History Books
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hill 60 Ypres Battleground Europe
Book SynopsisThe shell-ravaged landscape of Hill 60, some three miles to the south east of Ypres, conceals beneath it a labyrinth of tunnels and underground workings. This small area saw horrendous fighting in the early years of the war as the British and Germans struggled to control its dominant view over Ypres.
£12.28
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields
Book SynopsisAlthough the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Battle of Britain, all of which proved to be turning points in the history of our nation. Arnhem was not a victory, but its outcome may have had results equally vital to the more recent history of the world. To many people the Battle of Arnhem was the Battle of Arnhem Bridge, which has now passed into history as The Bridge Too Far. This is understandable
£12.34
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Calais A Fight to the Finish May 1940
Book SynopsisThe guide will take the visitor beyond the ferry terminal and hypermarkets to reveal the hidden Calais and the actions of individuals and units in this defence.
£9.45
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Gallipoli Battleground Europe
Book SynopsisTells of the disastrous campaign at Gallipoli in 1915 when the allies failed to knock Turkey out of the war. Featuring photographs, this book provides detailed historical descriptions of the area and the events. It is of interest to the armchair historian and the intrepid visitor to the sites.
£11.69
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Battleground Europe Channel Ports Boulogne
Book SynopsisBoulogne - 23 May, 1940. A town under siege. A rampant German panzer division hammers at its gates. Panic in the street and chaos on the docks. Air Raids. Frightened refugees and dispirited Allied soldiers scramble to escape. Churchill sends battalions of the Irish and the Welsh Guards, to help the French garrison stem the German tide.
£9.45
Pen & Sword Books Ltd TheIsland Nijmegen to Arnhem by Saunders Tim
Book SynopsisHaving fought their way up fifty miles of Hell's Highway and through Nijmegen, XXX Corps was just ten miles from Arnhem and 1st British Airborne Division. The Island is flat land between the Waal at Nijmegen and the Rhine at Arnhem. The situation was increasingly bad with the remainder of II SS Panzer Corps in the area and German counter attacks on Hell's Highway preventing the Allies applying their material superiority. The Guards Armoured and then 43rd Wessex Infantry Division took turns to lead before reaching the Rhine opposite the paratroopers in the Oosterbeek Perimeter.Attempts to cross the Rhine by the Polish Paras and the Dorset Regiment had little success but, meanwhile, the guns of XXX Corps ensured the survival of the Perimeter. After some desperate fighting on the island, 43 Wessex Division evacuated just two thousand members of the elite Airborne Division who had landed eight days earlier.
£14.24
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Beyond Endurance An Epic of Whitehall and the
Book SynopsisAn Epic of Whitehall and the South Atlantic Conflict. This is the story of HMS Endurance before, during and after the Falklands conflict.
£11.66
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Loos Hill 70
Book SynopsisThe Battle of Loos formed part of a wider offensive conducted by both French and British Forces in September 1915. The British First Army, under the leadership of General Haig, were to break through the German line at Loos thanks in part to their superior numbers, while other operations were to achieve a similar result in Champagne and at Vimy Ridge. Due to lack of artillery the Loos attack was planned to be preceded by a massive gas attack. Chlorine gas would hopefully entirely overcome the Germans inadequate gas masks and lead to a swift breakthrough. Unfortunately all did not go to plan. First some of the gas was blown back into the British trenches causing over 2,000 casualties. Then when the assault itself took place the attackers were met by fierce German resistance, none more so than at Hill 70 where the German defenses were strong. Despite many waves of attack, very few troops made it into enemy trenches. After a few days the attack had to be called off. It had cost 60,000 British casualties for virtually no gain. Rudyard Kipling''s son John, serving with the Irish Guards, was also lost.
£10.44
Alan Godfrey Maps Salford Docks 1905 Lancashire Sheet 10409 Old OS
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Alan Godfrey Maps Wakefield South 1890 Yorkshire Sheet 24807 Old OS
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Alan Godfrey Maps Hull Hessle Road 1928 Yorkshire Sheet 24006 Old
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Alan Godfrey Maps City of York and Clifton 1907 Yorkshire Sheet
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Alan Godfrey Maps Whitechapel Spitalfields and the Bank 1873 London
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Alan Godfrey Maps Dudley Castle and Tipton Green 1901 Staffordshire
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Alan Godfrey Maps Toxteth 1906 Lancashire Sheet 11302 Old OS Maps
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Alan Godfrey Maps Bootle 1907 Lancashire Sheet 10602 Old OS Maps of
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Alan Godfrey Maps Liverpool North 1906 Lancashire Sheet 10610 Old
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Alan Godfrey Maps Manchester London Road 1849 Manchester Sheet 34
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Alan Godfrey Maps Durham City 1894 Durham Sheet 2701 Old Ordnance
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Alan Godfrey Maps Aberdeen 1900 Aberdeenshire Sheet 7511 Old OS
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Alan Godfrey Maps Liverpool Princes Park 1905 Lancashire Sheet
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Alan Godfrey Maps Huddersfield South 1905 Yorkshire Sheet 26003 Old
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Alan Godfrey Maps Castlefield 1848 Manchester Sheet 32 Old Ordnance
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Alan Godfrey Maps Hoylake Cum West Kirby 1909 Cheshire Sheet 1207
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Alan Godfrey Maps Maryhill 1894 Lanarkshire Sheet 602 Old OS Maps
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Alan Godfrey Maps Anfield 1908 Lancashire Sheet 10607 Old OS Maps
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Alan Godfrey Maps Wolverhampton North West 1901 Staffordshire Sheet
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Alan Godfrey Maps ChorltononMedlock 1848
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Alan Godfrey Maps Old Ordnance Survey Maps Hulme 1844
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Alan Godfrey Maps Hulme StGeorges 1849 Manchester Sheet 37 Old
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Alan Godfrey Maps Cradley Heath and Old Hill 1901 Staffordshire
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Alan Godfrey Maps Bolton North 1908 Lancashire Sheet 8709 Old OS
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Alan Godfrey Maps Bermondsey and Wapping 1872 London Sheet 0771 Old
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Alan Godfrey Maps Lincoln 1905 Lincolnshire Sheet 07007 Old
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Alan Godfrey Maps Peebles 1906 Peeblesshire Sheet 1306 Old OS Maps
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Alan Godfrey Maps Willenhall NW and Wednesfield 1901 Staffordshire
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Alan Godfrey Maps Birmingham North 1913 Warwickshire Sheet 1401 Old
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Alan Godfrey Maps Central Nottingham 1899 Nottinghamshire Sheet
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Alan Godfrey Maps Walton on the Hill 1906 Lancashire Sheet 10603
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Alan Godfrey Maps Oldham South 1906 Lancashire Sheet 9710 Old OS
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Inter-Varsity Press The Bible and the flag
Book SynopsisA scholarly examination of the relationship between Protestant missions and imperialism in the past 200 years.
