The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire, Paperback - Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy

Reducere. The loss of America in 1781 has traditionally been blamed on incompetent British military commanders and political leaders whose arrogant confidenc...

DescriptionFilms for the Colonies examines the British Government's use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence...

From Fiji to the Falkland Islands, from Malaysia to Australia and South Africa, from Lagos to Ottawa, British men and women, with no training, were...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "I came here, where freedom is...

Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): John DillonIllustration(s): 9 b/w maps, 9 tablesNumber of pages: 298Collection: Reason to RevolutionPublicati...

DescriptionA personal account of the courageous men of an Army Combat Engineer Battalion during our most unpopular war. They faced constant danger ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrew GordonForeword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providin...

Life During the Revolutionary War, Hardcover

Reducere. Between 1775 and 1783, some 200, 000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6, 800 of those men died in battle. About 25, 000 ...

Reducere. In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to...

Reducere. 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 ...

Reducere. Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski "brings keen psychological insights into the world leaders involved" (Booklist) during 1941, the critical yea...

I The story of the attitude of Englishmen to the Dutch in the later seventeenth century - a story of the complex interplay of engrained hostility a...

Reducere. Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries--Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff--whose imagination and dr...

This groundbreaking study, sitting at the intersection of cultural and military history, examines the formal and informal uses of music in all thre...

Reducere. Patrick Henry, working with more than one thousand unpublished autobiographical pages written by key rescuers and with documents, letters, and inte...

A revised and updated edition of the Richard and Judy-touted bestseller which looks at the personalities who walked on the moon between 1969 and 19...

Explodes the myth that after Trafalgar, Martello towers and other coastal-defence infrastructure were unnecessary.Illustrations: 70 colour illustra...

The first children's book about one of Ireland's greatest heroines, who saved the lives of hundreds of children during World War II.

In 1941, Sgt Albert Victor Ient sought adventure in the Services. Stationed in Hong Kong, he faced a different reality when his position was overru...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith's book, now updated with a new Afterwo...

DescriptionAs the newly appointed commander of the Southern Continental Army in December 1780, Nathanael Greene quickly realized victory would not ...

Reducere. Living with the Torpedo is the only World War II memoir written by a US Navy officer who fought the years-long Battle of the Atlantic against Hitle...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The desert was quivering with heat. The gu...

War of Words analyses Franco-British relations during the Second World War through the lens of rhetoric and empire. Through a comparative and trans...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "You are charged with one of the...

Reducere. Now in paperback--the award-winning National Geographic book that presents the untold story of the invisible war behind the American Revolution. A ...

DescriptionThirty was the number of minutes it took for one Coastal Command crew to sink two U-boats. This remarkable achievement was carried out b...

Hardly anyone paid attention when Sultan Khan arrived in London on April 26, 1929. A humble servant from a village in the Punjab, Khan had little f...

The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the Br...

Reducere. In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cult...

Reducere. While 52 U.S. submarines were sunk in the Pacific, the Japanese took prisoners of war from the survivors of only seven of these lost submarines. Pr...

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...