Women in the War, Paperback - Lucy Fisher

'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RU...

'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RU...

This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2, 000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from o...

The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Ruth FisherNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 19Cover type: Paperback / s...

In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented - both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as vict...

This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2, 000 children born to black GIs and white British women in world war 11. Stories from o...

The publication of this book in 1999 provided the first detailed examination of the many Irish men and women, all volunteers, who served in the Sec...

A rare, ever-relevant compendium of texts and manifestos from women artists on gender and race issues in cultural institutionsOriginally published ...

The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war. Soon to be a majo...

Reducere. When Katherine Pettit and May Stone arrived in the rural Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky to engage in social settlement work in the late ...

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 ...

Fully revised and updated with fresh interviews and a striking new cover to celebrate its 25th anniversary, She Bop is the definitive in-depth stud...

The first full treatment of women and warfare in Classical Greece and Rome. Addresses the neglected subject of the role of women in war in the Clas...

Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24 -- .

Reducere. Six-year-old Randy conducts bloody wars in the sandtray, calling them "World War One, " World War Two, and "The War of the Ancient Dragon." He burn...

Reducere. Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during ...

Reducere. Beautiful, brilliant, wealthy. The world should be Olive's oyster. Does she want too much? For young women in the early 1900s, sometimes a string o...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Craig StathamIllustration(s): 50 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2005Dimensi...

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

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

Reducere. DescriptionNorman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in milita...

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. Here is the unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity. Lucid, chilling and comprehensive, Lucy S....

Reducere. Now available in paperback Winner of the 2007 American Authors Association Golden Quill Award Winner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of Americ...

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries (The War Commentaries of Julius Caesar: The War in Gaul and The Civil War)' is a collection of war writin...

A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war a...

Reducere. ``Pearce's engrossing story successfully juxtaposes the volatile atmosphere of early twentieth-century Cairo against a tale full of culture, histor...

Contains fascinating details of the lives and crimes of women in Victorian England.

DescriptionAs many as 20, 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various soc...

Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime - not just to the individual, threatened with their ow...

Now in paperback, this is the first in a new series of novels from the acclaimed author, set in 1920s London. 'Full of Weldon wit and wisdom, as we...

The thrilling new fantasy adventure from the world of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Redemption's Blade The Tzarkomen necromancers sacrificed a thousand wome...

Blending memoir with an examination of the legacy of the Bosnian war, this is published on the 21st anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict. Vu...

The railways mobilised troops, transported munitions, evacuated children from cities and kept vital food supplies moving where other forms of trans...

Ever more popular in the age of DVDs, eBay and online fandom, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s have undergone a mainstream renaissance which has...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Jaimey FisherIllustration(s): 41 b&w imagesNumber of pages: 250Collection: War CulturePublication dat...

When the Civil War began in 1861 Lucy Rebecca Buck was the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prosperous planter, living on her family's plantation in...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Marion T. LaneIllustration(s): Colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 45Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141...

For fans of Century Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tessa DunlopNumber of pages: 384Publicati...

Reducere. When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from steppi...

Featuring a collection of comic book stories, this book chronicles the work of various Golden Age artists.

Reducere. Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely asso...

From the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, comes a moving and heartwarming tale of an unassuming English village caught up in the...

Reducere. For many people at Pierce Point and the rest of Washington State, the upcoming New Year is a time for hope, and belief that life is going to improv...

Reducere. This book treats the Trojan War from historical aspect separated from myths. There are enough historical facts to treat it in this way because the ...

Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Corinna (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History) Peniston-BirdIllustration(s): Illustratio...

Eighteen months after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country's women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) i...