Books

On 25th April 1915, British and Dominion troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The campaign which followed lasted over eight months and cost the terrible total of nearly half a million Allied and Turkish casualties. The eventual failure of the...

It will be forever known as Passchendaele: the very word is used to describe wretched and perilous conditions such as were encountered at the battles which became officially designated as Third Ypres. There with better tactics, equipment and experience...

This is a rare chance to re-discover a contemporary account of a military conflict which took place a Century ago. The Agony of Belgium, written in 1914 by Frank Fox, a war correspondent, recounts events that the modern European mind would probably wish...

It was here that Staff officers routinely worked late into the night, weekends really did not exist, leave was intermittent, and those who worked here would have suffered from that additional sense of guilt about being away from the action. An important...

Winston Churchill authorised the creation of a new wartime secret service, the Special Operations Executive(SOE), with the order "And now set Europe ablaze". On behalf of the Secret WW2 Network, an educational charity dedicated to revealing...

An adventure story, set in war-time, where the main protagonist is a child. Although a fictional account, the story is set in a real historical context and many of the events are based actual first-hand testimony.Set in a rural town in south west France...

The area of Belgium and northern France that was the Western Front is a place like no other. In a line running seven hundred kilometers from the English Channel to the Swiss border the horrors of industrialised war consumed men by the millions for over...

A very personal and evocative tale of one mans journey to war, and his work - first as a bomber pilot completing nineteen missions before being shot down,and then evading capture across the Pyrenees to return to duty flying Lysanders with the Special...

Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to 66 letters - and that included counting the space between each word as one letter - this first in a short series of books highlights what The Times called, 'the heart of the bereaved'; the thousands of...

This fascinating book is a significant approach to the conflict of 1916 and a practical guide for anyone wishing to see and understand how the battle evolved.The day-by-day layout is illustrated by a fine selection of photographs, many previously...

A fiercely intelligent debut novel featuring the Battle of Loos, 1915, where Scottish soldiers went into action alongside Muslim comrades serving in the Indian Army. They waivered; they endured; they did not break.

Summer of No Surrender The Battle of Britain...the testing time for the pilots of the R.A.F. - and the Luftwaffe. In the skies over the Channel, young men were proving their courage to the enemy, to their comrades, and to themselves...Flying Officer...

Colliers chronicle of the desperate six weeks either side of 13th August 1940 when a few hundred pilots,navigators and gunners won one of the most decisive,as well as gallant, battles in the annals of war.Based on over 400 eye-witness accounts from...

Kipling had been invited to Italy by the British Ambassador, Sir Rennell Rodd, who was concerned about the lack of understanding in England of the scale and cost of the Italian war effort. Rodds proposal was that distinguished writers from England and...

The poppy is the enduring symbol of the First World War, an object that embodies a hundred years of attitudes towards the world's first great conflict. Yet the flower's association with warfare pre-dates 1914 and its legacy continues today. An intensely...

The story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulances beings in the year of 1915 at various recruiting offices, and continues in a thin, uncertain stream of variable humanity, finding its way to the Sussex Downs, facing the sea, at Cow Gap, Eastbourne, Here...

This booklet contains articles originally published in 1917 in The Morning Post (bought by The Daily Telegraph in 1937). It consists of four letters, purporting to be written to relations or friends at home in India by soldiers of the Indian Army at the...

The photographs in the book illustrate the dichotomy of our relationship with water-the role it has in ancient religious rituals and in building communities, to its exploitation and the devastating result of too little or too much water. They depict...

'Time is different in Odesa. It's a city outside of time'. As a child growing up in Kyiv, Yelena Yemchuk was fascinated by the reputation of Odesa as a free place during Soviet times. The city seemed full of contradictions - "acceptance but also danger...

Discover the UNESCO listed beauty of Krakow with this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size yet big on detail, this compact, dependable, Krakow city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. * Includes 2 PopOut maps - a detailed street map of...

Explore the wonderful city of San Francisco with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size yet big on detail, this compact, dependable, San Francisco city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. * Includes 2 PopOut maps - a...

Discover London, England's gloriously diverse and exciting capital city, with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size, yet big on detail, this compact, dependable London city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. * Includes...

Charles and George Hunt, two of the most skilled and prolific engravers of their day, flourished during the boom period of the English Sporting Print (1820-1870). The British public's enthusiasm for horse racing, hunting and coaching grew rapidly during...

Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable people who lived in England in the late Tudor period. Born a daughter of a relatively humble Midlands family, she was married and widowed four times, on each occasion raising her social status until she...

