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Vintage Tennessee Signs (Hardcover): 'Tim Hollis Vintage Tennessee Signs (Hardcover)
'Tim Hollis
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dearest Sylvia - An Airman's Love Letters from World War II (Hardcover): G J Mazza Dearest Sylvia - An Airman's Love Letters from World War II (Hardcover)
G J Mazza
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Industry, War and Stalin's Battle for Resources - The Arctic and the Environment (Hardcover): Lars Rowe Industry, War and Stalin's Battle for Resources - The Arctic and the Environment (Hardcover)
Lars Rowe
R3,545 Discovery Miles 35 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book the territory of Pechenga, located well above the Arctic circle between Russia, Finland and Norway, holds the key to understanding the geopolitical situation of the Arctic today. With specific focus on the local nickel industry of the region, Lars Rowe explores the interaction between commercial and state security concerns in the Soviet Union. Through the lens of this local industry a larger historical context is unravelled - the nature of Soviet-Finnish relations after the Russian Revolution, Soviet international relations strategies during the Second World War and the nature of the Stalinist economy in the early post-war years. By presenting this environmentally focused history of a small corner of the Arctic, Rowe offers the historical context needed to understand the current geopolitical climate of the Polar North.

Winston Churchill - A Biography of Historical Icon Winston Churchill (Hardcover): Henry Hanson Winston Churchill - A Biography of Historical Icon Winston Churchill (Hardcover)
Henry Hanson
R601 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ross-shire Roll of Honour - (with Souter's Ross-shire Directory); 1915 (Hardcover): George Ross-Shire Directory Souter Ross-shire Roll of Honour - (with Souter's Ross-shire Directory); 1915 (Hardcover)
George Ross-Shire Directory Souter
R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wicked Wilmington, Delaware (Hardcover): Kevin McGonegal Wicked Wilmington, Delaware (Hardcover)
Kevin McGonegal
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
France at War - On the Frontier of Civilization (Hardcover): Rudyard Kipling France at War - On the Frontier of Civilization (Hardcover)
Rudyard Kipling
R671 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Save R46 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Truth About the Titanic (Hardcover): Archibald Gracie The Truth About the Titanic (Hardcover)
Archibald Gracie
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Enslavement in Kentucky (Hardcover): Marshall Myers Enslavement in Kentucky (Hardcover)
Marshall Myers
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume 3 - Battles, Sieges, And Campaigns (Hardcover): Albert Bushnell... Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume 3 - Battles, Sieges, And Campaigns (Hardcover)
Albert Bushnell 1854-1943 Hart
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Operation Barbarossa - the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume IIIB (Hardcover):... Operation Barbarossa - the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume IIIB (Hardcover)
Nigel Askey
R3,202 Discovery Miles 32 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hip: The History (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial ed): John Leland Hip: The History (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial ed)
John Leland
R437 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R23 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Hip: The History" is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. "Hip: The History" examines how hip has helped shape -- and continues to influence -- America's view of itself, and provides an incisive account of hip's quest for authenticity.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

The Book of Remembrance for Tweeddale; 1923 (Hardcover): Clement Bryce 1860-1933 Gunn The Book of Remembrance for Tweeddale; 1923 (Hardcover)
Clement Bryce 1860-1933 Gunn
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Brazilian Green Book, Consisting of Diplomatic Documents Relating to Brazil's Attitude With Regard to the European... The Brazilian Green Book, Consisting of Diplomatic Documents Relating to Brazil's Attitude With Regard to the European War, 1914-1917, as Issued by the Brazilian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Authorized English Version, With an Introd. and Notes By... (Hardcover)
Brazil Ministerio Das Relacoes Exter; Andrew Boyle
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women as Army Surgeons - Being The History Of The Women's Hospital Corps 1914-1919 (Hardcover): Flora Murray Women as Army Surgeons - Being The History Of The Women's Hospital Corps 1914-1919 (Hardcover)
Flora Murray
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The History of the Royal Fusiliers U.P.S. - University and Public Schools Brigade (formation and Training). -- (Hardcover):... The History of the Royal Fusiliers U.P.S. - University and Public Schools Brigade (formation and Training). -- (Hardcover)
University and Public Schools Brigade
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Down to the Sea - An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II (Paperback): Bruce Henderson Down to the Sea - An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II (Paperback)
Bruce Henderson
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey neglected the Law of Storms, placing the mighty U.S. Third Fleet in harm's way. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly every living survivor and rescuer, as well as many families of lost sailors, transcripts and other records from naval courts of inquiry, ships' logs, personal letters, and diaries, Bruce Henderson finds some of the story's truest heroes exhibiting selflessness, courage, and even defiance.

