Operation Grapple 1957 and the last Royal Navy Gunroom at sea
The first book to deal with Grapple and Warrior's journey home around South America and the Falklands. 2017 sees the 60th anniversary of Operation Grapple and the first successful test of a British nuclear weapon
This is a rare chance to re-discover a contemporary account of a military conflict which took place a Century ago. The Agony of Belgium, written in 1914 by Frank Fox, a war correspondent, recounts events that the modern European mind would probably wish to forget. The bravery and resilience of the relatively new and untested Belgian Army, ......
This is the story of how the modern relationships between man and nature, war and politics, and the media and technology are writing another chapter in the story of this most notorious of flowers.
A Collection of Epigrams and Epitaphs Serious and Comic
Originally published in 1933, this is a charming book of verse written by Martin Armstrong and illustrated with wood-engravings from the skilled hands of Eric Ravilious.
Battlefields, Memorials and Cemeteries of the First World War
The area of Belgium and northern France that was the Western Front is a place like no other. In a line running seven hundred kilometers from the English Channel to the Swiss border the horrors of industrialised war consumed men by the millions for over four years.When the War finally ended, entire societies were in shock and the ensuing ......
Growing Up Under Occupation, a Child's Tale of Courage, Risk and Resista
An adventure story, set in war-time, where the main protagonist is a child. Although a fictional account, the story is set in a real historical context and many of the events are based actual first-hand testimony.Set in a rural town in south west France during 1940 to1944, the story examines the impact of the occupation by foreign invaders on ......
This book tells the story of two directors of the State Hermitage Museum, who (for over five decades between them) have presided over what has become one of the greatest museums of the world.Saved from the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, the Hermitage was run from 1964 until his death in 1990 by Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky. His son, Mikhail ......
Summer of No Surrender The Battle of Britain...the testing time for the pilots of the R.A.F. - and the Luftwaffe. In the skies over the Channel, young men were proving their courage to the enemy, to their comrades, and to themselves...Flying Officer Peter Knight and Lieutenant Erich Hafner had begun to recognise the markings of each others ......
