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Band of Brigands: The First Men in Tanksby: Christy Campbell September 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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A very authoritative and well researched work. Truly a must read for members of the Regiment, as it doesn't flinch away from some unpalatable truths. The various machinations and infighting of Whitehall are laid bare, in the development of the world's first true armoured fighting vehicle, including the impediment of and encouragement of the new Corps from the most surprising of Wartime celebrities. Most importantly, it lets us see the thoughts the staff of the new corps and the pioneering officers and men who crewed these first wagons. Most, if not all of the angles seem to be covered.
This book should sit proudly next to BH Liddel Hart's The Tanks, for although not as well written, time has undoubtedly allowed a different view ... Read More: >>More Details |
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IWM War on the Home Front (Imperial War Museum)by: Juliet Gardiner September 03, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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Even though most of us today never lived through the period, perhaps because as Britons, we feel we have a direct connection to the British Home Front. As a result, it has become one of the most widely researched and written about areas of Second World War history. So it may not come as breaking news that yet another general history of the period has been published.
However, this new work approaches the subject in an exciting, colourful and eye-catching way. Largely due to the influence of the internet and the burgeoning interest in collecting Home Front memorabilia, this large format book is visually, manually and aurally interactive. Published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, where most of the featured ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Mapping London: Making Sense of the Cityby: Simon Foxell September 01, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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This is a beautiful book, worthy of pride-of-place on your coffee table or your library shelf. If you're a "map person," you will relish hundreds of illustrations published between the covers. These generously-sized images give you a real opportunity to pore over the details on historical maps, and the accompanying text will teach you something new.
It is an ambitious undertaking to publish a book like this, and Simon Foxell has certainly done justice to his topic. From the famous (eg Hollar's Panorama) to the obscure, the maps are presented in full colour with extended captions. Foxell provides historical context and analyses the role of maps and the information they provide. Open the book to any page, and you'll find something to delight ... Read More: >>More Details |
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A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret Moreby: John Guy July 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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Having hugely enjoyed the previous, excellent study of Mary Queen of Scots by this author, I was keen to read his next book. John Guy makes the complicated and precarious world of Thomas More and his family understandable and exciting to non specialist readers such as myself. He includes the sort of precise, telling detail and explanation of the lives they led and the beliefs they held, which makes they themselves and their frightening situation become very real. The importance of Margaret's position in the story, brought into focus after so long, was satisfying, and gave a new perspective to events which we might have the impression that we already understand. We do not. Not until this book has been read!
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Churchill: A Biographyby: Roy Jenkins June 26, 2002 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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This is a 900 page book, and a little bit of a struggle eg because Roy Jenkins resorts too often to complex phrases and foreign language references. There are too many occasions where the author uses tortuous sentence structure. There were/are no maps. There were many occasions where references to exact dates would have been appreciated.
At times I was learning vital things, eg Churchills role in promoting naval rearmament pre WW1, or Churchills fears about the too low quality of British troops in WW2, ... but I had to wade through a lot of text to find these nuggets. Too much detail is given about obscure bye-election and other parliamentary events. I think the authors opinions could have been expressed more briefly. Read More: >>More Details |
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Scotland: the Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happenby: Rosemary Goring May 29, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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I was looking forward to reading this, however I feel sadly let down.
It is no more than a collection of short paragraphs on different events cobbled together, rather like a book of press cuttings. There is no depth to any of the subjects covered. Bannockburn for example gets a brief couple of paragraphs from a Scottish and English perspective. There is nothing about the build up, the aftermath or indeed why it even took place. I suppose setting out to cover a nations history over a 2000 year span is quite an ambitious project to take on, but all the "editor" of this book has done, is gather up articles over the timescale, cut them down to a couple of lines each then file them chronologically. I was ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Dowding and Churchill: The Dark Side of the Battle of Britainby: Jack Dixon November 19, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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Next year, 2010 will be the 40th anniversary of Lord Dowding of Bentley Priorys' death. Many aspects of this great mans' life have remained unanswered, the most long standing being the reasons for Dowdings' removal from office in November, 1940. Jack Dixons' fascinating book goes a long way to answering these thorny questions, principally by fragmenting the existing jigsaw puzzle and reasembling it so the overall picture is a lot clearer. The jealousies and clash of personalities are explained. The unpallatable truth that the long standing Trenchard Doctrine was fundamentaly flawed, proved beyound doubt by Dowding and certainly through no fault of his own. The obsessive ambitions of certain high ranking RAF officers and politicians, stood in the way of Dowding ... Read More:
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The Strange Laws of Old Englandby: Nigel Cawthorne September 23, 2004 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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Pick this up. An excellent night time read, full of zany, waggish and yet educational information relating to old laws.
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Victorian Farmby: Alex Langlands January 08, 2009 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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Pick this up. An excellent night time read, full of zany, waggish and yet educational information relating to old laws.
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The Tudor Chronicles (Quercus Chronicles)by: Susan Doran October 16, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Britain and Ireland |
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I was very pleased to recieve this book for Christmas. It is very large and has plenty of lovely pictures from all the different parts of the Tudor reign. It goes over each Monarch and tells their story. There is little to say really apart from if you are interested in knowing more about this period or want a very nice book to read or dip into that covers that whole period then you will enjoy this book.
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