Publication date: 2004-05-20
Dewey code: 940.542142092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.95
Review D-Day Hero: CSM Stanley Hollis VC / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed
Publication date: 2004-10-08
Dewey code: 943.086092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.87
Review The Women Who Knew Hitler: The Private Life of Adolf Hitler / Carroll & Graf Publishing:
Publication date: 1986-06
Dewey code: 973.9180924
Price: £9.61
Review Truman / Harpercollins:
Publication date: 2007-06-01
Dewey code: 940.545973092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.71
Review Sinking the Rising Sun: Dog Fighting and Dive Bombing in World War II / Motorbooks International:
Publication date: 2008-08-21
Dewey code: 623.7464092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.02
Review The Red Air Force at War: Air Combat Over the Eastern Front and Korea: A Soviet Fighter Pilot Remembers (Red Air Force at War) / Pen & Sword Aviation:
Publication date: 2008-08-21
Dewey code: 623.7464092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.02
Review The Red Air Force at War: Air Combat Over the Eastern Front and Korea: A Soviet Fighter Pilot Remembers (Red Air Force at War) / Pen & Sword Aviation:
Creator: M. Glenny
Publication date: 1983-06-16
Dewey code: 338.37270947
Price: £8.95
Review A Crime Against the World / Gollancz:
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.44
Review A Journal of the Second Sikh War: The Experiences of an Ensign of the 2nd Bengal European Regiment During the Campaign in the Punjab, India, 1848-49 / Leonaur Ltd:
Publication date: 1996-12-31
Dewey code: 940.5425
Price: £25.00
Review Scapegoat: General Percival of Singapore (Brasseys Biographies) / Brassey's (UK) Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-06-05
Price: £20.00
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.
Publication date: 1986-06
Dewey code: 973.9180924
Price: £9.61
Review Truman / Harpercollins:
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed
Publication date: 2004-10-08
Dewey code: 943.086092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.87
Review The Women Who Knew Hitler: The Private Life of Adolf Hitler / Carroll & Graf Publishing:
Publication date: 1997-09-30
Dewey code: 770
RRP: £26.00
Price: £37.61
Review Witness to History: Photographs of Yevgeny Khaldei / Aperture:
Publication date: 2004-05-20
Dewey code: 940.542142092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.95
Review D-Day Hero: CSM Stanley Hollis VC / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.44
Review A Journal of the Second Sikh War: The Experiences of an Ensign of the 2nd Bengal European Regiment During the Campaign in the Punjab, India, 1848-49 / Leonaur Ltd:
Authors
- Tom Goodrich
- Albert Castel
Publication date: 2006-03-15
Dewey code: 973.742092
RRP: £10.50
Price: £3.77
Review Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla / University Press of Kansas:
Publication date: 2007-06-01
Dewey code: 940.545973092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.71
Review Sinking the Rising Sun: Dog Fighting and Dive Bombing in World War II / Motorbooks International:
Creator: M. Glenny
Publication date: 1983-06-16
Dewey code: 338.37270947
Price: £8.95
Review A Crime Against the World / Gollancz:
Publication date: 1997-09-30
Dewey code: 770
RRP: £26.00
Price: £37.61
Review Witness to History: Photographs of Yevgeny Khaldei / Aperture:
Publication date: 2002-06-05
Price: £20.00
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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