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Atomic Doctors - Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover): James L. Nolan Atomic Doctors - Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
James L. Nolan
R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the "Little Boy" bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan's instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.

The Other Side of the Mountain - Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War (Hardcover): Ali Ahmad Jalali, Lester W. Grau The Other Side of the Mountain - Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War (Hardcover)
Ali Ahmad Jalali, Lester W. Grau; Introduction by John E. Rhodes
R1,850 Discovery Miles 18 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Never Surpassed - Ensign Leeke and the 52nd Light Infantry: the Peninsular War and Personal Experiences of the Waterloo... Never Surpassed - Ensign Leeke and the 52nd Light Infantry: the Peninsular War and Personal Experiences of the Waterloo Campaign, 1808-18 (Hardcover)
William Leeke; Edited by John H Lewis
R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Submarine and Anti-Submarine - the Allied Under-Sea Conflict During the First World War (Hardcover): Henry Newbolt Submarine and Anti-Submarine - the Allied Under-Sea Conflict During the First World War (Hardcover)
Henry Newbolt
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Submarines and U-boats-killers beneath the waves
Newbolt's excellent overview of the undersea conflict of the First World War is an essential book for any student of the subject. The author, a recognised authority on naval and maritime history, considers the evolution of the submarine as a weapon of naval warfare before turning his attention to the use of the submariner service during the war. The operations of British submarine bases are described as are the policies of the government of the day regarding the use of submarines in war. Tactical issues concerning the engagement of submarines against warships and vice-versa are also considered. The book describes the activities of British submarines in the Baltic and Mediterranean, and particularly as they were employed in the Dardanelles initiative. An important focus of Newbolt's book is the destructive influence of the highly effective German U-Boat blockade in the Atlantic Ocean. Whilst submarines were employed by the Royal Navy it would be fair to note that the principal objective of the Allies was to pursue the destruction of enemy submarines. The activities of anti-submarine trawlers, smacks and drifters is discussed as are the more aggressive roles of the destroyers, P-Boats, Q-Boats and the activities of the Auxiliary Patrol. Newbolt concludes with the work of the ultimate submarine killer-the submarine itself, before describing the closing stages of the war with the destruction of enemy bases in Belgium. Recommended.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

American Deserter. General Eisenhower and the Execution of Eddie Slovik (Hardcover): Charles Henry Whiting American Deserter. General Eisenhower and the Execution of Eddie Slovik (Hardcover)
Charles Henry Whiting
R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Eddie Slovik was the most famous American soldier to come out of World War Two. Or was infamous a better description? For 24 year old Slovik, Polish-American, petty thief and ex-con, was the only Allied soldier to be shot for desertion in the course of that long conflict. For nearly ten years the US Dept. of Defence tried to keep the Slovik case secret and even when it was revealed the American military hid the place of the condemned man's burial for a further thirty years. Thus when the details of the Slovik case were finally brought out into the open, there was much talk of an official cover-up. Now veteran military historian, Charles Whiting has attempted to dig up the final truth. He reveals in this fast paced intriguing book that Slovik was not the innocent victim that his advocate had maintained he was. In that year in which he was sentenced to death for desertion in the 'face of the enemy', he played a calculating game with the US Army -and lost. Whiting also reveals another secret: the man who would approve Slovik's death sentence and have him shot in a remote French mountain village, General (and future President) Dwight D. Eisenhower was also under a sentence of death that winter himself.

Good-Bye, Trieste (Hardcover): Elsa M. Spencer Good-Bye, Trieste (Hardcover)
Elsa M. Spencer
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Escape with a Silent Roar - A Trilogy of Three World War II Pilots Including A P-38 Fighter in Combat Missions Over Europe... Escape with a Silent Roar - A Trilogy of Three World War II Pilots Including A P-38 Fighter in Combat Missions Over Europe (Hardcover)
B.J. Bryan
R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Whispers of Death - The Nightmare That Lasted a Lifetime (Hardcover): John W Nash Whispers of Death - The Nightmare That Lasted a Lifetime (Hardcover)
John W Nash
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Literary Digest History of the World War, Vol. IX (in Ten Volumes, Illustrated) - Compiled from Original and Contemporary... The Literary Digest History of the World War, Vol. IX (in Ten Volumes, Illustrated) - Compiled from Original and Contemporary Sources: American, Britis (Hardcover)
Francis W. Halsey
R1,068 Discovery Miles 10 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis, and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos, and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a century later. Volume IX covers the war in Italy and the war at sea, including submarine warfare, from August 1914 through November 1918. American journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was literary editor of The New York Times from 1892 through 1896. He wrote and lectured extensively on history; his works include, as editor, the two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912), and, as writer, the 10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (1914).

