The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763: Britain and France in a Great Power Contest (Baugh Daniel)(Paperback)

The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763: Britain and France in a Great Power Contest (Baugh Daniel)(Paperback)

Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Xu)(Pevná vazba)

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied

Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 (Todman Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

The second volume of Daniel Todman's account of Great Britain and World War II The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947, begins with the event Winston Churchill called the 'worst disaster' in British military

I Embarked for France - The War Diaries and Letters of an English Family in the Great War(Paperback / softback)

The Grand Crimean Central Railway (Dawson Anthony)(Paperback)

The Crimean War, fought by the unusual alliance of Great Britain, France, and the tiny Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia alongside Turkey against Tsarist Russia was the first 'modern' war, not only for its vast scale (France mobilised a million men), but also the technologies involved; from

Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War (Jankowski Paul)(Paperback)

At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication wires,

Imperial Paradoxes, 83: Training the Senses and Tasting the Eighteenth Century (Merrett Robert James)(Paperback)

At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and

Great War: 1914-1918 (Hart Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. In this magnum opus, the author examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts, from kings and generals, and

Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Covers Britain in the early eighteenth

The Boy Scouts in the Great War (Armstrong Craig)(Pevná vazba)

The Boy Scouts Association was just seven years old when war broke out in 1914. With its members brought up with a strong ethos of duty and loyalty, it was no surprise that many wanted to play the best role possible in the nation's war effort.Many members were amongst those who rallied to the

The Honours (Clare Tim)(Paperback)

True honor is endless. 1935. Norfolk. War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Alderberen's newest resident, Delphine Venner, is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall's elite society, which has taken in her

Nuremberg Diary (Gilbert G. M.)(Paperback)

In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, had an unrivaled firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi war criminals. With

Birmingham at War 1939-45 (Phillips Julie)(Paperback)

Barely 17 years after the Great War that had brought Britain to its knees, the country was once again asked to make sacrifices and give their all to the war effort. With its strong industrial background, Birmingham was already geared to help manufacture the vehicles that could be adapted for war

After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War (Holl Adelbert)(Paperback)

Eyewitness account by a German soldier of seven years in Soviet captivity after the Battle of

Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power (Bloom Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

In its first thousand years--from the revelations to Muhammad in the seventh century to the great Islamic empires of the sixteenth--Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis, Cairo, and

GB84 (Peace David (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. This book presents a fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's

British Tank Crewman 1939-45 (Grant Neil)(Paperback)

Great Britain had introduced the tank to the world during World War I, and maintained its lead in armored warfare with the Experimental Mechanized Force during the late 1920s, watched with interest by German advocates of Blitzkrieg. Despite these successes, the Experimental Mechanised Force was

France in the Second World War: Collaboration, Resistance, Holocaust, Empire (Millington Chris)(Paperback)

During 1940-1944, the citizens of France and its Empire endured the 'dark years' of invasion, persecution and foreign occupation. Thousands of men, women and children suffered arrest, deportation and death as the French Vichy regime worked to secure a place for France in Hitler's New Order. France

Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain (Zuvich Andrea)(Paperback)

Peek beneath the bed sheets of Stuart Britain in this frank, informative, and captivating look at the sexual lives of the peoples of the British Isles between 1603 and 1714. Popular Stuart historian Andrea Zuvich, 'The Seventeenth Century Lady', explores our ancestors' ingenious, surprising,

Castles Of Steel - Britain, Germany and the Winning of The Great War at Sea (K Massie Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Animals in the Great War (Moore Lucinda)(Paperback)

Animals in the Great War throws a spotlight on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Fitzgerald Frances)(Paperback)

Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, 'a compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another.' (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and

Congo's Violent Peace: Conflict and Struggle Since the Great African War (Berwouts Kris)(Paperback)

Despite a massive investment of international diplomacy and money in recent years, the Democratic Republic of Congo remains a conflict-ridden and volatile country, its present situation the result of a series of rebellions, international interventions and unworkable peace agreements. In Congo's

Hundred Years War Vol 4 - Cursed Kings (Sumption Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal collapse and a partial conquest by a foreign power. This book tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the