British category: 24621 books
by Richard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
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John Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck tells the remarkable story of a Fleet Air Arm pilot and flying legend who, with a single torpedo strike, delivered from an obsolete biplane, in a force nine gale, in the middle of the Atlantic, brought about the sinking of Nazi Germany’s most...
The Benn Heresy
Foreword by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new edition of the classic biography of Tony Benn captures the essence of Benn’s formidable impact on the British Labour Party and British politics. Written at the apogee of his career, immediately after the Labour Party’s 1981 Deputy Leadership campaign under Harold Wilson, it charts the evolution...
British Invasion
The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
In The British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence, Simon Philo illustrates how this remarkable event in cultural history disrupted and even reversed pop culture’s default flow of influence, goods, and ideas— orchestrating a dramatic turn-around in the commercial fortunes of British...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The body of the «Other» – exotic, unfamiliar, fascinating – is the topic of this collection of essays on nineteenth-century British theatre. Arranged chronologically, the volume traces visual representations of the Other across the nineteenth century as well as their legacy in contemporary theatrical...
Borrowed Soldiers
Americans under British Command, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant...
Return of a King
The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.
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by Mike Ashley
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the...
by Hugh Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through our past, what would they be? Hugh Williams has made that...
Fatal Flight
The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship -- a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101...
Victory on the Western Front
The Development of the British Army 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Marshal Foch, the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War, commenting on the victories won during the Hundred Days when the Germans were driven back on the Western Front, said ‘Never at any time in history has the British army achieved greater results in...
by Drewey Wayne Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
American and British Writers in Mexico is the study that laid the foundation upon which subsequent examinations of Mexico's impact upon American and British letters have built. Chosen by the Mexican government to be placed, in translation, in its public libraries, the book was also referenced by Nobel...
by Frederic Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
On February 22, 1770, a group of teenagers began throwing stones and rocks at the home of British customs official Ebenezer Richardson, who tried to disperse the teens by firing a shot to scare the crowd. Instead, the bullet mortally wounded a teenager named Christopher Seider, who was accorded a full...
Bonds of Union
Practices and Representations of Political Union in the United Kingdom (18th-20th centuries)
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The appearance and development of a "Four Nations" slant on British history over the last two decades has in many ways pointed up "the Union" as an essential component of the national history or histories of the British Isles. "Four Nations" historians, however, have...
London is the Place for Me
Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity and imperial citizenship were considered...