Publication date: 2007-10-11
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.28
Review England, Our England / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2004-05-01
RRP: £12.95
Price: £14.94
Review No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs: The Inspiring Story of Lord Taylor of Warwick / Centre Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-12-07
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.78
Review Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain: Dunkirk and the Threat of Invasion Pt. 1 (Forgotten Voices CD) / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Tom Griffith
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-11-30
Dewey code: 184
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.10
Review The Trial and Death of Socrates / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2002-01-30
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.07
Review Martin Luther King, Jr.: We Shall Overcome / Soundworks,U.S.:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-06-21
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.75
Review Forgotten Voices of the Falklands: Pt. 3: Doing the Business: Pt. 3 (Forgotten Voices/Falklands) / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: De Souza
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1995-05-31
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.95
Review The Island Race (Classic non-fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Simon Callow
Publication date: 2003-10-02
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.75
Review London - The Biography: Foundations: Foundations / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2007-10-11
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.28
Review England, Our England / Hodder & Stoughton:
Dewey code: 200
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.07
Review The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus: Unabridged:
Creator: Sean Barrett
Publication date: 2006-07-27
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.40
Review The War of the World / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: Jim Norton
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2006-11-20
RRP: £19.96
Price: £8.29
Review The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Creator: Michael Tudor Barnes
Publication date: 2000-05
RRP: £56.50
Price: £56.50
Review Stalingrad / ISIS Publishing:Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War. The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision to launch a major invasion of Britain, whose army was unprepared for the force of blitzkrieg warfare. The second was the ill-conceived Operation Barbarossa-an invasion of Russia that was supposed to take the German army to the gates of Moscow. Antony Beevor's thoughtfully researched compendium recalls this epic struggle for Stalingrad. No-one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army; Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France and Poland. The ill-prepared Nazi forces were trapped in a bloody war of attrition against the Russian behemoth, which held them in the pit of Stalingrad for nearly two years. Beevor points out that the Russians were by no means ready for the war either, making their stand even more remarkable; Soviet intelligence spent as much time spying on its own forces-in fear of desertion, treachery and incompetence-as they did on the Nazis. Due attention is also given to the points of view of the soldiers and generals of both forces, from the sickening battles to life in the gulags. Many believe Stalingrad to be the turning point of the war. The Nazi war machine proved to be fallible as it spread itself too thin for a cause that was born more from arrogance than practicality. [+]The Germans never recovered, and its weakened defences were no match for the Allied invasion of 1944. We know little of what took place in Stalingrad or its overall significance, leading Beevor to humbly admit that "[t]he Battle of Stalingrad remains such an ideologically charged and symbolically important subject that the last word will not be heard for many years". This is true. But this gripping account should become the standard work against which all others should measure themselves. -Jeremy Storey.
Publication date: 2007-10-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.95
Review Adam Hart-Davis Presents the Eureka Years (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-02-01
Dewey code: 180
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.00
Review Aristotle: An Introduction (Naxos Audio Philosophy) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Roy Marsden
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-02-29
Dewey code: 956
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.77
Review Histories: Persian War from the Histories (Classic Non Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2005-02-14
RRP: £9.95
Price: £4.97
Review Churchill: A Celebration in Words and Music / Classical Communications Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-12-07
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.78
Review Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain: Dunkirk and the Threat of Invasion Pt. 1 (Forgotten Voices CD) / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2005-05-09
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.99
Review White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Writer and journalist Giles Milton specializes in the history of travel and exploration. His latest literary adventure, White Gold, is the story of Thomas Pellow, a Cornish cabin boy who was captured at sea by a group of fanatical Islamic slave traders—the Barbary corsairs, taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Salè in Morocco and sold to the highest bidder. Pellow's purchaser happened to be the tyrannical sultan of Morroco, Moulay Ismail, a man committed to building a vast imperial pleasure palace of unsurpassable splendour built entirely by Christian slave labour. After enduring long periods of torture Pellow converted to Islam and became the personal slave of the sultan for over two decades—including a stint as a soldier in the sultan's army—before finally making a dramatic escape and return to Cornwall. The account is supported by the unpublished letters and manuscripts of slaves and the various ambassadors sent to free them. This is an excellently written account of the history of the white slave trade. Pellow's story is an extraordinary one but the real interest lies in the picture Milton builds of life in the slave pens and especially of daily life at the court of the spectacularly barbaric Moulay Ismail. -Larry Brown.
Publication date: 2008-05-24
Dewey code: 291
RRP: £22.50
Price: £11.15
Review Animal-speak: Symbols, Guides, and Guardians from the Natural World / Sounds True Inc.,U.S.:
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