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Into the Desert - Reflections on the Gulf War (Hardcover): Jeffrey Engel Into the Desert - Reflections on the Gulf War (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Engel
R1,188 Discovery Miles 11 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the decade following the first Gulf War, most observers regarded it as an exemplary effort by the international community to lawfully and forcefully hold a regional aggressor in check. Interpretations have changed with the times. The Gulf War led to the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia, an important contributing cause of the 9/11 attacks. The war also led to a long obsession with Saddam Hussein that culminated in a second, far longer, American-led war with Iraq. In Into the Desert, Jeffrey Engel has gathered an all-star cast of contributors to reevaluate the first Gulf War: Michael Gordon of the New York Times; Sir Lawrence Freedman, former foreign policy advisor to Tony Blair; Ambassador Ryan Crocker; Middle East specialist Shibley Telhami; and Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations. Engel and his contributors examine the war's origins, the war itself, and its long-term impact on international relations. All told, Into the Desert offers an astute reassessment of one of the most momentous events in the last quarter century.

George Washington's Westchester Gamble - The Encampment on the Hudson and the Trapping of Cornwallis (Paperback): Richard... George Washington's Westchester Gamble - The Encampment on the Hudson and the Trapping of Cornwallis (Paperback)
Richard Borkow
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the summer of 1781, during the seventh year of the Revolutionary War, the allied American and French armies of Generals Washington and Rochambeau were encamped at Dobbs Ferry, Ardsley, Hartsdale, Edgemont and White Plains. Washington chose lower Westchester for encampment because of its proximity to the British forces which controlled Manhattan, and which Washington intended to attack.On August 14 Washington and Rochambeau received a communication from French Admiral de Grasse, who suggested a joint sea and land campaign against General Cornwallis's British troops in Virginia. Washington risked all on this march. Its success depended on precise timing and coordination of multiple naval and land movements including those of Generals Washington, Rochambeau and Lafayette, and of French Admirals de Grasse and Barras. Success also required the utmost secrecy, and an elaborate deception was prepared by Washington in order to convince the British that Manhattan remained the target of the allied armies. Two months later, at Yorktown, Virginia, Cornwallis surrendered his entire army to the American and French forces.

Hidden History of Kentucky Soldiers (Paperback): Berry Craig Hidden History of Kentucky Soldiers (Paperback)
Berry Craig
R540 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Isle os are not nearly as well-known as the Cajuns or the Creoles or the French, but they have had an undeniable and lasting impact on this state and the south. Adaptable, resourceful, and undeniably proud, they have shaped their destinies against the odds. As their settlements failed, they rebuilt. As the governments changed from Spanish to French to American, they endured. Many campaigned in the American Revolution; they secured victory in the famous Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812; and as they began to understand the surrounding marshes, they learned to make their livings from trapping and fishing and pass on their wisdom and culture through oral tradition. They shaped the development of the state but are too often ignored, even in local history.

In Hiding - Surviving an Abusive 'Protector' and the Nazi Occupation of Holland (Paperback): Benno Benninga In Hiding - Surviving an Abusive 'Protector' and the Nazi Occupation of Holland (Paperback)
Benno Benninga
R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Hiding tells the story of a Jewish family of four when a Dutch couple offered to hide them from Nazi atrocities during the Second World War. The couple agreed that they would hide this family for a large sum of money, thinking that the war would soon end. When it appeared that the war would last much longer than first anticipated, the hostess threatened and physically and mentally abused the foursome. In Hiding relates the cruelty that this family had to endure not from the Nazis directly, but from their own neighbours during more than two years of persecution.

thelfl d, Lady of the Mercians; The Battle of Tettenhall 910ad; And Other West Mercian Studies. (Hardcover): David Horovitz thelfl d, Lady of the Mercians; The Battle of Tettenhall 910ad; And Other West Mercian Studies. (Hardcover)
David Horovitz
R1,718 Discovery Miles 17 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry - Marauding Mountain Men (Paperback): Melanie Storie The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry - Marauding Mountain Men (Paperback)
Melanie Storie
R530 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tennessee's Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into seasoned fighters. At the outbreak of the Civil War, East Tennessee was torn between its Unionist tendencies and the surrounding Confederacy. The result was the persecution of the "home Yankees" by Confederate sympathizers. Rather than quelling Unionist fervor, this oppression helped East Tennessee contribute an estimated thirty thousand troops to the North. Some of those troops joined the "Loyal Thirteenth" in Stoneman's raid and in pursuit of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Join author Melanie Storie as she recounts the harrowing narrative of an often-overlooked piece of Civil War history.

