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  • The Fighting Commodores

    Convoy Commanders in the Second World War

    by Alan Burn ...
    As Britain came terrifyingly close to running out of supplies during the Second World War, a group of retired senior naval officers returned to the sea in the role of convoy commanders, and thereby turned the tide. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fighting Captain

    The Story of Frederic Walker RN CB DSO & The Battle of the Atlantic

    by Alan Burn ...
    Series series Pen & Sword Military Classics
    A riveting account of the World War II naval career of the man who did more to win the Battle of the Atlantic than any other officer at sea.Captain F. J. Walker, RN, dedicated his life to defeating the Germans—and Karl Dönitz, Führer der U-Boote, in particular—by containing the U-boats, wearing them down, and sending them back to their bunkers.He was a formidable figure and one of the greatest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Europe After the Rain

    by Alan Burns ...
    Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernst's surrealist work, which depicts a vision of rampant destruction - a theme which Burns here takes to its conclusion, showing man not merely trying to come to terms with desolation, but combating human cruelty with that resilience of spirit without which survival would be impossible. The Europe through which the unnamed narrator travels is a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Babel

    by Alan Burns ...
    Babel, Alan Burns’s fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heighten and undermine meaning, and characterized by extreme contrasts of mood and style and startling surrealist juxtapositions of images and ideas.By turns ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Celebrations

    by Alan Burns ...
    Celebrations, Alan Burns’s third novel, brings the inherent violence and oppression so apparent in Europe after the Rain into the setting of a family-owned factory, where social hierarchies, legal structures and humiliation keep the workers in line.By bringing the differences between workers sharply into focus, Burns creates a choking atmosphere of oppression and exploitation heightened and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Buster

    by Alan Burns ...
    Buster was the first, and arguably the most traditional, work of fiction by Alan Burns - dating from before his aleatoric style developed into "cutting up", but displaying early examples of the trademark disjointed, brisk and biting style which earned him a cult following. Imbued with autobiographical sentiment, the novel shows a young man's upbringing during World War II and his disillusioned ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • History of Nigeria

    by Sir Alan Burns ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism
    History of Nigeria (1969) was first published in 1929 and completely revised by its author, and gives the history of Nigeria from before its first encounters with the British, through colonial rule, and up to independence in 1960. It describes the peoples of Nigeria and the British conquest and colonial administration, and is full of detailed and valuable information relating to trade and industry ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Parliament as an Export

    Edited by Sir Alan Burns ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism
    Parliament as an Export (1966) deals with the adoption of overseas countries and particularly the Commonwealth countries of the British Parliamentary system. These countries examined are the original British colonies, the Dominions, the Indian sub-continent and the newer colonial territories. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • History of the British West Indies

    by Sir Alan Burns ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism
    History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations. The actions of other nations are studied, as well as the British, as the various colonial powers vied for possession of these valuable possessions. Terrible ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • The Battle for Leyte Gulf

    The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle

    by C. Vann Woodward ...
    A New York Times Best Seller!Pulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte Gulf-the greatest naval battle of World War II and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. For the Japanese, it represented their supreme effort; they committed to action virtually every operational fighting ship on the lists of the Imperial ... Read more

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  • The Hunting Submarine

    The Fighting Life of HMS Tally-Ho

    by Ian Trenowden ...
    HMS Tally Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it proved a very suitable one for a hunting submarine. In a single commission, lasting from 15th March 1943 to 26th February 1945, she operated in the Malacca Strait. Here, surrounded by enemy air bases and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Longman Companion to the Formation of the European Empires, 1488-1920

    by Muriel E. Chamberlain ...
    Series series Longman Companions To History
    The European empires as they existed from the Age of Discovery until after the First World War shaped the modern world. So great has been their political, economic and cultural influence that to fully understand contemporary history and events, it is essential to have an understanding of the imperial past. This book is an impressive achievement. It brings together in one comprehensive volume, all ... Read more

    $49.99 USD