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Tally Ho! - Yankee in a Spitfire (Hardcover): Arthur Gerald Donahue Tally Ho! - Yankee in a Spitfire (Hardcover)
Arthur Gerald Donahue
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Crown - The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined... The Crown - The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977 (Paperback)
Robert Lacey
R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant, Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political and personal moments and their effects - not only on the royal family, but also on the world around them. From the Suez Canal Crisis and the US/Russia space race to the legacy of the Duke of Windsor's collaboration with Hitler, along with the rumoured issues with the royal marriage, The Crown provides a thought-provoking insight into the historic decades that the show covers, revealing the truth behind the on-screen drama. Extensively researched and complete with beautifully reproduced photographs, this is a unique look behind the history that inspired the show and the years that would prove to be the making of the Queen.

War Of Shadows (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Moss W Stanley War Of Shadows (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Moss W Stanley
R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Few escapades of the Second World War have captured the public's imagination more than the successful abduction of German General Kreipe from enemy-occupied Crete in 1944. It was an operation instigated and daringly executed by two British SOE officers - Patrick Leigh Fermor and William (Billy) Stanley Moss. The war didn't stop for Billy Moss after this operation though, and it is his continuing story that is told here. He reflects movingly on what it means to fight and deal in death, how the success of operations behind enemy lines in a foreign country is dependent on the goodwill of local inhabitants, and, surprisingly, on moments of high humour that punctuate the turmoil of war. War of Shadows is a book in three parts - each displaying differing aspects of World War II and its eventual conclusion, and all told with that tell-tale blend of poignancy and humour so characteristic of the time.

The English Press - A History (Hardcover): Jeremy Black The English Press - A History (Hardcover)
Jeremy Black
R2,861 Discovery Miles 28 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, Jeremy Black traces the medium's history from the emergence of the country's newspaper industry to the Internet age. The English Press focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic and technological. Black takes the reader through a chronological sequence of chapters, with a final chapter exploring possible scenarios for the future of print media. He investigates whether we are witnessing the demise or simply a crisis of the press in the aftermath of the News of the World scandal and Levinson Inquiry. A new title by one of the most eminent historians of Britain and a leading expert on the history of the press, The English Press will appeal to undergraduate students of British and media history and journalism, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the history of England and the media.

Taurus Pursuant - A History of 11th Armoured Division (Hardcover): Anon Taurus Pursuant - A History of 11th Armoured Division (Hardcover)
Anon
R1,057 Discovery Miles 10 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Doctor Always On Call - The Life of Robert H. Morris, M.D. as Told to His Son, Robert H. Morris II (Hardcover): Robert H Morris Doctor Always On Call - The Life of Robert H. Morris, M.D. as Told to His Son, Robert H. Morris II (Hardcover)
Robert H Morris
R735 R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Save R47 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Now It Can Be Told (Hardcover): Philip Gibbs Now It Can Be Told (Hardcover)
Philip Gibbs
R1,128 R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Save R114 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bridging East and West - Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, Ukraine's Pioneering Modernist (Hardcover): Yuliya Ladygina Bridging East and West - Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, Ukraine's Pioneering Modernist (Hardcover)
Yuliya Ladygina
R2,422 Discovery Miles 24 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bridging East and West explores the literary evolution of Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, one of Ukraine's foremost modernist writers. Investigating themes of feminism, populism, Nietzscheanism, nationalism, and fascism in her works, this study presents an alternative intellectual genealogy in turn-of-the-century European arts and letters whose implications reach far beyond the field of Ukrainian studies. For feminist scholars, Bridging East and West makes accessible a thorough account of a central, yet overlooked, woman writer who served as a model and a contributor within a major cultural tradition. For those working in Victorian studies or comparative fascism and for those interested in Nietzsche and his influence on European intellectuals, Kobylians'ka emerges in this study as an unlikely, but no less active, trailblazer in the social and aesthetic theories that would define European debates about culture, science, and politics in the first half of the twentieth century. For those interested in questions of transnationalism and intersectionality, this study's discussion of Kobylians'ka's hybrid cultural identity and philosophical program exemplifies cultural interchange and irreducible complexities of cultural identity.

Those We Forget - Recounting Australian Casualties of the First World War (Paperback, None, Main Ed.): David Noonan Those We Forget - Recounting Australian Casualties of the First World War (Paperback, None, Main Ed.)
David Noonan
R1,301 Discovery Miles 13 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The official Australian casualty statistics suffered by the men of the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War are seriously wrong, with significant inaccuracies and omissions. Groundbreaking research exhaustively examining over 12,000 individual soldiers' records has revealed that hospitalisations for wounding, illness and injury suffered by men of the AIF are five times greater than officially acknowledged today. Why has it taken nearly one hundred years for this to come to light? Was it a conspiracy to suppress the toll, incompetence of Australia's official war historians Bean and Butler, or was it simply the unquestioning acceptance of the official record? You are invited on the journey in this book to find the truth. The findings are startling and will rewrite Australia's casualty statistics of the First World War. Lest we forget.

