The Welsh at Mametz Wood: The Somme 1916 (Hicks Jonathan)(Paperback)

Welsh at Passchendaele 1917, The (Hicks Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

This detailed work brings together the personal experiences, poignant stories, vivid accounts, and photographs of Welsh soldiers who fought at the horrific Battle of Passchendaele (the Third Battle of Ypres) in World War 1. By the time the battle was over hundreds of thousands of people had been

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

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

Mametz: With a Welsh-Language Translation (Sheers Owen)(Paperback)

Mametz by Owen Sheers was premiered by National Theatre Wales in June 2014. It is one of the set plays on WJEC's A level Drama specification. This dual edition combines the original English-language play with a Welsh-language translation by Ceri Wyn Jones, one of Wales's most eminent

Guillemont: Somme (Stedman Michael)(Paperback)

The battle for Guillemont raged throughout August 1916. Like so many of the battles into which the 'Big Push' degenerated, the struggle centred around a wood, Trones, and a heavily fortified village. It was in this battle that Noel Chavasse won the first of his two

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 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

Those Dark Places: Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying (Hicks Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Jonathan Hicks, published twice in the British Science Fiction Association's writer's magazine 'FOCUS' and the mission designer/dialogue writer of the mobile telephone game of acclaimed television show 'Battlestar Galactica', presents twelve short stories about the little people in the big

Germany in the Great War: Verdun & Somme (Bilton Joshua)(Paperback)

For the Central Powers, 1916 was a year of trial and error, of successes and failures, of innovation and of drastic changes. Tactics developed, while war aims mutated to suit the inertia of trench warfare. Advances were effectively countered with the development of new weaponry, or indeed aided by

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

British Battle Tanks: World War I to 1939 (Fletcher David)(Pevná vazba)

When British soldiers charged across the Somme in September 1916, they were accompanied by a new, revolutionary weapon--the tank. After a stuttering start, armored behemoths such as the Mark IV, Mark V, and Whippet Tank played a crucial role in bringing World War I to an end. Marking the centenary

Middle Parts of Fortune - Somme And Ancre, 1916 (Manning Frederic)(Paperback / softback)

Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a world gone

The Land of My Dreams: War at Home, 1916 (Harrod-Eagles Cynthia)(Paperback)

It is 1916 and the Hunters, their friends and their servants are settling down to the business of war. As conscription reaches into every household, Britain turns out men and shells in industrial numbers from army camps and munitions factories up and down the land. Bobby, the second Hunter son,

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

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'

Genes: A Very Short Introduction (Slack Jonathan)(Paperback)

In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and development. Explaining the nature of genetic variation in the human population, how hereditary factors were identified as molecules of DNA, and how certain

We Are the Weather - Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Foer Jonathan Safran)(Paperback)

Xenophobe's Guide to the Welsh (Winterson Richards John)(Paperback)

'Welsh willfulness''The Welsh are stubbornvery, very stubborn. The Welsh themselves would probably rather say tenacious, but to anyone on the receiving end a better description might well be bloody-minded. ''''Proud and proud of it''Welsh pride is real pridethe sort of mindless, instinctive, animal

India Hicks: A Slice of England (Hicks India)(Pevná vazba)

The first look at designer India Hicks's house in the English countryside, as well as the houses of her childhood. A follow-up to India Hicks's New York Times bestselling book, India Hicks: Island Style, India Hicks: A Slice of England is the designer's exploration of her British heritage and how

We are the Weather - Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Safran Foer Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Avatar: The Last Airbender--Suki, Alone (Hicks Faith Erin)(Paperback)

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

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