Mary Louise Coulouris was born in New York and raised in Hollywood. Her father was the Anglo-Greek actor, George Coulouris who was part of the Orson Welles' Studio and starred in Citizen Kane.After completing her school education in London, she enrolled...

Our gardens are full of history and the story of flowers is a part of the story of mankind. Flowers are woven into the fabric of religion, mythology, and folklore of every land and generation. People painted them on their ancient cave walls and glorified...

Art lovers and colourists of all ages can enjoy hours of colouring pleasure and experience the work of an iconic English painter in a personal way. This exciting new colouring book will launch you on a journey of discovery with a collection of twenty-two...

Dogs have devotedly served poor shepherds and mighty kings, and even the gods. Their hidden talents and capabilities are spoken of in the secret language of symbols and allegories. Working dogs and companion dogs, the favourite pets of the House of...

RUN is an artist, but he is also a man. Giacomo Bufarini is his true identity that comes out after 15 years being known by his tag RUN. This book explores both the artist and the man behind RUN in equal measure. It follows his progress from graffiti...

Throughout this book, Sassoon considers the way in which these different letterforms have a profound and persuasive affect on all of us, that we are distinctly unaware of. For example, the ways in which our handwriting is the reflectance of ourselves on...

Wilfred Cass CBE FRSA is co-founder of the Cass Sculpture Foundation, a charitable commissioning body. Long-term friends of Henry Moore and Elisabeth Frink, Wilfred and Jeannette sold their own personal collection of Moores, Frinks and Ayrtons, which...

Sir Robert Vere "Robin" Darwin was a British artist and Rector of the Royal College of Art. The story is to do with wartime camouflage, postwar reconstruction, Festival of Britain 1951, reshaping arts education in Britain for the future (the list of RCA...

T. F. Salters The Anglers Guide, abridged for the Use of Young Anglers, was first published in 1816, and advertised as being a complete practical treatise on Angling: The art of trolling and fishing for Jack & Pike, flyfishing and making, also bottom and...

Sir Edwin Landseer RA was the foremost animal painter of this day and Queen Victoria's favourite, who became well known to the public for the portrait of a majestic stag, The Monarch of the Glen and the bronze lions at the foot of Nelson's Column in...

In 1862 Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known. For forty-eight years they shared their lives in an enmeshed union that was both passionate and combative. Sixteen years younger than her husband, Sonya bore him thirteen...

He looks at the bucolic world of life on the British waterways. With over 30 superb engravings which capture his love of the natural world.He had a pastoral vision, albeit one imbued with melancholy, at the passing of time and a changing world. Volume I...

Battles listed include: Hastings, The Welsh Wars, Falkirk, Bannockburn, Barnet, Tewkesbury, Bosworth, Flodden, Edgehill, Marston Moor, Inverlochy, Naseby, Dunbar, Killiecrankie and Culloden. Each battle is accompanied by a battle map from the era. At the...

Illustrated with photographs from the private family album, this book follows in the footsteps of some of Sir Winston Churchill's famous trips to the four corners of the world, by his granddaughter Celia Sandys. She visits South Africa, Morocco, France,...

Renowned cricket writer Scyld Berry has earned a living being paid to avoid the English winter and to visit warm countries to watch cricket. For those who have not been fortunate enough to visit the countries England have toured, and for those who never...

In her new book, Phoebe Caldwell, an expert practitioner with over 30 years' experience working with people with learning disabilities, offers us a fresh insight into autism spectrum disorders. Shifting her attention away from presentation and symptoms...

It is acknowledged that the quality of teaching is the critical factor in raising standards of learning. And yet teachers' workload has rocketed in recent years, leaving morale for many at rock-bottom. Recent DfE analysis shows that primary teachers work...

This easy-to-use identification guide to the 196 native and introduced species of tree, shrub and palm most commonly seen in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from...

Sanditon is Jane Austen's last novel, unfinished when she died in 1817. A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wrote as a teenager and in private throughout her life. In her ground-breaking essay, Todd contextualizes Austen's...

Maggie Gee has written 15 books to great acclaim including The White Family and Virginia Woolf in Manhattan, and her work has been translated into 14 languages. In 2012 there was an international conference about her work at St Andrew’s University. One...

No-Limit Hold'em is an extremely complex game that is difficult to learn and even more difficult to teach. Many authors have produced works on this topic which are either too simplistic or far too complex to be of any practical use. Hunter Cichy has a...

Positive Poker is an in-depth examination of the psychological aspects of all elements of poker. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their play.

'What a multi-sensory pleasure in learning! I will be a better teacher and better clinician using what I am learning from this book.' Carol M Davis DPT, EdD, MS, FAPTA The emerging science of biotensegrity provides a fresh context for re-thinking our...