Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18 (Johnson Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18 (Johnson Robert)(Pevná vazba)

A new study of Captain T.E. Lawrence 'of Arabia,' his ideas on warfare, and the context of the military campaigns and peace settlements and the legacies that followed. One hundred years ago, Captain Lawrence and an unlikely band of Arab irregulars captured the strategic port of Aqaba after an epic

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert (Bell Gertrude)(Paperback)

A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog

Disaster in the Desert: An Alternate History of El Alamein and Rommel's North Africa Campaign (Delve Ken)(Pevná vazba)

Summer 1942 and the war in the Middle East is in the balance; Rommel's Axis forces are poised on the borders of Egypt and all that is needed is one last push. For that to succeed, Rommel needs supplies and for the Allies to be denied supplies. With Malta still active and disrupting the Axis

Britain's Desert War in Egypt & Libya 1940-1942: 'the End of the Beginning' (Braddock David)(Pevná vazba)

The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet strategically important landscape, the fortunes of the implacable opponents swung wildly. While best remembered for the duel between Montgomery's Eighth

The Mint: Lawrence After Arabia (Lawrence T. E.)(Paperback)

In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and restrictive, life there seemed to suit Lawrence: 'The Air Force is not a man-crushing humiliating slavery, all its days. There is sun & decent

The Boy in the Mask: The Hidden World of Lawrence of Arabia (Benson-Gyles Dick)(Pevná vazba)

This groundbreaking work chronicles the author's quest to uncover previously unexplained areas of the life of T.E. Lawrence, the enigmatic desert fighter, aircraftman and writer. The result of years of painstaking research, it contains new material that throws a completely fresh light on Lawrence's

The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean (O'Carroll Brendan)(Pevná vazba)

Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean.The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding Forces, Middle East, along with the Special Boat

Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt (Saunders Nicholas J.)(Pevná vazba)

In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The

Breaking Point of the French Army: The Nivelle Offensive of 1917 (Murphy David)(Pevná vazba)

In December 1916 General Robert Nivelle was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French armies fighting the Germans on the Western Front. He had enjoyed a meteoric rise to high command and public acclaim since the beginning of the war - he was a national hero. In return, he proclaimed he had the

Don Troiani's Campaign to Saratoga - 1777: The Turning Point of the Revolutionary War in Paintings, Artifacts, and Historical Narrative (Schnitzer Eric H.)(Pevná vazba)

The Battles of Saratoga are cited as the turning point in the Revolutionary War. Beginning when the armies prepared to face off in June 1777 through the surrender of the British Army in October, the battles of the Northern Campaign were significant to the outcome of the War and the fight for

Blood's Campaign - There can only be one victor . . . (Donald Angus)(Pevná vazba)

In the theatre of war there can only be one victor . . 1690 On the banks of the River Boyne in Ireland, rival monarchs William of Orange and James Stuart meet in bloody conflict, and Lieutenant Holcroft Blood must face his personal enemies and those of his

Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos (Zani Leah)(Pevná vazba)

Half a century after the CIA's Secret War in Laos--the largest bombing campaign in history--explosive remnants of war continue to be part of people's everyday lives. In Bomb Children Leah Zani offers a perceptive analysis of the long-term, often subtle, and unintended effects of massive air

Young Lawrence - A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man (Sattin Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

A biography of Lawrence of Arabia in the years that formed

Alamein 1942 - Turning Point in the Desert (Doherty Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommel's Afrika Korps and his Italian allies would break through and seize Cairo with catastrophic strategic and

Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century (Rasula Jed)(Pevná vazba)

In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they embarked on a series of extravagant performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in

The History of the Panzerjger: Volume 2: From Stalingrad to Berlin 1943-45 (Anderson Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

From the War in the Desert through the vast expanses of the Eastern Front to the bitter defense of the Reich itself, this second volume continues the history of Germany's innovative anti-tank force: the Panzerj ger. The German Panzerj ger, or Panzerj gertruppe, was one of the most innovative

Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Sackville-West Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (Wright Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at

Ireland's War of Independence 1919-21: The Ira's Guerrilla Campaign (Collins Lorcan)(Pevná vazba)

An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 January 1919 to the truce in July 1921, the IRA carried out a huge range of attacks on all levels of British rule in Ireland. There are stories of

Robert Graves: War Poems (Graves Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Robert Graves was a major writer about the Great War in poetry and memoir. War Poems collects all his poems about the War in one volume for the first time, both those written at the time and looking back over a period of years. Uniquely it also includes a previously unpublished manuscript, The

Lawrence in Arabia - War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Anderson Scott)(Paperback / softback)

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com's Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014'Fascinating... Masterly' Max Hastings, Sunday

The Long Range Desert Group in World War II (Mortimer Gavin)(Pevná vazba)

Established in June 1940, as the brainchild of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of Lawrence of Arabia, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) allowed the British Army to gain a crucial advantage in the North African Front of World War II.Traversing great swathes of the desert

Britain and the Arab Middle East: World War I and Its Aftermath (Lieshout Robert H.)(Pevná vazba)

The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab world during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century. The uprising sparked by the Husayn-McMahon correspondence and led by 'Lawrence of Arabia;' the Sykes-Picot agreement which undermined that

Up Jumped the Devil - The Real Life of Robert Johnson(Pevná vazba)

Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans who thought they knew something about Robert