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Journeys Through the Twentieth Century - Stories from One Family (Paperback): Daniel C Tabor Journeys Through the Twentieth Century - Stories from One Family (Paperback)
Daniel C Tabor
R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Journeys Through The Twentieth Century, Stories From One Family is a fascinating study of memory and identity, spanning almost two centuries, using the unique archive of one extended Jewish family.

Broedertwis (Afrikaans, Paperback): Albert Blake Broedertwis (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Albert Blake
R345 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R48 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Meer as ’n honderd jaar na die laaste skote in die Anglo-Boereoorlog geklap het, word genl. Christiaan de Wet steeds bewonder as onverbiddelike bittereinder, die held wat tot die einde toe volhard het. Sy jonger broer, Piet, word onthou as die joiner. In Broedertwis probeer Albert Blake verstaan waarom hulle lynreg in stryd met mekaar gekom het. Wie was reg? Christiaan, wat ten alle koste die vryheidstryd wou voer, of Piet, wat ’n einde aan die smart en lyding van die oorlog wou bring?

Lives Of Great Men - A Memoir (Paperback): Chike Frankie Edozien Lives Of Great Men - A Memoir (Paperback)
Chike Frankie Edozien
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From Victoria Island, Lagos to Brooklyn, USA to Accra, Ghana to Paris, France; from across the Diaspora to the heart of the African continent, in this memoir Nigerian journalist Chike Frankie Edozien offers a highly personal series of contemporary snapshots of same gender loving Africans, unsung Great Men living their lives and finding joy in the face of great adversity.

Steel My Soldiers' Hearts (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed): Col. David H. Hackworth, Eilhys England Steel My Soldiers' Hearts (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed)
Col. David H. Hackworth, Eilhys England
R601 R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Save R96 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the U.S. Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary. David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th -- a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army's highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackworth's hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam's valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos.

Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. With Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, Hackworth places the brotherhood of the 4/39th into the pantheon of our nation's most heroic warriors.

The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll - The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and the 70 Recordings That Changed the World... The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll - The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and the 70 Recordings That Changed the World (Hardcover)
Peter Guralnick, Colin Escott
R1,308 R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Save R256 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

THE ILLUSTRATED STORY OF SUN RECORDS AND THE 70 RECORDINGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Sun Records: the company that launched Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins. This is where Rock 'n Roll was born. Written by two of the most acclaimed music writers of our time, The Birth of Rock n' Roll: 70 Years of Sun Records looks at this history of this legendary label through the lens of 70 of its most iconic recordings. Accompanying the recordings is the label's origin story and a look at the mission of the label today, as well as fascinating dives into subjects such as the legendary Million Dollar Quartet, and how the song "Harper Valley, PTA" funded the purchase of the label. Featuring hundreds of rare images from the Sun archives as well as a foreword by music legend Jerry Lee Lewis, this is a one-of-a-kind book for anyone who wants to know where it all started.

Central Scotland - Landscapes in Stone (Paperback): Alan McKirdy Central Scotland - Landscapes in Stone (Paperback)
Alan McKirdy
R244 R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Save R23 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The written history and archaeological records of Central Scotland takes us back to Pictish times some 5,000 years ago. The geology of the area stretches back a further 400 million years. The oldest rocks are found near Lesmahagow and in the Pentland Hills. Known geologically as 'inliers'- small areas of rocks from an older age, surrounded by younger strata - these strata have yielded some of the oldest fish on earth and are highly prized for what they tell us about early life on the planet. Rocks of the Old Red Sandstone and the succeeding Carboniferous era underlie the rest of Central Scotland in almost equal measure. Explosive volcanic rocks, thick layers of lava, desert sandstones, limestones and productive coal measures make up this bedrock patchwork. Then, sometime later, a covering of ice, some two kilometres thick, blanketed the landscape. It sandpapered and burnished the bedrock into the familiar scenes we see today - our matchless Scottish landscape. The coal and iron ore which lay beneath the ground between Edinburgh and Glasgow provided the raw materials that drove the Industrial Revolution in Scotland, and the early focus on understanding the rocks beneath our feet was unsurprisingly initially concentrated on the most useful minerals resources.

