British category: 24621 books
by Keith Layborn
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history. Reflecting the changes within British society and politics over the past century, the entries chart the development of key contemporary issues such as women's rights,...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
*Includes pictures of Wellington and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of ContentsBelieve me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Duke of Wellington, at WaterlooA lot of ink has been spilled...
by Sophie Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The British system of interrogation has always been distinctly different from other countries. Subtler, quieter and far more devious than its contemporaries, it has been admired by those who have inadvertently succumbed to it. So much so that the Nazis adopted some of the British methods in their...
Female Intelligence
Women and Espionage in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914, Marthe Cnockaert’s home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a German hospital, and winning the Iron Cross for her service to the Reich, she was approached by a neighbor and invited to become an intelligence agent...
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by Sir John William Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny]
By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. This inherent...
Lords of the Desert
The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent lessons for the present day
We usually assume that Arab nationalism brought about the end of the British Empire in the Middle East--that Gamal Abdel Nasser and other...
British Flying Legends
Guy Gibson Legend of the Dam Busters; John Moffat Legend of the Bismarck; RJ Mitchell Legend of the Spitfire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
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Guy Gibson: Legend of the Dam Busters John Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck RJ Mitchell: Legend of the Spitfire
This edition of 'British Flying Legends' by Richard Edwards is published by rabbit & snail and combines three chapters, each focusing...
by Major Bradley T. Gericke
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The military organization of nation states and their employment of armies are central aspects of early modern European history. The seventeenth century was particularly a period of transformation that witnessed drastic change in armies’ preparation for and execution of military campaigns. To date,...
by Richard Aldrich, Rory Cormac
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council. Intelligence can do a prime minister’s dirty work. For more than a century, secret wars have...
The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814
The Struggle for History's Authority
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself,...
Never Come to Peace Again
Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imperial. The conflict known as Pontiac’s Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of this volatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account...
by James Panton
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
The monarch is the United Kingdom's head of state, exercising powers that are circumscribed by common law, convention, and statute law. Nowadays, many of the sovereign's functions are ceremonial but in the past the balance between ceremony and decision-making was very different. The foundations of...
The First Day on the Somme
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7.30 am. On 1 July 1916 the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social, economic, and cultural developments throughout the British Isles, the dramatic narrative is taken up in turn by...