Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-05-06
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.25
Review Perkin / Vintage:
Publication date: 2008-08-14
Dewey code: 823.809
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.95
Review Authors in Context: The Brontes (Oxford World's Classics) / OUP Oxford:
Authors
- Henrik Eberle
- Matthias Uhl
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Hitler Book: The Secret Report by His Two Closest Aides / John Murray:
Creator: Barbara Bray
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1994-08
Dewey code: 843.912
RRP: £8.95
Price: £4.48
Review The War: A Memoir / The New Press:
Publication date: 2007-09-06
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review The English: A Portrait of a People (Penguin Celebrations) / Penguin:What is it about the English? Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? As Jeremy Paxman remarks in his preface to The English, being English "used to be so easy". Now, with the Empire gone, with Wales and Scotland moving into more independent postures, with the troubling spectre of a united Europe(and despite the raucous hype of "Cool Britannia"), the English seem to have entered a collective crisis of national identity. Jeremy Paxman has set himself the task of finding just what exactly is going on. Why, he wonders, "do the English seem to enjoy feeling so persecuted? What is behind the English obsession with games? How did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex and food? Where did they get their extraordinary capacity for hypocrisy?" He ranges widely in pursuit of answers, sifting through literature, cinema and history. It is an intriguing investigation, encompassing many aspects of national life and character (such as it is), including the obligatory visit to that baffling phenomenon, the funeral of Princess Diana. Yet Paxman finds something fresh and interesting to say about even that now rather threadbare topic. In the end, he seems to find further questions to ask instead of answers. But why not? To him it is a sign that the English are acquiring a new sense of self. And some indication of this might lie in the obvious response to his remark that the English, being top of the British Imperial tree, had nicknames for the fellow nationalities-Jock, Taffy, Paddy and Mick-but there was no corresponding name for an Englishman. [+]Of course, there is now, and it comes from one of the bits of empire to which so many undesirables were exported: Whinging Pom. -Robin Davidson.
Edition: Revised & Updated
Publication date: 2008-02-26
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.25
Review Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat? / Poolbeg Press:
Publication date: 2007-08-16
Dewey code: 940.41241
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.07
Review Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New Armies 1914-1916 / Pen & Sword Military:
Publication date: 2008-09-26
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.11
Review The Forbidden Zone: A Nurse's Impressions of the First World War (Modern Voices) / Hesperus Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-11-18
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.47
Review Childhood at Court, 1819-1914 / The History Press Ltd:
Creator: Geoffrey Brooks
Publication date: 2006-09-15
Dewey code: 943.086092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £47.74
Review Heydrich: The Face of Evil / Greenhill Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-04-05
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.23
Review Dry Rot and Daffodils: Life in a National Trust House / Orion:
Publication date: 2008-03-20
Dewey code: 358.40092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.70
Review A Passion for Flying: 8,000 Hours of RAF Flying / Pen & Sword Aviation:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-04-30
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £11.99
Price: £7.79
Review Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer and Trower: Their Lives and Music (Rock Chronicles): Their Lives and Music (Rock Chronicles) / Hal Leonard Corporation:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-08-15
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £13.95
Price: £12.48
Review Henry I (Yale English Monarchs) / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 973.0496073
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.31
Review Explore Black History with "Wee Pals" / Just Us Books,US:
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 973.099
RRP: £5.38
Price: £1.54
Review The American Presidency / Odonian Press,U.S.:
Authors
- Evelyn Waugh
- William Deedes
Publication date: 2004-04-02
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.00
Review At War with Waugh: The Real Story of "Scoop" / Pan Books:
Publication date: 2008-02-01
RRP: £18.99
Price: £23.61
Review We Will Not Fight...: The Untold Story of World War Ones Conscientious Objectors / Aurum Press Ltd:
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Publication date: 1993-08-23
Dewey code: 759.2
RRP: £7.95
Price: £3.82
Review Francis Bacon (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-19
Dewey code: 941.0823092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.99
Review Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee, 1914-1919 / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
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