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Loading ...A history of Britain from Boudica to William the Conqueror, inevitably brief but backed by as much evidence as possible, and will still challenge and surprise.
(1 votes) Loading ...10 World War II Spitfire fighter pilots talk about their experiences as part of 66 Squadron. Of the 10, 5 were dead before the book was published.
(1 votes) Loading ...The Last Fighting Tommy is the biography of Harry Patch, born 17th June 1898. The paper back edition was published in 2008, and Harry Patch was still alive, at the grand old age of 110 — he didn’t pass away until 25th July 2009.
(2 votes) Loading ...The Forgotten Voices of Burma is an oral history of the British armies conflict in Burma, fighting against the Japanese.
(2 votes) Loading ...In Mark Urban’s Rifles you’ll read about how they fought, their wounds and care, dessertion and everything else that formed a part of a soldiers life in the 1900′s.
(3 votes) Loading ...The American Civil War was a truly brutal war that’s had a massive impact on how America has evolved to date. Just how much can be judged by Keegan’s closing statement: American socialism was stillborn on the battlefields of Shiloh and Gettysburg. It’s also one of the few wars where the loosing side wasn’t vilified [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...This book is a masterpiece. Bullock interweaves the lives of these two tyrants, chapter by chapter, setting them against the political background of 20th century Europe. From childhood, through their respective rise to power, to the build up of and aftermath of WW2, this book is full of insight into their personalities, behavior, and motivations. [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...Stalingrad was one of the major turning points of World War II and became an almost personal struggle of power between Stalin and Hitler. Neither would allow their armies to withdraw, and neither would accept defeat, although it did come and the Germans suffered heavily for it. The conditions that the soldiers of both armies [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...Sin City takes us on a humorous journey through time, spanning the period between the Roman occupation and the end of the Victorian era, covering a number of themes, namely sex, theatre, sport, drugs, and food. The book at times causes some surprise, such as Church organised prostitution, the man who walked 1000 miles in [...]
(2 votes) Loading ...The Celts is another short book in the ‘A Brief History Of’ series as published by Robinson. And it makes for a very brief but enjoyable introduction to the subject. It covers off the major areas you would expect such as their origins, Druids, warriors, cosmology, art and craft, farming, myths and more. In fact [...]