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The Tortuous Birth of a Nation - Israel's Military History - A Self Guiding Tour Book (Paperback): Anthony Malkin The Tortuous Birth of a Nation - Israel's Military History - A Self Guiding Tour Book (Paperback)
Anthony Malkin
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The tour guide is designed specifically for the enthusiast wanting to explore and discover more about Israel's military history. But instead of simply reading about historical events this guide takes the traveller to the battle sites themselves throughout Israel. The guide is in chronological order starting with the First World War and taking you through selective events in history up to 2006. From a geographical perspective the tour will take you from southern Israel through the Jordan Valley and on to the Golan Heights in the north by the Syrian and Lebanese border.

Yale Needs Women - How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant (Paperback): Anne Gardiner Perkins Yale Needs Women - How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant (Paperback)
Anne Gardiner Perkins
R465 R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Save R58 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE "Perkins' richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender equity has never come easily, but instead if borne from the exertions of those who precede us."-Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls If Yale was going to keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer do without. In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating "one thousand male leaders" each year had finally decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in education. Or was it? The experience the first undergraduate women found when they stepped onto Yale's imposing campus was not the same one their male peers enjoyed. Isolated from one another, singled out as oddities and sexual objects, and barred from many of the privileges an elite education was supposed to offer, many of the first girls found themselves immersed in an overwhelmingly male culture they were unprepared to face. Yale Needs Women is the story of how these young women fought against the backward-leaning traditions of a centuries-old institution and created the opportunities that would carry them into the future. Anne Gardiner Perkins's unflinching account of a group of young women striving for change is an inspiring story of strength, resilience, and courage that continues to resonate today. "Yes, Yale needed women, but it didn't really want them... Anne Gardiner Perkins tells how these young women met the challenge with courage and tenacity and forever changed Yale and its chauvinistic motto of graduating 1,000 male leaders every year."-Lynn Povich, author of The Good Girls Revolt

Band Of Brothers (Paperback, Reissue): Stephen E. Ambrose Band Of Brothers (Paperback, Reissue)
Stephen E. Ambrose 2
R270 R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Save R49 (18%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** 25th Anniversary Edition. Foreword by Tom Hanks. The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rifle company in the US Army. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the dangerous parachute landings on D-Day and their triumphant capture of Hitler's 'Eagle's Nest' in Berchtesgaden. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. Repeatedly send on the toughest missions, these brave men fought, went hungry, froze and died in the service of their country. Celebrating the 25th anniversary since the original publication, this reissue contains a new foreword from Tom Hanks who was an executive producer on the award-winning HBO series. A tale of heroic adventures and soul-shattering confrontations, Band of Brothers brings back to life, as only Stephen E. Ambrose can, the profound ties of brotherhood forged in the barracks and on the battlefields. 'History boldly told and elegantly written . . . Gripping' Wall Street Journal 'Ambrose proves once again he is a masterful historian . . . spellbinding' People

Two-Seat Spitfires - The Complete Story (Hardcover): Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold Two-Seat Spitfires - The Complete Story (Hardcover)
Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold
R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Spitfire a " there have been many hundreds, maybe even thousands, of books written about this beautiful R.J Mitchell designed, elliptically winged areoplane. But there has yet to be a book published, which has focused solely on the lesser-known two-seat variant of graceful Spitfirea |Until now! In two-seater spitfires, Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold trace the history of this iconic aircraft a " from its initial design through to those still taking to the skies today.

207 Squadron (Paperback): Chris Ward 207 Squadron (Paperback)
Chris Ward
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Hertslet's Commercial Treaties - a Collection of Treaties and Conventions, Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and... Hertslet's Commercial Treaties - a Collection of Treaties and Conventions, Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, Orders in Council, &C., Concerning the Same, So Far as They Relate to Commerce and Navigation, Slavery, Extraditi (Paperback)
Lewis Hertslet
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Tarawa - The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles (Paperback): Robert Sherrod Tarawa - The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles (Paperback)
Robert Sherrod
R452 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R65 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan--and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror.
Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod's battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000 Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers were still alive.
This story, a must for any history buff, tells the ins and outs of life alongside the U.S. Marines in this lesser-known battle of World War II. The battle itself carried on for three days, but Sherrod, a dedicated journalist, remained in Tarawa until the very end, and through his writing, shares every detail.

