Creator: Edward Bishop
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-09-15
Dewey code: 629.130922
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.61
Review The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Airmen's Obituaries / Grub Street:
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 973.73092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.41
Review Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation / Prometheus Books:
Publication date: 2005-07-30
Dewey code: 627.7030941132
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.30
Review Cox's Navy / Leo Cooper Ltd:
Authors
- Adrian Carton de Sir Wiart
Dewey code: 355.0092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.39
Review Happy Odyssey / Pen & Sword Military:
Authors
- Oleg V. Naumov
- J. Arch Getty
Dewey code: 947.0842092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £15.51
Review Stalin's 'Iron Fist': The Times and Life of N. I. Yezhov (Portraits of Revolution) / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2001-06-01
Dewey code: 940.5318094386
RRP: £11.95
Price: £8.14
Review An Englishman in Auschwitz (Library of Holocaust Testimonies) / Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-07-01
Price: £5.99
Review Stone Cold: True Story of Michael Stone and the Milltown Massacre / Arrow Books Ltd:
Creator: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Edition: First Edition
Publication date: 2007-05-10
Dewey code: 949.5907092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £5.23
Review The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury / Libri Publications Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £4.99
Price: £128.19
Review Most Secret War (Wordsworth Military Library) / Wordsworth Editions Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-02-14
Dewey code: 356.167092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.25
Review For Queen and Country / Blake Publishing:
Publication date: 2004-01-01
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.30
Review Think Like a Bird: An Army Pilot's Story / Matador:
Publication date: 2004-04-15
Dewey code: 940.548673092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.76
Review You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (Bluejacket Books) / Naval Institute Press:
Creator: Mark Seaman
Publication date: 2008-10-21
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.18
Review Secret Agent's Handbook / Max Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-09-12
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.30
Review Fighter Pilot (Cassell Military Paperbacks) / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2008-12-05
Dewey code: 940.541273092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.21
Review Alan's War / First Second:
Creator: David Twiston Davies
Publication date: 2006-09-30
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.98
Review The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries (Daily Telegraph) / Grub Street:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-11-06
Dewey code: 327
RRP: £12.00
Price: £9.50
Review My Silent War / Arrow Books Ltd:
Creator: Martin Gilbert
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1996-04-15
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.62
Review Inherit the Truth 1939-1945: The Documented Experiences of a Survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen / Giles de la Mare Publishers:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-04-01
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £14.95
Price: £11.97
Review Auschwitz and After / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2002-06-05
RRP: £20.00
Price: £12.95
Review Wellington: The Iron Duke / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:We associate Wellington so much with the battle of Waterloo that it's easy to forget that, before the battle, he had had a long military career already and that, after it, he had an even longer career as politician, prime minister and pillar of the establishment. Richard Holmes's admirably clear and succinct biography of the Duke has a chapter on his youth as a slightly awkward loner from the Anglo-Irish nobility and a concluding chapter which races swiftly through the 37 years of his post-Waterloo life. However the bulk of the book, unsurprisingly, is given over to a description and analysis of his military exploits. As viewers of his TV series and readers of his previous books will know, Holmes is a brilliant interpreter of battlefields and what took place on them. He has visited most of the sites of Wellington's battles, not only those in Europe but those in India where the young Arthur Wellesley, as he then was, gained his first experiences as a general. (Wellington himself, in later life, claimed that his finest military achievement was not Waterloo but the winning of the Battle of Assaye during the Maratha Wars in 1803. ) He uses his knowledge of the battle sites and his familiarity with all the extensive literature on the Peninsular War and Waterloo to produce a vivid account of Wellington's string of successes as a general. As the quotes in this book from his writings and despatches show, Wellington had a gift for the striking phrase and for concise description of complicated events. It's a gift his biographer shares and Holmes has produced a very readable and enjoyable book. -Nick Rennison.
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