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  • Decision in the Atlantic

    The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War

    Edited by Marcus Faulkner, Christopher M. Bell ...
    Series series New Perspectives on the Second World War
    The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping.The team of leading scholars assembled in this study situates the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provides a new ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Churchill and the Dardanelles

    by Christopher M. Bell ...
    The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, the Dardanelles campaign has been mired in myth and controversy. Many believe it was fundamentally misconceived and doomed to fail, while others see it as a brilliant concept that might have ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Blackness and Disability

    Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions

    Edited by Christopher M. Bell ...
    Disability Studies diverge from the medical model of disability (which argues that disabled subjects can and should be “fixed”) to view disability as socially constructed, much in the same way other identities are. The work of reading black and disabled bodies is not only recovery work, but work that requires a willingness to deconstruct the systems that would keep those bodies in separate spheres ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Churchill and Sea Power

    by Christopher M. Bell ...
    Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's sea power has been mired in controversy since the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign in 1915. Today, Churchill is regarded by many as an inept strategist who interfered in naval operations and often overrode his ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Military Life & Times of General Sir Miles Dempsey GBE KCB DSO MC

    Monty's Army Commander

    by Peter Rostron ...
    Miles Dempsey, Commander of the British Second Army in the invasion of Europe 1944-45, is almost unknown to the general public. Yet his part in Britains contribution to that campaign was second only to Montgomerys in importance. Dempsey survived two and a half years of bitter fighting as an infantry officer on the Western Front before accompanying his beloved Royal Berkshire Regiment in the little ... Read more

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  • 1918 Year of Victory: The end of the Great War and the shaping of history

    by Ashley Ekins ...
    World War I, The Great War involved the mobilisation of some 70 million soldiers worldwide. It produced images of such pervasive horror on the Western Front that it defined warfare in human memory long into the twentieth century. The war also left a grim legacy: 13 million people died, 9 million of them combatants. Over one-third of those who died were missing, having no known graves. The chapters ... Read more

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  • Churchill and the Navy

    The Wartime Leader and the Battles at Sea

    by Richard Hough ...
    Soldier by instinct, sailor by fate… The relationship that defined a career – and saved a nationThe Navy almost finished the career of Britain's greatest wartime leader. As a young minister responsible for the senior service from 1911, Churchill ruffled feathers and gave scant regard for the feelings of the admirals. When disaster struck in the First World War, it was the navy that led to his ... Read more

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  • Passchendaele in Perspective

    The Third Battle of Ypres

    by Peter H. Liddle ...
    Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and maritime dimensions of the battle, the politicians and manpower debates on the home front and it looks at the tactics employed, the weapons and equipment used, the experience of the British; German and indeed French soldiers. It looks ... Read more

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  • Born to Lead?

    Portraits of New Zealand Commanders

    Edited by Glyn Harper (ed), Joel Hayward (ed) ...
    Is there a distinctive style of New Zealand command? An examination of New Zealand military commanders and the style of New Zealand command is long overdue, and this superb new book now fills the gap. Glyn Harper, Joel Hayward and a team of top military historians profile the most important commanders in New Zealand history, both Maori and Pakeha, from the nineteenth century to the recent past. ... Read more

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  • Battle Story: Cambrai 1917

    by Chris McNab ...
    Cambrai 1917 was the battle that sowed the seeds of future combined-arms tank and infantry warfare, while remaining a battle of singular drama in its own right. If you truly want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story. Detailed profiles explore the background of the generals of the two opposing forces, as well as what made up the average German and British soldier. First-person, ... Read more

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  • The Somme

    by Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson ...
    This analysis of the decision-making that led to the Somme offensive is "a major addition to the literature on the military history of the Great War." (Jay Winter, author of The Great War in History)Despite superior air and artillery power, British soldiers died in catastrophic numbers at the Battle of Somme in 1916. What went wrong, and who was responsible? This book meticulously reconstructs the ... Read more

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