Bloody Brilliant Women - The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention (Paperback): Cathy... Bloody Brilliant Women - The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention (Paperback)
Cathy Newman
R333 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R79 (24%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn't. For hundreds of years we have heard about the great men of history, but what about herstory? In this freewheeling history of modern Britain, Cathy Newman writes about the pioneering women who defied the odds to make careers for themselves and alter the course of modern history; women who achieved what they achieved while dismantling hostile, entrenched views about their place in society. Their role in transforming Britain is fundamental, far greater than has generally been acknowledged, and not just in the arts or education but in fields like medicine, politics, law, engineering and the military. While a few of the women in this book are now household names, many have faded into oblivion, their personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in history. We know of Emmeline Pankhurst, Vera Brittain, Marie Stopes and Beatrice Webb. But who remembers engineer and motorbike racer Beatrice Shilling, whose ingenious device for the Spitfires' Rolls-Royce Merlin fixed an often-fatal flaw, allowing the RAF's planes to beat the German in the Battle of Britain? Or Dorothy Lawrence, the journalist who achieved her ambition to become a WW1 correspondent by pretending to be a man? And developmental biologist Anne McLaren, whose work in genetics paved the way for in vitro fertilisation? Blending meticulous research with information gleaned from memoirs, diaries, letters, novels and other secondary sources, Bloody Brilliant Women uses the stories of some extraordinary lives to tell the tale of 20th and 21st century Britain. It is a history for women and men. A history for our times.

History in the Arab Skies - Aviation's Impact on the Middle East (Hardcover): Gerald Butt History in the Arab Skies - Aviation's Impact on the Middle East (Hardcover)
Gerald Butt
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dambusters - The Complete WWII History of 617 Squadron (Hardcover): Chris Ward Dambusters - The Complete WWII History of 617 Squadron (Hardcover)
Chris Ward
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Betting on the Africans - John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders (Hardcover, New): Philip E. Muehlenbeck Betting on the Africans - John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders (Hardcover, New)
Philip E. Muehlenbeck
R2,415 Discovery Miles 24 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the start of his administration John F. Kennedy launched a personal policy initiative to court African nationalist leaders. This policy was designed to improve U.S.-African relations and constituted a dramatic change in the direction of U.S. foreign relations. The Kennedy administration believed that the Cold War could be won or lost depending upon whether Washington or Moscow won the hearts and minds of the Third World. Africa was particularly important because a wave of independence saw nineteen newly independent African states admitted into the United Nations during 1960-61. By 1962, 31 of the UN's 110 member states were from the African continent, and both Washington and Moscow sought to add these countries to their respective voting bloc. For Kennedy, the Cold War only amplified the need for a strong U.S. policy towards Africa-but did not create it. The Kennedy administration feared that American neglect of the newly decolonized countries of the world would result in the rise of anti-Americanism and for this reason needed to be addressed irrespective of the Cold War. For this reason, Kennedy devoted more time and effort toward relations with Africa than any other American president. By making an in-depth examination of Kennedy's attempt to court African nationalist leaders, Betting on the Africans adds an important chapter to the historiography of John F. Kennedy's Cold War strategy by showing how through the use of personal diplomacy JFK realigned United States policy towards Africa and to a large extent won the sympathies of its people while at the same time alienating more traditional allies.

Boxwallah (Hardcover): Timothy Wilkinson Boxwallah (Hardcover)
Timothy Wilkinson
R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tim Wilkinson was born in Liverpool in 1951 and was educated at Merchant Taylorsa School, Crosby, then at Robert Gordona s College in Aberdeen. After graduating with an M.A. (Hons) in English at Aberdeen University, he then spent his entire career teaching English at Cults Academy. He has now retired to rural Aberdeenshire. He has written two histories of his local cricket club, Banchory C.C., for whom he has played for over 50 years. Tim suffers from the incurable disease of book collecting and has amassed a collection of over 3,000 first editions. Make that 3,001.

