Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-04-30
Dewey code: 355.331092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.99
Review Armoured Crusader: The Biography of Major-General Sir Percy 'Hobo' Hobart,One of the Most Influential Military Commanders of the Second World War / Grub Street:
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.27
Review Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel / Phoenix:After his provocative Eminent Churchillians and his magisterial, award-winning Salisbury, Andrew Roberts' Napoleon and Wellington moves further back into the past to examine those titans of early 19th-century Europe. One was revolutionary, one deeply conservative. One aimed to change everything, the other aimed to achieve nothing except to stop the other changing anything. Roberts pre-empts the obvious moan regarding this well-tilled field, by pointing out that this is the first book to examine exactly what the two men thought of each other, and revealing the fascinating contradiction between what they said in public and in private. Roberts' cautious, subtle reading of character, and the narrow focus on just two men-not a mention of Rifleman Harris here-gives the book a novelistic brio. Wellington could be every bit as vainglorious as Napoleon, but Napoleon was unforgiving. Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, but Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate the Duke. And once Napoleon had gone, Wellington amassed endless trophies of his great enemy-including not one but two of the Emperor's mistresses. Roberts' wry comment: "To sleep with one of Napoleon's mistresses might be considered an accident, but to sleep with two might suggest a pattern of triumphalism. [+]" English readers, who have long lived with the notoriously bitchy comment from another of Wellington's mistresses, that one of their greatest national heroes was, in bed at least, "a cold fish," will be delighted to hear a second opinion from one of these ex-Imperial bed-warmers, that compared to Napoleon, Wellington was "beaucoup le plus fort". So there. Roberts is witty as well as wise, with chapter titles such as "The War for Clio's Ear". And he ends on a provocative, characteristically Euro-sceptic note: Wellington may have won at Waterloo, but today's "politically united Europe led by a centralised (French-led) bureaucracy", represents a final triumph for the Napoleonic vision. touché. -Christopher Hart.
Authors
- Paul Marriott
- Paul Marriot
- Yvonne Argent
Publication date: 1998-01-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £15.95
Price: £11.16
Review The Last Days of T.E. Lawrence: A Leaf in the Wind / The Alpha Press Ltd:
Authors
- Raymond W. Thorp
- Robert Bunker
Publication date: 1969-06-01
Dewey code: 978.020924
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.59
Review Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (A Midland Book) / Indiana University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-02-22
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.50
Review The Mystery of Jack of Kent and the Fate of Owain Glyndwr / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-04-18
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.88
Review The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Family's War Time Courage / Hutchinson:
Creator: John Pimlott
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-03-05
Dewey code: 940.5423092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £48.47
Review Rommel: And His Art of War (Greenhill Military Paperback): And His Art of War (Greenhill Military Paperback) / Greenhill Books:
Publication date: 1999-10-18
RRP: £24.99
Price: £2.95
Review Napoleon III: A Life / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Kathleen Cleaver
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-10-29
Dewey code: 322.42092
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.78
Review We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party / South End Press,U.S.:
Publication date: 2008-02-18
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £5.40
Review Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady (Biography) / Filiquarian Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-07-28
Dewey code: 955.03092
RRP: £24.50
Price: £4.99
Review Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant / I B Tauris & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-07-24
Dewey code: 947.07384092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.24
Review Messenger of Death: Captain Nolan and the Charge of the Light Brigade / Pen & Sword Military:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-02-17
Dewey code: 940.5421092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.79
Review Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1990-09-27
Dewey code: 941.081092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.93
Review Disraeli (Lancaster pamphlets) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2008-10-07
Dewey code: 973.7092
RRP: £19.55
Price: £13.49
Review Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief / Penguin Press:
Publication date: 2002-07-01
Dewey code: 287
RRP: £14.95
Price: £5.99
Review John Wesley: The Evangelical Revival and the Rise of Methodism in England / Epworth Press:
Authors
- Deborah Oppenheimer
- Mark Jonathan Harris
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-10-08
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.00
Review Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1988-07
Dewey code: 365.45092
Price: £3.95
Review 117 Days / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Publication date: 2006-01-09
Dewey code: 958.1046092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.41
Review The Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al-Qaeda's Leader / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2000-08-17
Dewey code: 943.086092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £12.89
Review Hitler (Profiles In Power) / Longman:Is there anything fresh to be said about Hitler? He is an icon, maybe the icon, of the 20th century. He was a failed artist with Wagnerian fantasies, a slob who could not get up in the morning, but he exposed the frailties of modern civilisation in a way that should still make us giddy. How? Was it his doing, or German society's? Professor Ian Kershaw has produced a work of definitive scholarship that will be the standard for years to come. It was badly needed; since Alan Bullock's 1952 classic Hitler: A Study In Tyranny and Joachim Fest's Hitler (originally published in 1973) there has been much valuable research, all of which Kershaw seems to have read (there are 200 pages of notes). Add to this the media (and, by extension, public) fascination with the nature of evil, and a resurgent interest in right-wing groups, and this book becomes long overdue. Kershaw deals rigorously with the bones of his subject's life. He has no truck with psychological padding, and calmly demolishes most of the quasi-facts that have sprung up-if in doubt, he allows space within the chronology. His description of the path to the Chancellorship, which was always more messy than messianic, is painful to behold but gripping to follow, and concludes in 1936 with Hitler at the height of his "Hubris". This is an important study of the character of power, as clearly written as it is intellectually engaging. -David Vincent.
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