Real War Horses. The Experience of the British Cavalry, 1814-1914, Paperback - Anthony Dawson

First-hand accounts of the British cavalry from Waterloo to the First World War.Illustrations: 20 black and white illustrations

More than 170, 000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Guests of the Third Reich w...

The fascinating history of LMR 57 Lion, the real locomotive featured in the cult film 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuth...

Reducere. The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France...

Unique study of the Peninsular War from the French perspective.Illustrations: 32 black and white illustrations

Volume II covers the traumatic experiences of the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. Of the battle of Balaklava, Lord Anglesey writes as fully as h...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): George Charles Henry Victor Paget, Marquess of AngleseyIllustration(s): b&w illustrations, maps, plans, ...

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When Britain stood alone in the early years of the Second World War, a British woman began a letter-writing campaign to prove her nation remained s...

This was the first occasion in history that a railway was constructed to support an army in war.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Anthony ...

Anthony Dawson looks at some of the iconic, trailblazing locomotives that helped shape British railway history.

Of what use were the British cavalry during the years of trench warfare on the Western Front? On a static battlefield dominated by the weapons of t...

A compilation of the conference papers from the 2017 Century of the Soldier Conference, examining how British soldiers and civilians experienced se...

Reducere. This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resour...

Publisher: HalsgroveAuthor(s): Simon ButlerIllustration(s): 200 illustrationsNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 245 x 267 x 21Co...

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A history of the iconic Woodhead Route.

This analysis of the performance history of "Hamlet" recreates many productions from three centuries. The final chapters extend the analysis to a n...

Reducere. The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded b...

Shown are the weaponry, uniforms and other equipment of the German cavalry as used on all fronts throughout World War II.

DescriptionToday the Korean War of 1950-1953 is overshadowed by later twentieth-century conflicts in Vietnam and the Middle East, yet at the time i...

Anthony Dawson explores the history of the world's first wartime railway - The Grand Crimean Central Railway.

Telling the story of the pioneering engineers behind the locomotives that took part in the iconic Rainhill trials.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAut...

How does the experience of turning a door handle, opening a door from one space into another, affect us? It is no wonder that the door, one of the ...

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Description William James used to say that 'the unconscious mind is the horse and conscious mind is the rider: it's the relationship between the tw...

Reducere. This is a book on European philosophers from Plato to Martin Buber about their way of understanding the world and what it is to be human. The key t...

Using new information from British, Portuguese and French sources, this book updates the story of the Lines of Torres Vedras defences and their rol...

The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865–1914 - T. G. Otte

This unique account of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay...

The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland - Michael J. Braddick, David L. Smith

In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-...

Selected Lectures"A tone is at the foundation of everything in the physical world." This is one of many astonishing statements made by Rudolf Stein...

Reducere. Captain B. H. Liddell Hart is the foremost authority on World War I. In The Real War, the author has fused exhaustive research and creative brillia...

At its dawn in the early twentieth century, the new technology of aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry: what do we do ...

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Reducere. When Loveday Brooke falls from her place in London high society, losing her financial security, she has no choice but to become a working woman. Se...

In-depth archival researchIllustrations: 40 colour & black and white illustrations, photographs, map drawings & artists' impressions

Reducere. "Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and importa...

The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914–2014 - Kate Skinner