Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe (Buckley John)(Paperback)

Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe (Buckley John)(Paperback)

Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and troops across the battlefields of Europe,

British Armour in the Normandy Campaign (Buckley John)(Paperback)

The popular perception of the performance of British armour in the Normandy campaign of 1944 is one of failure and frustration. Despite overwhelming superiority in numbers, Montgomery's repeated efforts to employ his armour in an offensive manner ended in a disappointing stalemate. Explanation of

A Brief History of the British Army (Haswell Jock)(Paperback)

The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against Continental domination by a single power, the

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

Blenheim - Battle for Europe (Spencer Lord Charles)(Paperback / softback)

How two men brought about the defeat of Louis XIV's previously unbeaten army and saved Europe from French domination - A Sunday Times

Dad's Army - The Story of a Very British Comedy (McCann Graham)(Paperback / softback)

The story of the greatest British sit-com and its enduring

Driving Back the Nazis - The Allied Liberation of Western Europe, Autumn 1944 (King Martin)(Paperback / softback)

How to join the British Army (McMunn Richard)(Paperback)

How to join the British Army is an exciting new book that covers every element of the British Army selection process. It covers all aspects of selection from how to apply, how to pass the Army BARB test, BARB test questions, preparing for the Army Development Selection Centre and also how to pass

British Civilization: An Introduction (Oakland John)(Paperback)

Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth edition of the highly regarded British Civilization: An Introduction continues to be the ideal textbook on Britain, its country and people, religion, politics and government, international relations, legal system, economy, education, media and culture for

Europe - A History (Davies Norman)(Paperback / softback)

Europe - and the question of whether to stay in or leave - has dominated British politics for the last three years. Discover the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken. 'Any European or world citizen should read this... History that illuminates the present day' Big

Three Men and a Bradshaw (Freeman John George)(Pevná vazba)

Wryly humorous and quintessentially British, Three Men and a Bradshaw collects the previously unpublished holiday journals of John Freeman, who travelled Britain with his brothers during the

The Liberation of Jerusalem (Tasso Torquato)(Paperback)

In The Liberation of Jerusalem (1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck John)(Paperback)

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is 'small and quick and dark of face'; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a 'family,' clinging together in the face of loneliness and

The Book of Marvels and Travels (Mandeville John)(Paperback)

In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. Written in the fourteenth century, the Book is a captivating blend of fact and fantasy, an extraordinary

Paris After the Liberation - 1944 - 1949 (Cooper Artemis)(Paperback / softback)

An historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August,

Corregidor: Siege and Liberation, 1941-1945 (Grehan John)(Paperback)

This collection of images shows how US warships, and, in particular, submarines helped sustain the garrison.Singapore and Hong Kong had fallen to the forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand and Burma had been invaded and islands across the Pacific captured. But one place, one tiny island fortress

The Liberation of the Philippines (Diamond Jon)(Paperback)

General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. By late 1944, with the capture of New Guinea and surrounding islands, the US Sixth and Eighth Armies were

The Rise of Light (Hawker Olivia)(Paperback)

A powerful novel about the expectations of family--and the risks and liberation of defying them--by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow.1975. In the town of Rexburg, Idaho, aspiring artist Aran Rigby, his younger sister, Tamsin, and their two brothers

British Army Challenge Book - The Must-Have Puzzle Book for This Christmas! (The British Army)(Paperback / softback)

OVER 100 APPROVED BRITISH ARMY

Lie About My Father (Burnside John)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. This book examines the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding in order

Unfinished Empire - The Global Expansion of Britain (Darwin John)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked. This book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses

Lancaster - The Forging of a Very British Legend (Nichol John)(Paperback / softback)

Criptales: Six Monologues (Fraser Mat)(Paperback)

From the liberation of the electric wheelchair to the ignominy of discrimination and incarceration, there have been both great advances and terrible setbacks for disabled people in Britain over the last fifty years. Hard-hitting and hilarious, personal and poignant, CripTales comprises six

Blue Guide Istanbul: Sixth Edition (Freely John)(Paperback)

The new edition of the Blue Guide to this fascinating city, which straddles Europe and the Orient and whose history goes back to the days of ancient Greece, offers superb coverage of all the major monuments--Classical, Christian, and Islamic--with details on what to eat and where to