From the Depths of Hell I Saw Jesus on the Cross - A Priest in the Prisons of Communist Albania (Hardcover): Dom Simon Jubani From the Depths of Hell I Saw Jesus on the Cross - A Priest in the Prisons of Communist Albania (Hardcover)
Dom Simon Jubani; Introduction by Angelo Massafra; Translated by Joseph Bamberg
R946 Discovery Miles 9 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville (Hardcover): Sandra E Jones Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville (Hardcover)
Sandra E Jones
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
How Long Is Exile? - BOOK III: The Long Road Home (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Astrida... How Long Is Exile? - BOOK III: The Long Road Home (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Astrida Barbins-Stahnke
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Island of Barbed Wire - The Remarkable Story of World War Two Internment on the Isle of Man (Paperback): Connery Chappell Island of Barbed Wire - The Remarkable Story of World War Two Internment on the Isle of Man (Paperback)
Connery Chappell
R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Many aspects of Britain's involvement in World War Two only slowly emerged from beneath the barrage of official secrets and popular misconception. One of the most controversial issues, the internment of 'enemy aliens' (and also British subjects) on the Isle of Man, received its first thorough examination in this remarkable account by Connery Chappell of life in the Manx camps between 1940 and 1945. At the outbreak of war there were approximately 75,000 people of Germanic origin living in Britain, and Whitehall decided to set up Enemy Alien Tribunals to screen these 'potential security risks'. The entry of Italy into the war almost doubled the workload. The first tribunal in February 1940 considered only 569 cases as high enough risks to warrant internment. The Isle of Man was chosen as the one place sufficiently removed from areas of military importance, but by the end of the year the number of enemy aliens on the island had reached 14,000. With the use of diaries, broadsheets, newspapers and personal testimonies, the author shows how a traditional holiday isle was transformed into an internment camp. of earning extra income. Eventually the internees took part in local farm work, ran their own camp newspapers and even set up internal businesses. With inmates of the calibre of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Lord Weidenfeld, Sir Charles Forte, Professor Geoffrey Elton and R.W. 'Tiny' Rowland, the life of the camp quickly took on a busy and constructive air; but the picture was not always such a happy one, as angry disputes flared between Fascist inmates and their Jewish neighbours, and a dangerous riot forced the intervention of the Home Office. Even now, there remains the persistent question never settled satisfactorily. Were the internments ever justified or even consistent?

Cambridge in the Great War (Paperback): Glynis Cooper Cambridge in the Great War (Paperback)
Glynis Cooper
R313 R165 Discovery Miles 1 650 Save R148 (47%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cambridge is one of the most famous universities in the world and its library is one of only five copyright libraries in the UK. At the start of the twentieth century it was a privileged life for some, but many in Cambridge knew that war was becoming truly inevitable. What the proverbial 'gown' feared communicated itself to the surrounding 'town'. Terrible rumours were rife, that the Germans would burn the university library and raise King's College chapel to the ground, before firing shells along the tranquil 'Backs' of the River Cam until the weeping willows were just blackened stumps. Frightened but determined, age-old 'town and gown' rivalries were put aside as the city united against the common enemy. This book tells Cambridge's fascinating story in the grim years of the Great War. Thousands of university students, graduates and lecturers alike enlisted, along with the patriotic townsfolk. The First Eastern General Military Hospital was subsequently established in Trinity College and treated more than 80,000 casualties from the Western Front.Though the university had been the longtime hub of life and employment in the town, many people suffered great losses and were parted from loved ones, decimating traditional breadwinners and livelihoods, from the rationing of food, drink and fuel, to hundreds of restrictions imposed by DORA. As a result, feelings ran high and eventually led to riots beneath the raiding zeppelins and ever-present threat of death. The poet, Rupert Brooke, a graduate of King's College, died on his way to the Dardanelles in 1915, but his most famous poem The Soldier became a preemptive memorial and the epitaph of millions. If I should die Think only this of me That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

A Young Man on the Front Line - Lessons of War (Hardcover): Elaine I Makas A Young Man on the Front Line - Lessons of War (Hardcover)
Elaine I Makas; Edited by Elizabeth Ann Atkins
R705 Discovery Miles 7 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Land Girls of Goodwill House - The BRAND NEW historical saga from Fenella J Miller (Hardcover): Fenella  J Miller The Land Girls of Goodwill House - The BRAND NEW historical saga from Fenella J Miller (Hardcover)
Fenella J Miller
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The brand-new instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series.August 1940 As Autumn approaches, Lady Joanna Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House - land girls, Sally, Daphne and Charlie. Sally, a feisty blonde from the East End, has never seen a cow before, but she's desperate to escape London and her horrible ex, Dennis. And although the hours are long and the work hard, Sal quickly becomes good friends with the other girls Daphne and Charlie and enjoys life at Goodwill House. Until Dennis reappears threatening to drag her back to London. Sal fears her life as a land girl is over, just as she finally felt worthy. But Lady Joanna has other ideas and a plan to keep Sal safe and doing the job she loves. Don't miss the next heart-breaking instalment in Fenella J. Miller's beautiful Goodwill House series. Praise for Fenella J. Miller: 'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane 'Engaging characters and setting which whisks you back to the home front of wartime Britain. A fabulous series!' Jean Fullerton

Dark Mirror - African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project (Hardcover): J J Butts Dark Mirror - African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project (Hardcover)
J J Butts
R1,933 Discovery Miles 19 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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