted...
Take the Slow Road: England and Wales
Inspirational Journeys Round England and Wales by Camper Van and Motorhome
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Forget hurrying. Forget putting your foot down and racing through sweeping bends. Forget the understeer (whatever that is). Forget the blur of a life lived too fast. This is a look at taking life slowly. It's about taking the time to enjoy journeys and places for their own sake. It's about stopping...
The Complete Scrimgeour
From Dartmouth to Jutland 1913–16
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
'Rape, Ravage and Rant are the German watchwords in this war. Right, Revenge & Retrenchment shall be ours.' Alexander Scrimgeour, 17th September 1914.
Most published war diaries have been written by soldiers but Alexander Scrimgeour was a naval officer who was killed at the Battle of Jutland...