Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Social Change in the Sixteenth Century / Sussex Publications:
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Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-09-21
RRP: £8.99
Price: £29.99
Review The Benn Diaries Vol. 2: 1970-1990 [Audiobook] / Random House Audiobooks:
Authors
- Haing S. Ngor
- Roger Warner
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £47.95
Price: £57.89
Review Surviving the Killing Fields: Cambodian Odyssey: Complete & Unabridged (Isis Series/12 Audio Cassettes) / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-09-01
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.32
Review The Real Heroes of Telemark: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Stop Hitler's Atomic Bomb / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-10-02
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.05
Review Forgotten Voices of the Great War: The Struggle to Victory - August 1917-November 1918: 4 (Forgotten Voices) / Random House Audiobooks:Max Arthur's compilation of First World War memories, Forgotten Voices of the Great War, offers a reminder of the scale of human experience within the 1914-18 conflict. Arthur, a military historian best known for his history of the RAF and his account of the Falklands campaign in 1982, has assembled hundreds of excerpts from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum. Officers, rank-and-file troops, Australians, Americans, war widows, women in the munitions factories, and German soldiers too, all left oral testimony of their experiences, and these interviews provide the basis of the book. Arthur has put them in chronological and campaign order, and provided a general commentary, but beyond that, has left the rich and moving record to speak for itself. The sheer humdrum ordinariness of modern warfare-the mud and rain, the relentless loss of life and inevitability of death, the pointless routine of attrition-come over in the matter-of-fact recollections of so many. But so too does the humanity and morality of the ordinary soldier-a factor that rather belies the recent emphasis amongst some historians on how soldiers loved to kill. Arthur might have intruded more. No biographical information is given about the owners of these "voices", nor does he say when, where and how this oral testimony was gathered. These quibbles aside this is a worthwhile read and should encourage people not only to observe a minute's silence on Remembrance Day, but also to spend a few hours in the Imperial War Museum itself. -Miles Taylor.
Publication date: 2005-07-04
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.70
Review Trafalgar: The Men, the Battle, the Storm / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Edition: Cassettes
Publication date: 1996-01
Dewey code: 781.6609
RRP: £9.47
Price: £19.54
Review Rock & Roll: An Unruly History (Nova Audio Books) / Brilliance Corp:
Publication date: 1996-12-01
Dewey code: 782
RRP: £24.68
Price: £22.07
Review Cassestte to Accompany-Foundations in Singing: A Basic Txt Bk in Vocal & Song Interpretation / McGraw-Hill Education:
Creator: Diana Bishop
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £31.95
Price: £25.24
Review We Remember D-Day: Complete & Unabridged / ISIS Audio Books:
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-09
Price: £7.99
Review Love Lessons: A Wartime Diary / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Edward L., Jr. Beach
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-05-24
Dewey code: 359.0092
Price: £33.00
Review Battleship Sailor / Naval Institute Press:
Publication date: 2003-10-02
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.34
Review Forgotten Voices of the Great War: The Somme and Back to Ypres - July 1916-July 1917: 4 (Forgotten Voices) / Random House Audiobooks:Max Arthur's compilation of First World War memories, Forgotten Voices of the Great War, offers a reminder of the scale of human experience within the 1914-18 conflict. Arthur, a military historian best known for his history of the RAF and his account of the Falklands campaign in 1982, has assembled hundreds of excerpts from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum. Officers, rank-and-file troops, Australians, Americans, war widows, women in the munitions factories, and German soldiers too, all left oral testimony of their experiences, and these interviews provide the basis of the book. Arthur has put them in chronological and campaign order, and provided a general commentary, but beyond that, has left the rich and moving record to speak for itself. The sheer humdrum ordinariness of modern warfare-the mud and rain, the relentless loss of life and inevitability of death, the pointless routine of attrition-come over in the matter-of-fact recollections of so many. But so too does the humanity and morality of the ordinary soldier-a factor that rather belies the recent emphasis amongst some historians on how soldiers loved to kill. Arthur might have intruded more. No biographical information is given about the owners of these "voices", nor does he say when, where and how this oral testimony was gathered. These quibbles aside this is a worthwhile read and should encourage people not only to observe a minute's silence on Remembrance Day, but also to spend a few hours in the Imperial War Museum itself. -Miles Taylor.
