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by Michael Foley
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Before the First World War, Essex was a very different county from that which we know today. The economy was largely based on agriculture, and its people rarely travelled beyond its borders, or even out of their towns or villages. The war opened up a whole new world for the people of Essex. Men from...
Station 43
Audley End House and SOE's Polish Section
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
Audley End House in Essex - or Station 43 as it was known during the Second World War - was used as the principal training school for SOE's Polish Section between 1942 and 1944. Polish agents at Audley End undertook a series of arduous training courses in all aspects of guerrilla warfare before being...
Assault on Sicily
Monty and Patton at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
On the night of 9/10 July 1943, an Allied armada of 2,590 vessels launched one of the largest combined operations of the Second World War - the invasion of Sicily, Operation 'Husky'. Over the next 38 days, half a million British, Canadian, American and French soldiers, sailors, and airmen grappled...
Crimson Snow
Britain's First Disaster in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
"We must see what the morning brings and then think what can be done," said Major General Elphinstone, when told of the rampaging mob outside his residency in Kabul, 1841. Was former Prime Minister Tony Blair wrong in 2001 to allow Britain to be drawn into a fourth conflict in Afghanistan,...
by Robert Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The Doncaster Rovers Miscellany is jam-packed with facts, stats, trivia, stories, and legends. Featured here are an abundance of stories about the club from its inception in 1879 to the present day. Here you will find player feats, individual records, and plenty of weird and wonderful tales, quotes...
by Michelle Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
It is a commonly held assumption that all Victorian prisons were grim, abhorrent places, loathed by their inmates. This is undoubtedly an accurate description of many English prisons in the nineteenth century However, because of the way in which prisons were run, there were two distinct types: convict...
Men Behind the Medals
A New Selection
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Of the many characteristics that emerge in warfare, none generates more admiration than gallantry. Using medal groups chosen for their unique combinations of gallantry and campaign awards, Graham Pitchfork pays tribute to the bravery of 20 Allied airmen who flew combat operations during World War...
Waterloo 1815
The British Army's Day of Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
A major reassessment of the battle from one of the world's leading authorities, to commemorate the 2015 bicentenaryThe Battle of Waterloo is one of the most important moments in military history. This book seeks to not only tell the story of this great battle, but also to challenge conventional thinking...
VCs Handbook
The Western Front 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
On the Western Front during the First World War, 490 men won the British Empire's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. An indispensible companion for any visitor to the First World War battlefields in France and Flanders, this concise reference book lists every VC recipient from 1914 to...
Blitz Hospital
True Stories of Nursing in Wartime London
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
As the German Luftwaffe subjected Britain's major cities and ports to unremitting waves of aerial bombardment, doctors, nurses, and first aiders constantly risked their lives to give urgent treatment to the severely wounded. Over 80,000 casualties were sustained during this period and city hospitals,...
Dangerous Work
The Memoir of Private George Weeks of the Labour Corps 1917-1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
A new history by a soldier who took part, as a laborer, in all the great battles of 1917, 1918, and the Army of Occupation of 1919Some days the amount of bodies to be reburied was so numerous that hardly any construction work was accomplished. It wasn't long before the line Regiments in the trenches...
Carlow War Dead
A History of the Casualties of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Following on from the success of the War Dead series in counties Tipperary, Wexford, Wicklow ,and Offaly, Tom Burnell now turns his attention to County Carlow and the unfortunate soldiers from this area who lost their lives during World War I. After tireless research, Tom Burnell has put together...
by Peter Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
1 April 2018 will see the hundredth anniversary of the formation of one of the UK's primary and best-respected armed forces: the Royal Air Force. Born from the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service, whose service – mainly in reconnaissance – in the First World War was exemplary, the RAF...
by Marc Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Britain's rich and varied folklore, legends and beliefs provide a unique insight into the island's turbulent history. Every invader, refugee or settler has helped contribute some new element or twist to the complex pattern of our national heritage, and new myths are still in the making. This volume...