Nazi Billionaires - The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties (Paperback): David DeJong Nazi Billionaires - The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties (Paperback)
David DeJong
R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II - and how the world allowed them to get away with it. In 1946, Gunther Quandt - patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW - was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his arch-rival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him. But Quandt lied. And his heirs, and those of other Nazi billionaires, have only grown wealthier in the generations since, while their reckoning with this dark past remains incomplete at best. Many of them continue to control swaths of the world economy, owning iconic brands whose products blanket the globe. The brutal legacy of the dynasties that dominated Daimler-Benz, cofounded Allianz and still control Porsche, Volkswagen and BMW has remained hidden in plain sight - until now. In this landmark work, investigative journalist David de Jong reveals the true story of how Germany's wealthiest business dynasties amassed untold money and power by abetting the atrocities of the Third Reich. Using a wealth of untapped sources, de Jong shows how these tycoons seized Jewish businesses, procured slave labourers and ramped up weapons production to equip Hitler's army as Europe burnt around them. Most shocking of all, de Jong exposes how the wider world's political expediency enabled these billionaires to get away with their crimes, covering up a bloodstain that defiles the German and global economy to this day.

The Annual Register of World Events - a Review of the Year (Paperback): Edmund Burke The Annual Register of World Events - a Review of the Year (Paperback)
Edmund Burke
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Stop at Suzanne's - and Lower Flights (Paperback): Greayer Clover A Stop at Suzanne's - and Lower Flights (Paperback)
Greayer Clover
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Hilltop on the Marne - Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 (Paperback): Mildred Aldrich A Hilltop on the Marne - Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 (Paperback)
Mildred Aldrich
R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Annual Register of World Events - a Review of the Year (Paperback): Edmund Burke The Annual Register of World Events - a Review of the Year (Paperback)
Edmund Burke
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Annual Register of World Events - a Review of the Year (Paperback): Edmund Burke The Annual Register of World Events - a Review of the Year (Paperback)
Edmund Burke
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Hertslet's Commercial Treaties - a Collection of Treaties and Conventions, Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and... Hertslet's Commercial Treaties - a Collection of Treaties and Conventions, Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, Orders in Council, &C., Concerning the Same, So Far as They Relate to Commerce and Navigation, Slavery, Extraditi (Paperback)
Lewis Hertslet
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Annual Register of World Events - a Review of the Year (Paperback): Edmund Burke The Annual Register of World Events - a Review of the Year (Paperback)
Edmund Burke
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Bacteriology in British India, 22 - Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (Hardcover, New): Pratik Chakrabarti Bacteriology in British India, 22 - Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (Hardcover, New)
Pratik Chakrabarti
R2,938 Discovery Miles 29 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the nineteenth century, European scientists and physicians considered the tropics the natural home of pathogens. Hot and miasmic, the tropical world was the locus of disease, for Euopeans the great enemy of civilization. In the late nineteenth century when bacteriological laboratories and institutions were introduced to British India, they were therefore as much an imperial mission to cleanse and civilize a tropical colony as a medical one to eradicate disease. Bacteriology offered a panacea in colonial India, a way by which the multifarious political, social, environmental, and medical problems and anxieties, intrinsically linked to its diseases, could have a single resolution. Bacteriology in British India is the first book to provide a social and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating it within the confluence of advances in germ theory, Pastuerian vaccines, colonial medicine, laboratory science, and British imperialism. It recounts the genesis of bacteriology and laboratory medicine in India through a complex history of conflict and alignment between Pasteurism and British imperial medicine. By investigating an array of laboratory notes, medical literature, and literary sources, the volume links colonial medical research with issues of poverty, race, nationalism, and imperial attitudes toward tropical climate and wildlife, contributing to a wide field of scholarship like the history of science and medicine, sociology of science, and cultural history. Pratik Chakrabarti is Chair in History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester.

Hertslet's Commercial Treaties - a Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions, and Reciprocal Regulations, at... Hertslet's Commercial Treaties - a Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions, and Reciprocal Regulations, at Present Subsisting Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council, Concerning the Same, So Far (Paperback)
Lewis Hertslet
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
In Time - 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron 1944-45 (Paperback): Steve Smith In Time - 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron 1944-45 (Paperback)
Steve Smith
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
10 Squadron (Paperback): Chris Ward 10 Squadron (Paperback)
Chris Ward
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback): Benjamin Franklin Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
Benjamin Franklin
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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