The First Day on the Somme (Middlebrook Martin)(Paperback)

The First Day on the Somme (Middlebrook Martin)(Paperback)

The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw

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

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

Argentine Fight for the Falklands (Middlebrook Martin)(Paperback)

Martin Middlebrook is the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War. It ranks with Liddell Hart's The Other Side of the Hill in analyzing and understanding the military thinking and strategies of Britain's sometime enemy, and

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

The Falklands War (Middlebrook Martin)(Paperback)

With the sudden Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982 the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of a determined Prime Minister and the resourcefulness of the Armed Forces, a Task Force, code named Operation CORPORATE, was quickly dispatched.Remarkably

First World War for Dummies (Lang)(Paperback)

From the Somme to Gallipoli to the home front, First WorldWar For Dummies provides an authoritative, accessible, andengaging introduction to the War to End All Wars. It takes a globalperspective of this global conflict, proving insight into theactions and motivations of the participants and how

The Nuremberg Raid: 30-31 March 1944 (Middlebrook Martin)(Paperback)

This book describes one twenty-four-hour period in the Allied Strategic Bomber Offensive in the greatest possible detail. The author sets the scene by outlining the course of the bombing war from 1939 to the night of the Nuremberg raid, the characters and aims of the British bombing leaders and the

Peenemunde Raid: The Night of 17-18 August 1943 (Middlebrook Martin)(Paperback)

'Enthralling eye witness histories' John KeeganOn the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenem nde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket whose destructive

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: 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

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

The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics (Martin Sean)(Paperback)

Gnosticism is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ, nearly becoming the dominant form of Christianity, but was eventually branded as heretical by the emerging Christian church. The long and diverse history of Gnosticism is recounted here,

Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916 (Duffy Christopher)(Paperback)

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

Good Dog, Carl (Day Alexandra)(Paperback)

Available in paperback for the first time, the modern classic that introduced the beloved baby-sitting rottweiler to the

Ve Day: The People's Story (Miller Russell)(Paperback)

Drawing from first-hand interviews, diaries and memoirs of those involved in the VE Day celebrations in 1945, VE DAY: The People's Story paints an enthralling picture of a day that marked the end of the war in Europe and the beginning of a new era. VE Day affected millions of people in countless

Bared to You (Day Sylvia)(Paperback)

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day comes the first novel in the Crossfire series--a provocative masterstroke of abandon and obsession that redefined the meaning of desire, and became a global phenomenon. Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness... He was

Roseanna (Sjoewall Maj)(Paperback / softback)

The first book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime

The Affirmative Action Empire (Martin Terry)(Paperback)

The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s,

The Munros in Winter: 277 Summits in 83 Days (Moran Martin)(Paperback)

The first round of the Munros in winter in a single journey was accomplished by Martin Moran 1984, supported by his new wife, Joy. Martin's account of the adventure has since become a Scottish outdoor classic. This reissue is awaited by a substantial section of the outdoor/mountaineering

A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 6 (Light Novel) (Kamachi Kazuma)(Paperback)

A certain unlikely hero...It's the first day of a new semester in Academy City. The day a mysterious transfer student appears at Touma Kamijou's school. The day Index makes her first friend. The day Mikoto Misaka meets Index for the first time and, caught between them, Kamijou again meets with

Last Day Blues (Danneberg Julie)(Paperback)

Fans of First Day Jitters will love spending the last day of school in Mrs. Hartwell classroom. What do teachers do for summer vacation? Mrs. Hartwell's students worry that their teacher will miss them while they are gone for the summer. The class comes up with a way to make sure Mrs. Hartwell

Discount Armageddon - An Incryptid Novel (McGuire Seanan)(Paperback / softback)

The first installment of the exhilirating InCryptid series, from the author of the October Daye urban