Nemoto's Travels: The Illustrated Saga of a Japanese Floatplane Pilot in the First Year of the Pacific War (Claringbould Michael)(Paperback)

Nemoto's Travels: The Illustrated Saga of a Japanese Floatplane Pilot in the First Year of the Pacific War (Claringbould Michael)(Paperback)

The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals (Hasegawa Tsuyoshi)(Paperback)

State-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender, by distinguished historians of differing national perspectives and differing

Jutland, 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes (Steer Nigel)(Paperback)

Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries, and

Short Stories in Japanese (Emmerich Michael)(Paperback)

A dual-language edition of Japanese stories--many appearing in English for the first time This volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a

The Everafter War (Buckley Michael)(Paperback)

The Grimm family is caught in the midst of a war in the seventh installment of the beloved New York Times bestselling Sisters Grimm series After two years trapped in enchanted sleep, Daphne and Sabrina's parents are finally free. Unfortunately, they've awoken to chaos in Ferryport Landing. Prince

Japan's Pacific War: Personal Accounts of the Emperor's Warriors (Williams Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Pike Francis)(Paperback)

In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles,

Only Remembered (Morpurgo Michael)(Paperback)

Published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this beautiful anthology collects favourite extracts, poems and images from some of the UK's leading cultural, political and literary figures.Poems, short stories, personal letters, newspaper articles, scripts, photographs and

The Oxford Handbook of War (Lindley-French Julian)(Paperback)

The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental

Front Line Nurse - An Emotional First World War Saga Full of Hope (James Rosie)(Paperback / softback)

In the Great War, every act of courage

Rising Sun (Crichton Michael)(Paperback / softback)

On the 45th floor of the Matsumoto Tower in LA, the headquarters of the Japanese Electronics Corporation, celebrities from the film and music world mix with the captains of industry and politics. On the 46th floor, the dead body of a young woman is discovered. By the author of 'Jurassic

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Dower John W.)(Paperback)

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side

The Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War (Stille Mark)(Paperback)

When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers. Japan's navy had been built up over just two decades, with the IJN acquiring a fleet of modern foreign-built warships. Coupled

In Search Of The Trojan War (Wood Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Detailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yield new evidence about the historical city, In Search of the Trojan War takes a fresh look at some of the most excited discoveries in

The Illustrious Prince - Edward Phillips Oppenheim - e-kniha

eBook:,Set in Britain shortly after the end of the Russo-Japanese war, ‘The Illustrious Prince’ provides a fascinating insight into the political tensions of the time. The story centres around Prince Maiyo – a cousin of the Emperor of Japan who has been dispatched to Britain in order to seek

Travels Into the Interior of Africa (Park Mungo)(Paperback)

A combination of two journeys, Scotsman Mungo Park's story of his first trip in 1795 as a 24-year old, and again in 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable description of the interior of the continent. The first trip was full of an endearing vulnerability and the heroic generosity of a

Hangman's Gate (War of the Archons 2) (Ford R. S.)(Paperback)

The highly anticipated sequel to A DEMON IN SILVER, HANGMAN'S GATE continues the epic saga of the War of the Archons After uniting the bandit clans, the Iron Tusk has swept into Shengen and taken control of the empire. With an army behind him, he marches along the Skull Road, ready to lay waste to

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (Rubin Jay)(Paperback)

A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, author of Killing Commendatore A Penguin Classics Hardcover This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story,

The Vikings: Wolves of War (Arnold Martin)(Paperback)

This concise and balanced history traces the 300-year saga of the pirates and warlords who poured out of Scandinavia between the eighth and eleventh centuries, terrorizing, conquering, and ultimately settling vast tracts of land throughout Europe. Undaunted by the might of the Arab caliphates and

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Woodworking Handtools: Instruments & Devices (Blackburn Graham)(Paperback)

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Woodworking Handtools, Devices & Instruments is the first volume in Graham Blackburn s paperback Illustrated Workshop series. It s a comprehensive pictorial index of the woodworking handtools common in the Western civilization from eighteenth century to the present

Year One of the Russian Revolution (Serge Victor)(Paperback)

Serge exposes the heart of the vital first year of the most important working class revolution in

Japan Runs Wild, 1942-1943 (Harmsen Peter)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive view of World War Two in the Asia Pacific.In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia Pacific. In a matter of just months, the soldiers and sailors of the Rising Sun conquered an area even

Shadow Scale (Hartman Rachel)(Paperback / softback)

As Seraphina travels the Southlands in search of the other half-breeds to help in the war effort, the dragon General Comonot and his Loyalists fight against the upstart Old Guard - with the fate of Goredd and the other human countries hanging in the balance. The gripping sequel to the bestselling

Great Britain's Great War (Paxman Jeremy)(Paperback)

Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.'If there is one new history of the war that you might actually enjoy this is very likely it' The Times 'Lively, surprising and