The Broken Constitution - Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America (Paperback): Noah Feldman The Broken Constitution - Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America (Paperback)
Noah Feldman
R503 R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Curiosities of the Confederate Capital - Untold Richmond Stories of the Spectacular, Tragic and Bizarre (Paperback): Brian Burns Curiosities of the Confederate Capital - Untold Richmond Stories of the Spectacular, Tragic and Bizarre (Paperback)
Brian Burns
R534 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the early days of the Civil War, Richmond was declared the capital of the Confederacy, and until now, countless stories from its tenure as the Southern headquarters have remained buried. Mary E. Walker, a Union doctor and feminist, was once held captive in the city for refusing to wear proper women's clothing. A coffee substitute factory exploded under intriguing circumstances. Many Confederate soldiers, when in the trenches of battle, thumbed through the pages of Hugo's "Les Miserables." Author Brian Burns reveals these and many more curious tales of Civil War Richmond.

Civil War Baton Rouge, Port Hudson and Bayou Sara - Capturing the Mississippi (Paperback): Dennis J. Dufrene Civil War Baton Rouge, Port Hudson and Bayou Sara - Capturing the Mississippi (Paperback)
Dennis J. Dufrene
R526 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, no one doubted that a battle to control the Mississippi River was imminent. Throughout the war, the Federals pushed their way up the river. Every port and city seemed to fall against the force of the Union Navy. The capitol was forced to retreat from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. Many of the smaller towns, like Bayou Sara and Donaldsonville, were nearly shelled completely off the map. It was not until the Union reached Port Hudson that the Confederates had a fighting chance to keep control of the mighty Mississippi. They fought long and hard, under supplied and under manned, but ultimately the Union prevailed.

The Confidence Men - How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History (Paperback): Margalit Fox The Confidence Men - How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History (Paperback)
Margalit Fox
R467 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Constant Heart - The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938 - 1945 (Paperback): Emily Russell A Constant Heart - The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938 - 1945 (Paperback)
Emily Russell
R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Revolver - Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Paperback): Jim Rasenberger Revolver - Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Paperback)
Jim Rasenberger
R509 R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Battle of Fredericksburg - We Cannot Escape History (Paperback): James K Bryant The Battle of Fredericksburg - We Cannot Escape History (Paperback)
James K Bryant; Edited by Doug Bostick
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Battle of Fredericksburg is known as the most disastrous defeat the Federal Army of the Potomac experienced in the American Civil War. The futile assaults by Federal soldiers against the Confederate defensive positions on Marye's Heights and behind the infamous stone wall along the "Sunken Road" solidified Ambrose Burnside's reputation as an inept army commander and reinforced Robert E. Lee's undefeatable image. Follow historian James Bryant behind the lines of confrontation to discover the strategies and blunders that contributed to one of the most memorable battles of the Civil War.

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad - A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival (Hardcover): Daniel Finkelstein Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad - A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival (Hardcover)
Daniel Finkelstein
R680 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R95 (14%) In Stock

From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War.

Daniel’s mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam, he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded the Netherlands. Before long, the family was rounded up, robbed and sent to starve in Bergen-Belsen.

Daniel’s father Ludwik was born in Lwów, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, Ludwik’s father was arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Gulag. Meanwhile, deported to Siberia and working as a slave labourer on a collective farm, Ludwik survived the freezing winters in a tiny house he built from cow dung.

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving, personal and at times horrifying memoir about Finkelstein’s parents’ experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the twentieth century. It is a story of persecution; survival; and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through.

"A General Plague of Madness" - The Civil Wars in Lancashire, 1640-1660 (Hardcover, Limited edition): Stephen Bull "A General Plague of Madness" - The Civil Wars in Lancashire, 1640-1660 (Hardcover, Limited edition)
Stephen Bull
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lord Derby, Lancashire's highest-ranked nobleman and its principal royalist, once offered the opinion that the English civil wars had been a 'general plague of madness'. Complex and bedevilling, the earl defied anyone to tell the complete story of 'so foolish, so wicked, so lasting a war'. Yet attempting to chronicle and to explain the events is both fascinating and hugely important. Nationally and at the county level the impact and significance of the wars can hardly be over-stated: the conflict involved our ancestors fighting one another, on and off, for a period of nine years; almost every part of Lancashire witnessed warfare of some kind at one time or another, and several towns in particular saw bloody sieges and at least one episode characterised as a massacre. Nationally the wars resulted in the execution of the king; in 1651 the Earl of Derby himself was executed in Bolton in large measure because he had taken a leading part in the so-called massacre in that town in 1644.In the early months of the civil wars many could barely distinguish what it was that divided people in 'this war without an enemy', as the royalist William Waller famously wrote; yet by the end of it parliament had abolished monarchy itself and created the only republic in over a millennium of England's history. Over the ensuing centuries this period has been described variously as a rebellion, as a series of civil wars, even as a revolution. Lancashire's role in these momentous events was quite distinctive, and relative to the size of its population particularly important. Lancashire lay right at the centre of the wars, for the conflict did not just encompass England but Ireland and Scotland too, and Lancashire's position on the coast facing Catholic, Royalist Ireland was seen as critical from the very first months.And being on the main route south from Scotland meant that the county witnessed a good deal of marching and marauding armies from the north. In this, the first full history of the Lancashire civil wars for almost a century, Stephen Bull makes extensive use of new discoveries to narrate and explain the exciting, terrible events which our ancestors witnessed in the cause either of king or parliament. From Furness to Liverpool, and from the Wyre estuary to Manchester and Warrington...civil war actions, battles, sieges and skirmishes took place in virtually every corner of Lancashire.

