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Tank War, the new supplement for Bolt Action, gives players the option to expand their games to a whole new level armoured warfare. Recreate such ...

Inheritance explores the parishes of Aghabullogue, Inniscarra and Ovens on the northern valleyside of the Inniscarra Reservoir, Co. Cork. Through f...

Lieutenant Knowles served in the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers 1811-1813, seeing action in several battles, being wounded at the storming of Badajoz and at...

Empires on the Waterfront offers a new spatial framework for understanding Japans extended transition into the modern world of nation-states. This ...

The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloo...

'In the last couple of years I realised that, as one of the last witnesses, I must speak out.' Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family ...

With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known...

HMS Glamorgan was in the thick of the fighting throughout the war. Her role for most of the time was that of an expendable escort and she became th...

What is the role of history in the life of new democracies? In this volume, twelve reflectionsthe work of journalists, writers and poets, literary ...

By December 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. That month brought the firs...

Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic ...

The Trio tells the story of three war correspondents, two Englishmen and an Australian, all in their 30s, whose friendship was forged during the Se...

During the Second World War, British artists produced over 6,000 works of war art, the result of a government scheme partly designed to prevent the...

During the second half of the nineteenth century, Barrow-in-Furness became a pioneer in iron and steel production. It went on to grow astronomicall...

With the surprise Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982, the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of ...

The letters of Peter Le Mesurier (1789-1813) cover his service in the 9th Foot, from leaving for Portugal as an ensign in 1808 at the very start of...

Like most empires, the Ming court sponsored grand displays of dynastic strength and military prowess. Covering the first two centuries of the Ming ...

Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century. The antagonists are Sir Henry Tizar...

Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in ...

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butchers son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle yet, t...

This is the perfect read for anyone who yearns for times gone by and respects the past enough to see that not all modern things are good for us. Pr...

The Nemesis was the first of a generation of iron-clad, steam-powered naval vessels that established British dominance in Asian waters in the ninet...

While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwi...

After the First World War broke out, Holland, and the port city of Rotterdam in particular, became a prolific breeding ground for secret agents and...

The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchills literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churc...

The contentious relationship between modernism and realism has powerfully influenced literary history throughout the twentieth century and into the...

The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were often portrayed in the media as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries wereand saw thems...

The age of steam is past, the heyday of Swindon Works is long gone but the legend lives on. What made the Great Western Railways Swindon Works ico...

In the autumn of 1942, British Special Operations Executive agent Ronald Sydney Seth was parachuted into German occupied Estonia, supposedly to car...

Women's participation in the Second World War is often overlooked, yet thousands of them wore their uniform, working mainly as nurses, but offering...

What constituted a secret or a scandal in times gone by? This entertaining title in this new series gives an overview of the times and attitudes to...

Called to action on 2 April 1982, the men of 45 Commando Royal Marines assembled from around the world to sail 8,000 miles to recover the Falkland ...

An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London.Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd...

Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World examines the wide variety of social and cultural networks that emerged from the global exchanges of the...

The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with h...

Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and so...

Quiet Revolutionaries examines the pivotal role Irish women played in the development of education, medicine and sport in one hundred years of chan...

Gwynne Dyer's War, now in its first UK edition, is widely regarded as one of the most compelling analyses of the history and psychology of armed co...

The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitc...

External Mission is the Winner of the Recht Malan Prize for Non-Fiction awarded by Media24 in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's release from prison in...