Women on the Front Line: British Servicewomen's Path to Combat (Sherit Kathleen)(Pevná vazba)

Women on the Front Line: British Servicewomen's Path to Combat (Sherit Kathleen)(Pevná vazba)

Women on the Frontline explains how women went from unacknowledged participation in combat in World War II to the opening of all combat roles by 2018. It explores why regular service was offered after the war; the struggle to establish careers; the first crack in the non-combatant principle--the

Great British Women (Charles Roy)(Pevná vazba)

Great British Women presents the lives of remarkable British women who made a mark on their country, and beyond. From the defiant warrior Boudicca to contemporary women found in every field, the reader will meet some of the most remarkable women in British history from Roman times to modern

British Air Power: The Doctrinal Path to Jointery (Fedorchak Viktoriya)(Pevná vazba)

British Air Power demonstrates how the Royal Air Force sought to adapt in regard to the roles it could play and the conflicts in which it could be used, as well as the evolution of air power doctrine at a time of rapid changes in national politics and in the international arena. The development of

British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910: Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women (Youngkin Molly)(Pevná vazba)

Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive representations of ancient Egyptian women in their written and visual works. Images of Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British writers such as George Eliot and Edith Cooper

The Uneven Path of British Liberalism: From Jo Grimond to Brexit, Second Edition (Jones Tudor)(Pevná vazba)

A historical study of the development of British Liberalism within the Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats, from 1956 to

No Tradesmen and No Women - The Origins of the British Civil Service (Coolican Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Unique new title examining the history and future of the British civil

Algriennes: The Forgotten Women of the Algerian Revolution (Meralli Swann)(Pevná vazba)

A graphic novel depicting the stories of women who fought with the National Liberation Front in the Algerian War of

British Women Surgeons and Their Patients, 1860-1918 (Brock Claire)(Pevná vazba)

When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the

British Combat Aircraft in Latin America (Rivas Santiago)(Pevná vazba)

This book covers the story of all the British military aircraft that served in Latin America since 1940. Though the presence of British combat types is now almost gone from the skies over Latin America, its legacy will last for a long time. After World War II, Britain was happy to sell the most

The Other Veterans of World War II: Stories from Behind the Front Lines (Simmons Rona)(Pevná vazba)

The untold stories of troops serving miles away from front lines For decades, the dramatic stories of World War II soldiers have been the stuff of memoirs, interviews, novels, documentaries, and feature films. Yet the men and women who served in less visible roles, never engaging in physical

The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief (McInerny Nora)(Pevná vazba)

Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and Her Contemporaries (Foster Alicia)(Pevná vazba)

Radical Women tells a fresh, new story of British modernism, as the first to cover the entirety of Jessica Dismorr's (1876-1939) life and art alongside those of women artists she worked and exhibited with. The book brings to life a fascinating and turbulent period in art history and a web of

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest (Cheng Mai-Lin)(Pevná vazba)

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest investigates the generic structures of Romantic literature and the negotiation of the status of literature in the period in relation to a new media landscape. This book explores the self-theorization of Romantic literature and argues for its

Western Front - Then and Now - From Mons to the Marne and Back (Giles John)(Pevná vazba)

This work covers the main British battle areas of the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. Starting with the spark that ignited the war, the outline of events brings the operations of the British Army in France and Flanders full

At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s (Hackett Robin)(Pevná vazba)

This book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the meanings of Englishness. They reject analyses

Women in War: From Home Front to Front Line (Lee Celia)(Paperback)

Wide-ranging, stimulating reassessment of the changing role of women in modern warfare, focuses on the parts women played in the world

Lina Bo Bardi: 100: Brazil's Alternative Path to Modernism (Bo Bardi Lina)(Pevná vazba)

A stunning 368-page architecture monograph on the daring Italian-Brazilian modernistThe Italian-Brazilian architect and designer Lina Bo Bardi (1914-92) forged a unique path with her bold, modern designs. Spanning architecture, stage design, fashion and furniture, her work drew inspiration from the

A-Z of Wonder Women - 26 Inspiring, Empowering, Incredible women (Lin Yvonne)(Pevná vazba)

Celebrate a whole alphabet of trailblazing, groundbreaking wonder women from around the world and through time, taking in Ada Lovelace, J. K. Rowling, Oprah Winfrey and every letter in

Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of) (Gros Kathleen)(Pevná vazba)

A modern-day graphic novel adaptation of Little Women that explores identity, friendships, and new experiences through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Jo March. A must-read for fans of Raina Telgemeier. With the start of eighth grade, Jo March decides it's time to get serious about her writing and

Jamestown Brides - The Bartered Wives of the New World (Potter Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New

Full of Myself (Dawes Johnny)(Pevná vazba)

Johnny Dawes is the enigmatic front man of an eclectic band of British climbers who in the mid 1980's redefined the standards of difficulty and danger in traditional climbing. This book gives his take on a highly influential period of climbing history and a look inside the mind of a tormented

Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939-1945 (Edwards Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of either the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force but British merchant seamen on the liner Athenia, torpedoed by U-30 on 3 September 1939. For the duration of the War, Britain's merchant fleet performed a vital role,

Harmonic Analysis on the Real Line: A Path in the Theory (Liflyand Elijah)(Pevná vazba)

- Introduction. - Classes of Functions. - Fourier Series. - Fourier Transform. - Hilbert Transform. - Hardy Spaces and their Subspaces. - Hardy Inequalities. - Certain

Hitler's Housewives: German Women on the Home Front (Heath Tim)(Pevná vazba)

Draws upon a wealth of previously unpublished material to deliver a dramatic and unrivaled experience of life, death and love in the Third Reich.The meteoric rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party cowed the masses into a sense of false utopia. During Hitler's 1932 election campaign over half those