For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross will be the definitive work on the subject and compelling as a narrative as well as the ultimate reference source. This ambituous project in association with The Victoria Cross Trust will be pub...Loe edasi...
For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross will be the definitive work on the subject and compelling as a narrative as well as the ultimate reference source. This ambituous project in association with The Victoria Cross Trust will be pub...Loe edasi...
More than a century has passed since the arrival of British, French, and Italian forces in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The almost five-year-long occupation of the city that followed remains larg...Loe edasi...
Encouraged by the success of an attack on Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917, Field Marshal Haig ordered that his generals should continue their preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres. Delayed due to a number of reasons, one of which was poor weather,...Loe edasi...
Journey to the Western Front was first published in 1936; Ralph Mottram served on the Western Front for most of the war, first with the Royal Norfolks and then as a liaison with the civilians in the forward zone of the BEF, mainly on the Franco-Belgi...Loe edasi...
Winston Churchill is famous these days primarily for his role as the wartime leader of the British Empire during World War 2. He led Britain through the darkest days of the war and won timeless fame through his defiant oratorical eloquence in defendi...Loe edasi...
As well as over 60 million soldiers who fought in the First World War, 16 million animals also ‘served’ and suffered colossal casualties. Over 8 million horses died, as did tens of thousands of dogs, cats and pigeons. They were killed hauling guns, r...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the dramatic events below the Passchendaele ridge on 9 October 1917, the author has drawn on British, Australian and German sources to reconstruct the battle in unprecedented detail. This thoroughly researched study relates the story of...Loe edasi...
Predicted to fail and outnumbered and outgunned, the National Guardsmen who withstood the last German onslaught of World War I The Champagne-Marne Defensive in July 1918 occurred at a crucial moment in World War I and proved to be the tur...Loe edasi...
Major Thomas Falcon Hazell DSO, MC, DFC and bar, Britain and Irelands most successful fighter ace to survive the Great War, is one of the unsung heroes who out-fought Herrman Goerings Jasta and duelled with Ernst Udet, second only to Baron von Richt...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192843784)
The story of Churchills relationship with the various kings and queens he served during his long political career, from his time as a radical Liberal under Edward VII, through his Finest Hour in the Second World War, to his last premiership under El...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668074749)
From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world’s most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, whose...Loe edasi...
How did an Anglo-Indian division, fighting its first battle, in an obscure sideshow, facing the worst environmental conditions, fight and win what is possibly the most perfectly fought battle of the First World War Histories of the Mesopotamia (Iraq)...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009769723)
Blending social, cultural, and political history, this book reveals how and why Americans mobilized the nations youth during World War I. It is for students and scholars interested in American history, the history of childhood, World War I, foreign...Loe edasi...
Blending social, cultural, and political history, this book reveals how and why Americans mobilized the nations youth during World War I. It is for students and scholars interested in American history, the history of childhood, World War I, foreign...Loe edasi...
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Kapka Kassabova, Ian Campbell
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, ISBN-13: 9781846977510)
Oh, she hated and loved in a breath!Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural Scotland. But as the devastation of the First World War lea...Loe edasi...
