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From Sierra Leone to Fiji, Australia to Sri Lanka, this is a vivid portrait of empire and of men from another age. Made up of ...
In Leadership and Training for the Fight, MSG Paul R. Howe, U.S. Army Retired, shares ideas on leadership that he has developed through extensive ...
This volume originated in a conference of the same title, held in Oxford in September 2006, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Peter Parsons, Regius ...
When two of his colleagues are killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, young bomb disposal officer Kevin Ivison is called in to defuse a ...
'Afghanistan is just like Iraq - hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search Advisor
Bomb Hunters ...
For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ...
Tells how Australian crews, in a handful of Hudson bombers and Catalina flying boats, took the fight to the Japanese. Draws on eyewitness accounts and ...
On the morning of 3 January 1941, Australians of the 6th Division led an assault against the Italian colonial fortress village of Bardia in Libya ...
"The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. " --Journal of Southern History, 2007"Incisive and insightful.... As good ...
In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents over her refusal to ...
Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, this book follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning ...
At its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen with borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to ...
Far more than Shakespeare, the King James' Bible helped to create and shape the language. It is the origin of many of our most familiar ...
In the 14th century, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching ...