Publication date: 2002-10-01
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £18.99
Price: £6.59
Review Leadership / Little, Brown & Company:
Publication date: 1998-10-08
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Course of My Life: Edward Heath's Autobiography / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Edward Heath's autobiography is at times oddly impersonal; much of its emotional force has to do with a passion for setting the record straight. The son of a small builder, his Conservatism defined itself early on through his patriotism and passion for self-improvement. His travels in Europe as a young man filled him with a dread of the Nazis and he had, as they say, a good war. Just as his time in charge of firing squads put him off capital punishment, so the war made him a determined European; his premiership failed in many ways, but he did succeed in getting Britain into Europe. His opposition to recent Conservative leaders is less the personal pique sometimes alleged than a determination not to see his legacy destroyed. His resolution not to let the Eurosceptics rewrite history sometimes bogs his story down in repetitive score-settling; given the charge of disloyalty so often made against him, it is legitimate that he establish his credentials. At the book's occasional best, he shows a dry humour and an unexpected sense of his own absurdity; there are some surprising vignettes as well, like Fidel Castro drunkenly ranting about his hero- worship of Winston Churchill, and Enoch Powell promising to break an NHS strike by importing Jamaican nurses. -Roz Kaveney.
Authors
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- Cotter Smith
Publication date: 1998-11-30
Dewey code: 940.5421
Price: £25.00
Review Band of Brothers / Simon & Schuster:As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose uses Band of Brothers to tell the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from gruelling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day, where a dozen of them turned German cannons into dynamited ruins resembling "half-peeled bananas", on to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of part of the Dachau concentration camp, and a large party at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest", where they drank the his (surprisingly inferior) champagne. Of Ambrose's main sources, three soldiers became rich civilians; at least eight became teachers; one became Albert Speer's jailer; one prosecuted Robert Kennedy's assassin; another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic CO who first trained Easy Company (and to whose strictness many soldiers attributed their survival of the war) wound up a suicidal loner whose own sons skipped his funeral. The Easy Company survivors describe the hell and confusion of any war: the senseless death of the nicest kid in the company when a souvenir Luger goes off in his pocket; the execution of a GI by his CO for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war. the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction. [+]war as spectacle". -Tim Appelo.
Creator: Anna Massey
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-09-16
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.47
Review This Sceptred Isle: Elizabeth I to Cromwell 1547-1660 Vol 4 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Publication date: 1995-04
Price: £7.88
Review Battles of the Oceans 1940-44 / Listen for Pleasure:
Publication date: 2003-10-02
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.99
Review Forgotten Voices of the Great War: Ypres to Gallipoli - April 1915-June 1916: 2 (Forgotten Voices) / Random House Audiobooks:Max Arthur's compilation of First World War memories, Forgotten Voices of the Great War, offers a reminder of the scale of human experience within the 1914-18 conflict. Arthur, a military historian best known for his history of the RAF and his account of the Falklands campaign in 1982, has assembled hundreds of excerpts from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum. Officers, rank-and-file troops, Australians, Americans, war widows, women in the munitions factories, and German soldiers too, all left oral testimony of their experiences, and these interviews provide the basis of the book. Arthur has put them in chronological and campaign order, and provided a general commentary, but beyond that, has left the rich and moving record to speak for itself. The sheer humdrum ordinariness of modern warfare-the mud and rain, the relentless loss of life and inevitability of death, the pointless routine of attrition-come over in the matter-of-fact recollections of so many. But so too does the humanity and morality of the ordinary soldier-a factor that rather belies the recent emphasis amongst some historians on how soldiers loved to kill. Arthur might have intruded more. No biographical information is given about the owners of these "voices", nor does he say when, where and how this oral testimony was gathered. These quibbles aside this is a worthwhile read and should encourage people not only to observe a minute's silence on Remembrance Day, but also to spend a few hours in the Imperial War Museum itself. -Miles Taylor.
Creator: Robert Powell
Publication date: 1999-09-06
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.50
Review This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century Vol 1 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Neville Jason
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 709.4509024
RRP: £18.99
Price: £17.09
Review Lives of the Artists (Biography) / Naxos AudioBooks:
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