Earning a Crust
543円 My literary efforts covering my experiences as a National Serviceman in the 1950s (A Reluctant Recruit) generated such a favourable reception. So much so that I embarked on a second, more or less true, account of my life as a typical boy growing up in the thirties and forties (Call Me Valentine)...
Straight On Till Morning
2,422円 Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa. Pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer, unscrupulous seducer - her life story is for every reader who was enthralled by Blixen's exotic world, that of Kenya between the wars. This fully authorised ...
Legends of the Ancient World: Hannibal
503円 *Includes art depicting Hannibal and other important people in his life.*Discusses the debate over which route Hannibal took to cross the Alps*Includes a Table of ContentsGod has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. HannibalA lot of ink has been spilled covering the li...
The Perils of the Pushy Parents
1,379円 Written and illustrated by Boris Johnson The nicest kids you ever saw Were Jim and Molly Albacore… Alas for Molly and Jim, Their lives were not entirely cushy: Their parents were so very pushy. Mr and Mrs Albacore will do anything to get their offspring to the top of the pile. Father reads great ...
With the Possum and the Eagle
3,225円 Ralph H. Nutter was the lead navigator for Eighth Air Force raids over Germany when he was assigned as Maj. Gen. Curtis the Eagle LeMays group navigator. Later, as the strategic air war over Europe was winding down, the ace navigator was transferred to B-29 Superfortress duty with the Twentieth A...
Patton And Rommel
788円 General George S. Patton. His tongue was as sharp as the cavalry saber he once wielded, and his fury as explosive as the shells he’d ordered launched from his tank divisions. Despite his profane, posturing manner, and the sheer enthusiasm for conflict that made both his peers and the public uncom...
Raw Courage
1,761円 This is the captivating story of the four Raw brothers, all of whom served with the Royal Air Force. The eldest three flew during WW2 and all three died. The youngest, not old enough to see wartime flying, flew night-fighters in the postwar years, ending up flying Spitfires with the Battle of Bri...
American Generalship
1,103円 “What does it take to make a great general or a great leader in any field? . . . An excellent contribution to the study of leadership among those who make life-and-death decisions in the most challenging situationsーone that could well serve as required reading in both military and business schoo...
Once I Had a Comrade: Karl Roth and the C...
3,170円 Once I Had a Comrade is the story of the author's German father-in-law, Karl Roth, who grew up during the tumultuous 1930s in the Franconian town of Schweinfurt, located in northern Bavaria, and of his regiment, 36th Panzer Regiment. When the Second World War began, he found himself conscripted i...
Reporting Live: Articles and Letters from...
1,650円 In late April 1904, newspaper editors started sending reporters to St. Louis to report on the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. A few weeks later, editors were invited for Press Day. Some of those who attended carefully wrote down their observations. In addition, they usually included their impressi...
Sport and Work on the Nepal Frontier
416円 Memoirs of James Inglis (1845-1908) who ran an Indigo Plantation on the borderlands between India and Nepal in the years 1863-1875. The book describes the everyday lives of the Planters and the Indians they worked with on the plantation, their social customs, stories and sporting exploits.
The Inner Life of Empires
4,711円 The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The I...
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