£12.59
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Battle of Hastings
Book SynopsisA unique collection of materials focused on one of the most significant battles in European history.The Battle of Hastings is a unique collection of materials focused on one of the most significant battles in European history. It includes all the primary sources for the battle, including pictorial, and seminal accounts ofthe battle by the major historians of the last two centuries. Stephen Morillo, in his own important piece, first sets the scene, describing the political situation in western Europe in the mid-eleventh century, and the events of1066. He then introduces the sources, reviewing the perspective of their medieval authors, and traces the history of writing about the battle. An important companion to the sources and interpretations is the set of original maps of the major stages of the battle, from first contact in the early morning of 14 October 1066 to final pursuit in the late evening darkness. Sources: WILLIAM OF POITIERS, WILLIAM OF JUMIEGES, ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, FLORENCE OF WORCESTER, BAYEUX TAPESTRY, CARMEN DE HASTINGAE PROELIO Interpretations: RICHARD ABELS, BERNARD BACHRACH, R. ALLEN BROWN, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, E.A. FREEMAN, J.F.C. FULLER, JOHN GILLINGHAM, CAROL GILLMOR, RICHARD GLOVER, CHRISTINE and GERALD GRAINGE, DAVID HUME, STEPHEN MORILLO. STEPHEN MORILLO teaches history at Wabash College, Indiana; he is the author of Warfare under the Anglo-Norman Kings and a number of other studies ofAnglo-Norman warfare.Table of ContentsPart 1 Primary sources: William of Poitiers - "Gesta Willelmi"; William of Jumieges - "Gesta Normannorum Ducum"; "Anglo-Saxon Chronicles"; Florence of Worcester - "Chronicon ex Chronicis"; the Bayeux Tapestry; "Carmen de Hastingae Proelio". Part 2 Interpretations: bookland and fyrd service in late-Saxon England, Richard Abels; military service in Normandy before 1066, Marjorie Chibnall; William the Bastard at war, John Gillingham; naval logistics of the cross-Channel operation, 1066, Carol Gillmor; the Pevensey expedition - brilliantly executed plan or near disaster?, Christine and Gerald Grainge; the history of England, David Hume; the Norman Conquest, E.A. Freeman; the Battle of Hastings, 1066, J.F.C. Fuller; English warfare in 1066, Richard Glover; the feigned retreat at Hastings, Bernard Bachrach; the Battle of Hastings, R. Allen Brown; Hastings, an unusual battle, Stephen Morillo.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Philip the Good
Book SynopsisPhilip, who ruled from 1419 to 1467, was one of the most powerful and influential rulers of the fifteenth century. Forced into an alliance with the English, he soon found that he held the balance of power between England and France - reflected in the final crucial phase of the Hundred Years War.Under Philip the Good, grandson of the founder of the duchy's power, Burgundy reached its apogee. Professor Vaughan portrays not only Philip the Good himself, perhaps the most attractive personality among the four great dukes, butthe workings of the court and of one of the most efficent - if not necessarily the most popular - administrations in fifteenth-century Europe. The complex diplomatic history of Philip the Good's long ducal reign (1419-1467) occupies much of the book, in particular Burgundy's relations with England and France. The central theme is Philip the Good's policy of territorial and personal aggrandisement, which culminated in his negotiations with the Holy Roman Emperor for a crown. And due attention is given to the great flowering of artistic life in Burgundy which made Philip's court at Dijon an important cultural centre in the period immediately preceding the Renaissance. All this is based on the close study of the considerable surviving archives of Philip's civil service, and on the chronicles and letters of the period. Philip the Good provides a definitive study of the life and times of the rulerwhose position and achievements made him the greatest magnate in Europe during what has been called "the Burgundian century".Trade ReviewThis reissue of Vaughan's seminal series is welcome indeed. Nothing of this scale has been written before or since...on the Burgundian state.... Erudite but highly readable.... An attractive and timely repackaging of an unrivalled classic of Burgundian studies. * MEDIUM AEVUM *
£26.99
Spokesman Books Levellers and the English Revolution
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Spokesman Books The International Significance of the Levellers
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Spokesman Books Man Makes Himself New Thinkers Library No 2
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Spokesman Books Imperialism A Study
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Discovering Wild Plant Names Shire Discovering No
Book SynopsisMany wild plant names originate from early Greek, Latin or Old English and through the ages their original meanings have become misunderstood. This book aims to bring order to the confusion of botanical classification by tracing the origins of both the English names and the scientific names of the common species of plants and trees in Britain.
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