Legendary Warrior of the SAS - Robert Blair Mayne (Paperback): John O'Neill Legendary Warrior of the SAS - Robert Blair Mayne (Paperback)
John O'Neill
R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Women Who Lived for Danger - Behind Enemy Lines During Wwii (Paperback): Marcus Binney The Women Who Lived for Danger - Behind Enemy Lines During Wwii (Paperback)
Marcus Binney
R642 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"They flirted with men, and with death." In The Women Who Lived for Danger, acclaimed historian Marcus Binney recounts the story of ten remarkable women -- some famous, some virtually unknown -- recruited to work behind enemy lines as secret agents during WWII. Part of Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive, formed in 1940 to "set Europe ablaze," the women of the SOE were trained to handle guns and explosives, work undercover, endure interrogation by the Gestapo, and use complex codes. Once in enemy territory, theirs was the most dangerous war of all, leading an apparently normal civilian life but in constant danger of arrest and execution. Passing themselves off as country wenches by afternoon and chic Parisiennes by night, these women put service to Britain and the Allied forces above all concerns for personal safety -- they organized dropping grounds for arms and explosives destined for the Resistance, helped operate escape lines for airmen who had been shot down over Europe, and provided Allied Command with vital intelligence.

The exploits of those chronicled in The Women Who Lived for Danger form a new chapter of heroism in the history of warfare matched only by their legacy of daring, determination, resourcefulness, and ability to stay cool in the face of extreme danger.

The Rise and Fall of H&H Bagels (Paperback): Marc Zirogiannis The Rise and Fall of H&H Bagels (Paperback)
Marc Zirogiannis
R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Did Mary Magdalene visit Provence? An examination of the evidence (Paperback): Joseph Berenger Did Mary Magdalene visit Provence? An examination of the evidence (Paperback)
Joseph Berenger
R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Did St. Mary Magdalene, one of Christianity's most enigmatic figures, really visit Provence, as a local tradition claims? Joseph Berenger's famous paper, which is here published in English for the first time, learnedly evaluates the pertinent literary and archaeological evidence which was available to the author in 1925. This volume also includes an English translation of the 1893 study by Louis Duchesne, a fierce critic of the tradition, which partly inspired Berenger's article. Despite their age, these two papers still form a useful starting-point for anyone interested in attempting an objective assessment of this intriguing tradition.

Golden Summers - Personal reflections from cricket's glorious past (Hardcover): Phil Walker, Jo Harman, Matt Thacker Golden Summers - Personal reflections from cricket's glorious past (Hardcover)
Phil Walker, Jo Harman, Matt Thacker
R576 R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Save R49 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Every cricket lover, for better or worse, has their year. The year it all fell into place or all fell apart. A year of triumph or disaster; of tragedy or comedy. This being cricket, there's normally a bit of everything. Covering 50 different seasons, from 1934 right up to the weird summer of 2020, a series of journalists, poets, musicians, comedians, and ex-players - plus the odd England captain - have come together to produce a collection of personal essays, using the game of cricket as the backdrop to tell the story of their own Golden Summers. 50 voices for 50 years: each one delving into the year that means the most to them. This is Golden Summers.

Crusaders - An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands (Paperback): Dan Jones Crusaders - An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands (Paperback)
Dan Jones; Narrated by Dan Jones 1
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) In Stock

From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight' HELEN CASTOR. 'A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged across medieval centuries' JONATHAN PHILLIPS. Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades - the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which have left an enduring imprint on relations between the Muslim world and the West. From the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 1302-03, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by extraordinary characters, and characterised by both low ambition and high principle. Dan Jones is a master of popular narrative history, with the priceless ability to write page-turning narrative history underpinned by authoritative scholarship. Never before has the era of the Crusades been depicted in such bright and striking colours, or their story told with such gusto. PRAISE FOR THE TEMPLARS: 'A fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE. 'Dan Jones has created a gripping page-turner out of the dramatic history of the Templars' PHILIPPA GREGORY. 'The story of the Templars, the ultimate holy warriors, is an extraordinary saga of fanaticism, bravery, treachery and betrayal, and in Dan Jones they have a worthy chronicler. The Templars is a wonderful book!' BERNARD CORNWELL. 'Told with all Jones's usual verve and panache, this is a dramatic and gripping tale of courage and stupidity, faith and betrayal' MAIL ON SUNDAY. 'This is another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist' OBSERVER. 'The Templars is exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history' TLS. 'Jones carries the Templars through the crusades with clarity and verve. This is unabashed narrative history, fast-paced and full of incident ... Jones tells their story extremely well' SUNDAY TIMES.

