Fragments: A Collection in Words and Pictures Volume One the First World War (Parker David James)(Paperback)

Fragments: A Collection in Words and Pictures Volume One the First World War (Parker David James)(Paperback)

Over nearly fifty years, the author has built up an extensive collection of memorabilia from the First and Second World Wars. The author gives talks to school and adult groups about the First World War and Second World War Home Front using his collection to illustrate these talks. This book looks

European Stamp Issues and the First World War - Fall of Empires, Rise of Nations (Parker David)(Pevná vazba)

Poetry of the First World War (Clapham Marcus)(Pevná vazba)

The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. Whether in the patriotic enthusiasm of Rupert Brooke, the disillusionment of Charles Hamilton

The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (Stone David R.)(Paperback)

A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does in this masterly work, fundamentally alters--and clarifies--that picture. A thorough, and thoroughly

Sleeping Lord - And Other Fragments (Jones David)(Paperback / softback)

Jones's visionary collection of poems and fragments published in the months before his death, reissued in paperback with a cover based on the artist's original

DK First Picture Dictionary: Spanish: 2,000 Words to Get You Started in Spanish (DK)(Pevná vazba)

An ideal introduction to one of the most popular languages in the world 2,000 words and phrases with easy-to-follow pronunciation guides and hundreds of pictures to make learning fun and intuitive. DK First Picture Dictionary: Spanish is structured by themes to aid learning and recall. The English

Churchill's War in Words: His Finest Quotes, 1939-1945 (Asbury Jonathan)(Paperback)

Churchill's War in Words transports the reader back to the urgency and terror of World War II in order to tell the story of Churchill's approach to the war as it unfolded. Focusing only on words used at the time--both by Churchill and those in his circle--the book reveals the way that Winston

Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn (Plain Gill)(Paperback)

Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically

Canada and the First World War, Second Edition: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown (MacKenzie David)(Paperback)

The First World War is often credited as being the event that gave Canada its own identity, distinct from that of Britain, France, and the United States. Less often noted, however, is that it was also the cause of a great deal of friction within Canadian society. The fifteen essays contained in

As We Were: The First World War - Tales from a broken world, week-by-week (Hargreaves David)(Mixed media product)

Fought between 1914 and 1918, World War One - The Great War - was the most titanic and devastating conflict the world had yet seen. Detailing the course of the war week-by-week and the intimate accounts and experiences of soldiers and civilians alike, As We Were offers insight like no other into a

World's War - Forgotten Soldiers of Empire (Olusoga David)(Paperback / softback)

A unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War, and why they were later air-brushed out of

First World War - A New History (Strachan Hew)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant and penetrating history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued for the 100th

First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia 1914-1939 (Waghorne James)(Pevná vazba)

Long Shadow - The Great War and the Twentieth Century (Reynolds David)(Paperback / softback)

A controversial and sweeping re-examination of the First World War and its enduring

Too Important for the Generals: Losing & Winning the First World War (Mallinson Allan)(Paperback)

One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about World War I is why winning took so long and exacted so appalling a human cost. In this major new history, Allan Mallinson provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial, and have a contemporary resonance. He

The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 3: Civil Society (Winter Jay)(Pevná vazba)

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years

My Experiences in the Third World War and Other Stories - The Best Short Fiction Of Michael Moorcock Volume 1 (Moorcock Michael)(Paperback / softback)

The Michael Moorcock Collection presents, for the first time, definitive editions of Moorcock's most influential work, fully revised and updated by the

A Secret Diary of the First World War: Fact-Tastic Stories from Scotland's History (Arbuthnott Gill)(Paperback)

What was World War One really like? Step into the boots of 14-year-old James Marchbank and experience the most important, incredible, peculiar, poignant, remarkable and revolting bits of the war. Inspired by the real-life diary of a Scottish boy soldier, each easy-to-read chapter mixes James's

Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War (Shipton Elisabeth)(Paperback)

The First World War saw one of the biggest ever changes in the demographics of warfare, as thousands of women donned uniforms and took an active part in conflict for the first time in history. Female Tommies looks at the military role of women worldwide during the Great War and reveals the

War in the West - A New History - Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 (Holland James)(Paperback / softback)

The Second World War is the most cataclysmic and violent sequence of events in recent times. Are you ready for the truth about World War Two? This title features the experiences of dozens of individuals, from civilians and soldiers, to sailors, pilots, leading military strategists, industrialists

Charley's War: The Definitive Collection, Volume One - Boy Soldier (Mills Pat)(Paperback / softback)

The most celebrated war comic of all time, re-mastered and collected in a full size

First World War Trials and Executions: Britain's Traitors, Spies and Killers, 1914-1918 (Webb Simon)(Paperback)

This would be the first collection of true criminal cases that took place in Britain during World War

World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination (Castoriadis Cornelius)(Paperback)

This collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the most recent work by a world-renowned figure in contemporary thought. Starting from an inquiry that grows out of the specific context of a society that is experiencing uncertainty as to its ways of living and being, its goals, its

The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 3 (Morison Samuel Eliot)(Paperback)

The first two volumes of this firsthand history of the U.S. Navy in World War II covered operations in the Atlantic from September 1939 to June 1943. Volume 3, The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931 - Aprill 1942 is the first on the war in the Pacific, a major testing ground which proved the ability