The Electrification of British Railways.Trials, Tribulations and Successes
Written by John Buxton and Don Heath, two experienced rail professionals, Lines of Power delivers a comprehensive record of the stuttering progress of electrification and modernisation of Britain's railway network, exposing the furtive manoeuvring by competing factions within the railway industry during the 1950s. The book is highly critical of ......
In Capital Offence award-winning investor Paul Musson shows how the world is becoming increasingly divided on many fronts. One of the root causes of this is that well-intended policymakers have drunk the something-from-nothing Kool-Aid and are convinced that there is such a thing as a free lunch. There isn't. They believe that debt-fueled spending ......
With an introduction from IWM which puts the novel in historical context, this timely reprint of a 1945 classic is published for the VE Day anniversary in 2025.
ISBN-13: 9781912423934
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
After the failure of Britain's latest air-defence destroyers in the 1982 Falklands War, a public controversy began over an alternative: The S90 'Short Fat' frigate designed and proposed by Peter Thornycroft and David Giles. This is the almost incredible but well-documented story of the author's 40-year-long hard-fought battle with naval ......
This is a biography lightened with the intimate tone of a social memoir, about a woman who was both a bystander and protagonist through some fifty years of twentieth-century British history. Pamela Berry was the daughter of the buccaneering and brilliant politician and lawyer, FE Smith, the first Earl of Birkenhead, and married the son of another ......
1945: one of the most important years in modern history. Encompassing not only the celebration of peace and an end to the Second World War, but also the devastating first use of nuclear weapons and the long shadow cast by both this and the legacy of the worldwide conflagration. In this landmark publication, Anthony Richards tells the story of ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423927
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this striking set of postcards includes 30 famous wartime posters, artworks and vintage photographs drawn from IWMs unrivalled collections.
ISBN-13: 9781912423941
(FOLD-OUT BOOK OR CHART )
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
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AUD$39.99
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Local release date: 01/07/2025
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The Ghurid Empire and Early Delhi Sultanate c.1150-1236
The Ghurids have their origins in the mountainous region of modern central Afghanistan, from where they established the first Islamic state in India. Some of their ghulams, primarily nomadic Turks from Central Asia, were to become independent rulers, leading to the foundation of the Delhi Sultanate. At its height, in the late-twelfth and ......
This eighteenth-century glass bottle - and what it contained - represents an important step in the fight against a disease that once claimed the lives of millions: scurvy. Through notable voyages and afflicted individuals, the physical and psychological manifestations of the deadly 'sickness of the sea' are examined in a maritime context. What ......