Communism and Democracy - History, debates and potentials (Paperback): Mike Makin-Waite Communism and Democracy - History, debates and potentials (Paperback)
Mike Makin-Waite
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Mike Makin-Waite surveys the history of the communist movement, tracking its origins in the Enlightenment, and through nineteenth-century socialism to the emergence of Marxism and beyond. As we emerge from the long winter of neoliberalism, and the search is on for ideas that can help shape a contemporary popular socialism, some of the questions that have preoccupied socialist thinkers throughout left history are once more being debated. Should the left press for reform and work through the state or should it focus on protest and a critique of the whole system? Is it possible to expand the liberal idea of democracy to include economic democracy? Which alliances require too great a compromise and which can help secure future change? Arguments on questions such as these have been raging since the mid-nineteenth century, and were the basis of the split between Social Democrats and Communists in the aftermath of the First World War. Mike Makin-Waite believes that revisiting these debates can help us to avoid some of the mistakes made in the past, and find new solutions to some of these age-old concerns. His argument is that the democratic and liberal counter-currents that have always existed within the communist movement have much to offer the left project today. This unorthodox account therefore tracks an alternative history that includes nineteenth-century revisionists such as Karl Kautsky, Menshevik opponents of Bolshevik oppression in 1917, Popular Front critiques of sectarianism in the 1930s, communist support for 1968's Prague Spring, and the turn to Gramsci and Eurocommunism in the 1970s. The aim of Communism and Democracy: history, debates and potentials is to recover some of the hard-won insights of the critical communist tradition, in the belief that they can still be of service to the twenty-first-century left.

Dress Codes - How the Laws of Fashion Made History (Paperback): Richard 9hompson Ford Dress Codes - How the Laws of Fashion Made History (Paperback)
Richard 9hompson Ford
R541 R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Save R124 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A "sharp and entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society. Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Merchants dressing like princes and butchers' wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social hierarchy and defined by spectacle. In Tudor England, silk, velvet, and fur were reserved for the nobility, and ballooning pants called "trunk hose" could be considered a menace to good order. The Renaissance-era Florentine patriarch Cosimo de Medici captured the power of fashion and dress codes when he remarked, "One can make a gentleman from two yards of red cloth." Dress codes evolved along with the social and political ideals of the day, but they always reflected struggles for power and status. In the 1700s, South Carolina's "Negro Act" made it illegal for Black people to dress "above their condition." In the 1920s, the bobbed hair and form-fitting dresses worn by free-spirited flappers were banned in workplaces throughout the United States, and in the 1940s, the baggy zoot suits favored by Black and Latino men caused riots in cities from coast to coast. Even in today's more informal world, dress codes still determine what we wear, when we wear it--and what our clothing means. People lose their jobs for wearing braided hair, long fingernails, large earrings, beards, and tattoos or refusing to wear a suit and tie or make-up and high heels. In some cities, wearing sagging pants is a crime. And even when there are no written rules, implicit dress codes still influence opportunities and social mobility. Silicon Valley CEOs wear t-shirts and flip-flops, setting the tone for an entire industry: women wearing fashionable dresses or high heels face ridicule in the tech world, and some venture capitalists refuse to invest in any company run by someone wearing a suit. In Dress Codes, law professor and cultural critic Richard Thompson Ford presents a "deeply informative and entertaining" (The New York Times Book Review) history of the laws of fashion from the middle ages to the present day, a walk down history's red carpet to uncover and examine the canons, mores, and customs of clothing--rules that we often take for granted. After reading Dress Codes, you'll never think of fashion as superficial again--and getting dressed will never be the same.

Eagle Day - The Battle of Britain August 6th - September 15th 1940 (Paperback): Richard Collier Eagle Day - The Battle of Britain August 6th - September 15th 1940 (Paperback)
Richard Collier
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Key title in the new Uniform Legends series. Up close and personal accounts of pilots who were there, first written in the 1960's when many of the surviving British and German airmen were in or entering their middle years

Ginger Lacey - Fighter Pilot (Paperback): Richard Townshend Bickers Ginger Lacey - Fighter Pilot (Paperback)
Richard Townshend Bickers
R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Wonderful account of one of the top Battle of Britain fighter pilots. Written by one of the foremost military aviation authors who was an RAF Officer himself and personally knew Lacey.

