Sixteen Trees of the Somme (Mytting Lars)(Paperback / softback)

Sixteen Trees of the Somme (Mytting Lars)(Paperback / softback)

A family story of epic scale, by the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD and THE BELL IN THE

Bell in the Lake - The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 1: The Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month (Mytting Lars)(Paperback / softback)

The first in a rich historical trilogy that draws on legend, by a literary craftsman and the author of The Sixteen Trees of the SommeNorway, 1880. Winter is hard in Butangen, a village secluded at the end of a valley. The lake has frozen, and for months the ground is too hard to bury the dead

Šestnáct stromů na Sommě - Mytting Lars

Edvard chce rozluštit rodinné tajemství svých předků, rodiči počínaje. Pátrání ho zavede z rodného Norska na Shetlandy, kde doufá na - jít stopy po svém prastrýci, který se za druhé světové války zapojil do odboje proti Němcům. Přitom Edvardův dědeček, u nějž vnuk

Missing of the Somme (Dyer Geoff)(Paperback / softback)

Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time'

Somme Stations (Martin Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing

Somme - Into the Breach (Sebag-Montefiore Hugh)(Paperback / softback)

Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (Stamp Gavin)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive account of the history and significance of a world landmark - reissued in time for the anniversary of the

Somme (MacDonald Lyn)(Paperback / softback)

The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. This title tells

Somme: Battlefield Guide: 100th Anniversary (Holt Tonie)(Paperback)

The 100th Anniversary of the most publicly aware battle of WW1 - the battle of the Somme, will be on 1 July 2016 and every media form will be covering it from January onwards. The book has taken 20 years to mature from its first edition to this new 'Definitive' edition, the Seventh, each time being

Serre: Somme (Horsfall Jack)(Paperback / softback)

This 'Battleground Europe' book contains detailed information on the 1916 battles at the village of Serre on the Somme, and detailed walking and car tours of the battlefields and monuments as they are

The Somme (Ridley Sarah)(Paperback)

For many people the word 'Somme' sums up the carnage and futility of the First World War. The failure of Allied forces to achieve their objectives at such a huge cost in human lives has resonated in military circles for the past 100 years. This book tells the story of the battle and its wider

Walking the Somme (Reed Paul)(Paperback)

This new edition of Paul Reed's classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime's research into the battle and the landscape over which it was fought

Somme Mud (Lynch E P F)(Paperback / softback)

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it, not even by dying...'Edward Lynch enlisted

Unreturning Army (Gordon Huntly)(Paperback / softback)

In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of

Nightmare (Kepler Lars)(Paperback / softback)

'One of the most exciting Swedish crime novels of recent years...' Goeteborgsposten From the bestselling author of The Hypnotist comes the second high-octane thriller featuring Detective Inspector Joona

The Heartbeat of Trees - Peter Wohlleben

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES ‘A simultaneously stimulating and soothing blend of nature writing and science … Strongly encourages tree hugging for our own, human sake’ Guardian Summer Reads 2021 A powerful return to the forest, where trees have

Song of the Tree (Bickford-Smith Coralie)(Paperback / softback)

Echoes of the City (Christensen Lars Saabye)(Paperback / softback)

By the author of The Half-Brother, a compelling portrait of post-war Oslo as the city recovers from the German

Trees of the Celtic Saints The Ancient Yews of Wales (Morton Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Jump and Other Stories (Gordimer Nadine)(Paperback / softback)

Features a collection of sixteen

Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields (Middlebrook Martin)(Paperback / softback)

While best known as being the scene of the most terrible carnage in the WW1 the French department of the Somme has seen many other battles from Roman times to 1944. William the Conqueror launched his invasion from there; the French and English fought at Crecy in 1346; Henry V's army marched through

Godforsaken Sea (Lundy Derek)(Paperback / softback)

On 3 November 1996 sixteen sailors set out from the Bay of Biscay to embark on the Vendee Globe - a single-handed yacht race through the world's most treacherous and isolated seas. Of the sixteen starters only six completed the course, six others withdrew, three were plucked from sinking boats and

Magic Faraway Tree: Silky's Story (Blyton Enid)(Paperback / softback)

The perfect introduction to the wonderful world of the Faraway Tree. Discover the

Flo of the Somme (Robinson Hilary)(Paperback / softback)

Winner: 2016 Young Quills Award, Historical Association UK Mercy dog, Flo, has more to contend with than racing across the dangerous battlefield of the Somme. Can she get her medical kit to the injured? Can she lead Ray, the stretcher-bearer, and his donkey to them in time? Depicting the key