Secrets of the Old Biloxi Cemetery (Hardcover): John Cuevas Secrets of the Old Biloxi Cemetery (Hardcover)
John Cuevas; Contributions by Nick Black
R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Payback - Five Marines After Vietnam (Paperback, Reissue ed.): Joe Klein Payback - Five Marines After Vietnam (Paperback, Reissue ed.)
Joe Klein
R434 R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Save R24 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Truth About the Treaty. Foreword by Edward M. House. Introd. by Georges Clemenceau (Hardcover): Andre 1876-1945 Tardieu The Truth About the Treaty. Foreword by Edward M. House. Introd. by Georges Clemenceau (Hardcover)
Andre 1876-1945 Tardieu
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Goeben & the Breslau - the Imperial German Navy in the Mediterranean, 1914-The Flight of the Goeben and Breslau... The Goeben & the Breslau - the Imperial German Navy in the Mediterranean, 1914-The Flight of the Goeben and Breslau (Hardcover)
A Berkeley Milne
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
NAACP in Washington, D.C. - From Jim Crow to Home Rule (Hardcover): Derek Gray NAACP in Washington, D.C. - From Jim Crow to Home Rule (Hardcover)
Derek Gray; Foreword by Foreword George Derek Musgrove
R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The War in Africa, 1914-1917, and in the Far East, 1914 (Hardcover): H C (Herbert Charles) 187 O'Neill The War in Africa, 1914-1917, and in the Far East, 1914 (Hardcover)
H C (Herbert Charles) 187 O'Neill
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Charlottesville 2017 - The Legacy of Race and Inequity (Hardcover): Claudrena N. Harold, Louis P Nelson Charlottesville 2017 - The Legacy of Race and Inequity (Hardcover)
Claudrena N. Harold, Louis P Nelson
R1,250 Discovery Miles 12 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world. It also had a profound effect on the University of Virginia's expansive community, many of whose members are involved in teaching issues of racism, public art, free speech, and social ethics. In the wake of this momentous incident, scholars, educators, and researchers have come together in this important new volume to thoughtfully reflect on the historic events of August 11 and 12, 2017. How should we respond to the moral and ethical challenges of our times? What are our individual and collective responsibilities in advancing the principles of democracy and justice? Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity brings together the work of these UVA faculty members catalyzed by last summer's events to examine their community's history more deeply and more broadly. Their essays-ranging from John Mason on the local legacy of the Lost Cause to Leslie Kendrick on free speech to Rachel Wahl on the paradoxes of activism-examine truth telling, engaged listening, and ethical responses, and aim to inspire individual reflection, as well as to provoke considered and responsible dialogue. This prescient new collection is a conversation that understands and owns America's past and-crucially-shows that our past is very much part of our present. Contributors: Asher D. Biemann; Gregory B. Fairchild; Risa Goluboff; Bonnie Gordon; Claudrena N. Harold; Willis Jenkins; Leslie Kendrick; John Edwin Mason; Guian McKee; Louis P. Nelson; P. Preston Reynolds; Frederick Schauer; Elizabeth R. Varon; Rachel Wahl; Lisa Woolfork.

Egyptian Revolutions - Conflict, Repetition and Identification (Paperback): Amal Treacher Kabesh Egyptian Revolutions - Conflict, Repetition and Identification (Paperback)
Amal Treacher Kabesh
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011 proclaimed that the oppressive, colonial past had been overthrown decisively. So why has the oppression perpetrated by previous regimes been repeated? What impact has this had on the lives of 'ordinary' citizens? Egyptian Revolutions looks at the impact of the current events in Egypt on citizens in relation to matters of belonging, identification and repetition. It contests the tendency within postcolonial theory to understand these events as resistance to Western imperialism and the positioning of activists as agents of sustainable change. Instead, it pays close attention to the continuities from the past and the contradictions at work in relation to identification, repetition and conflict. Combining postcolonial theory with a psychosocial studies framework it explores the complexities of inhabiting a society in a state of conflict and offers a careful analysis of current theories of gender, religion and secularism, agency, resistance and compliance, in a society riven with divisions and conflicts.

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (Hardcover): Siegfried Sassoon The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (Hardcover)
Siegfried Sassoon
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Not So Wild a Dream (Paperback): Eric Sevareid Not So Wild a Dream (Paperback)
Eric Sevareid
R944 R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Save R94 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Again available in paperback is Eric Sevareid's widely acclaimed Not So Wild a Dream. In this brilliant first-person account of a young journalist's experience during World War II, Sevareid records both the events of the war and the development of journalistic strategies for covering international affairs. He also recalls vividly his own youth in North Dakota, his decision to study journalism, and his early involvement in radio reporting during the beginnings of World War II.