Home Of The Brave - In Their Own Words, Selected Short Stories Of Immigrant Medal Of Honor Recipients Of The Civil War... Home Of The Brave - In Their Own Words, Selected Short Stories Of Immigrant Medal Of Honor Recipients Of The Civil War (Paperback)
Les Rolston
R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Shockwave - Countdown to Hiroshima (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial ed): Stephen Walker Shockwave - Countdown to Hiroshima (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial ed)
Stephen Walker
R485 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever

On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb--dubbed Little Boy by its creators--was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unimagined power was unleashed on a vibrant metropolis of 300,000 people, leaving one third of its population dead, its buildings and landmarks incinerated. It was the terrifying dawn of the Atomic Age, spawning decades of paranoia, mistrust, and a widespread and very real fear of the potential annihilation of the human race.

Author Stephen Walker brilliantly re-creates the three terrible weeks leading up to the wartime detonation of the atomic bomb--from the first successful test in the New Mexico desert to the cataclysm and its aftermath--presenting the story through the eyes of pilots, scientists, civilian victims, and world leaders who stood at the center of earth-shattering drama. It is a startling, moving, frightening, and remarkable portrait of an extraordinary event--a shockwave whose repercussions can be felt to this very day.

Abraham Lincoln Civil War Stories: Second Edition - Heartwarming Stories about Our Most Beloved President (Paperback): Joe... Abraham Lincoln Civil War Stories: Second Edition - Heartwarming Stories about Our Most Beloved President (Paperback)
Joe Wheeler
R654 R542 Discovery Miles 5 420 Save R112 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Best Summer of Our Lives - A Photographic History of the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp (Paperback): Geoffrey N.... The Best Summer of Our Lives - A Photographic History of the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp (Paperback)
Geoffrey N. Gration
R492 R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Save R26 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Lincoln Moments in Time (Paperback): Peter Washbourn Lincoln Moments in Time (Paperback)
Peter Washbourn
R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Norwich: The Changing City (Paperback): Neil Storey Norwich: The Changing City (Paperback)
Neil Storey
R494 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R26 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Coast People. Life on the North East Coast (Paperback): Ian Forsyth Coast People. Life on the North East Coast (Paperback)
Ian Forsyth
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
J for Johnnie (Paperback, New edition): John Trotman J for Johnnie (Paperback, New edition)
John Trotman
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Under the Spreading Cedar Tree - School Life at Spring Grove House Isleworth - The Black and White School as Seen Through the... Under the Spreading Cedar Tree - School Life at Spring Grove House Isleworth - The Black and White School as Seen Through the Eyes of Pupils 1924-1959 (Paperback)
Ray Pearce
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From long before the first Spring Grove House was built the two Cedars, which eventually stood to the south of it, were in place. Legend has it that they were sent by the Duke of Marlborough to the Duke of Northumberland who planted them to mark the boundaries of his Syon House estate. One remains to the South East of the house, close to the new theatre block. The other larger and more majestic tree stood close to the SW corner dominating the house and the memories of those who visited it. Pollarded close to the ground by heavy chains, there were four magnificent arms that gave tremendous cover. Beneath this tree Sir Joseph Banks and Captain Cook are said to have planned their voyage to Australia. During the 1950 Christmas holiday there was a heavy fall of snow and, shortly before the school reassembled, the tree collapsed. Almost 60 years later to the day, in December 2010, the L.T.Brown Memorial Lebanon Cedar, funded by past pupils at the Spring Grove Schools, was planted at the SE corner of the house which is now part of West Thames College. It is hoped the tree will link the house of the 19th and 20th Centuries and its schools to the college of the 21st. "A t Isleworth we occupied a building that had been the home of Alfred Pears and, before him, Sir Joseph Banks. The atmosphere of a 'home' persisted during our period of occupation and staff and pupils worked together like members of one large family. The red brick house, set in its well-kept grounds, always seemed to be a friendly place but a school is more than just a building. The Spring Grovian virtues of happiness and friendliness continue to flourish as of old." - An unattributed view of a senior pupil in the "Spring Grovian" magazine in 1960.

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