Beyond Endurance: an Epic of Whitehall and the South Atlantic Conflict, Paperback - Nick Barker

An Epic of Whitehall and the South Atlantic Conflict. This is the story of HMS Endurance before, during and after the Falklands conflict.

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Fills a void in the histography of the Falklands Conflict between the tactical actions and strategic considerations.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Lt...

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): David Haward BainIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 470Publication date:...

Reducere. Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic, Paperback

Foreword by Bear Grylls, presenter of Running Wild and The Island. The most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These...

Reducere. Martín Fierro: An Epic of the Argentine (1923) is an epic poem and accompanying scholarship by José Hernández and Henry A. Holmes. Originally publi...

Reducere. First appearing in 1919, "South: The Endurance Expedition" is the gripping account of those who traveled with Sir Ernest Shackleton on his third ex...

The true story of the men who made Shackleton's most famous expedition possible and paid the highest price for it.

A narrative history of the Korean War by bestselling author Sir Max Hastings

This special re-print edition of the USDA's book "Fig Growing in the South Atlantic and Gulf States" contains all the information a person needs to...

A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; "a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Revi...

The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? - to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses....

This highly accessible translation of the classic story of Sundiata, a real king who ruled the empire of Mali just south of the Sahara desert from ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Falklands War Heroes is the latest book in the best-selling "Heroes" series by Michael Ashcroft [Lord Ashcroft]. It is the author's seventh book on...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joe Nick PatoskiWillie Nelson has spent the last 30 years on that higher plane of celebrity where he signifies many things ...

John Seddon is back with an uncompromising account of Whitehall's effect on public services. It's a damning read. He explains how successive govern...

A radical new collection addressing violence against women in conflict zones across the global South.

A laugh-out loud portrait of family life from the comedian and his father, in which they remember things very differently, particularly their colle...

A fun and comprehensive guide to give you the knowledge and inspiration to use maths for your own financial gain.

This is the first biographical account in book form of the Rev. Edwin Heron Dodgson (1846-1918), brother of Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson). Sources ...

Reducere. The ultimate illustrated field guide to the birds of Argentina and the islands of the South-west Atlantic Argentina is one of South America's premi...

Reducere. Two decades after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, America still is reeling from lingering trauma. Award-winning journalist Bill Tammeus was among th...

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The first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer...

On the night of 1-2 April 1982, the Argentinian Junta led by Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri made its move against the Falkland Islands. On 3 April British ...

This book engages with the concept, true value and function of democracy in South Asia against the background of real social conditions for the pro...

A wonderful, and timely, celebration of the passing seasons and their significance, past, present and future.

Reducere. This book belongs on the shelf of every single serious cocktail enthusiast. The author reveals long forgotten methods of producing cocktails from o...

Publisher: Archive of Modern ConflictAuthor(s): Andrei NakovNumber of pages: 186Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 202 x 260 x 20Cover type: Hardbac...

Reducere. Now in paperback, this second remarkable travel book from famed actor Ewan McGregor and his good friend Charley Boorman chronicles their epic adven...

The dramatic life of the revolutionary hero Bolivar, who liberated South America - a sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic.

Reducere. In the 11th and 12th Centuries there was a great religious movement in Western Europe known as the vita apostolica, fueled by a desire of devout Ch...

Reducere. It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic sl...

Reducere. Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteent...

This is an innovative and accessible study of how decolonization is engaged with, subverted, and transformed as a curriculum change project in univ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nick FarrellThis book contains the formerly unpublished Inner Order teachings of the missing order of the Golden Dawn - Wha...

The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States, by the award-winning author of ...

Stephen R. Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom tells the dramatic and disastrous story of the Taiping Rebellion: the bloodiest civil war in hist...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Perla IssaIllustration(s): 16 color photographsNumber of pages: 186Collection: New Directions i...

Patchwork States argues that South Asia's politics of violence, development and electoral competition are rooted in colonial and post-colonial stat...

Reducere. The Atlantic and Africa breaks new ground by exploring the connections between two bodies of scholarship that have developed separately from one an...

Where is God when we are hurting or in despair? How can we respond faithfully to situations that cause us pain? Where can we find hope even when we...

The first new and comprehensive narrative history of the American railroads in a generation. 'Shrewd, articulate and incredibly well-informed' - Mi...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...