The Anzac Legend - A Graphic History (Hardcover, Revised ed.): David A. Dye The Anzac Legend - A Graphic History (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
David A. Dye
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Gordon Highlanders 1919-1945 (Hardcover): Wilfrid Miles The Gordon Highlanders 1919-1945 (Hardcover)
Wilfrid Miles
R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ski (Hardcover): A. L Sutton Ski (Hardcover)
A. L Sutton
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What Now, Lieutenant? - Leadership Forged from Events in Vietnam, Desert Storm and Beyond (Hardcover): Richard Neal What Now, Lieutenant? - Leadership Forged from Events in Vietnam, Desert Storm and Beyond (Hardcover)
Richard Neal
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory - The Case of the North Caucasus (Hardcover): Irina Rebrova Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory - The Case of the North Caucasus (Hardcover)
Irina Rebrova
R3,395 Discovery Miles 33 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and little presence of Jews at the same time. It aims to find out how such individual initiatives correspond to the official Russian hero-orientated concept of remembering the Second World war with almost no attention to the memory of war victims, including Holocaust victims. North Caucasus became the last address of thousands of Soviet Jews, both evacuees and locals. While there was almost no attention paid to the Holocaust victims in the official Soviet propaganda in the postwar period, local activists and historians together with the members of Jewish communities preserved Holocaust memory by installing small obelisks at the killing sites, writing novels and making documentaries, teaching about the Holocaust at schools and making small thematic exhibitions in the local and school museums. Individual types of grass roots activities in the region on remembering Holocaust victims are analyzed in each chapter of the book.

On a Knife Edge - How Germany Lost the First World War (Hardcover): Holger Afflerbach On a Knife Edge - How Germany Lost the First World War (Hardcover)
Holger Afflerbach
R791 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R105 (13%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue. Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss.

Civilian Specialists at War - Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War (Paperback): Christopher Phillips Civilian Specialists at War - Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War (Paperback)
Christopher Phillips
R1,237 Discovery Miles 12 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The war of 1914-1918 was the first great general conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods over land and sea. Yet the armies of the First World War were too vast in scale, their movements too complex, and the infrastructure upon which they depended too specialised to be operated by professional soldiers alone. In Civilian Expertise at War, Christopher Phillips examines the relationship between industrial society and industrial warfare through the lens of Britain's transport experts. He analyses the multiple connections between the army, the government, and the senior executives of some of pre-war Britain's largest industrial enterprises to illustrate the British army's evolving understanding both of industrial warfare's particular character and of the role to be played by non-military experts in the prosecution of such a conflict. This book reveals that Britain's transport experts were a key component of Britain's conduct of the First World War. It demonstrates that a pre-existing professional relationship between the army, government, and private enterprise existed before 1914, and that these bonds were strengthened by the outbreak of war. It charts the range of wartime roles into which Britain's transport experts were thrust in the opening years of the conflict, as both military and political leaders grasped with the challenges before them. It details the application of recognisably civilian technologies and methods to the prosecution of war and documents how - in the conflict's principal theatre, the western front - the freedom of action for Britain's transport experts was constrained by the political and military requirements of coalition warfare. Christopher Phillips is a lecturer in international security in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.

