British Are Coming - The War for America 1775 -1777 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

British Are Coming - The War for America 1775 -1777 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

'To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing ... A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [America's] origins as a people and a nation. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.' New York

The War for America, 1775-1783 (Mackesy Piers)(Paperback)

Day Of Battle - The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

Army At Dawn - The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

* First volume of Rick Atkinson's monumental trilogy about the Liberation of Europe in the Second World War. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

Guns at Last Light - The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

The magnificent conclusion to Atkinson's monumental and highly acclaimed trilogy about the Liberation of Europe in the Second World

Our Man in New York - The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War (Hemming Henry)(Paperback / softback)

The extraordinary story of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert British operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring America into the Second World

That Sweet Enemy - The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present (Tombs Isabelle)(Paperback / softback)

Their rivalry both on peace and war, for good and ill, has shaped the modern world, from North America to India in the eighteenth century, in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it is still shaping Europe

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A splendid book... The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war.--The Washington Post Book WorldThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and

Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinsonová

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time.At the heart of this

Soon (Gleitzman Morris)(Paperback / softback)

The Second World War has officially ended, but the streets are still a battleground - for food, for shelter, for protection . . . Felix is in hiding to stay safe, but finds he has been left holding the baby - literally. An orphaned infant has been left in his care and he will do everything he can

British Army Cap Badges of the First World War (Doyle Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The fascination with the British involvement in the First World War extends to all aspects of the conflict. The battles and their outcomes; the armies and their leaders; the conditions of trench warfare; and the controversies form part of the growing literature examining every aspect of a war that

Princes at War - The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War (Cadbury Deborah)(Paperback / softback)

Biggles: The Camels Are Coming (Johns W E)(Paperback / softback)

DEATH TRAP!Air combat is the order of the day in the final days of the First World War. Will luck and initiative be enough to keep Biggles alive?Join cult hero and flying ace, Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth on another action packed

Destined for War - can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Allison Graham)(Paperback / softback)

PER | Level 2: Mr Bean in Town - Atkinson Rowan

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to

Auntie's War - The BBC during the Second World War (Stourton Edward)(Paperback / softback)

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution unlike any other, and its story during the Second World War is also our story. Auntie's War is an incomparable insight into why we have the broadcast culture we do today. A BBC RADIO 4: BOOK OF THE

With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 (Spring Matthew H.)(Paperback)

The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the 'American

Coming Up for Air (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Before the war How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?' The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to the sedate Oxfordshire village of his Edwardian boyhood, he

The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration (Goodhart David)(Paperback)

In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people from all over the country and a wealth of statistical evidence, he paints a striking picture of how Britain has been transformed by

Cold War Resistance: The International Struggle Over Antibiotics (Landas Marc)(Pevná vazba)

In June 1941 a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a precious commodity--penicillin--and the knowledge that it would change history. Once the U.S. government had been debriefed, the Office of Science Research and Development,

Coming Through Depression (Bates Tony)(Paperback / softback)

This book has been written for all who suffer from depression and for those who are close to the depressed person, be they partner, child or

Letters to America (D'Aguiar Fred)(Paperback / softback)

The fourth Carcanet collection from Guyanese-British poet Fred

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods (Doshi Tishani)(Paperback / softback)

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is an unflinching collection of poems that weave between topics from violence against women to time and memory. Tishani Doshi's third full collection in English blends visceral power with artistic elegance, re-imagining form as it sifts through detail and emotion

Cixin Liu's The Village Teacher - A Graphic Novel (Liu Cixin)(Paperback / softback)

An interstellar war that has waged for thousands of years is coming to an end. The victor plans to perform the full-scale extermination of any low-intelligence lifeforms that remain in what is now his solar system. Cixin Liu's 'The Village Teacher' is now realised as a graphic novel for the first