On the Social History of Persecution (Hardcover): Christian Gerlach On the Social History of Persecution (Hardcover)
Christian Gerlach
R1,729 Discovery Miles 17 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This multi-disciplinary volume is one of the few collections about social change covering various cases of mass violence and genocide. In life under persecution, social relations and social structures were not absent and not simply replaced by an ethno-racial order. The studies in this book show the influence of social structures like gender, age and class on life under persecution. Exploring practices in family and labor relations and of collective action, they counter claims of an atomization of society or total uprootedness of victims. Despite being exposed to poverty and want and under the permanent threat of political violence, persecuted people tried to develop their own agency. Case studies are about the Jewish and Armenian persecutions, Rwanda, the war of decolonization in Mozambique and civilian refuges in Belarus during World War II. The authors are a mix of experienced scholars and young researchers.

Told in the Huts; the Y.M.C.A. Gift Book, Contributed by Soldiers & War Workers. With Introd. by Arthur K. Yapp. Illustrated by... Told in the Huts; the Y.M.C.A. Gift Book, Contributed by Soldiers & War Workers. With Introd. by Arthur K. Yapp. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo, Published for the Benefit of the Y.M.C.A. Active Service Campaign Amongst Our Soldiers, Sailors & Munition... (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Karjala Story - Revolution, War, Wonder (Hardcover): Karl Tuira The Karjala Story - Revolution, War, Wonder (Hardcover)
Karl Tuira
R1,938 Discovery Miles 19 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Selling Sea Power - Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 (Hardcover): Ryan D Wadle Selling Sea Power - Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 (Hardcover)
Ryan D Wadle
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The accepted narrative of the interwar U.S. Navy is one of transformation from a battle-centric force into a force that could fight on the ""three planes"" of war: in the skies, on the water, and under the waves. The political and cultural tumult that accompanied this transformation is another story. Ryan D. Wadle's Selling Sea Power explores this little-known but critically important aspect of naval history. After World War I, the U.S. Navy faced numerous challenges: a call for naval arms limitation, the ascendancy of air power, and budgetary constraints exacerbated by the Great Depression. Selling Sea Power tells the story of how the navy met these challenges by engaging in protracted public relations campaigns at a time when the means and methods of reaching the American public were undergoing dramatic shifts. While printed media continued to thrive, the rapidly growing film and radio industries presented new means by which the navy could connect with politicians and the public. Deftly capturing the institutional nuances and the personalities in play, Wadle tracks the U.S. Navy's at first awkward but ultimately successful manipulation of mass media. At the same time, he analyzes what the public could actually see of the service in the variety of media available to them, including visual examples from progressively more sophisticated - and effective - public relations campaigns. Integrating military policy and strategy with the history of American culture and politics, Selling Sea Power offers a unique look at the complex links between the evolution of the art and industry of persuasion and the growth of the modern U.S. Navy, as well as the connections between the workings of communications and public relations and the command of military and political power.

The Greatest Escape - A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure (Paperback): Neil Churches The Greatest Escape - A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure (Paperback)
Neil Churches
R385 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R38 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy. In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with the help of intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. The American was on a mission to work with the partisans who moved like ghosts through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces. How these three men came together - along with the partisans - to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest Escape, written by Ralph Churches' son Neil, takes us from Ralph and Les's capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journey to Maribor, with many POWs dying along the way, to the horror of seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp. The book uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence operations in Slovenia, and shows how Ralph became involved. We follow the escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the Alps, pursued by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. And yet, of the 106 men who escaped, 100 made it to safety. Thanks to research across seven countries, The Greatest Escape is no longer a secret. It is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of the last century.

A Short History of the Spanish Civil War - Revised Edition (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Julian Casanova A Short History of the Spanish Civil War - Revised Edition (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Julian Casanova
R2,001 Discovery Miles 20 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this revised edition of A Short History of the Spanish Civil War, Julian Casanova tells the gripping story of the Spanish Civil War. Written in elegant and accessible prose, the book charts the most significant events and battles alongside the main players in the tragedy. Casanova provides answers to some of the pressing questions (such as the roots and extent of anticlerical violence) that have been asked in the 70 years that have passed since the painful defeat of the Second Republic. Now with a revised introduction, Casanova offers an overview of recent historiographical shifts; not least the wielding of the conflict to political ends in certain strands of contemporary historiography towards an alarming neo- Francoist revisionism. It is the ideal introduction to the Spanish Civil War.

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