A Brutal Reckoning - The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South (Hardcover, Main): Peter Cozzens A Brutal Reckoning - The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South (Hardcover, Main)
Peter Cozzens
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Cozzens is a master storyteller' The Times From the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressure from white settlers 150 years later, A Brutal Reckoning tells the story of encroachment on the vast Native American territory in the Deep South, which gave rise to the Creek War, the bloodiest in American Indian history, and propelled Andrew Jackson into national prominence, as he led the US Army in a ruthless campaign. It was a war that involved not only white Americans and Native Americans but also the British and the Spanish, and ultimately led to the Trail of Tears, in which the government forcibly removed the entire Creek people, as well as the neighbouring Chickasaw, Choctaw and Cherokee nations, from their homelands, leaving the way open for the conquest of the West. No other single Indian conflict had such a significant impact on the fate of the country. Wonderfully told and brilliantly detailed, A Brutal Reckoning is a sweeping history of a crucial period in the destruction of America's native tribes.

Bush Brothers - Life And Death Across The Border (Paperback): Steve De Witt Bush Brothers - Life And Death Across The Border (Paperback)
Steve De Witt
R340 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Bush Brothers is not about special forces or heroic, secret missions. Instead, it is an intimate look at the daily life of ordinary soldiers – and the unbreakable bonds they formed under fire.

This is the story of thousands of infantry men who were deployed in the SADF, on or across the Border.

Colourful characters and wild partying are interspersed with the life-and-death choices troops were forced to make as they sacrificed life and limb, not so much for their country, but for each other.

The K Street Boys (Hardcover): Leslie G Kinney The K Street Boys (Hardcover)
Leslie G Kinney
R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a plot taken from today's headlines, the U.S. economy is sliding into another Great Recession, a resurgent Russia plans to manipulate the oil market, and NSA is listening to everyone. With his re-election in peril, the President agrees with advisors; release the anger of Jacqueline Desjardin. Suicidal, suffering from PTSD, the beautiful French photojournalist seeks revenge for tragic losses suffered as a child. Manipulated by forces an ocean away, Desjardin becomes a pawn in a macabre plan devised by a secret Pentagon hit squad. The K Street Boys takes you inside the White House, NSA, the Pentagon, and into the minds of military bureaucrats and politicians protecting their power at any cost. Les Kinney's storytelling will enchant you with engaging characters and spell binding action. Get ready for the best read of the year.

The Hiroshima Men - The Quest To Build The Atomic Bomb, And The Fateful Decision To Use It (Paperback): Iain MacGregor The Hiroshima Men - The Quest To Build The Atomic Bomb, And The Fateful Decision To Use It (Paperback)
Iain MacGregor
R470 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R105 (22%) Pre-order

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret Manhattan Project and delivered by a B-29 Superfortress, a revolutionary long-range bomber, the weapon destroyed large swaths of the city, instantly killing tens of thousands. The world would never be the same again.

The Hiroshima Men's unique narrative recounts the decade-long journey towards this first atomic attack. It charts the race for nuclear technology before, and during the Second World War, as the allies fought the axis powers in Europe, North Africa, China, and across the vastness of the Pacific, and is seen through the experiences of several key characters: General Leslie Groves, leader of the Manhattan Project alongside Robert Oppenheimer; pioneering Army Air Force bomber pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets II; the mayor of Hiroshima, Senkichi Awaya, who would die alongside over eighty-thousand of his fellow citizens; and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Hersey, who travelled to post-war Japan to expose the devastation the bomb had inflicted upon the city, and in a historic New Yorker article, described in unflinching detail the dangers posed by its deadly after-effect, radiation poisoning.

This thrilling account takes the reader from the corridors of the White House to the laboratories and test sites of New Mexico; from the air war above Nazi Germany and the savage reconquest of the Pacific to the deadly firebombing air raids across the Japanese Home Islands. The Hiroshima Men also includes Japanese perspectives - a vital aspect often missing from Western narratives - to complete MacGregor's nuanced, deeply human account of the bombing's meaning and aftermath.

We Will Remember - World War Two Veterans (Paperback): Matt Limb We Will Remember - World War Two Veterans (Paperback)
Matt Limb
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 3: July 15, 1921 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): American Legion National Headquarters The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 3: July 15, 1921 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
American Legion National Headquarters
R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 4: May 26, 1922 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): American Legion National Headquarters The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 4: May 26, 1922 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
American Legion National Headquarters
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 2: August 13, 1920 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): American Legion National Headquarters The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 2: August 13, 1920 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
American Legion National Headquarters
R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 1: Part I.; Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers,... Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 1: Part I.; Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers, Based Upon "the Century War Series" (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Robert Underwood Johnson
R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
In Memoriam: Susan M. (Page) Currier, 1838-1910 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): unknownauthor In Memoriam: Susan M. (Page) Currier, 1838-1910 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
unknownauthor
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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