Lasalle-the Hussar General - the Life & Times of Napoleon's Finest Commander of Light Cavalry, 1775-1809 (Hardcover): John... Lasalle-the Hussar General - the Life & Times of Napoleon's Finest Commander of Light Cavalry, 1775-1809 (Hardcover)
John H Lewis
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Air Power for Patton's Army - The XIX Tactical Air Command in the Second World War (Hardcover): David N. Spires, Air... Air Power for Patton's Army - The XIX Tactical Air Command in the Second World War (Hardcover)
David N. Spires, Air University Press; Foreword by Richard P. Hallion
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2002. From the foreword: "This insightful work by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during the war, the combination of the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton and the XIX Tactical Air Command led by Brig. Gen. Otto P. Weyland proved to be the most effective allied air-ground team of World War II. The great success of Patton's drive across France, ultimately crossing the Rhine, and then racing across southern Germany, owed a great deal to Weyland's airmen of the XIX Tactical Air Command. This deft cooperation paved the way for allied victory in Westren Europe and today remains a classic example of air-ground effectiveness. It forever highlighted the importance of air-ground commanders working closely together on the battlefield. The Air Force is indebted to David N. Spires for chronicling this landmark story of air-ground cooperation."

Gradual Failure - The Air War over North Vietnam, 1965-1966 (Hardcover): Jacob Van Staaveren Gradual Failure - The Air War over North Vietnam, 1965-1966 (Hardcover)
Jacob Van Staaveren
R1,819 Discovery Miles 18 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Last Days of the Romanovs - The Murder of the Tsar & the Russian Royal Family, 1918 (Hardcover): George Gustav Telberg,... The Last Days of the Romanovs - The Murder of the Tsar & the Russian Royal Family, 1918 (Hardcover)
George Gustav Telberg, Robert Wilton
R929 R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Save R128 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The end of a dynasty
It is likely that few of those who contributed to the outbreak of the First World War would have imagined its consequences or predicted which nations would prevail, which would fall in defeat and which would all but cease to exist. Very few would have foreseen the fall of so many of the royal houses of Europe and yet this came to pass; most prominent among them were the Romanovs of Russia. It was almost inconceivable that the Tsar, who ruled over a vast territory and many millions of subjects, would be murdered (or executed, according to one's sensibility) with all of his immediate family such a short time from when the power and influence of the Romanovs had seemed immutable. But this was an age of global warfare on an industrial scale, and of revolution and political change that would affect the nature of war and peace for a century to come. This highly regarded book considers in detail the downfall of the Russian Imperial family, and the authors have drawn upon eyewitness testimony of those who were close to these historic events. The narrative follows the Romanovs to their deaths, ordered by Lenin, in a Yekaterinburg cellar, so preventing the Tsar becoming a figure for the White Russians to rally around. An essential and recommended work for any student of the fall of monarchy, Russian involvement in the Great War and the rise of Bolshevism.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Migrating Fictions - Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements (Hardcover): Abigail G. H. Manzella Migrating Fictions - Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements (Hardcover)
Abigail G. H. Manzella
R2,978 Discovery Miles 29 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Making a Night Stalker (Hardcover): David Burnett Making a Night Stalker (Hardcover)
David Burnett; Edited by Kendra Middleton Williams; Foreword by George Diaz
R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Q-Ships and Their Story (Hardcover): E. Keble Chatterton Q-Ships and Their Story (Hardcover)
E. Keble Chatterton
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Literary Digest History of the World War, Vol. VIII (in Ten Volumes, Illustrated) - Compiled from Original and Contemporary... The Literary Digest History of the World War, Vol. VIII (in Ten Volumes, Illustrated) - Compiled from Original and Contemporary Sources: American, Brit (Hardcover)
Francis W. Halsey
R1,092 Discovery Miles 10 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis, and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos, and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a century later. Volume VIII covers the war against German ally Turkey and the war in the Balkans and Greece, from August 1914 to October 1918. American journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was literary editor of The New York Times from 1892 through 1896. He wrote and lectured extensively on history; his works include, as editor, the two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912), and, as writer, the 10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (1914).

A Mother's Diary (Hardcover): Sosia Gottesfeld Zimmerman A Mother's Diary (Hardcover)
Sosia Gottesfeld Zimmerman
R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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