British category: 24621 books
Seize the Fire
Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero?...
Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry
A Home Child Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide "white stock" and cheap labour. In Marjorie's case, she was sent to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, just north of...
Outposts
Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the...
The Defence Of Lucknow, A Diary Recording The Daily Events During The Siege Of The European Residency
From 31st May To 25th Sept. 1857 [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
Originally published anonymously as by a “Staff Officer”, Captain Thomas Wilson’s memoirs are as gripping and vivid as any that a British officer wrote of the...
Every Man Will Do His Duty
An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793–1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Napoleonic-era accounts of life aboard Royal Navy warships: “Readers of Patrick O’Brian and C. S. Forester will enjoy this collection” (Library Journal).
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal...
by Professor Andrew Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
Thorpe's book is widely seen as the best single-volume study of the whole of the Labour party's history. Now thoroughly updated in the light of ongoing historiographical debates, this third edition brings the story up to the present with new and revised chapters on the development of 'New Labour' and the legacy of the Blair government.
David Waddington Memoirs
Dispatches From Margaret Thatcher's Last Home Secretary
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
As a lynchpin of Margaret Thatcher's final Cabinet, David Waddington was at the heart of British politics at the passing of arguably the most defining government of the twentieth century. His memoirs are a testament to many years of loyal service to the Conservative Party, first as a determined constituency...
by Jack Treby
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
"You'll never get me up in one of those things. They're absolutely lethal."
Seville, 1931. Six months after the loss of the British airship the R101, a German Zeppelin is coming in to land in Southern Spain.
Hilary Manningham-Butler is an MI5 operative eking out a pitiful existence...
The Grand Alliance
The Second World War, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In this third volume of a six-volume series, Winston Churchill draws upon thousands of personal memoranda, war correspondence, and internal government memos to describe the full entry of the US into World War II--adding considerable strength to British military operations and morale. While America...
The Hinge of Fate
The Second World War, Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
At the onset of the fourth volume of Churchill's masterful eyewitness history of World War II, prospects are bleak for the Allies. The Japanese have captured Singapore and Burma in a series of bold offensives; meanwhile, aggressive U-boat attacks in the Atlantic were preventing American, British,...
Royal Bastards
Illegitimate Children of the British Royal Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Since 1066 when William the Conqueror took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowledged at court and founded dynasties of their own; several of today's dukedoms are descended from them. Others were only acknowledged grudgingly or not...
Unfinished Empire
The Global Expansion of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain's imperium-a work that...
by Alan Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions...
Britain's Empire
Resistance, Repression and Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Britain’s Empire reveals a history of systemic repression and almost continual violence, showing how British rule...